Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-02-18
Xariefes.


A barber shop in Church street,
New York. advertises Lady artists in
attendance III
Venetian glass is again in favor,
and many handsome vases and orna-
ments are made Of it.
New Haven, Conn, residents en-
ploy about 500 telephones, connected
by seventy miles Of wire.
The stock of grain in Boston eleya-
tors is only 200, 900 bushels, against half
million bushels at the same time last
year.
The Chicago Court has decided
that divorce cannot be granted when
the ''desertion" is the result of an
agreement to live apart.
Mrs. Horace Broad died at Cam
bridge, Mass, at precisely the same
instant at which her daughter expired
on the same day at Boston.
The Bordeaux Mint, the scene of
the recent misappropriation of NM.
Rothschild's silver, is to be closed and
the staff transferred to Paris, which
will now be the only French mint,
Strasbourg having become German.
The Trustees of Boston University
have received notice Of cash gift, Of
S12, 900 to form the nucleus of a pro-
fessorship in the college of Liberal Ats.
A lady has also presented $4,000 as a
nucleus OF fund for the endowment Of
a Woman's Professorship in the same
college. Boston Post.
American coal is sold in Switzer-
land, coming from Philadelphia by
sailing ships to Marseilles and thence
by rail to Geneva, where it costs about
$40 ton. The price is little under
that Of German and French coal at the
same point, and the quality is pro-
nounced much better.
The amount received for customs
at the Boston Custom House during
January was $500, ,407. .04, a decrease of
S1S5, 146. 40 compared with the cores
ponding month Of last year. The total
value Of foreign merchandise entered
during the month was 81, ,917 ,689, an
increase of $239, ,259 over the amount
entered in January, 1878.
The Gothard Tunnel, is now the
longest tunnel in the world. the length,
bored from both sides, reaching total
of IL, ,481 yards % yards longer than
the Mont Gents. Very nearly 5000
| yards remain to be excavated, and if
the work goes on as rapidly this year
as it went ON last it may be finished in
a twelvemonth.
In Germany man who wishes to
become medical practitioner has to
pass, some time in the course of his
third years study, an examination in
chemistry and physics, botany, zoology,
anatomy and physiology, and at the
close OF his studies he has to spend
sometimes as much as five months
session in passing final examination
in the practical departments.
There are twenty-five Mennonite
villages in Manitoba, with 460 dwell
ings and 2S41 residents. The immi-
grants from Russia have 10,740 acres
under cultivation, 1862 horses and some
$500 cows and oxen, and have already
large stores of grain and other produce.
They are growing rich rapidly and
prove the very best of citizens, settling
all their disputes among themselves
and having in their colony neither a
constable nor a lookup. 3f'lI
"A Child-stealer, said to be the
widow of a Count and well educated,
has been discovered in Paris, and is
known as the "Ogresse des Lilas. -
| Her method VIZ s to stand at the en-
trance of founding hospital and in
duce those bringing children there to
let her have them, on the ground that
she would have them placed in families
| where they would have every advan-
tage. In this way she obtained. several
children, but what has become of them
is mystery. ie
1t is asserted that from the sum-
NIT of Mount Etna the circle of vision
has the enormous radius of $50. z miles.
The habitable zone of the mountain is
very fertile, and sustains dense popu-
lation-1424 to the square mile. Rod
well says the gigantic chestnut trees of
Carpinelto are no myths, but sober
realities. He asserts that the diameter
of the trunk of one of them is twenty
| ANO 4NNSs eAh0 bhcb q PAJAAO ACcA0 passes
through the much-decayed trunk Of
the largest, the Castagno sdi sCento
Cavali.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Herald,
| published at the birthplace Of Shak-
speare, says: considerable progress
has been made toward the completion
of the theatre portion of the Memorial,
the handsome proportions of which are
seen to great advantage now the
greater part of the scaffoIding has been
removed. The Memorial, indeed, now
forms one Of the sights Of Stratford,
and no pilgrim to the shrine of the
great dramatist is content to leave the
town until he has taken a glimpse at
it.n
/ 1t is estimated that there are in the
State of New York no less than 6400
ecclesiastical organizations Of all de-
nominations, occupying nearly as many
edifices, which furnish seats for 2, ,600,-