The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-19
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, AUGUST 49, 1879

pound Of blood from. a healthy young lady
into the arm of Mrs. Webster was successful
ly performed, and she received decided bene-
| fit therefrom On Tuesday morning similar
operation was performed and pound Of
| blood was successfully transferred. and a
| marked improvement Is the result. 1t is
hoped that o cure may be effected, and the
case Is watched with intense interest by the
many friends of the patient In this city and
elsewhere.
| Statistics show that the number OF private
letters annually sent through the post Is at
| the average in England OF 81 for each inhab-
liant; in Italy, 81; in Germany. IL; in Ho-
| land, Is; In Belgium, ID; in France and Den
| mark, ~, in Turkey, s. As to the number of
| postOffces, there are in Switzerland one to 5
square miles; In England. one to Is square
| miles; In Holland, one to II; In Belgium, one
| to 80: in Germany, one to 43; In France one
to 81; in Italy, one to 60; in Austria, one to
10; In Spain, one to 1872 Ia Russia one to 1884 !;
In turkey, one to TAB square miles.
Iron remarks: "Tne extent to which the
adulteratlon OF cloth Is practiced received a
noteworthy illustration in the Skepton county
court lately, where claim for work done lii
sizing Warps was opposed on the ground that
the plaintiff had been ordered to put from 100
70 ~ per cent weight into them, and had
not complied. The Judge rated the defendant
soundly, compared the action to one brought
by one highWayman against another to re-
cover his share Of the booty, and declared that
there was very little honest stuff in the coun-
try, except that which came from America ."
The smallest sum which will suffice for the
Holy See and the central government OF the
Catholic Church is about s1,75O,0O0. About
5000 persons are dependent upon the Papal
treasury, including the old inapre0nnti In his
pastoral concerning Peters pence, Bishop
Vaughan, of Stafford, says: tThe sum, If d.
vided equally, would not afford to each OF
these the wages Of common English me-
ct anic while leaving nothing for the Popes
privy purse, for fabrics, for libraries, for Of
fees, for printing and stationery, and for
other inevitable incidental charges"
Not even the face Of Maud Branscombe, the
pretty actress who has been photographed in
portraits constitute an important part Of the
stock IN nearly every picture store, is really
50 well known to the American public as that
Of Anna W. Williams, Of Phladel phia; yet
Miss Williams is Q modest, retiring teacher
In public school. It IS her face that ID
STAMPED on the silver dollar, she having sat
for the artist who designed the Goddess Of
Liberty's head for that coin.
Up to the adoption of the new constitution
mortgages In California contained clause
providing that the borrower should pay tax
which might be imposed on the value of the
mortgage The new constitution made it a
felony to insert this clause In mortgage, and
capital protects Itself in California as it does
everywhere else. The rate of interest on
mortgage has been advanced by the savings
banks and other lenders per cent, and the
borrower pays the tax, as he did before.
rs this the place." she asked, as she wan
dered down on the barren sands, "Where d
young lady-a beautiful young lady-fel III
the water last season and was rescued by a
gallant young man whom she afterWard mar
her at square forty-seven. with false teeth,
and said: Eyes. madam, but | don't know
how to swim. Indianapolis News.
Railways appears to be absurd to us to hear
the hero or heavy villain in the meiodrama
himself In musty closet In the CASTLE "And
now-if-1-'m-dis-c Ov-er-r-r-r-ed-I-
---lost-Im los" when the stupdest boy In
the top gallery knows very we'll that If he's
discovered he's found-he's found Turner's
Falls Reporter.
AS long as the Cinnamon In Queensland
were content to work In the garden and catch
fish the Queenslander smiled on him, but when
he showed tendency to gather gold, 1t was
quite another affair, and prohibitory legisla-
ton became the order Of the day. No vessel
may carry toa Queensland port more than one |
Chinese passenger for every ten tons Of reg
istry.
Mrs. MCGOWAN, keeper Of q boarding house !
at Akron, Ohio, passed pudding to all the
men at dinner excepting Martin Bouten. He
was madly III love with Mrs. McGowan, and |
her inadvertence about the pudding was con
strued by him as an intentional slight. He
fired at her twice with a revolver, but failed |
to hit her, and was disarmed by the other
boarders.
Mrs. Langtry, it IS said, has derived much, |
sonal expenses from a large e mmisson on |
the sale Of her photographs. Some Of her |
admirers justify this because her husband, |
being really poor, cannot purchase the tinery |
necessary to her continual appearance In
fashionable society.
A suicidal passenger Ieaped from British |
channel steamer, and the mate instantly |
plunged after him. The crew laboriously cut |
away the canvas covering OF a lifeboat only |
to find the craft half full of water, and when |
partly lowered she broke in two, dropping |
out the occupants, one of whom was drowned. |
The passenger In the meantime had succeeded
In his suicide.
Gen. Robert Toombs, who is one of the
trustees OF the University OF Georgia, Travelled |
1900 miles last week to attend a meeting Of
present, and remarked that it was a long way
FOR a fellow to come who was expelled from
The college when a boy. His otfenSe was a
ist-fght with q conTade.
France has 100000 marriageable girls
Now Just think CT that and Massachusetts
with several hundreds OF thousands more, and |
yet a fellow will 20 and make an ass Of him
self about a pretty face without five grains Of
sense behind It, aud think there Is not another