The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-10-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMEBI IUEItos
President Grevy receives SlS0,0OO
yearly in salary and allowances, as head
of the French republic, so that his seven
years term will give him . 260,0OO
He is not penurious and manages to ex-
pend his receipts in receptions and sub
scriptions. He gave $1,000 10 the
American yellow fever fund.
Mr.. Parnell, the Irish home-ruler,
has abandoned his intention of visiting
America this winter. He has alsO de-
clined many invitations received to de-
liver addresses before various home
rule associations in England, giving as
reason his determination to remain in
ireland, and follow up the land agita-
tion.
The glory of Leadville is passing
away, says an exchange. Emigration
to that once marvellous city is dwind-
ling down, and the daily departures are
said to far outnumber the arrivals.
Building lots that were lately held at
fabulous prices may soon be purchased
for mule, or any other four-footed ami
NAL that the owner can get astride OF
and ride out of the country.
The ex-Empress Eugene has not been
well since her return from Zululand,
and has recently been compelled to re-
main in bed, much affected by severe
attacks of fever. Her once beautiful
eyes are now said to be dim ard fatigued,
surrounded by dark circle. Her face
is furrowed with the lines of sorrow and
tears. Hardly fifty years of age, the for
mer empress of the French looks as if
she was over sixty-five. Speaking some
time ago to Pere GODDARD, the chaplain
of Camden House, she told him that she
would not remain long in England,
which had been so fatal to her affections,
nor die at Chiselhurst; and that she
wanted to breathe her last in more
sunny country.
A woman has carried her point in the
United States courts. Judge Lowell
has rendered a decision in Boston in
favor of Helen M. Macdonald in her
suit against John Shepard. The contest
was waged over a strip of waterproof
material which is designed to be sewed
to the bottom of lady's dress to pro-
tect it from moisture and dirt. The
history OF the litigation up to the present
point has been interesting and some
what unusual, and has also attracted
considerable public attention from time
to time, as sympathy for Miss Mac
donald in her struggle TO obtain what
she believed to be her rights has mani
tested itself. The feature that makes the
history particularly interesting is that
Miss Macdonald has conducted much OF
the case itself, examining the witnesses
and even arguing before the courts.
The lines of railways in the five
| divisions OF the earth cost, in round
numbers, $4,000, 100000, and would,
according to Baron Kolb, reach eight
times round the globe, although it is
but little over half century since the
first railway worked by steam was
opened between Darlington and Stock
ton, September 27, 1925, and between
Manchester and Liverpool, September
Is, 1880. 1t is shown that in France,
previous to the existence of railways,
there was one passenger in every 1886, 900
killed. and one out of every 10000
wounded, whereas between 1885 and
1875 there was but one in 5,l75,S90
killed, and one in $50, 450 wounded, so
that we may infer that the tendency to
accidents is yearly diminishing. Rail
way travelling in England is attended
with greater risk than in any other
country in Europe. A French statis-
tician observes that, if person were to
live continually in railway carriage
and spend all his time in railway travel
ing, the chances in favor of his dying
from railway accident would not
occur until he was $50 years old.