The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1882-10-28
Miscellaneous ATatter.

For my par, said Dean Burgon, in
the course offs recent sermon ut Cam
bridge University, liam quite content
10 seek my ancestors III the Garden of
Eden; let others, if they choose, look
Tor theirs in the garden called Zoolog-
ical."
Out of over II 900 reserve men in the
British army, who were called out in
july, only 80 failed to appear without
reasons for their disobedience. Over
1850 men appeared and were mustered
into service, and every one of these had
passed into the reserve corps, within
eighteen months. This is certainly d
fine record for the men and one of
which England may we'll be proud.
During the devotional half hour of the
American Board of Foreign Missions. in
session at Portland, Me, after Il state
ment by Secretary Alden that 81 sum
equivalent to $4,000 more than the Pru-
dental Committee possessed was de-
manded TO carry on the work. at least
/ 600 persons arose and doubled their
contributions, and in fifteen minutes
$4,000 was pledged. The board will
meet next year at Detroit
Two doctors have lately conducted at
Grenell, suburb of Paris, at the expense
of a rich Swedish philanthropist, series
of experiments upon pigs, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the effects 0falcohol
upon the internal organs Of drunkards.
Fifteen pigs were treated daily with diff
ferent kinds of liquor, each pig how
ever. being confined to one particular
tippie. When they had been killed
their vital organs were found to be
marked with small white spots res M
bling ulcers. Their flesh was pronounced
sound, but when sent to market it was
seized as unfit for food. At last accounts
a dispute was going on Between the ex-
perimeltters and the police, the former
ma ,ntaining that the market inspector
was mistaken.
\ Young American teacher in Panama
writing to friends in Philadelphia about
the recent earthquakes at the Isthmus.
says: ''The panic in the city was won
dcrf,ll. Nearly every family who have
Il place to 90 too have left the city and
are pitching tents out on the Savannas.
At least 900 people are encamped. All
in the house sleep with their stockings
on, their slippers close beside them, and
their clothes in bundle whore they can
grasp them and run Imagine what a
condition this is to be living in! What
renders it doubly severe is that we know
not what to expect; no one has any the
DRY by which to explain the disturbance
You have read of the earthquakes, but
no word of tongue or pen can describe
their horrors, even IN this mid form.
The greatest CONSERVATION prevails
everywhere.
1t Is great advantage to many classes
of people to know what the weather il
likely to be twenUv-four hours in ad.
vance, but to none more so than to the
seafarers about to leave port. The ben
efts of the signal service to the shipping
interests are strikin yly SCI forth in tile
report of General Hazen to the effect
that during the late destructive cyclone
shipping to the amont of about Sl3 $780,
600 was detained in safe harbors by the
cautionary danger signals, which were
displayed in advance.
People will be surprised to learn that
Munkaczy's remarkable picture, Christ
Before Plate" about which so many ca
bic dispatches have been sent, and SO
much written of late, and which it was
reported the Austrian Government
bought for 100000 and the French Gov
eminent paid $4,000 has really never
been offered for sac. The owner, Mr..
scdelmeyer, of Paris, is making u large
fortune out of the exhibition of the pic
ture. In Vienna, it is said, he made
900, and in Posth $4,000. Last sum-
lner the picture was placed in the gall
lery of the Agneut in London. and the
returns were in two months $4,000. 1t
is now being exhibited in Liverpool, af-
which it will go TO Manchester. Dublin,
Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and
year from this time the p'f@nrc wilt be
brought to this country