The Morning herald., 1878-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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English bar in Hong Kong. 911,a ar. 'g,a
Paris has 100000 trees, each Of which
costs about $36. They live about fifteen
years. 0..--e
While Scotch Presbyterianism is making
considerable progress in London the ko-
man Catholic religion is making consider
able progress in Scotland.
To work hard all day picking cotton, and
then be sent seven miles to drive cows, was
considered an outrage by Columbus
Tenn, boy, SO he hanged himself.
The relatives of a deceased lady Of Glen's
Falls quarrelled over gold necklace that
had been buried with her, and the body
was exhumed in order to obtain it.
Living fifty-four years in one village,
and during that time repairing $4,000
watches, for each of which he received
pay, is the history of a jeweler of Sandy
Hill, N. G. ,a..
Mr.. Samual Cook and his wife Silvin, of
Lulenburg. Mass, who have lived together
more than fifty years, died of pneu-
monia within an hour of each other
recently. 90
The farmers and sheep raisers of Cecil
county, Maryland, have passed resolutions
declaring that all dogs running at large
shall be considered at the mercy of the
community. '
The Bishop of Colombo is an accom-
plished person; on two successive days he
preached in four churches in four different
languages: -Cingalese, Burghers (a kind of
Dutch) Portuguese and Tamil.
A Keokuk man bruised negro terribly
whom he caught robbing his hen roost.
He afterward relented, dressed the fellows
wounds, gave him loaf of bread and a
chicken, duu sehC nih on Aio way A"-
joicing =.
Pennsylvania, while eating oysters on
the shell, found nickel cent of 1853
partly covered over by the heart of the
oyster. There was also an indentation in
the shell produced by the cent
William Aspinwall bought land in Brook.
line Massachusetts, two hundred and TWEEN.
ty-seven years ago. 1t has been in the
family ever since, and is now owned by
William Aspinwall.
A veteran was relating his exploits tc
crowd of boys, and mention ed having
been in five engagements. "That's moth
ing," broke in a little fellow; "mJ
sister Agnes has been engaged clever
times"
1t was an eminent light of the law who
said there were two things that no mar
could foretell-one being what sort of {
man any particular woman would marry
and the other what sort of a verdict a peti
jury would give.
At the beginning of the present centur!
Napoleon had return made of the proba
BILE number of Jews in the world. 1t wa
computed that there were million in tn
Turkish Empire; in Persia, China
India, 100000; in Europe, Africa ant
America, 100000
A little more than ten years ago tn
Japanese army were still using bows an'
arrows, and wearing armor; now the sol
diers use breech-loading rifles, and tn
Government has recently adopted the mos
potent weapon for the suppression of re
ibellion--a Just administration of the laws
There is spring on the farm of DAME
Cork, of Kittery, Me-, discovered hv
years ago. Whenever drought become
so severe that all the other springs in tn
vicinity fail to yield water this one begin
business, and keeps it up until rain enoug
falls to start the others, when it immed
ately knocks off.
The largest oyster on record in tn
United States was one taken from the bed
in Mobile in 1910. 1t measured three fet
and one inch in length, and twenty-five
and half inches in breadth across il
widest part. In 1865, an oyster dealt
of New York city found among his stoc
of East river oysters one which containe
fish six inches long.