Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-18
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HARRISON AlnsWorth Clu not die rich
man, though he was understood to be in
comfortable circumstances. He has left
behind him mass of recollections which
are likely TO be interesting. From SCOTS
time to the present he was widely ac-
quainted with literary men. and he had a
fondness for letter-writing and for preserv-
ing the letters addressed TO him by other
people, which promise to make volume
that readers will be glad to get.
Late estimates of the cost of the new
London Law Courts place it at 81 500, 600,
but this does not include the special fit-
tings Englishmen are congratulating
themselves that this cost, enormous as il
is, falls considerably below the cost of the
corresponding building recently erected in
Brussels, which involved an expenditure
of more than 100000 Jui ,es are said
not 60 be especially Delighted with the
Courts. They complain of their small
dimensions IS compared with the size OF
the rooms.
During the year just passed there were
published in England total OF 406 new
books, of which | ,296 were new editions,
books already known to the public. This
shows falling off, as compared with the
year 1880, OF about 800 books, which is
attributed to the rapid development of the
periodical press. Abort fourteen classes
Of books are included in the total of 5 406.
For them the figures are as follows: The.
ology, sermons and other religious works,
945; educational and pathological works,
6S2 juvenile works, 500; fiction, GA
law, 1873; political and social economy,
1852; arts aud sciences, 452; voyages and
travels, 29l; history, 427 poetry, las
year. books, 339; medicine, 1914 !; bellies
lestres, 247; miscellaneous, including PAM
phlets, not sermons, 232
Until a few years ago two nephews and
one niece OF the great Lord Give were still
among the living IN England strange
fact when it is remembered that Lord Give
died in IVA. He had one brother. named
William. G man much younger than him
self, who in l774 was not yet so years OF
age. Last November one of the two
nephews, the Rev. George Arthur Give,
died in his 79sh year, and six weeks ago
the niece died at an advanced age. Her
name was Charlotte, and she was a
spinster. TIE venerable Archdeacon Give,
now in his S7th year, and the last of the
three children of William Give, followed
her remains to the grave.
There has just died in Paris at the age
of So politician who had the honor ten
years ago of defeating Victor Hugo in an
election for member of the Chamber. He
was named Vautrain, aud though for few
years past he was little heard of, he had
had in bis time wide local popularity and
fame A Liberal in 1913, so that he was
chosen Mayer of the Fourth Arrondisse-
ment, ne held aloof from politics during
the whole reign of Louis Napoleon After
the fall OF the Empire he was chosen Pres
ident Of the Paris Municipal Council, and
in 1921 against NJ. Hugo, his vote being
l22 395 and Hugo's 90, 900. At the last
election in which he was a candidate he
was defeated by Radical. His own re-
pu5licanism was of a moderate, though
compromising, type.
From the ship-building yard of the Vul-
can Company at Stettin, on the mouth of
the ODER in Pomersnia, has just been
launched the first ironclad battle ship of
the Chinese navy. It was named the
Ting Yuen, or the Everlasting Peace. and
is turret-corvette of the first rank, with
compound armor Of English steel and iron
Both turrets are armed with II inch com.
pound plates, end the four BOB centimeter
guns which they have can deliver broad
eides simultaneously. On the deck. in ad.
dition, are eight other guns from Herr
Krupp's foundry at Essen. The same
company has a contract to build another
ship of the came kind for China It is 25
years since The company launched its first
vessel, and the Everlasting Peace is the
one hundredth In number that il has since
made.