The examiner., 1881-12-17
NOTINGS.


 Young, late of our city, will no doubt learn with much regret of his sudden demise on Thursday morning, at Manchester Green, Conn.,, where he resided for the past few years. His death resulted from organic disease of the heart. He was one of the type of manhood which the world can lilly afford to loose at the present day, Large hearted, and generous to fault his love fol humanity was ever uppermOst in his breast. He leaves wife and quite large family to feel and mourn his loss.
 We learn from religious exchange that the aristocratic spirit has even invaded the Sanctuary of the Lord. Here it is :-
 A Protestant attending Roman Catho- lie church cannot fail to be impressed with the com mmingfing of the rich and poor as is not seen in Protestant churches. Is this in measure due to the church system which makes the pews free while exacting large contributions from the attendants to consistent Christian spirit, for does not every true Christian believe that "God is no respecter of persons" Then why should the Church
 Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to go to Paris and conduct revival services there by request of a Committee under the presi- dency of MT. R. W. MAI. All right.
 new $5 counterfeit on the Boyleston National Bank of Boston has appeared. It is 8 geod imitation of the genuine and likely to deceive non-experts.
 Also $1D silver certificate. It is an ex- ecution of penwork, and detected by ap- plying water to the treasury number print ed in blue.
 In Holyoke, Mass, are twenty-five mills, with $6,O0O,O 900 capital, and employing $500 men engaged in making writing paper. There product is 15O tons a day, more than one-half of the entire American production of writing papers.
 CORK, Dec. 12,-Forty farms, seized under execution for rent, were offered for sale, of which number twenty-one were purchased for the landlords. In ten cases the tenants settled the rent.
 Ezra Mixter of Lebanon, was bitten by his neighbor Kenyon's dog. Kenyon de- clined the demand of Mixter to kill his dog, whereupon Mixter brought suit before the common pleas court for $500 damages, on the plea that if dog that bites man is not killed, the man will surely have hydrophobia. Mixter is 70 years old.
 The Obelisk, presented to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt, as it stood in Alexandria, is 96 feet high includ- ing the pedestal. Its weight is 186 tons. The two sides that were turned towards the Mediterranean are the most obliterated by the action of the sea air. Work began for removing it from Alexandria Oct. 30, 1879. It reached New York July 20, 1880. The expense of removal, paid by Wm, H, | Vanderbilt, was over $1O0,0O0.
 The remains of petrifed sea-serpent, thirty-six feet long, were fonnd last week in a marlpit at Malboro, N. J. There are forty or fifty sections of the spinal column. each one being about three inches thick and nine or ten inches in circumference. At the head were found four tusks and a number of teeth. The tusks are between two and three inches in length, and they still retain the hard enamel. A piece of one of the jaw-boDes is nearly foot long. It has been ascertained by microscopical analysis that the disagreeable taste resenn- bling cucumbers, and by others called a ''fshy taste" that has for some time af- fected the water supply of Boston, is ow- ing to species of fresh-w water sponge is probably the trouble with the Hartford water and will be likely to be the trouble with the water wherever the supply is ob- tained from surface drainage gathered in ponds and reservoirs to remain any consid- erable time instead of being taken from an ever living stream. The same com plaint has been made in other places where the water supply has been obtained from ponds of dead water. But then the water department is not the only one in Hartford, infested with sponges.
 
 During the past week one of the leading Dry Goods Houses of the City, has been selling Dress GOodsat price which every lady knows is far below the cost of impor- tation and about half the real value. The goods are one and quarter yards wide, and every thread of the finest wool. It might be impertinent to ask where they get them, and how they do it. But that they do it, is fact, and the Store, is the Bee Hive, corner of Main and Temple sts.
 Smokers articles of every kiud-Soby.