The Dickinson press., 1884-10-25
Current Notes.

The Guardian, the most important
church of England paper, speaks Of
Wyoming, now brought into promi-
by the cattle dispute, as the scene
of Campbell's POEM, .sGertrude of Wv.
omlng." Another church paper of less
note savagely attacks Gen. Wolseley
and Lord Northbrook for starting on
their Egyptian mission on o Sunday.
A we'll preserved Pompeian human
skeleton has just been discovered
among some fresh excavations. It is
the full length fossil of q man, appar-
emily struck down in the act Of fight.
The mouth is open. showing the teeth;
the features are still we'll defined; the
hands are perfect, and evidently held
two keys which lie close by, and the
legs are spread out, the left one being
broken.
The man of the world squeezes the
Juice out of life until he is IN the ~forties,
then marrles a woman twenty years
younger than himself, and when his
children get in their teens, and he is
hobbling toward the grave, he wonders
why he has not the same family ties.
loves and devotions that his neighbor
had who commenced to cultivate them
twenty years before his %seltishness per.
mitted Inn to do so.
Blood heat is set down on Fahrenheit
thermometers at 50 degrees, but more
careful investigators has shown that the
temperature of a healthy person is be-
tween 1O2 and 103. One-half a degree
either way indicates an abnormal condi-
ton, while one degree below would
make a doctor shake his head ominous-
~. When a fever sends the temper;-
ture up to 1O6 OF 107 it depends entire
~ on the amount of fuel on hand how
long the fire will continue to burn.
The finder in the blood may be remov-
ed before the machinery is burned out.
and the fires %smothered, or the vitality
may be kept up until the finder is all
consumed andthe fires go down of their
W accord.
According toa Republican paper"
wrote the Paris correspondent of the
London Telegraph, on August IS,
crime is becoming more common every
day in France. It is spreading like q
rising tide whereof the waves are
often red Twelve years ago the total
number of crimes and offenses which
came under the notice of tho tribunals
amounted in twelve months to &c, 900.
Tel years afterward-in 1SS2-it ex-
ceedcd 81, 600. The largest contingent
OF criminals Was furnished by the me-
tropolis."
A correspondent writes to Nature:
Last night 1 rescued a frog from the
claws of a cat, and, to my great sur
prise, it turned, and, after gazing at
me for a few seconds, jumped slightly
toward me, haltlng after each leap and
looking up into my face. 1t thus grad
ually approached, and IN about two or
three minutes had actually climbed
upon one of my feet. Its mute appeal
for protection was most remarkable,
and could not possibly be misunder.
Stood"
A very extraordinary diamond of no
less than 457 carats has been shipped
from South Africa and sold by a Lon
don firm to a syndicate of diamond
merchants. The color equals, if not
excels, that of the finest India diamonds,
and IN the opinion Of competent judges
it will cut to Il perfect and lustrous bril-
liant. In drop shape it will weigh, as
nearly as can be estimated, about 22O
karats or in lozenge shape, briolette,
about 300 karats. The brilliant will,
therefore, exceed in weight all the his
toric diamonds. The Koh-i-noor weigh
100 karats, the Regent of France 1856
karats, aud the Orioff, which was cut
for weight 1875 larats. In size, color,
purity and quality it is expected to prove
to be the most marvellous stone ever
known.