, 1880-07-05
Intelligence Items.

The streets Of Philadelphia are to be
swept by convicts.
There are said to be at this moment
more editors in than out of prison in
Russia.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone takes Of
fee right in the teeth of the advice of
his medical advisers.
Barnum won a glorious victory in
Springfield. A clergyman, who had
been missionary in South Africa,
tested the Zulus by addressing them in
their native tongue, and found them
genuine.
A Montreal gentleman, who didn't
believe in vaccination,' and employed
q physician of similar scepticism, has
lost four of his children within two
weeks by smallpox, and fifth is i'll
with the disease.
Immense quantities of iron are nov
mined in Spain-which is in better
plight than she has been for year-for
the English market. Very nearly 90
600 tons of iron ore arrived from Spain
at Cardiff in one week last month.
At the termination of Anton Rubin
STEMS last concert in Moscow the patri-
clan beauties carried the platform by
storm, and devoured the great pianist's
hands with fervent kisses, to his mani
fest embarrassment and confusion.
A man who had not seen his wife for
eightet years, and believed her dead,
found her alive and we'll in Minneapo
lis. So far was he from being overjoyed
by the meeting that he swallowed laud-
anuD, intending to cause final separa-
ton by death.
The custom of the Fijians, that when
q man dies his widow must be strangled
by her brother, resulted in the arrange
ment by which she is told to expel her
breath as long as possible and give
sigual, when the cord is tightened, and
almost Immediately all is over.
A new life of John Wesley has been
for some time in preparation, at the in
stance of the Christian knowledge So
ciety, and it will shortly appear in one
volume. The author, Mr.. r. Denny
Urlin, F. S. s., some years ago pub
hshed an essay on Wesley, of which
the work now in the press is an amplli-
cation.
Mrs. Moses Lester. now living ABOUT
mile north OF Rutland Village, VT, Is
the daughter OF Adjutant Weller, who
was with Ethan Allen when he captured
Fort Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775. Though
one hundred years old, she does her
own work, has good memory, and is
fond of relating personal "reminiscences
of Ethan Allen and other noted men of
Revolutionary times.
Senator Blaine sent as a wedding
gift to young Mrs. Eleanor Sherman
Thackara case Of fish knives with
card, on which was written: To the
daughter, with as much love as [ have
ever borne the mother" The mother
is Mr.. Blaine's cousin. Gail Hamilton
sent the bride beautiful flower pie
ture with these lines:
Hasten, happy roses,
Come to me By Nay.
In your folded petals
Lies my weddIng-day.
The great collection of fossils gath
cred during the last twenty years by G.
B. Dyer, of Cincinnati, has recently
been purchased for the Agassiz Museum
of Harvard College. Some conception
of its great size may be formed from
the fact that after the careful separation
of all important material, there have
been shipped to Harvard thirty three
large slabs, tree-fern stems and frag-
merts. weighing $3.50 pounds, as well
as 1913 boxes of smaller specimens,
weighing IL 800 pounds.
The water power of Genesee Falls is
to be utilized for mechanical purposes
in Rochester. The plan is the same
proposed at Niagara, whence the power
was to be conveyed to Buffalo by pipes
in the form of condensed air; but it
was found that, owing to the distance,
the cost would reach $4,000, 900, and so
Rochester was chosen for a less expen
sive test. The water is made to fall at
intervals into perpendicular pipes, in
the bottom of which its weight con-
denses quantity of air. The expecta
ton is that steam power will be entirely
dispensed with in that city, except On
railroads, and that electricity will be so
cheaply generated as to displace gas.
HIS MEMoRANDA.-The brief notes
from which Henry Ward Beecher |
breaches his evening sermons would be I
a curious puzzle to any stranger who |
should attempt to decipher them.
They would give him no more help in
understanding the drift of the sermon
than so many Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Catch words, names of individuals. !
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