The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-13
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| Last session the British House Of Lords sal
2O6 and the Commons 1910 hours.
| The harbor of Melbourne, Australia, is tobe
improved at cost OF $4,000, 900, so as to ad-
| nit OF ships OF any burden coming right up
to the city.
The annual rate OF mortality In England
and Wales was 2226 from 1910 to 1850; 22.24
from 1850 to 1860, 2251 from 1860 to 1870; 2l.64
| from 1870 to 1877.
Truth says that the Hereditary Grand Duke
| OF Baden was the first favorfte, among possi-
| BILE candidates, for the hand OF Princesse Bea-
| trice, but it Is asserted that he wishes Queen
| Victoria's granddaughter. the eldest daughter
| OF the Princess Alice.
Another phase of the AntonelIi case is
promised by Countess Lambertinfs applica-
! tion for new hearing on the ground that she
| has additional evidence that can reveal heI
| mothers name. The mother, 1t is said, Ia
married to a Roman gentleman, to whom
she has borne several children.
According to official statistics furnished by
| the French War Office, 769, 140 men will spend
more or less time under the flag this year, In
conformity with the new military law The
active army is set down at 479, 100 men; the
reserve OF the active army at IA, $40 men
and $3.50 officers; the territorial army at III, )
| 300 men.
sfThe erection of the colossal head of
Liberty designed by Bertholdi for the New
York roadstead is, says Gattgr,ct1si, making
rapid progress at the back Of the Palais de
PIndustrie, and the public will shortly be
| able to visit its Interior. Thanks to the sue
cess of the Franco American lottery, the
| whole Of the monument will be completed in
less than two years, and before it's departure
for It's transatlantic destinati n will be put
together temporarily for inspection by the
Parisians. The height OF the monument, it
may be remarked, will be about that OF the
Vendome Column"
A French lass was at school, and during a.
thunderstorm the electric fluid fell close to
her. For a moment she seemed to be sufo-
eating, but this sensation soon passed of in
to a fit of hiccup5. These became so distress
ing that after three days her mother took her
to the children's hospital In Paris for advice.
The surgeon ordered her to be taken to the
operating theatre, where, On seeing the nedi-
cal man standing at table covered with
some aWful-looking Instruments, and sur
rounded by q number OF assistants In white
aprons, the child became so terrified that she
forgot her hiecups, and she was thus cured.
1.-The first Napoleon" remarks the C0ftt-
nentnt and .Saoiss Times, endowed all his
family spiendidiy, as the master OF Europe
might have been expected to do. The records
of st. Helena show tnat a sum variously esti-
mated at from S20,000,000 to 900 OF
money was at the command Of the exiled
Emperor in Amsterdam, Frankfort and Lon
don. notwithstanding the idle stories which
MARY embarrassments OF Napoleon LII before
he became ruler of France, it Is absolutely
certain that at the death OF his father. the ex-
King OF Holland, at Leghorn, in 1896 he in
herited very handsome property
Wild beasts make awful havoc among the
cattle Of some Of the Russian provinces. In
the province Of Novgorod, for example, the
horses and cows Of the peasants daily fall
victims. The authorities OF that province
have during the past ten years tried every
beasts, but without any noticeable success.
La the year 1873 the loss then ran as high as
1900 head of cattle. At It's last session the
Lemstvo decided to offer a reward OF five
roubIes to every person who shall Kill wolf,
old Or young, and ten TOubles for each bear
killed during the summer, the money to be
paid from the provincial fund. Strychnfne
pills are recommended for the destruction Of
the wild beasts.
Russian papers report that during last
month no less than nine persons were bitten
by a rabid wolf in the hamlet OF Bogoliubow,
in the Vladimir district. They were taken to
the hospital, where five Of them died in
dreadful agony soon after their admission.
The doctors resolved to try In the other cases
an experiment which German physician
had employed with success against hydro
phobia. The experiment consisted In admin
stering to the patient dose OF the Indian
poison eurore. The Russian Pravda says
that this was administered at Vladimir to
the remaining four persons who had been Bit
ten by the wolf. They all died, but without
the preliminary torture OF hydrophobia.
The paragrapher OF the London Truth In
forms the world OF the following facts, which
may be of interest to some Americans: "A
great-grandson Of Racine, see, has just been
helped to title of marquis by the Pope. For
the benefit OF my eountrymen and Others
may as we'll state here that any person who
wants to obtain similar distinction from
the Vatican can purchase it on comparatively
cheap terms. The list Of prices is as follows ::
For dukes title $780, marquis e320, count
S240, baron El60. Such titles have currency
hand OF an heiress, and on the whole seems to
pay we'll. There are certainly worse invest
mpnta In the markell