The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-21
CURRENT MENTION.


Prof. John Wise, the aeronaut, intends to
art from st. Louis upon his balloon voyage
N0Sg the continent.
pOetical contributor TO leading Teli-
gus paper calls his poem, Tim Happy
wen I'm Sad"
The Rev. DIR. 8. s. Harris, Bishop elect of
Michigan, will be consecrated Ia st. PauPs
lurch, Detroit, on the seventeenth OF Sep
timber.
In English laborer at Offham, Kent, lately
embed q tree seventy feet high and hanged
hnself ut the top. This beats Hannah several
cults.
fifty millions Of dollars or $50 for every
mn, woman and child In the State, is what
ii Minnesotians expect from their wheat
cIp this year.
is asserted, and the assertion cannot be
deied, that there are fewer stores closed in
Sgannah at this season than at any period
vihin the last five years.
I Hannibal Harnlin attempts to beaueath
iisseat In the Senate, with his other chatteIs,
o his son, Eugene Hale will contest the
ytn.-lCincinnati Commercial.
While an Illinois farmer was carrying q
undle OF wheat on his shoulder, q rattlesnake
rawled out on his back and dropped to the
round, more frightened than the man.
Among the attractions at a recent Cincin-
ennaM picnic were three marriages This
explains why girls love picnics. They are
tte only protection they have against Alice
Oates. a.,+,oI tapu III
Traland which Ia known as the ''peace preeer-
walton act" and which ID applied In dlstrlcI u
where 4 riotous or insurrectionary temper y
manifested by the people,
Iizt has a pension OF $4,000 q year 10 Hun 10:
gary and as he has no family ~ 81 caa neary
seventy years old, and II he puts few airs
mon himself he may be excused.
An educational tour" Ia being organizer
for q iaunt through Bible lands on the C .I
basis. Twenty-Five tourists ana one cIap Ialu
are to compose the party. About 1oIty ciei-
gyInen want the post OF chaplain.
The value OF the weather bureau TO the cot
ton growing region Ii exemplifled by the APP
nointment or a committee to mem orlaiizf,
Congress for an enlargement OF the anhudl
appropriation for It's service
Judging from foreign statements america .
will be called on during the year 10 Supply
large deficiency In English produce. our lLn'
proved machinery has given US an adVahease
ia competition for the palm.
Two handsome bronze medalilons maze Just
been affixed to the Lyon monument at %
Louis, and were unveiled VIII NOR ctrs 4t,e -
on the eighteenth anniversary OF the Dattle
Wilson's creek and OF Gen. Lyons DEATH
Dr. D'UDRer, the liscoverer OF the cinchons
elre for drunkenness, Is creating quite ~. ~
by his successful treatment Of nervous depll
ty, Ianguor and prostration HE'S Sill ~ .n
Palmer nOu5e, diiu nio1iy iS ~
him.
From recent London papers it IL learne'
that a new opera house will certainly be bull
On the Thames embankment, the subscIip
lions being assured and the work 70 hegln l II
mediateIy, so that it may be opened 1or III
season OF 1881.
Senator Conklng has been invited to al
dress the Washington county tseW VOTE
farmers on September IL, at Argyle. In orde
to preserve the harmones oI LTe occasion OCCASION = =
Invitation has been issued to Mr.. Sprague, {
Rhode Island.
The passenger from Liverpool could nc
have worn cheerful face when the custom
house inspector ripped open the false pot1oL
of his trunk and revealed a mine three lnche
deep with gold watches and other wealth, cor
corning which the owner had not cone u
ssduty.'
The handsome coachman il abroad In BE
. +rium ALSO The other day Madame Samplgn
i was shot while ascending staircase by ne
husband, who accused her OF having deserve
him to live with their coachman. Both hu:
hand and wife belonged to good families l
France.
Tn France the other day subscriptions we
called for for one million obligsotons at NJ
francs each for account OF Paris and Otnt
cities Ia less than twentyfoGr hours IL
call was responded to with more than eigl
tin1aa fine rnount In Paris alone. Franc
with financial conditions Identical with our
LIS full of prosperity.
Children who drink tea and coffee, says 2
Fern11son. of England, as rule only gro
fur mounds per annum between the ages
thirteen and six teen, while those VINO drlI
milk NIGHT and morning grow hiUeen poun
each year When diseases are bp pfe - ~
sS % 20 lass mower to resist sickness TIL
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