The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-24
gnreipir Notes.

The British House of Commons re-
jected motion to abolish capital punish
ment by vote of III to 81.
The King Of Siam has had his
newly-born son baptized by the name of
George Washington.
king Ludwig, of Bavaria, used to
drink whitewin and champagne favored
with fresh violets. He often spent $50
day for the flowers.
The Burmans, fearing the collapse
OF the Buddhist religion, have asked the
Viceroy Of India to appoint the Buddhist
Pope, and he has, of course, declined.
The Pope of Rome is an old man
seventy-six years of age. He walks with
difficulty. His right hand is tremulous
as if he had suffered paralysis, but it is
said to be caused by an accident in early
life.
The black ez-Queen of Assab,
TURNS royal guest, refused the aid of
doctors during a recent indisposition, ON
the ground that it was against African
court etiquette for white hands to touch
her.
jean Mistral died in Paris a week
or two ago. He had been forty five years
In lunatic asylum, in which his father
placed him for marrying without the pa
rental consent. His sister, widow, in
herits his 650OOOOO of francs.
A Franciscan monk has appeared
in Pisa who recalls the days of Savona,
roles He is poor, eloquent, pioas, and
wises and when he breaches on feast
days, lawyers, men Of business, and work.
men leave their occupations to go and
hear him.
lie Mord, the Russian organ at
Brussels. announces that Russia will
hereafter not confer Russian orders or
decorationson British, American or Swiss
subjects or citizens, because their re-
spective countries do not decorate Rus
sian SUBJECTS
- The Rev. Jean Paul Cook, of
France, who died May last, was the
founder Of the Young Mems Christian
Associations of France, and President of
/ the First Conference of the Associations
Of all lands, held in Paris in 1856, at
which the Paris Basis was adopted.
The painted windows in the Scotch
church, situated in the Rue Bayard,
Faris, which were given to the church by
Americans in memory of dead friends,
were maliciously destroyed on june %,
itriSsupposed by students animated by
the secular doctrines OF III. Bert.
"A correspondent oftthe Manchester
GttoreJseas, commenting ON the decline IN
church membership, as shown in twenty
eight districts of British Methodism,
says: "Many of the prominent leaders in
MethodiBm are beginning to question the
wisdom, of spasmodic Efforts"
Since 1860, 100000 Chinese have
entered Chilli and Peru. There are $780,
600 in Cuba; $4,000 in Australiaan more
than three times this number in the
United States 10000 being inSan Fran
cisco, where they constitute one-fourth
of the population and one-fourth of the
laboring class.
Am English official in India tells OF
a French Catholic priest who, receiving
legacy of few thousand francs, started
on a visi. to Europe after long service
and with naost joyful authorizations. He
got as far as Jubbulpore, where he found
a very needy church, to which he gave
all his money, and returned TO his field
and hiSwofk.
The royal princes of France had
taken their precautions against unfOrs-
seen events. The Duke de Ghartres had
secured mortgage upon his-property IN
Paris of $50, 200 francs. The Count de
Parishes borrowed 8, 000, 600 francs upon
his land at Eu. The Duo d Aumalehad
raised IL, 900 francs upon, his landed
estates, and the amount, more than three
millions of dollars, is supposed to be in
vested in England and the United States.
Mormon agents are carrying on q
very active propaganda. in Switzerland,
end the number of converts is said to al
ready reach six hundred They are first
baptized by immersion, and thea sent of
| in patches to Utah. where they lead such
wretehed existence that the Swiss Con-
sui al San Francisco has made it the
subject Of report to. the Federal author
itise.
The personal household Of Queen
Victoria is composed of over a thousand
persons, and costs the nation annually
two million dollars. Attached to our
Presidents household are twenty one
secretaries, clerks, door-keepezs, messen-
gers, etc., at an aggregate salary OF $751;
S64. There are also about q dozen gar
deners and other employees detailed for
service at the White Honss from other
Departments,
The Catholic Repiesv announces a