The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-07
PARAGRAPHS.

Undeterred by former failures, California
Will again attempt the culture Of cotton.
Notwithstanding the many Affections prev
alent In 1878. 1t is said the railroads. Of che
country will make q better showing finan-
cially than has been made since 1874
Iridescent glass of brilliant tints is now be-
Ing made In this country by subjeeting the
glass while heated To q vapor Of chloride of
tin, Deeper shades are impaired by adding
to the tin chloride little nitrate Of strontum
or barlum.
| The Japanese make curious and handsome
kind Of copper by casting It under water,
the metal being highly heated and the water
also being hot. The result ls beautiful rose
colored tint, which 10 not affected BY exposure
| to the atmosphere.
A German paper asserts that pr,lssie acid
only causes suspension OF life at first. and
that one who takes II can be restored 10 ami
nation by the pouring OF acetate Of potash
and salt, dissolved In water, ON the head and
spine. Rabbits have been 30 recovered.
A bankrupt at Houghton, Mich, was pres
ent when the final dividend was declared from
his estate, which was just 81 10 short OF Yield
missioner trouble the insolvent tnagnanlm-
ously paid the ~ 70 from wel-fllled packet
book.
Rufus Clark, one Of the colored emigrants
from South Carolina To Liberia, who went
out on the steamship Azore, has written
letter to Walker u Trenholm. merchants, OF
Charleston, begging them 70 make arrange
ments go bring him aud family back. He says
there lis nothing going on In Liberia for a
living but lying, cheating and stealing" and
says II the firm will assist him In getting back
he would be willing to bind himself and fam
ily to work for them In any capacity until
they are repaid.
A beautiful girl In Iowa named Jemlma re-
Gently committed suicide because she could
find no diminutlve for her name ending In
~ A fav hsntr uft rd t,,ff
from classnate beginning, Dear darling
Minimize" but II was too late, and she was
borne to the grave by eight companions,
named respectively, .Abbie, Bessie. Carrie,
Dollie, Ettle, Fl0rrie, George and Hattie.
DIR. Charles Carroll O'Donnell Is member
Of the California constitutional oonvsntion,
In which body he strongly advocated the most
rigorous measures against newspapers. The
San Francisco Chronicle said that he, being q
quack, probably had personal motive 10
trying to muzzle the press. The doctor Inn
mediately began o libel suit. At last accounts
the Chronicle had proved In court that no had
falsely represented himself as graduate Of
q medical college, and that he had been three
times arrested Tor malpractice.
Bos y, Pms latest tragedy the killing BY vii
been caused by bis conviction that she was
his superior intellectually. Not long prev-
ously they went to Q phrenologlst TO have
their heads examined, with g view to settling
Il
told him that the wife had the best brain, and
was fairly entitled to the leadership OF tho
family. Wilson was greatly agitated by this
Information, and wsepiDgly declared that he
had made the most serious blunder OF his life
IN marrying woman who knew more than
he did.
A rabbit suppression bill" has been passed
by the Legislative Assembly Of Victoria.
The bill, which is intended to deal with the
evil caused In the colony by superilulty Of
rabbits, was introduced by the Minister Of
Lands, who, In moving the second reading,
drew vivid picture OF the desolation caused
by them In certain districts. On the occasion
OF recent visit paid by him to district
where they abounded he passed over tracts
which were now grassless, the rabbits having
devoured the heritage, roots and all. Power
is given by the bill to go upon private prop
erty and destroy rabbits at the expense OF
the owner, and anybody turning RABBITS loose |
In district is liable to penalty OF $50 for |
each offence.
M. de Lesseps has just returned from trip |
to Tunie, WHITTIER he went to investigate the |
possibility and the advisabllity OF letting the |
waters Of tho Mediterranean into the desert |
that desolate expanse into an Inland sea- NJ |
dc Lesseps says that the Arab chieftains Of |
the south OF the Aures keep up the tradition
OF there having existed In former times sea
In that neighborhood from five to six hum
dred leagues In circumference. He also has
been enabled to dlsprove the idea that the
formation OF q new lake would do away with
the GASES, for he has discovered that these are
all from fifteen to forty metres above the level
81 the sea, whereas the desert itself is below
that level. Traces Of Roman cviliz ttion have
been found In the desert, and among chem the
remains OF an amphitheatre like that in
Rome.