The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-30
prover himself a presiding officer Of superior
n,sinr and ability,
CIIRREN L EVENTS.

Engineer De Lesseps estimates that his
Darien canal will pay shareholders 11la per
cent per annum.
No Hottentot Ii permitted to marry more
than eight sisters out OF one family. This Is
right. Somebody else might want chance.
Some American corsets we're recently
shipped to Mexico. The natives supposed
they we're saddles and returned them as not
giving satisfaction.
The business of making interesting ruins
continues. The fortresses Of Silistria, varna
and Rutsehuck have been demolished. ana
Shumla Is the only fortress left Oh the famous
Quadrilateral.
There are said to be about 10000 telephones
now IN service IL this country aa al tba so -
paratively slow progress Of new Inventions
In the mother country.
Grace Greenwood says New England pro
tluces the best girls and women IN Inc Wofld,
Yes and New England gives them the Low
est wages and the ,fewest husbands. -BAU 40
Express.
Sitting Bull plays upon the superstitions
III tha Sinny tribes. according to the Chicago
1yibaape's correspondent, making them BE-
lieve that he possesses superhu1nan power.
His dreams are interpreted ny his brother
in-law, and are treated as revelations from
the Great Spirit. His influence Geo over tne IL
dians OF Dakota Ia almost absolute.
al ornhestrion. said to be the largest ever
built. has recently been erected In Baltimore.
It Is "a feet high IL feet feet broad and q feet
deep. and ID equal to q full orchestra OF sixty
pieces la power and fullne5s OF tone, ana com
prices every instrument OF an orchestra. Inc
instrument weighs $4,000 pounds, cost ST., 600,
and required three years In Its construction.
Sir Bartle Frere is authority for the state
merlt that the Inhabitants OF q remote village
Iii Deccan have abiured idolatrr and caste
removed their idols from the temples, and
protested a Christianity which they learned
Tor themselves from earnest reading OF 9 sim
ole gospel and few tracts left among them
81 d merchant, who made no attempt to in
struct them.
The building interests Of the city OF New
York show healthful increase In volume and
value during the past six months, as com.
pared with the corresponding period last
year. II appears from the report Of Super
intendent Dudley, of the building. depart.
ment. TINT the estimated cost OF improve
meats for the half years mentioned has ad
yanced from en- aggregate OF Se,s31.1ls IL
1878 to SIS, 3D. TIC In 1879.
Bob Webster, the Atlanta mulatto barber
who claims to he son Of Daniel Webster, has
engaged with Boston agent to lecture In
New England. His story Of illustrious
parentage has been convincingly denied, ye
| the Atlanta Dtsputch says: bob Is already
| having his lecture prepared. 1t will be 9
general and scattering effort, touching on hi
| own life, birth and parentage Bob will cut
dash els lecturer, and we would not be eur
prised II he made some pocket change. Th,
Boston man will get the most OF II"
| Alta remarkably successful charity fair IL
| London the stalls were In charge OF TITLED
women and actresses In about equal numbers
| Lady Enfield and the Marchioness OF Head
fort mixed and sold American fancy drinks
which were In great demand, at twenty-ftv
cents each; the Countess KarOlY and Lad.
Skelmersdale importuned men In the crowd I,
| buy bouquets; and the beautiful Mrs Corn
| wallis West pushed the sale OF cigars with al
| her might; but Sara Bernhardt proved tn,
greatest attraction, for the crush was Away
greatest around her. and her sale OF her owl
portraits was enormous at $3.50 each, With he
autograph
Uredulo,ls persons in the neighborhood Q
Chambersburg, Pa, believes that the secret Q
cure for hydrophobia has been lost IN tn
death Of DIR. Abraham Senseny. This physi
clans father used to give a medicine to every
body who was bitten by dog. 1t was said +
be made from an infalible discovery made b.
a remote ancestor, and transmitted iron
fathar to son under pledge Of secrecy. Dl
| Abraham Senseny, however, did not oftel
| prescribe 1t, and sometimes limited that hi
ancestry had dealt In humbug; but the In
preston Is nevertheless abroad that he Nigh
have impaired Invaluable knowledge On til
| subject.