The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-29

Through France. ! .hsil sec your 500
With ~piezsure'r The interview ws,
marked by extreme cordially, la, IN.
Empress. SITTER the derartar, Of IN.
Prince. sas greatly affected ny the rrrrs
l~ections revived. and wss Ia PRAYER BE-
fore . portrait 81 hes -on wbs. ths
Princess Msihilds arrived. The Princes
respected the grief q. her eossin snc
withdrew without seeing her.
A SOMEWHAT novel me,ho-a Of an
nouncing = marriage engagement wa,
taken by one 81 the younger Hsrtfort
Comm clsrUmen las: week. At on.
Of The regular weekday religious meet
ings Of the church be took ursasion Z.
inform his .arishioners Officially +" snt
publicly II his ensagvmsnt Ia one a IN,
I young ladies Of the congrega,son. ri.
motive was 20 prevent gossip-while a,
the same time tins action must s. a
rest a great deal of anxiety On the par
II n~umhc-le.. maids and mo,bers in Ii,
church in question. for the attention.
bestowed upon the young and handSom.
pastor before the decision of the mo
mentous question Of whom be would 81.
lect were certainly very mcro
SIR JOHN LrBBocK. in the Sfsesosaa
Csnsa,y, credits the Chimes with The IN.
Sention Of bank notes. IL is related thai
about ii9 Il. C.. the Court being in want
Of money. the Halifax Il the day hi'
upon the following device: when any
princes or courtiers entered the impe-
rial presence, 1t VAS necessary to cover
the face with a piece 81 skin. IL Was
first decreed tina, for this purpose the
skin Of a certain white deer. kept In one
Of the royal parks, should alone be EN-.
ployed. and then these skins, which APP
pear Ia have passed from one noble 10
another, were sold for q high price.
True bank notes are believed 90 have
come into vogue in China, abou;
800 a. d., and were called feyt slcn, or
flying money.
THErrs from the guests rooms AZ the
Bennett House, a large summer hotel n
Stroudsburg. Pa, were frequent last
season. Servants were first suspected,
Of course, but nothing could be proved
against them. One night jewelry was
stolen from three apartments, aud in
the morning some II il was found hid
den in the bed Of Chester Fulmer, a son
Of the very wealthy owner Of the hotel
property. Fuimer's pockets were found,
on being searched, To contain stolen
money. His trial has just resulted in
conviction. He wa a popular young
man, and his defense, that the plumber
was placed where il was found by some
enemy, though unsupported by eyi
dence, is believed 10y some of his friends.
An historical gun is owned by Fer
nando Healy, of liehoboth, Mass. His
great-grandfaihcr brought il To this
country in 1850, and used it in the
French a His son Joseph put a new
stock on the piece in l16l, inserting Il
small silver plate bearing the initials
~; II. l76l." Joseph's son John used
it during the Revolution. IL afterward
cafiie into the possession Of another son,
the late Stafford Healy. Of Rehoboth.
father OF the present owner He used Ii
fourteen days during the al Of 1919.
receiving therefor n pension. In 1880
he re-tocked the gun and put in
a new lock, and at his death il came
into the hands of the present owner.
The barrel is original, is in good order,
and the gun is still used by members of
the family as a fowling piece.
AMONG curious viands and medicines
largely consumed in China are several
varieties of fungi, which are considered
be. If not actually poisonous, at least
worthless in other countries. Some
colonists in New Zealand have turned
their knowledge Of this fact To good ac-
by collecting and exporting Ia the
Celestial land aspecies Of fungus grow
ing abundantly on decaying timber in
all the forest districts of the colony,
known as Hirneoia poiytrtcha, and much
resembling the variety commonly known
rs Jew's-ear. II is used by the Chi
nese as a medicine. being administered
IN the shape of a decoction; and it is
supposed TO purify the blood. Ii Is also
consumed in soups, and a. an
Ingredient in various farinaceous
A REPORT Just issued by the munich
of Berlin gives some interesting
as to the growth of the pop
of that city. At the end of the
oNchtceLth 'chi'uis, "bcH i<phhoH anu
Paris each contained considerably more
han 10O,O 600 inhabitants, Berlin was an
town with a population Of
title Over 10000. 1t was enlarged and
under the Great Elector and
he two first Prussian Kings; and at the
BEGINNING of the present century its
population had already risen to about
1t increased still further after
he close of the war with Napoleon and
the long peace that followed. but
It the end of 1860, though the municipal
Of Berlin had been considerably
extended, it did not contain much more
han 100000 inhabitants. During the
years that followed, however,
Is population was almost doubled.
his has not been the case with any
own Of the same size except New York.
1877 the population Of Berlin has
'een over a million, and it is now the
argest city in Europe after London and
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