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from which he fell to the ground, sus-
tanning fatal injuries.
"A 5.year-old daughter of j. NJ.
Gunkhouser, of East Palestine, o., fell
into an uncovered cistern and was dead
before her fate was discovered
John Jackson, of Inwood, Ind,
was fatally shot while fooling with a re-
vOlver. He didn't know it was loaded.
"A little child of Green Fryman, a
Nicholas County (Ky.) farmer, was
scalded to death by falling into tub OF
boiling water.
"A colored woman named Rena
Cason was burned to death at Robinson
Station, near Cynthiana, KY. Her cloth
ing caught fire from an open CRATE.
While engaged in coasting on the
Wabash bluffs at Lafayette, Ind, the
other night, Mrs. M. j. Undertake had
one of her ears nearly severed by fly
ing sled, and her husband was so severe
lY stunned and bruised that he lay I'M
conscious for several hours.
Ben Plant, of Warfeld, Iowa, under
took to pull his gun into the wagon by
the muzzle Both of his eyes were shot
out and it was thought he would die.
"A young son of Rev. VIM. Clay
baugh, residing near Urbafa, o., was
fatally injured by falling under the
wheel of a threshing- separa-
! tor.
will Breeding, residing near Tay
lorville, Bartholomew County, Ind,
fatally shot himself while out cunning.
DIR. L. K Brigham, of Aurora, H.,
was seriously, if not fatally burned, by
the explosion of an alcohol stove over
which he was preparing some medicine.
Foreign Notes.
During the academic year of 1878,
there were 5,035 students at the medi-
cal school of Paris.
Of the thousand volunteers who ac-
companied Garibaldi in his capture of
Sicily in 1860, 734 are still living, of
whom 627 are pensioned by the State !;
only 119 were killed in war; the rest
died "natural deaths.''
-"More hopelessly corrupt than even
the provincial administrations, the Gov
eminent at Pekin and the household of
the Emperor grow fat on these eXtor-
tions, and every attempt to place them
under restraint meets with frown. :"
ion of its rulers.
The European residents of Hong
Kong have not yet got over their alarm
caused by the attack from band of
Chinese pirates on the night of Septem-
Der %. They are urging the Governor
and his forces to take steps to prevent
any similar occurrence. The heather
Chinee claims to be in a majority in
those parts.
The English marine magistrate at
the port of Singapore is a judicial per-
son of muscle. He lately sprang from
his bench and soundly thrashed sub
magistrate sitting with him; the next
day he dragged a reporter out of Court
by the collar, and his only virtue, APP
parently, is the impartiality with which
he abuses every shipmaster who comes
before him.
"A commission, composed of ex-
perts, will meet in Berlin during the
Easter holidays to decide on the meas
ures to be taken for the compulsory
teaching of drawing in the higher
schools.
The electric light will make valu-
able saving of coal in England. Ac
cording to very careful estimate made
a few years ago, the quantity consumed
in gas making was set down at $780,
600 tons, against production of coal of
ia, 100000 tons.
Missions have done great deal for
Samoa. Thirty-six years ago, when
Christianity began to be preached in
that island, the population numbered
about $4,000, and all were idolaters.
The population under the sway of Chris
tian institutions, has increased to 3d.
600, and all are nominal, and the greater
part protested, Christians. A theolog-
ical seminary graduates 60 students
year, and 20 missionaries have been sent
out to neighboring islands.
In England woman can obtain a
decree of what is called judicial separa-
ton from her husband on the ground of
his adultery, but not decree of divorce
unless desertion or cruelty can be prov
ed as well. In New South Wales an act
giving her the right to sue for dissolu-
ton on the ground of adultery alone,
has passed both houses. 1t has been
done several time before, but has been
disallowed by the Queen.
AT the Brighton Aquarium, Eng
land, they have a young sea ion named
Prince, which is getting too big to be
agreeable. He enjoyed greatly playing
with a crooked stick, which he would
toss and catch dexterously, but when
he began throwing it at the heads of
visitors the keepers had to interfere.
Then he amused himself by pulling the
plug out of the tank and thus draining
all the water off. If the night-watch-
man does not keep sharp eye on him,
Prince climbs out of his tank every
night.
Most of the Socialists who were
expelled from Berlin by the recent order |
of the police, have left. Their applica-
tons for extension of time in order that |
they might arrange their affairs and |
make provision for their families were |
uniformly denied, and in some cases
great distress and suffering will result. |
A number of the expelled will perma-
nently emigrate to America, England,
and Switzerland, while few will en-
deavor t. remain in those parts of Ger
many which are not affected by the de
cree OF expulsion.
The Bavarian Government has sent
to the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and
Jewish congregations of the kingdom,
nd to the sanitary officers of the chief
cities, TO ask their opinions in relation