The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-08
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

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| PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
On May % the centenary Of Thomas Moore
| Is to be celebrated In his native city OF Dublin
|, Mr. Wilson and nj. de Blignieres, the Euro
pean members of the Khedive's cabinet, de.
| cline to wear the fez.
| The storms on the French coast this year
have made sad havoc with the oyster nurse
| ries.
! Queen Victoria last year received 1920, 900
| from her duchy OF Lancaster. At the begin
ming Of her reign the revenue didn't exceed a
| fourth of this.
| The newly chosen mayor OF Vergennes, VT,
| ID ex- Representative T.. e. Woodbridge, while
his colored coaehman, Stephen Bates, Is the
new city sheriff.
| Schnitzenheim remarks: II drinks dem
EngIische vellers Wind oudt dot Sout Africa
wash leedle too ZulubriouS, aindt itY"-Bos-
ton Traveller.
Secretary Of the Navy Thompson escorted
fifteen Or twenty ladies to see " II. Nj. s. Pima
fore" in Washington. The audience very
cordially greeted his sisters and his cousins
and his aunts.'
The people OF Reading, Pa, have In their
midst a woman who has slept continuously
for three months, with the exception of a
half-hour each day when she Is aroused to
take food.
The low grade Of civilization of the Austria
liam aborigines Is attributed to the total
absence from the continent of ferocious and
powerful animals, the ease with which the
poor and limited quantity of their food is
obtained, and their national isolation.
The Marquis of Ripon, who was here for
some months as chief of the English commits
sioners on the Alabama claims, and who sub
sequently became Roman Catholic, states
that he is indebted for his conversion to the
xuriti nOn nf Dnafnr fnf,U {fardinnl1 Nnunan
A repeater tried to vote for dead man In
San Francisco and a little Irishman objected.
"On what ground?" said the judge Because,
begorra," said Pat "the man died In the
fourth ward, and We are after voting him in
the third Boston Courier.
From report lately Issued by the munich
pality Of Leipsic we learn that 1t has GAG
printing offices, 294 book stores and 1863
binderies. There has been great increase in
business since 1865. In 1877 the books pub
lished were valued at $7,0O0000. Leipsic also
does q vast business In furs.
Tim only memorial to Capt. Cook at pres
ent existing in England is mural tablet
erected by his widow, who died In 1887, hav-
ing survived him fifty-six years, in church
at Cambridge, where one of his sons, who
died an undergraduate is buried. Mrs. Cook
left G1000 to maintain the tablet, the surplus
to 60 to the poor OF the parish.
The political and social Eden of New Eng
town, instead Of being in debt, has money at
interest Within it's limits 1t has no distilery
no grogshop, no courthouse, no jail, no
doctor, no lawyer, no constable, no policemen,
no male negroes and only three paupers.
1t Is said Of Northern Texas by the Dallas
Herald that the tillers Of the soil there make
far more provisions than they have any use
for; always have corn and meat for sale, and
their cotton and cattle crops come in as clear
profit. They are rapidly growing wealthy,
and in less than fifteen years from now North
Texas will be as prosperous as the bluegrass
region OF kentucky ever was in its palmiest
days.
There was outrageous fraud in Phfladel-
phia pie-eating match. The contestants were
three In number and one of the largest of the
variety theatres was crowded with specta-
tors. Three pies were placed on a table on
Each man grabbed 9 pie, and shut his mouth
on about a quarter OF its surface; but there
was no swallowing, for the pie was filled with
leather, straw and nails.
The novel sight was presented in the Texas
Legislature week or two ago Of member
of bill making the payment of poll tax a
prerequisite to voting. His argument,
which most Of the body understood although
uttered in foreign tongue, was that at the
last election over one thousand Mexicans had
crossed over and voted in Texas. The
Spanish must have been persuasive, as the
bill passed the lower House.
1t is reported In New York that Mr.. Cutting,
the banker who recently gave 100000 to
raise the debt OF st. AIMS Church, Brooklyn,
of which his father-in-law, the Rev. DR.. Noah
Hunt Schenck Is pastor, has subscribed
$4,000 toward the erection of model tene-
ments In accordance with the plan advocated
In the recent meeting of capitalists In White
street. Cornelius Vanderbilt has put his name
down for $4,000.
Baltimore is the champion city Of America
for the manufacture of cheap jellies. 1t Is
well understood that the jelly Is an animal
rather than vegetable product, being SIM
ply gelatine, colored and favored according
to the fruit that is to be represented. Boston
Jelly y chiefly made OF apples also favored
the imposition is discovered by very few. 1t
costs fourteen cents a pound, which is but
about half what the genuine fruit represented
can be supplied for. Boston Is also great
manufacturing it produce an aggregate Of
500 ton year. 1t sells for eighteen cents
pound, and Is made from dried raspberries.
The Free Press, of Quitman, Ga, says that
"Mr. Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire"
passed over the Atlantic and Gulf railroad,
and stopped at the Altamaha hotel. He de-
manded that his negro servant be allowed to
take seat at the hotel table. The proprietor
refused to comply with the demand, where
upon Mr.. Vanderbilt and the ladies OF his
party declined to take tea at the Altamaha
hotel. The Free Press asks whether mir.
Vanderbilt allows his colored servant to take
seat among his friends at his dinner table at
home" and adds: eve welcome all good
Northern men among us, and will treat them
with the greatest Kindness and hospitality
until they insult us wantonly. Then we re-
serve the right to say what we think"
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