The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-13

Congressman De La Matyr IL on his way t.
Maine, to take part III the Greenback canvass
in that State.
Senator Blaine has family OF slx children
Gail Hamilton, however. is not one OF hi
sons. She Is his cousin
BsRat2iro Tfhi sR g Weaafthy and whom be- wa
Secretary Of State he spent as much M
$4,000 year In keeping up his Washington
establishment. What q swath he would c,lt
as Minister to England or Russia.
\ India has become ono Of the largest wheat
producing countries in the world. and 1t is an
ticipated that the completion of the Indus
| Railroad, by cheapening carriage, Will make
the Punjaub wonderfully large exporting
province,
ling U-Itng, the Chinese giant. who IL over
eight feet high and twenty eight years old
Is now on exhibition at the St Petersburg
Geological Garden. He attracts rs much at-
| tention as the Iulus did who were lately ex.
hibited at the same place.
| In their report for 1873 tho British com
mission OF customs point significantly to the
fact that tn 1874 tho value or British exports
TO the country was COS, 1000, compared with
Ga $4,000 last year. This year there is a
revival ~ the volume Of British exports.
| joaquin Miller says: 81 II you were to take
q newspaper in your hand and crumple 1t up,
| and then spread II out again, the crcases in it
might fairly represent the streets and lanes
| and alleys of London, 50 angular, 50 awk-
ward and irregular Is this, the greatest Of all
cities OF the earth"
The authorities of Odessa have decided that
the new treasury buildings about to DO
erected there shall be supported upon open
pillars, 50 that 10 quarts may be able to
This project was suggested by the late great
robbery at Kherson, performed by UNDER
mining,
When Longfelow visited Queen Victoria ut
Windsor CASTLE the servants crowded on the
stairway and In the Hobbies to get view or
him. On the Queen asking Them next day,
why this compliment was paid to the poet,
she was told that they used tolisten To Prince
Albert reading "Evangeline' to his children.
ana knowing the lines nearly BY heart, they
longcd to see the man who wrote them. The
Queen Is fond of telling the story.
The Rev. Henry J. Munson, when arraigned
III u Worcester court on q criminal charge, de-
sired to preface his testimony with prayer,
and had got rs far as "Our Father who art,
when the justice stopped him. The clerical
prisoner retorted: 81 can fray in my mind,
and may you, Judge, be called to answer to
God for this refusal III the great day" He
was committed for trial, but refused to walk
to jail, and was conveyed In cart.
The drama Ia London now tends toward
literal representation of low life. Charles
Keade's Drink an adaptation Of Iola's
Babylon" which depicts gambling, drinking
and thieying ~ !, London, Is running at two
theatres; and worship Of Bacchus," q third
play of the slums, has for Its principal scenes
q London gin palace, West End disreputa-
bic resort, and the change room at police
station.
A ship carpenter at Belfast, Me, has CON
cluded to spend the rest OF his life In chair
W hen wages We're reduced he declined to work
any longer. and seated himself In rocking
cfalr near his sitting-room window. There
ne remains all day long only rising to go to
MS meals or to bed. His chair rockers have
worn grooves IN the floor, and on the window
sslii, where he drums idly as he rocks to and
Ifo, are we lmprints OF his fingers He is
supposed TO nave some savings on which he
and his wife live
he Gar struck the Czarina In the side. |
and the Czarina sank" That is the wav ia
when announcement was made of the recent
collision between two Russian steamers called |
the Gar and the Czarina Even the lOva1
subjects OF the Car could not help laughing
~ such news The loyal Russians have also
1 ,.a amHsei by the news that the Imperial |
rover tDerlava) was In imminent danger
rom sandbank. The Czarevna tried to heIn
he Imperial Power. but proved too weak
hen the Squabbler tZabiaka) set to work, and
'ne Imperial Power was saved.
In the Chicago st. Vincent's Home for the
Insane Is grave, quiet gentleman, who con-
'erses lntelligibly upon everyday topics. such
IS he finds discussed Ia the newspapers, and