The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-07-19

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neighborhood of Sibi, southern Afghanis-
tan, and the government will begin boring
next winter
The parexts of a Berlin girl at
tempted to blackmail two artists for whom
she had Eeen model; but the charges did
not frighten the painters and the liars haye
gone to prison.
The orange tree of Versilles,
known as the Great Constable, is nearly
500 years old. 1t was planted in 1922 by
Eleanor of Carlisle, wife of Charles III,
King of Navarro.
The pleasant creed of the last
sect discovered in Russia is that it is the
boCnden duty of the faithful to slay all
those who do not agree with them in their
religious views, and it is said that numbers
have already paid the death penalty for
non-conycrsion.
1t is complained that the special
band of the Belgian Guards has been much
too good for their audiences in London,
and the bulk Of the company turns from
their exquisite performance of Meyerbeer
and Weber to hear the English Grenadiers
play Den Godfrey and Sullivan.
A man employed at the station
of Tarascon, having been bitten by a mad
dog was sent to PasteSr, who declined to
receive him, saying that he had not pushed
his researches far enough to make things
certain, and without this his conscience
would not permit him to operate on man.
Thackeray's grandfather was
grandson of DR.. Thomas Thackeray, Mas.
ter of Harrow, who had nineteen children.
The size Of the family probably prevented
its members, as years passed on from keeps
ing the run of their relatives and the nov-
eliSt was amazed and discomfitted to dis
cover that, in ridiculing the Public Orator
of Cambridge University, he had been abus-
ing his own near kinsman.
A theatrical manager, about to
produce spectacular piece. says that a
first-class premier danseuse is the hardest
component part of the show to get. There
are only few in all Europe, and these are
seldom out of an engagement. They go
from one capital to another, and are as i'm.
portant and high priced as good singers.
Then, they dread coming to America, and
increase their price for the voyage. Our
audiences are not to their taste. We are
not demonstrative enough to suit them and
they consider us poor judges of dancing.
The n. coast of Nicaragua is the
site of the Mosquito Kingdom. Although
an integral portion of the republic Nicara-
qua, the government exercises but a nomi-
nal control over it. BY treaty with tho
British Cabinet, Nicaragua acknowledged
the Mosquito King as sovereign of this
strip of land, and agreed to pay him sub
sidy of $1,000 per annum. When that par
ticular king killed himself through rum
drinking, the English missionaries elected
an illegitimate son of the royal family to
succeed him. Since that epoch the Nicarag-
uan government had ceased to pay the stip-
ulated subsidy, although it figures in eaclr
appropriation.
Attention is giving to the singu-
lar theory in London that "mind reading"
as of late exhibited is based upon the mus
cular action of the hand. At q recent sit
ting of savants and amateurs an expert
d smonstrated, in manner wholly satis-
factory to the spectators, his interesting
proficiency in muscle reading. Though he
admitted that he could not succeed against
determined opposition. and declared it in,-
possible to read abstract thoughts, the sue
cess attending his direct efforts were sur
prising. He says that the delicate musclcs
OF the hand respond to the processes of
thought. the mental action has its cores
pondence liz musclar movement, and that
where the mind is directed to the conten,-
plation of particular object or material
fact, there is produced a disturbance of
minute muscular forces which an ADEPT car
detect, and from which he may receive a
guiding impulse in his own mind, though
its influence is unc On -cious.
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