Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
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'VAUnE xVI-NUMBER N.
FobEIGN NOTES.

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use of Catholic scientific students 80
especially for the benefit of the pont;fcai
Academy of the Lincei Several private
| collections have already been acquired
among them one that contains rich col.
lection OF works On surgery, purchased at
cost of $4,000 francs.
According to the official estimates for
1881, just published, the population of
Scotland is 8, IA, 6S5-far less, probably.
than most people believe-of whom 500.
90l are males, and I,94l,7 S4 females.
About 80 per cent. of the 3, 744, 600 live in
the eight principal towns. OF the total
number of births, which was l26 2l4, 500
per cent, or 10. 466, were last year illegiti-
mate.
There have recently been published by
the local authorities careful and true list
of the drunkards who live in the town of
Sainte Marie aux Mines, in Haute Alsace
The list embraces thirty-one persons, of
whom the youngest is % years of age and
the oldest IS. All inn-keepers are in
future forbidden to sell Intoxicating drinks
to the persons whose names appear on this
record.
Two very large and splendid cat's.eyes
were exhibited at the c0RcerSozione Of the
British Association at Southampton, by Mr.
James L. Gregory. These were said to be
the largest in the world. One measured
3 inches in length and inches in breadth,
and weighed 359 carats, or nearly p
ounces the other is somewhat smaller,
weighing sos carats They are both re-
narkably fine stones.
Irish hotel. keepers are having a hard
time of it this year. One of them has writ
ten to a London newspaper complaining
that the most picturesque parts CT Ireland
| are almost deserted. He is aware that the
mlssortunes of his class are due to the I'M
settled state of the country, but he assures
the English travellers that the disorder has
been exaggerated, and that they would hs
perfectly safe among the charming scenery
OF the Emerald Island.
The printing of The British Museum
| catalogue will require nearly 500 volumes.
| The cost OF issuing the work is so great
that the process is slow. At the present
rate it will be forty years before the cata-
| icgue is done, and then it will be necessary
TO start afresh About fifty manuscript
| volumes are now annually to be reduced to
| print. Twice or three times that humber
| ought TO be finished each year, if the pres.
ent generation is to reap the benefit of the
undertaking.
| Residents OF Woolwich were astonished
| recently by the appearance in the atmos-
| phere, a considerable distance above the
| earth, Of an immense cloud Of winged in
sscts. Tde wind was blowing at the time
| from the northeast At first there ap-
! peared a swarm Of large flies and then a
dense host of small, drab colored, light
| winged insects, (which filed the air ike
| a misty rain and covered the clothing Of
all who were abroad" lis estimated that
the cloud was two miles wide. 1t con-
sumed abou. half an hour in passing Wool.
witch.
One of the most extensive tree planters
in the world is declared by the English
| journal Land to be the Duke of Athole.
Every year, it is said, he plants from Co.,
900 to !, 900, 900 trees. During the present
season he has covered with trees plants-
ton of some 1000 acres Ply the gale
which destroyed the Tay bridge mis- planta-
tions were denuded of so. 600 trees. Oae
of the Dukes of Athole is still known rs
the planter Duke. In the year IVA his
Danke!d hills were almost entirely bare,
aud he began to plant on large scale.
Before be had died he planted $1,000, coo
trees, which covered l6. 900 acres.
During his recent stay in England, Getty
wsyo was taken on board Her Majesty g
ship Cambridge, and permitted to fire a
brosdside by electricity. When he had
t1uched the key and heard the unexpected
and thundeIing result, he is said to have
fairly bounded into the air." Your care
full Englishman, when he entertains q saw
age who may one day be an enemy, thus
very carefully combines useful instruction
with amusement. Cetywayo will not soon
90 TO war again with nation that can fire
off a broadside simply by touching but
ton.
Bsrnays. a lawyer of Antwerp, was found
with bullet through his heart. The case
was at first regarded as suicide, but an
+, anonymous letter, laboriously striving to
make it appear an accident, led to The pros
ecutioa of two brothers named Peltzsr for
| his murder. The trial, it is promised, will
''rival anything related by Poe" It will
surely he exhaustive, judging by the fact
| that go witnesses will be examined, and
twenty Writers are occupied night and day
copying documents, which alone will take
q month. The expenses up to the present
have reached $40, 900, and the Indictment
fills big volume.
DR.. Baer. in a recent address before the
Board Of Health, of Berlin, stated that
| during the last twelve years the number
of drinking shops in b lgium had increased
from 45. coo to 96 600, and the cousump.
ton Of alcohol from ~ 20 ii liters per
| head. On the other hand, in GOthen-
berg since the liquor shops have been re-
| duced in number from 81 to 80, and the
selling of liquor on credit forbidden by
| law, the arrests for drunkenness have
fallen of two, thirds, as also the number
! of nf ali n.
finds that in Prussia 81 per cent. of
murders and personal violence occur on
Sunday alone, IS per cent. on Saturday
| and Sunday together.
According TO the inform alton furnished
by recent number of the FerhnR, the Jour
nal of Ispahap, civilization is making con-
siderable progress in Persia. A large COL
lege, which was completed last year with
Government aid, has now commenced its
work in earnest among the upper classes of
Persian youths, who will have the advan.
tage Of tuition az the hands of professors
who if not Europeans, have at least grad
uated at the principal seats of learning in
Europe. Further signs of progress are to
be found in the increased employment of
Europeans in connection with railways,
telegaphs, etc, and in the recent decree
for the assimilation of weights and
measures throughout Persia.
During September there was opened at
Bellenbsrg, about three hours by rail from
Frankfort-on- Main, in the tower erected
some years ago on the ruins of the birth.
place Of William the Silent an exhibition
illustrative of the history and career of the
house of Orange. This exhibition comprises
all sorts of historical documents,
books, paintings, arms, Gags, iewelry, CO.'S
tunes, furniture, plaGe, etc. They com.
prise all together fourteen hundred articles,
most OF which have been contributed by
private individuals. The district and town
of Orange in southeastern France was be.
queathed by the last Count Of that ilk 10
William III. (af England), Oh whose death
Frederick OF Prussia succeeded to it, in
right of his mother, Williams eldest sister,
aud coded it to Louis XIV. by the peace Of
Utrecht, l7l5.
PAPER LACE.-A writer in the Tteater
mentions having seen in Paris magnifi-
cent stage costume enriched with the love-
lest lace he ever beheld. In his own
words, "The dress was displayed on &C.
count of that lace; and that lace was
worth, perhaps, twenty Eve francs; for it
was paper, wonderfully stamped, and rep
rauaptipo of ~