Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-26
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Prussia has what Is said TO be a
pure externinator Of the Colorado
beetle.
Sir John Lubbock has owned
some Of his pet ants for more than
Iv0 yoorl. d
All the doors In Boston school
housee ere to be altered SO as to
dwjng both ways.
oueen Mother Christina, of
epelns who has just died, was sister
y ssBomba,n Of Naples.
n. Bois Dubois has left S4OO, 900
11g popular instruction IN the two
1oot16t districts Of Paris.
Mn. Inga Hanson, of Chicago,
agsd ~, has twenty living children,
aod has just married again. ~
Abdul AK, Sultan Of Turkey, in
his dread Of fire. used to read by
~ HGht cf . candle floating in q
6otln of water.
Mr. Gordon, Inspector Of Live
Stock In Queensland, Northern
Australia, computes the loss In
eAoep there last year at Ills, 199
head.
Bicycles are coming into vogue
In England - ecclesiastical con-
veyAnoes, enabling clergymen to
visit remote parts Of large country
parishes.
Count Won Arnim, Prince Bis
mAfck's victim, has bought an es-
tate In Bohemia which confers q
soat In the Landtag, and, it Is
thought, will be naturaliied in
Austria.
The invsstiture Of Mile. Dodu
with she Legion Of Honor causes
eDoeploes nights to numbers Of
yuuoR women, who havo sent in
ooa1ms for the ribbon for services
Doeo * loo1 heroic. ..--." .'-'-s,
xt81oGsor Bsird has made an ar
eu14e6iont with the Gloucester
= 1616tUen to give him the strange
- thGt they sometimes catch.
heY have already provided three
unknoWn varieties.
a son OF the Rev. Lord Sidney
sGo0orbfin Osborne (for many
'Hoata 4 notable contributor to ths
tD64on zsNses. under the signature
-. q. O.r) has just seeded to the
CAurch Of Rome.
AttIOa u now q torrid desert for
alg or seven months every year.
The lazy. ignorant cultivators
eoSn their wood to fertilize the
shtlis With the ashes, and by May
allte parched and pulverized.
The issue In the New Haven can
vase for School Trustees is whether
Rollglous exercises, including the
roAdtug Of the Bible, shall continue
to be prohibited in the public
schools. Interest runs high.
The Government statist shows
that the mortality among infants
10 fAr greater In South Australia (of
which Adelaide Is the capitaD than
In any other city, being l75 in
1000. Causes-defective drainage,
contagious diseases, early marria-
-, tmproper feeding and intem-
poranee.
a miller in England who had
bGaton his wife aud threatened his
children because summoned fOi
not sending the latter to school,
Was last month seized by forty
women, who flogged him and then
dragged him 10 u pond where,
while drenched with water, he i'm
plored pardon for his nlisdeeds.
Lt has been generally supposed
that the breed Of Irish deerhoupd
u extinct, hut In July last ~ speci-
men was exhibited ut the National
Dog Chow in Dublin, and tOuk the
nnt prize In the miscellaneous
GLASS. In general appearance il re-
ssmbied magnificent deerhound.
but WAS more massive. M
There are at present in France
4o6e parishes uDprOvided with pas
tors and this Notwithstanding all
th6 eNbrta Of the archbishops to OBJ
tain o apdidates for holy orders,
md although old priests anxious
- retire are kept Ia harness. Iu
some 5000 parishes there Is neither
church nor cure, nor any regular
service. ~ -a4 -
Five tramps recklessly resolved
10 capture Kent0n, Ohio. They
marched into the village flourish
ing clubs, terrified n few women,
and began to pillage store. Their
triumph was short. The villagers
gathered in force. stripped them,
dipped them into barrel of tar,
relied them in sand, and drove
thom out Of town.
ouinine has advanced In price
unttl 1t 10 now higher than 1t has
before been in this country since
the rebellion. This Is attributed
not only to the spread of malarial
dlssases. but to the falling off in
the supply of bark. owing to trou-
biss among the South American
tribes Of Indians, who are the prin-
eipal gatherers. They have shipped
40 bark for eight or nine months.