The Dickinson press., 1883-04-21
Facts md ~I'anrics

Ter supply Dut wells and canals, M in
1876 works were built to filter the waters
Of the Nethe by passing them through
filters OF sand and spongy iron and gray
ell. n plan has proved successful, but
the supply. is very small according to
American ideas, being received in a
tank of only $4,000 gallons.
No fewer than thirty-scvcn British
peerages, or not Very far short of one-
tenth of the entire lumber, became ex-
tinct OIL dormant in the fifteen years
lS4s-s2. The numb1r of deaths of peers
during the same period was 800; of peers ,
esses, $50. These figures are exclusive
of two archbislops and eleven bishops.
Altogether, the barolies which became |
extinct OF dormant during the fifteen
years amount to sixty.
Bishop Coke ofwesteln New York has
invited the clergy of his diocese to unite
in celebrating at the cathedral in Bufa-
10 the "oficc of Tie Dcum," in memory
Britain, onthe 10Th Of April. Onthat day
in 1888 General Washington
announced peace to the army,
and ordered its chaplains with
the several brigades to render thanks to
Almighty God for all his mercies, partic-
ularly for his overruling the wrath of
man to his glory and causing the rage of
war to cease among the nations"
1t is said that the "inland sea-" which
NJ. de Lcsseps has gone to establish in
the Desert of Sahara, will be fifteen
times as large as the Lake of Gene va.
The moisture e%ngendered by its pres
ence will bring vast tracts of desert land
into cultivation, and an approach to val
liable fores's, now wholly inaccessib~
will be .ilitated. Exclusive rights
over this la | and the forests will COM
pensate the ompany which undertakes
to eXcavate the connecting channel. The
locality is about a. feet bclow the level
of the Mediterranean, and unless the
intervening country proves to be rocky
there will he no difficulty i'll speedily
carrying out the project.
Judge Barrows Of the supreme court
of Maine has within a few years sem
fenced nine murderers to imprisonment
for life, the highest penalty which
the law allows in that state. Frequent
repetition does not make the duty light
|"My heart is moreand more oppressed,
he says, with the iccling that the num-
Der of those who larh"r malice unit.
CIltll IlNttIlS Uctl,lIItt lt-i'ltiN'SNo l GONIi
duty and fatally bent ON mischief is in
creusing i'm on state"
From one of the late society novel:
VIC learn that amy II walking up Filtl
avenue on u fine afternoon will have oh
served the tired and ~listless expression
of the grand ladies', with artificial com.
plexisns, who luli i'm the corners oftheip
splendid carriages. a glance at thct.
: faces always consoich W%cliinginr'l, wIer
he began In feel rommMnlstic, sorialIsti'
and unarcllislir, as he sometimes di
while hcl,elding all the magniticenrt
which WAS SO utterly beyond his reach.
. Olive Thornc i'm the Cnristion Union
, gives the following incident as tending
to prove TINT animals reason: "One
day the cat and parrot had q quarrel. ]
think the cat had upset Polly's food, o.
Z something of that kind; however they
I seemed all right again. An hour or SC
after, Polly was standing on the edge o
/, the table; she called out, i'll q tone o
. deep affection, "Plss, pnss, come then
come then, pussy" Pussy went, amc
: looked up innorently enough. Polly
with her beAk seized a basin of mill
standing by, and Tipped the basin anc
all its contents over the cat; thcn chuck
led diabolicnIIy. OF course it broke
O the basin and half drowned thu
8 cat"
e New York Trilune.-Ihe mediGa
'fatei..es ":H,. ir,"is 40 i'll great pei
d plexity over the singular maIa iy of
young woman, about seventee1 years
age, who, at intervals of from five to te
y minutes, in%volnntarily heavesa rrofoun
= and dismal sigh. She has been trcatc
y by several physicians, but not one {
q them has been able TO afford her Tn
y slightest relief. This is..a suspicious cast
bearinga close analogy to the experienc
4 of six young m whose prompt re
covery from IL mysterious complaint NJ
on the appearance of six young men ID
Holmes has POLITICALLY recorded in TIL
d song of the stethoscopc.
Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con
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