The Newtown bee., 1880-12-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
 | A clergyman in little city of witz- erland, hearing that in America poor, | sick children were given an airing in the country or by the seashore, started society to do the same thing in a smsh way. His example has been followed, and now Berlin. Dresden, Stuttgart and Vienna have societies for that purpose It is amazing what progress has been made in art in this country within tic past quarter of a century. Art scho ls are springing up in all our large cities, art collections are being made by wealthy men everywhere, which would do .redit to the galleries of the slG world. American artists are forming schools and styles of their own, recog- nizing the truth that true art is the ex- elusive property of no one age or nation, but is the honest working out of an original idea with the materials at hand.
 The attempt to introduce Chinamen as workmen on Louisiana plantations is said to be failure, owing to the inabil- ity of the Chinese to endure the intense heat. Recently good many sturdy la borers from Spain and Portugal have been induced to cultivate and gather cot ton and su gar, and so far they have given satisfaction. The agency which origi- nally introduced these lahorers has an order for ten thousand more, and it is said that one hundred thousand can be readily obtained if employment can be fourd for them.
 It is sometimes questioned by mer- chants whether advertising pays. The question will hardly bear discussion in the light of the following facts, rates tor transient advertisements being figured. Tine Chicago Tribune. it is said, for a column year, receives S26, 900. The New York Herald receives for its lowest priced column $39, ,723, and for the highest S348. .e00. These papers are never at a loss for advertisements to fill their columns. Their patronage comes not from any desire to assist the respective papers, but from business men who find it profitable to advertise.
 Ostrich farming is to be tried on an extensive scale in California. Mir D. Whiting, of Riverside, Cai., is inclosing l,500 acres of land with a stockade, and | proposes importing one hundred pairs l of ostriches from South Africa, worth | from S250 to $500 bird. Ostriches
  | duce four broods year, each averaging | twenty chicks. At eight months the | feathers of bird are worth five dollars, | and as 1t grows older attain q value of 1 over Sl00. It is said that it costs no more to keep an ostrich than to keep a | sheep.
 | The company organized to afford | accommodations to the visitors to ' ork- | town, Va, at the proposed centennial | there, have presented the government with fifteen acres Of the Moore farm and 1 the house in which the articles of ca- ! pitulation were signed, and the site of | the monument will be almost on the | bank of the river. The company will | have their grounds beautifully laid out, and will afford such attractions to visit ors that the celebration will probably | continue q month. The day for tue | laying of the cornerstone of the monu- ment will be the 18th of next October and the celebration will last severa l days.
 The company which has been founded
 tor taking preliminary steps to ascer- | tain whether submarine tunnel can be
 made under the English channel, be-
 tween Calais, France, and Dover, Eng | land, has at last succeeded iii driving a shaft down to the depth at which the | tdunel, If practicable, would have to
 be made. Although in the upper
 strata there was a good deal Of water, there Is no infiltration of it in the gal lery, which is in the solid rock. A
 second shaft is about to be driven, and
 the directors say that if nc Unforeseen obstacle arises the tunnel might be con- pleted in four years. The tunnel would he about twenty miles long,
 In the course of an editorial article
 the New York Herald says that the
 great plaques that from time to time
 have devastated the stables and pastures of Europe, sparing neither cattle good
 or bad, have all had definite starting
 places, and these, on investig stion.
 have proved that the diseases found
 their origin in filth. Bad food im-
 poverishes the blood of the stock,
 while the poisonous emanations oi
 the filth, which also has an in. furious effect when absorbed by
 the physiques continually in contact with it, complete the work, and the
 general deleterious influences finally To- calize themselves in some organ of the { animals that survive at all. The causes of cattle plaques are exactly analogou: to those of cholera and other human , scourges. and their effects, when they attain to contagion or infection, are sim , ilarly unsparing of all with whom the. , come in contact. Severer laws an(
 more alert officers, the HerGld thinks
 are necessary to the prevention of :
 cattle plague in this country.
 During the late war James Hutchin
 son, of Washington, enlisted in thu
 United States army, and served in al Ohio regiment until the close of the war
 During a skirmish in the far West
 Hutchinson was taken prisoner just at !; 5 time when he had lost the sight of botl
 5es by the explosion of gun. Month , after his friends made inquiries an' . learned he was dead, and as corrobo
 rative fact the dead body of soldie cofiined and properly boxed was for warded to Washine ton. Believing 1t t
 be the remains of their brother, and tn ! circumstances being apparently unGe , niable as to identity, without examinin I the remains, the body was buried an
 the relatives have since mourned tn q loss of brother, having no occasion 5 make further inquiry about the matter
 A short time ago, however. there was
 sensation created among the suppose
 dead mans relatives by his arrivi the capital alive and well. He lives
 Nebraska and came to collect his arreal r of pension.