The daily gazette., 1881-07-23

The expectation of pearl shells is
likely to receive stimulus through q
recent shipment OF q sample lot of
thirty-six bushels from Baltimore to a
manufacturing establishment in Paris.
The pearl shells are collected on the
southern shore Of California and car
ried on fruit boats to Santa Barbara,
whence agents stationed at that point
shipped them to Eastern consignees.
They vary greatly in value, and many
of those gathered are subsequently re-
jected as worthless, owing to their
having become sunburnt or brittle
from exposure. In the centre of each
shell Is an excrescence differing in hue
from the remaining surface, which has
a special value and is separately pre-
served for ornamental purposes when
the rest of the shell is cut up for but.
tons.
THE FIRST instance of q HindoO
widow remarrying occurred few weeks
ago, and the "select" am ong the Bhotees
are thereby greatly incensed. The much
discussed lady has been q widow since
her tenth year, and is now twenty seven.
She and the gentleman whom she lately
married, both Of them Bhotees, escaped
to Bombay, and were married there un-
der the auspices of the Widows q Remar-
rying Association. A very few of the
native reformers approve of the mar
riage, while the majority are highly in-
dignant. The only Bhotees who
attended the wedding have been excom-
municated, while The relatives of the
bride are eager, tor the arrest of every
one concephed In the affair, and have
brought an accusation of theft against
her, inasmuch as she carried away her
iawelry. 1t Is expected that the Bonn
bay Government will refuse all their
demands.-Forney's Progress.
IDoUBT If at any of the resorts, cot
tage life is so altogether pleasant as it is
at Cape May. 1t is not as brilliant as
al Newport, nor as flashing as at Long
Branch, and is only slightly more for
NAL than at Atlantic City but it is more
enjoyable. The cottages are hospitable,
but they give no grand entertainments !;
indeed they could not, for the cottages
are real cottages, and do not admit of
large dinners or dances. The cottagers
go down rather for rest and comfort
than for pleasure and display. There is
enough Of both at the hotels but the
cottagers at their homes take take their
ease ana cool off with small regard for
appearances, and there Is nobody about
but the immediate Juveniles Forney's
Progress.
Two fashionable young men, who
are regular attendants at DR.. Pente-
costs Ebenezer chapel, on their way
to church the other Sunday, paused in
front of beer saloon, when one Of
them asked :-.'Do you think it Ii
wrong to take a glass of beer before
church :" "Are you going to pay
cash down 2" asked the other. "No1
much. l am going to make Fritz hang
1t up on the slate with the rest" sTI
that case we are doing q good deed.
Fritz will never get his money, and
that will be lesson to the Dutchman
1t will teach him that |. is wrong tC
sell beer on the Lords day"
AN eccentric old gentleman in Lin.
colnshire, England, aged eighty-three, is
| ~ 10 bbh1cus so hhhiJ SOhfluC6u OI blt
approaching end Of the world, that b,
has ordered an immense balloon to b,
made for his own convenience, by mean
Of which he hopes to witness the des
truction OF the planet without sharin
the fate of its inhabitants. He will TAX
with him in bis ascent timed provisions
brandy, soda water, claret, and othe
creature comforts 10 sufficient quantitie
to meet his requlremets for three year
by which time he calculates his life wi
have come to a natural close.
Thirteen hundred Slav pilgrims as
sisted in st. Peters Church, on th
1st instant. at high mass celebrated b
Cardinal Borromeo. After the mas
the Cardinal was in the act of II
firing to the sacristy, when the Phi
grims crowded around him to kiss h
hands and purple vestments. He a,
tempted to get rid of them, but fe
in the midst of the crowd, and a nun
} Der of the pilgrims tumbleed ov,
/ him. His Eminence would unquei
, tionably have been suffocated to deaf
had not the police come to his rescr
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