The Dickinson press., 1885-01-10
General .condsn..tson..

General Condensation.
September 8, 1860, the steamer LADY
Elgin, having on board a large number
OF, excursionists, many from the South.
collided with the schooner Augusta. of
Winnetka, north of Chicago and sank:
PSF persons were drowned out of The
1856 on board.
The tobacco crop of this country.
which in 1864 was but 1877, 0OO.00o
pounds, promises in 1884 to be between
GOO, ooo. 1000 and zoo, Ooo, 900 pounds, or
o than three times that of twenty
years ago. The acreage. which in 1864
was 239, S26, has jumped up to nearly
y $1,000, while the value of the cron,
which in 1864 was $50, OOO;OOO viii
probably reach $45, OOO, 900 or $40
600. 900 in 1884,.
John B. Cough is of the opinion that
the way: to ere sleeplessness is to pitch
in and work it off. He says that Iy.
man Beecher Gather of the BROOKLYN
orator. had load Of sand n, his celiar
and after evening service he won1d
~ 1t from one side to the other, and
bsy this exercise he could tone down the
fever OF his brain. Then the old man
would get out his violin and soothe
himself to sleep with amateur fddline.
Lady Duferin, the wife of the British
ambassador at Constantinople,, raised
$4,000 for charity in a single year, and
managed its distribution. She deyotes
nearly all her time to work among the
poor people.
The elaborate gold cup won by James
R. Keene's horse Foxhall at the Ascot
races in England nearly two years ago.
and which has been in the hands Of
United States customs officials since,
has been officially declared to be a tro-
ply, ,eommemorating a particular event,
and therefore free ofduty, under sec
tions 2,499 and 9, SOP ofthe act of March
3, 1883. Ansorder has been issued Civ.
ing Mr.. Keene his cup without payment
of duty.
Paper bottles are now made on a
large scale in Germany and Austria.
The following is said to be a good re.
cipe for the paper: Ten parts of rags,
forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp.
The paper is impregnated or coated on
both sides with sixty parts ofFdefbrin-
ated fresh blood, thirty-tve parts of
lime powder, five parts Of sulphate of
alumina. After drying ten or twelve
rolled leaves are coated again, placed
over each other and then placed in
hoofoI ,,o,11lcz 'FN1,a o11.,. .
blood forms a combination on pressure
with the lime which is perfectly proof
against spirits, &c. The bottles are
made in two parts, which are Joined TO-
gether.
Marriage in Pennsylvania is simply
a civil contract and can be enteredinto
just as any other civil contract can be
assumed. Neither priest, minister or
civil or other officer is necessary to a
marriage in Pennsylvania. Parties
may agree to become man and wife
with or without officiating officer and
with or without witnesses. They may
privately agree to become man and
wife, and if they publicly assume the
relations Of marriage before the world
and confess and present each other, as
man and wife, they thereby impose up
on themselves the marriage tie that can
be dissolved only by death or divorce.
"There are still $50, 600, 900 idols wor-
shipped in India-more idols than there
are human beings" says the Rev. Den
nis Osborne, the native Indian mission
ary. More than one idol per capita is a
pretty good figure. It mast be. &C
k~nowledged that Christianityshas made
but small progress in India under Brit
ish rule. Mr.. Osborne can only claim
500 900 out Of vast millions of Indians.
As for the idols they are manufactured
in Birmingham, and probably in other
English cities, that do quite a thriving
business in the making Of these gods,
which they ship over to the heather.
This is way of making the natives
acquainted with Christianity. Can the
paucity of conversions be wondered at
whenEngland herself provides the gods?
Our Minister to France gets $17, 500:
England pays her Minister to France
$780, 900 and gives him a palace to live
in. The United States pays it's Minis
ter to England $17, 500. England pays
her Minister to Washington $4,000 q
year, and gives him a great mansion,
fully equipped and furnished, and &c.
900 a year for entertainments. Eng
land pays her minister to Persia $25,-
900 a year and gives him a palace. We
pay Il Chief Justice $40, 500 a year
and our Associate Judges $4,000.
Chief Justice Coleridge gets $40, Ooo.
The other eight Judges of his court get
$25, 600 a year each. Even the Eng
fish Consul at New York receives q sal
ary of over 500, 900 a year. Gen.
Sheridan gets something like $15, 600 a
year. Gen. Wolseley gets about $4o,-
Professor Forster, who recently died
at Aix-la-C hapelle, was one of the
greatest European entomologist SITS. He
has left a collection of insects which
from its rare perfection and beauty
stands almost unrivalled. And a move
ment is on foot in England to buy it for
the Museum of Natural History at
South Kensington.
Manufacture of Peppermint Oil.
A correspondent writing from Wayne
county, New York, to the department
of aoric,11turo af Wochino+o, r;po, a,