The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-19
MEN AND THINGS.

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they say that Boston is threatened with a status
| OF" the Rev. Joe Cook Frightening the world.v
| zereba appears 10 be hole in which the pursu.
ing Arabs ind the English..-dHdntd (Gd.) Consti
| tuition.
William w. Eaton didn't get the Commissioner.
snip OF Agriculture, nor the Commissoncrshlp OF
ratents, because he wouldn't take either position
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a party OF savannah capitalists have purchased
Tybee Island and declare they Will make 1t the
LONG Branch of the south" A big hotel and an
olera house are amongthe things promised, Mobile
(A'd.) Register.
After Admiral Porter gets through with his history
oil the naval battles OF the war the world will under.
stand lust how one man could successfully play a
lone hand against the combined forces OF the enemy
In such connict.--fittSburg (Pd.) Times.
According to the World, the venerable historian,
George bancroft, is about to do the lladvsed thing
OF Blowing Ignatus Donnolly into importance hy
writing something to rcfute the absur(ity that Bacon
or Bob lngerso wrote shakespeare's plays.
One OF the greatest libraries in this country Is that
OF hdolph Suro, the borcr of the famous suro Tun.
nell Mr. Sutro has secured Europe In search OF
rares and has now stored In san Francisco enough
DOCKS 10 brlng the titles alone up TO 100000
Miss Anna l.. Dawes, daughter OF the Massachu-
sets SENATOR Henry l.. Dawes, takes pains TO an
nounce that her new work. GLOW We Are Gov
erned, Is written especially for young people, wisely
supposlng that men who are married know all
about it.
In the Gazette de Therdpeuilue DR.. valiant
claims to have cured two cases OF hydrophobla,
which had reached the convuslve stage, with an
akaolu taken from the seeds OF tree Indigenous In
south America. After complete tests are made the
fnl details OF the discovery will he given TO the
public.
A distinguished American doctor says that people
VINO take the greatest care of their stomachs are
| sure to have dyspepsia. He maintains that IL a man
VIII eat when b, Is hungry, and eat any food that
tempts his appc to he may have the gout but will
surely escape dyspepsia. This will turn the pei
theores OF the professional dietiss topsy-turvy.
Experiments have been made to obtain chloride of
ammonia from the chimney OF the cremation furnace
at senju with success. The process Is simply TO
keep a quantity OF murlatlc acid suspended inside
me chimney to make 1t combine with ammonia from
ammonia VIII he adopted at all other cremation es-
ADJUSTMENTS In Japan.-sdn Francisco Buiieth.
gentleman living In the outskirts OF the city has
fine shepherd dog which lately became the mother
OF an Interesting family of eleven little shepherds
Since then she has changed from dociie and
premises. A few days ago a load OF grain was sent
out from the city to the stable, and as no one ap-
srs teauy re- & 10 ,ake care OF II the cartman kindly
nrst bag and went into the barn. The people about
the house did not see him come out again, but gave
mad gone by and the team still stood at the door with
no driver In sight an Investigation was made and
faithful dog was seated at the foot ready for busl-
ness.-HafUord tConn.) Comdnt.
In his paper on George Eliot in the Nineteenth,
Century Lord Acton gives his opinion that part of
the lofty tone OF George Eliots novels about mar
rage was due to the peculiarltles OF her persona,
position she had translated Fenerbach and Strauss
anu edited the Westminster Rerietc. "Feuerbach
thought it atTec,ation to turn away from immodest
scenes and asserted that enjoyment is a duty.
Strauss sneered at the text which laid down the law
OF Christian chastity. The UeSt,n uiste, Rprie,r
praised vile who had procured u mistress for her
husband. Rousseau thought Sophie all the better
Tor her sin. with these writers George Eliot had
been associated. Her admiration for Rosseau, for
shelley, for Jacques the most ignomlnious of
solublty of marriage as diabocal law Indicate
that her opinions did not always keep the elevated
level OF her early religion and her later philosophy
This year Will see the completion of one of the
greatest submarine engineering feats ever under
taken In Britain. The Severn tunnel was first begun
by the Great Western Railway sixteen years ago,
anh the accomplishment OF the great work has been
delayed by difficulties which a few years back woud
have been Thought insnrmOuntabe. Twice has an
enormous volume OF water flooded the works through
the accidental tapping OF land springs; besides which
assures In the rock were met with which let the
quarter miles broad at the site of the works but the
tunnel itself Is nearly double that length in order TO
allow Tor ihe necessary gradient on either side, the
crown OF The tunnel heing fifty feet below the deepest
part OF the river The enterprise has cost consider
ably more than million sterling.
Lana and Water has done a usefu! service in
pointing out the fallacy of the widespread belief
that ivy trained against the walls of dwelling
house is productive of damp walls and general un-
heathness. The very opposite of this is really the
case. II any one will carefully examine the ivy.ciad
wall after shower of rain, he will notice that while
the overlapping leaves have conducted the water
from point to point until 1t has reached the ground
the wall beneath is perfectly dry and dusty. More
tnan this, the thirsty shoots which force their way
into every crevlce of the structure which will afford
nrIn mold act like suckers in drawing out any par
ticles of moisture for their own noursfment. The
IVY, In fact acts like greatcoat keeping the house
from wet. and warm into the bargain. one
more virtue it has, in giving to the ugest structure
an evergreen beauty