Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.

The University of Sydney, New South
Wales, has had a bequest of 5000
Seventy six towns in Connecticut-about
one-half the State-have voted against
licensing the sale of liquor.
One hundred italian families will 90 to
Arkansas next fall to settle in the st.
Joseph colony at Morrilton.
An international dog show is announced
to be held at HARLEM, in Holland, from
the Goth to the 26th of June.
The number of building permits issued
in Boston since the year opened is twice
that issued in the same period Of 1879.
Captain II. w. Howgate, of the United
States Signal Office, has been elected a
corresponding member OF the Geographical
Society of Antwerp.
General Todleben is reported to have said
that ten pounds more of dynamite would
have sent the whole superstructure above
the cellar in the Cars Winter Palace into
the air.
Verona is shortly either to be deprived
of its rank as a great fortress, or fortified
like Metz and Strasbourg in a first-class
modern style. The War Department at
ANoIle IS studying Ine question.
According to the last census, Japan has
a population of "a, 30S, 4O4 inhabitants.
The capital of the Empire, Toxic, or, as it
is otherwise called, Yeddo, had at the end
OF 1879 population of 1885, III.
According to the academy, the German
excavations at Pergamos have come to an
end, the Turkish firman granted for the
purpose having expired. The last discov-
cries are statues of Zeus and Augustus.
found near the Temple of Augustus, which
appears to date from the time of Tiberius.
An international exhibition of jewelry
will be held at Grooming, Holland, in the
latter part of July, 1880. The most inter
esting feature of the display will probably
be a collection of tools employed in the
manufacture of jewels and watches during
the last three centuries. The prizes
awarded will consist of gold, silver and
brass medals.
There is some talk of constructing on the
Place du Carrousel, at Paris, vast monu-
ment illustrating the history of past repub-
iican governments. The four angles of the
future monument will be occupied by
colossal equestrian statues of four illustri-
Gus generals of the First Republic Kleber,
Hoche, Marceau and fourth who has not
yet been chosen.
The trustees of the Peabody fund have
determined to withdraw aid from the
schools of the South, as a rule, and to de-
vote the interest of the fund to the better
education of teachers In Southern Caro-
lima so much of the fund as is available
VIII be employed in defraying the expenses
of teachers institutes throughout the
State, in charge of the Superintendent of
Education.
There are in the Swiss Alps about
twenty cabins or refugees, built at the ex-
pense of the Alpine Club, to facilitate the
ascension of high peaks. The "Uto" sec
ton of Zurich has decided to build hut
of this kind on the Schlossberg, in the
Canton of Uri, and is about to take the
necessary steps to obtain permission from
the Communal Council of Attinghausen to
carry out its plans.
In the Fjord of Utsire, on the west
coast of Norway, something strange like a
large box lately appeared floating about.
Some fishermen managed to get hold of it
and towed it to shore, when they dscoy-
cred that it was damaged railway car
rage, without either wheels or windows.
On one of the doors the words Edin-
burgh "-' Glasgow" were visible, and in
side was a bag marked ''P B" and it is
supposed that it may be carriage of the
train which fell into the Tay.