The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

When Mr., Vanderbilt's house on Fifth
Avenue is completed 1t will contain paintings
worth $6T9,eo0.
The law of New Hampshire provides that
when q legal holiday falls upon q Sunday the
preceding day shall be observed.
Nearly all OF the S1oO, 900 capital stock re-
uuired has been subscribed for the heating OF
the city OF Denver, Col, by steam.
The Empress of Russia is said to be kept
alive by morphine, diluted goats milk and
small pieces of raw meat put into strong
botitton.
The water-power of Newton county, Texas.
La said to be sufficient to manufacture the on.
tire cotton crop of the State into cloth. and
the cotton seed crop into oil and oil.oake.
There is being shipped from quarry near
the Hot Springs, Ark. q stone OF the tnest
quality for homes and whetstones. A large
shipment has been made direct to Sorgnes,
near Merseiles, France.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond. Va,
repeated a few nights ago hls celebrated "The
Sun Do Move" lecture for the bepetit OF q
party OF Northern exeurslonists. His hearers,
q local paper says, expressed their pleasure
In unmistakabe ways.
At performance OF Bailey's circus, In
Philadelphia. Miss Lucy Davene, In attempt
ing TO perform the somersault feat from the
flying trapeze, fell, striking at full length on
the ground. She received a deep cut IN the
head, and 1t is feared her spine is Injured.
The Smithsonian Institute has received
from Prof Forester, OF Berlin, the announce
ment of the discovery by Knorrt. on April Ii,
1880, of a planet of the twelfth magnitude In
13 hours 30 minutes right ascension and t1o
"a south deelinati0n, with daily motion OF
four minutes north.
When the Czarna of Russia allghted from
the railway car which took her to St. Peters
burg, on her return from her last journey to
Itaiy, she exclaimed: "Aias | have done
with travelling. Farewell railroads; farewell
coaches and locomotives. My next convey
ance will be the hearse.'
The widest dream never surpassed the
romance of the widow Of the third Napoleon
sailing from England to touch ut st. Helena
on her way to look upon the spot In Zululand
where fell the fourth and last Napoleon. The
Empress is said, as she left, to have looked
sadly broken, and her hair has turned gray.
The removal of the Normal school from
Nashville to Atlanta causes the loss to Ten
nessee of $4,000 annually from the Peabody
fund. The cause of the removal is the failure
preparation for Its aid, whereas Atlanta will
aid literally In order to secure Its location.
An Ohio gentleman who wrote recently to
one OF the hotels In Chicago to secure "a
couple Of small rooms, not particular on what
| floor, but with communicating door II pos
sible," during the session Of the Republican
| National Convention, was informed In reply
| that the cost of such accommodations would
be $50 a day.
"a general election" remarks the London
| Times "is In many ways like great die'
charge OF atmospheric electricity. 1t is dis,
quieting and noisy; it produces the keenest
discomfort among nervous people Whlle II
lasts; but It's clears the air, and with Its blasts
of wind and torrents OF rain 1t gives fresh
impulse to healthy life and growth
New steel works are to be erected In Chi
cago at cost. including seventy-hve acres o.
land, Of $20O0,000. They are to be completed
within year, and will consist OF four blast
| furnaces, Bessemer converting works anC
steel rail mills. They will employ 1000 men
consume 250,000 tons OF ore yearly, and turI
out &C, 900 tons of rails.
| A baby-show is to be held In Portland, Me.
under the auspices Of a Swedenborgian socie
ty, and the advertisement says: "Portralts
OF the loveliest babies of Portland to be thrown
on mammoth screen by means OF stereop
ticon and the Drummond light. All sections
of the city to be represented. Your baby ma!
be there" The portraits have been oDtalnet
from the various photographers.
The railway system Is extending rapidly II
japan, two lines having been recently com
pleted in the island Of Niphon, and third IL
the island of Yesso, the most nortnerly OF th
Japanese group. The rails are OF Eoglisl
! make, but the rolling stock and engines nav
I been ordered In America. The Two hrst en-
gines ara to be named Benkei and Yosnitsze
after two celebrated early Japanese heroed
: 1t is the first order OF the kind that mas Zee
given by Japan to American houses.