Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-25

And Current Topics Gathered from
all Quarters.

And Current Topics Gathered from
all Quarters.
A bill to tax church property is before
the Illinois Legislature, and is likely to be
passed.
Prof. Billroth of Vienna has founded a
society for the education of nurses for
wounded soldiers.
Madame Anderson makes 81, 900 clear by
her long walk, not to speak of the notoriety
she acquired, which was great.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, according to a
Paris paper, has been almost completely
restored to health since his arrival in
Europe.
Workingmen in Philadelphia have over
SIC, 900 900 invested in cooperative loan
associations, which they find more secure
than saving banks.
An inebriate member OF q Western legis-
lature wanted to introduce a resolve that
no person who had been in the legislature
should be eligible to d seat in the state
prison. Several of his colleagues are still
In pursuit Of the point of the joke.
Baltimore harbor is frozen over tightly,
the first time, the local papers say, in sew
eral years. Water communication with
the outside world is entirely suspended,
n thes ship owners and business men gen.
orally are impatiently waiting a thaw.
A jury in Onondaga county, New York,
gave . woman So, 600 damages in a breach
of-promise suit, the other day, when she
had laid her claim at only 5000. The
counsel for the plaintiff informed the court
that his client would be satisfied with the
amount asked for. The verdict was medi-
fed accordingly.
Another woman has been nominated for
School Director in Philadelphia, and the
Ledger remarks that what the schools most
need is zeal, intelligence and honesty in
the Board Of Directors and that it does
not matter much whether the possessor OF
these qualities happens to be a man or a
woman.
Ida Smith chewed gum in Louisville
until her jaws kept moving in spite of her
effort to stop them. She too the gun out
Of her mouth, but her jaws continued to
open and hut with . violence that con-
t0rted the whole Of her face. A physician
applied bandages, but it was only by max
ing her insensible with chloroform that she
was Quoted. 1t was q case Of spasmodic
action Of the facial muscles from over-ex-
ertion.
It is not an everyday occurrence that fire
Which, uuIus bsluBio DulluiuS ucstIOys prop
erty valued at 81, 0O0, 900, and yet this is
the figure set down as representing the loss
occaaioned by the burning Of the Brooks
building, corner Of Broadway and Grand
streets, New York, Tuesday night. One of
the great clothing merchants burned out
estimated the value Of his stock at 81, 000,-
600. The insurance companies will feel the
loss most keenly as the property was fully
covered BY insurance.
The Prussian returns Of births. deaths,
and marriages for the year 1877 have Just
been published. From the figures quoted
in the German papers it appears that L.
Q02,200 children were born in the year in
question, Of whom 81, 900 were illegitimate.
The number for 1876 is stated to nave been
greater. There were 716,40 deaths, 378,-
500 Of males and S37, 800 Of females. Four
teen persons had reached the age Of 107
years, 22s the age Of 1902 years, 1858 were
between 81 and SO years, z7,2 52 between 81
and rs. and 81, 249 between n and 68. The
number Of marriages contracted was 210,
800. against 221 700 in 1876.