Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-04-04
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Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

At recent sitting of the German
Parliament the annual salary of
the German Ambassador in Lon
don was raised from 10000 marks
to 10000 marks--$37, 500. Prince
Bismarck said that as the German
Ambassador in London now repre-
sented twenty-five States, instead
of one as formerly, his expenditure
had considerably increased. If the
House insisted on giving their AM
bassadors less than they spent,
they would be making diplomatic
posts the exclusive domain of the
rich.
Queensland, in Australia, has
entered upon the 10th year of her
existence. 1t was on the 10th of
December, 1859, that the northern
portion of New South Wales, from
the goth parallel of latitude to the
Gulfof Carpentaria and Cape York,
was proclaimed O colony, with a
responsible government. The pop
ulation of Queensland has in
creased during the eighteen years
from $4,000 to nearly 200, 900. TO
Pastoral settlement, with which
this colony started, has been added
agriculture; some 10000 to 100000
acres of land are now returned as
under crop, and sugar planting has
been developed into an important
and permanent industry.
The will of an Englishman re.
Gently deceased contained the fol-
lowing unique provisos! 81 be-
queath to my monkey, my dear and
amusing Jacko, the sum Of G10
sterling per annum, to be employed
for his sole and exclusive use and
benefit to my faithful dog, Shock,
and my well-beloved cat, lib, a
pension of s5 sterling; and | desire
that, in case of the death of either
of the three, the lapsed pension
shall pass to the other two, between
whom. it is to be equally divided.
On the death of all three, the sum
appropriated to this purpose shall
become the property Of my daugh-
ter Gertrude, to whom 1 give this
preference among my children be-
cause of the large family she has,
and the difficulty she finds in bring
ing them up"
Paris has twenty-eight barracks
exclusive of Courbevoie, st. Cloud
Rueil and Vincennes. The larges
is the Military College, which dates
from the reign of Louis XIV, and
can accommodate $500 men and
800 horses. The second is the
Prince Eugene, which was com
pleted twenty-three years ago
Then comes Reuilly, which can
take 1850. Some of the barracks
have history-that, for instance,
of the Rue Babylone, which, dur.
ing July, 1880, was occupied by the
Royal Swiss Guard, and sustained
a murderous siege. The Barrack
Bonaparte, on the Quay dOrsay,
was at the same time devoted to
the occupation of the body guard,
and was attacked and taken by the
mob, Notwithstanding heroic de-
fence. The barracks of Paris, with
the poisson the basti0ns and the de.
tached forts, can, without crowding
accommodate $4,000 men.
Surgeon Major Crosse Johnston
of the British army has lately made
a remarkable report as to the heat
of the body in different climates.
This is put down in medical works
as being in temperate climates
about 9S4 Fahrenheit, and DR..
Becker has estimated the increase
in hot climates at 0.5 Fahrenheit tC
one degree of increase in the tenn
perature of the atmosphere. III
September, 1876, at Bellary. where
the mean temperature was ST., DR.,
Johnston made observations morn.
ing and night for week upon six
teen healthy men, who had been
residing in India at least three
years, and found that the tempera.
a ture under the arm had q mean OF
s97.6S only, which is lower than the
calculation Of DR.. Becker, or than
the mean temperature of men in
temperate climates. The expert
ments were repeated with the ut.
most care, and went to confirm the
conclusion that the heat of the body
is lower in tropical than in temper
ate chimes.