The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lately
insured his life for sum that calls for $4,000
yearly in premiums.
"A Western editor, in response TO a
subscriber who grumbles that his morning paper
was lntolerably damp, says that is because
there is so much due on it,
The census returns show that the
population of Rome, Italy, and its suburbs is
3OO,292, an increase since 1871 of 90, sos.
king Theebaw, of Burmah, has very
nearly run his race. He is now attacked by
delirum tremens and will quit the earth in the
company of whole royal menagerie of snakes.
AT Bismarck, D. T., the Thermome-
ter last week was II degrees above, which is
Phenomenally warm for the location and sea
SON Farmers Whereabouts have already begun
blowing.
While there were $4,000 men in the
British army twenty years ago who could Meth
er read nor write there are now only 1000, This
marks an encouraging advance in poular educa-
ton
The net profits of the Bank of Eng
land are $4,000 week, or about S225OO a
day carrying the calculation little further.
the Prohts are Us, 100 an hour taking the money
day to consist of six hours.
The startling fact was revealed in
Bristol, England, that between and IL o'clock
on a recent Saturday evening 1O4 ,557 persons,
or half its population, visited It's public houses
nearly half were women and children.
The Cincinnati Gazette, having been
challenged by liquor dealer for asserting that
70 per cent of the crime in that city is attribu-
table TO liquor, has made a careful investigation.
and hnds from the public records that it fell
short IN its charge, as 1888 of 2,378 crimes
committed In the last three months Of 1881. or
81 per cent was caused by liquor
Mrs. Jackson, of Newark, N. J.. last
week celebrated her Tooth birthday, surrounded
by five generations, including her own and bar
descendants! She has four living children 30
grandchildren, % great grandchildren, and two
great great grandchildren. She traces her an
cestry back to Adrian Brinckerhoff. who came
to this country from Holland in 1888
Official dispatches state that Tunis is
quiet, and that one tribe of thousand tents i
paying its arrears of taxes and war confirm.
tions. In south AL -eria the French have bv q
forced march captured 10000 sheep and G 0O0
cames, and killed 80 Arabs
While this has been a very mild
winter on land, it has been terrible one for
cold and storms at sea. Ancient mariners 70
port the frequency of cyclones and tenpests and
colds as they never did before, and the list OF
wrecked vessels for this season will have no
parallel.
Professor Adolf Harnack, of Giessen
one Of the very first authorities in the history Of
the Early Church, has just sent to the press a
treatise upon The Greek Apologies Of the
Second Century in the Tradition of the Church "
In the first part he examines with minute &C.
curacy the manuscript tradition Of the Apollo.
ges and here secures valuable results as to the
manuscripts of Tatian. it lie needless to saw
that this will be q neutrality-suspicious. TO OttoYs
edition Of the Apologies. In the second part
ne takes up the material of the Apologies and
here offers US most interesting additions to our
knowledge OF Justin and in passing, Of Arch.
bishop Arethas and his library. Every stndont
OF the first centuries will find in these paoes
new and instructive combinations.