The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-16
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Since the fall Of the empire in France seven
vnarqhsaY,s az thu legislature have been Prime
Munster Jules Fayrer ILL., Duke ~
Praglia Cyau de Cissay. VI. Buffet. Nj. jules
Simsn N, pufaure and III. Washington.
The Russian government has offered spe-
x.iaI nriyiteras 10 such among the medical
students as will volunteer g ufier their snr-
vices 10 the medical men IN the localities
where the plague prevails
The Ralie, of Il me. has revived the report
that Queer Victoria will visit the continent
sIis sffiug going first 70 italy. where she
will sTend some time at Baveno. She Will
aftarward. It says. visit Cohufg ard Darms-
tadt.
The strength a. tire German army for the
xpsr Is7a Sd amounts to Il. 222 officers III 654
mon. l621 surgeons. 7+6 paymasters. 62l do
hrs. RI9 masteE-armorefe, 93 master-sld-
dleTs ana g.sgS horses. These figures are
much the same a. those given last year.
Five wears ago the italian mercantile navy
was in high state q prosperity out owing
K, had management at home. and it consular
agents abroad, It i now on the verge Of ruin.
and maIlv thousand sailors ara idle on account
AZ TIE crushing taxes, which have destroyed
their business
The Shah II Persia. In recently ordering
that no soldier should do anything but his
military duties. has put an end to an ancient
rlIstoul By which private soldiers by acting as
butchers, money-changers. doorAeepers, etc.
have added to their pay, which Is only about
day.
The willow II fast becoming rival 10 the
eucalyptus for its anti-malarial properties.
IN The region Cf Asia Minor about E9hfsus.
IRE prevalence Of malaria has steadily dmin-
lshei as the tree has been introduced.
Through tine efforts of Mr.. Van L,nnep.
Swedish Consul at Smyrna, the willow now
IL extensively grown in districts which We're
treeiess twenty years ago,
NJ. Siblriakof, a wealthy and patriotic
Siberian merchant. Is having steamer fitted
out with a view 0f relieving the Swedish ~
pedftfon now locked up by ice to the west oil
II the East Cape. Capt. Sengstacke. or the sec
ond German Polar expedition, will take com
mand of this expedition, and his instructions
are TO return I'd Europe by the route dIscay-
cred BIZ Prof. Nordenskiold The expedition
will start in May.
Peace. the convict English murderer. has a
wonderful ability a. hide III TIE smallest pos
ssbIe limits He can place himself IL box
H with remarkable promptitude. In the bottom
drawer of a chest. and in a ehiffonier, he was
frequently hidden; while from long practice
be was able to hide under an ordinary round
table ciinging to the spiral stem IN such
manner that even II the table had no cover he
would escape the glance Of a casual observer.
The story Of Rich. the harlequin, who was
recommended by physician who did not
know him off the stage TO go and see himself
has just been paTalleled In London. suffer
er from depression or spirits consequent on
on Fashionable West End doctor for advice
ssTry change of air. was the prescription.
The sufferer was special correspondent, who
had Just completed professional Journeys eX-
tending over II, GOO miles within eight months.
The heavy duties imposed by the Italian
customs on foreign tobacco make smuggling
so profitable a trade that the frontier popula-
ton OF Switzerland are leaving their occupa-
tipns by hundreds in order To engage in the
business. Last year i'm the district of Como
ufSs14e loft, tod
The fines collected amount 4 to 2 1000 lire,
and, In default OF payment many persons
have been sentenc 1t 10 long terms OF impris-
onment. The penalty for smuggling single
cigar Is seventy lire. i lira Is worth little
more than eighteen cents IL our currency.
Prince Bismarck is a great eater. but he
cannot be called a delicate or scientific diner.
Beer, champagne, turtle soup, bears head,
and a mess of mustard aud raspberry jelly
formed only a part OF a repast in day when
ne was recovering from slight iIlneas; lie
could, at one time, dispose Of eleven hard
boiled eggs at a sitting. lie l. fond ri mid
dle-sized trout Resides his tavorte drink
porter mixed with champague-he strongly
recommends another compound, said to ~
the invention 81 Field Marshal A1oltke, con
Sisting of hot tea, sherry and champagne.
He enjoys good mutton, but he has little
appetite for tillets Of beef or beef In general.
Dr. Bertillion has published another s.
tistical ''etudeh ia France to prove that m4tri-
ceIlbacy. Between the ages Ut twenty-five
and thirty the annual mortality per thousand
In France Is ten bachelors and six married
men, and the same disproportton Is obServa- |
bic later on. diminishing, however, with adj |
vanciug years. Between forty-iiye and fifty
It is twenty single men tn eleven Renedicts |
Widowers die with peculiar rapidly, the !
figures in the twenty-five and thirty year
class being twenty-five to six married men |
After passing the age Of Twenty-Five mar
ried women die off less rapidly than SOM
sters. and the mortality OF widows IS III 10
means as great as Is that Of widowers.
About 500 newspapers appear in Russia.
OF these q large number are not in Russian
Forty-two are German, several are French,
and i few are in the dialects Of the Baltic
provinces. Ihirty-siX OF these Journals are
the property of high schools and universities
16l belong to workmen's unions or merchants
guilds, 10l are provincial papers appearing
officially under the direction Of the respective
municipalities; and the remainder are i'll
spired by influential personages, more
anxious to benefit themselves than the COM
monwealth. The NUMBER of foreign papers
admitted into Russia free of censorship Is
I54 German, Sd English, 30 SllNonlc, 10
French, I6 Swedish, IL Italian, 10 Greek ana
Hebrew. OF these 2gI foreign papers only
107 are political.
recent letter from Naples says: "The
eruption recommended the day before yester-
day and as the weather is fine the crowds
Hnues at the great cone. At the issue Of
what is here called the window the lava di-
vides into two currents. one of whick takes
the direction Of tie former stream toward
Somma, and the other moves toward Naples. |
There Is a sensible augmentation of intens- |
". as was able myself TO observe the night |
before last, and which I saw at a greater dis |
tance last night This evening the smoke is |
very dense. tie summit of the column is |
brightly colored, and tonight the flow of |
lava, which il al present slow, will il all pro |
liability augment greatly"
The Zulus are armed with hrecch-loading |
WEAPONS CT an approved pattern. Thousands |
81 arms, III the course OF few months. vera |
iaIiaed at Delagoa bay and then rapidly |
49, INTO the hands OF the Xulus Ihe /
4 auLauR asse authorities at that port were not
pos 49, enough to stop the traffic. BY doing
n ~ Mi wSal1 andtouhtedy have drawn down
No. s,ssslI M me wrath Of Cetywayo and
lssaL szlait detachment Of fifty men conId nm
as ~. s WI Town Correspo 81 tha sur
pss;Sq7,sea 9gImsh sir Bartle Frere and the
aalksc oiiieiaIs pledging himself tn at "a tie