The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-15
GENERAL NOTES,

are HOV YET brOuDleSOme.-ChlcagO Inter-
Ocean.
Street railway cars are shipped from the
. nited States to England, France, Germany
Russia, India, Australia and South America.
Nevada has 100000 In her treasury, and
the people are urging the building OF an
insane asylum and school Of mines with 1t.
1t is reported that Robert Bonner intends
to speed some of his flyers In public next
season. IL he does, fast time can be looked
for.
The Kansas blacksmith who received notice
that he was heir to $4,000, ehewed his tongue
a M oment and then went on with his poaId-
ing rs OF yOre.
Courts, with their families, it is said, will pass
the month of February in pleasure trip to
Galveston, Texas
Owing to the extreme cold weather 1t is
expected that next years crop of New Jersey
mosquitoes will be born with fur collars
around their necks.-Philadelphi Chronicle
A Chicago youth went skating on the rink
and calling on celebrated phrenologist the
next day, was told that his bumps pointed
him out to be the coming great genius of the
world.
The Kansas City Times claims that the
people OF Kansas City are practically unani-
nous In favor Of the transfer Of the city and
Its territory from the State OF Missouri to
Kansas.
King Humbert, OF Italy, Is reported to be
in wretched health: he has been threatened
for years with Justification Of the liver. His
| eyes are more prominent than ever, and he
| has harsh, dry cough.
| A candidate for the lieutenant governor
| ship OF Kentucky Is eulogiBed as "the man
who put one hundred and thlrty-six bills
| through the Senate In one night, and let the
boys out before the bar-rooms closed
Biologists having reported that there is in
japan enough coal to produce yearly yield
equal to that OF Great Britain for 1000 years,
the Japanese government have agreed to
grant loan OF 81 600 for the purpose of
| working the mine.
| May Fiske Is an actress of the vigorous
| sort, both on and off the stage. In Montreal
she was offended by her agent. She threw
| water-pitcner at his head, but he lodged 1t.
Then she scratched his face, pulled his hair,
and was trying to throw him out the window
when the bystanders rescued aim.
| At the German embassy In Washington
| they say the Duke of CoInaught will next
year become Viceroy of Ireland; also that the
| Prussan princess who is to be his duchess Is,
In addition to being very pretty, agreeable
and amiable, and, like the prince himself full
| OF liberation and without an atom of religious
bigotry.
Jules Janin was very widely known In Aus
| tria-perhaps Is ito this day big halter in
Vienna, to give Partisan cGchet to his wares,
adopted as his trademark Jules Janin, a
| Paris" The popular belief through the
Kaiser's dominions was that Janin was really
the maker and the hats truly OF French man
ufacture.
There Is every ground for the statement
that Queen VictOria'S views continue thor
vlzier, and that Lord Beaconsfeld has not
lost one iota of the confidence she reposes in
his political wisdom. Neither queen or min
lister share the uneasiness respecting the fu-
tuIe by which others are tOrrnented.
There has been the greatest difficulty In
ind, nin ha I1ro Of Hiv,I,
over and take up her abode in England even
for few weeks though the Queen had init
mated the prOpriety and reas5uring effect Of
such measure. She idolizes her father and
does not love the English court. The latter
fully reciprocates this sentiment.
! Last year 1858 miles Of railroad were con-
structed In this country, against 2281 miles
In 1877 2460 In 1876, and 1910 in 1872 OF last
years construction the New England States
built Al miles; the Middle States, 1888; the
South Atlantic States, Ill; the Gulf States,
| 1877; the South interior States, 3d.; the North
| interior States, 49, the Northwestern States.
1885; the far West interior States, 327, and
the Pacific States 1922 miles.
George, the count Joannes, appeared In his
favorite carcature of Richard III In New
sayr Cut off his leg!' you're bad
man. "Pull down your vesti" etc, and
rafting showers of beans. The Herald critic
says: The count has greatly aged, and
W.
dryest old stick who ever burlesqued Shakes
peare."
The lottery drawings in France are to COM
mence on the fifteenth of January. The grand
$50. 900 francs prize will be first drawn; then
about 1000 prizes, each exceeding 1000 francs
In value, which at $50 day will last eight
| days; next the smaller prizes, which at 5000
q day will occupy about twelve days; and,
lastly, two prizes Of $4,000 francs and 100 900
| francs. Meanwhile the tickets are drug in
n hn ut nf< frnvv
| forty centimeS apiece.
The successor to the late Beverly Douglass
In Congress will scarcely have time to warm
his seat before the Speaker will announce the
demise Of the Forty-ffth Congress. The
special election will not be held until the |
twenty third instant and as there are seven |
teen counties In the district. and 1t will re- |
quire at least two weeks to gather in the re-
turns OF the election and certify the result to
the House Of Representatives, the party elect |
ed, therefore, will be entitled to only about a |
half months salary.
COal-armor is the newest idea among Eng |
lish naval constructors. A coal-bunker eight |
or ten feet wide, filled with coal, has beend
a half-ton gun lnearly seven inches bore) even
when fired under conditions most favorable |
for penetration, and experiments have been |
tried by exploding shells with increased |
bursting charges in the coal without setting |
1t on fire. For converted merchant steamers |
and vessels where the greater part of the ma |
chinery is placed above the water line these |
bunkers are likely to be employed.
The Rev. Thomas Crossley was for several |
years pastor of church in Rochlin Cal. He |
had violent temper, and got into trouble |
repeatedly by trying to whip persons who |
had offended him. He maltreated his wife, too, |
and at length she retaliated by telling that he |
had eloped from England with her, leaving q |
wife behind. That revelation brought his |
to San Francisco, where he became one of |
Kearney's orators. The second Mrs Cross
ley refused to live with him, and, becoming
furiously enraged by her persistency, he |
killed her with knife.
As a rule, the officers Of the Senate have |
held their positions with such tenacity as to |
insure long tenure. The average term OF a |
secretary OF that body has been fifteen years. |
Since the organization under the present con-
stltution there have been but six secretaries
These, were Otis, of Massachusetts, who