Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-02

the swiss Alps has caused severe los
ses to many the of peasantry by the
Idrying up OF pastures formerly moist
ened by glacial rills.
A dinner in Guatemala concludes
with coffee. 1t Is not the fragrant de-
coction one might expect in a coffee
producing country, however, but a
thick extract, handed round in bottles
from which each person takes small
Quantity, diluting with hot water.
A man who had applied for a mar
riage license in Cincinnati the other
| day had to return home so az to obtain
the name of his intended wife, which
had slipped his memory. He soon af--
terward returned and got the license
with the forgotten name, which was
Autonia Bauholzer, properly set forth
In 1t.
Mr. Barnett Smith of New York
has in the press of Routlcdge g. Sons a
volume entitled 1.-THE Prime Ministers
of Queen Victoria" Sketches are Civ
en- of Lord Melbourne. Sir Robert Peel,
Earl Russell, Lord Derby, Lord Aber-
deem. Lord Palmerston, Lord Beacons-
field, Mr.. Gladstone, and Lord Sails
bury.
Mrs Della Benner, the widow of the
gallant officer who sacrificed his life
while endeavoring to relieve the yell
low fever sufferers of the lower Mis-
sissippi river several years ago, was
recently appointed Postmaster of the
village of Rodgers Park, in the town
ship, of Evanston ILL.,, where she has
resided ever since the death of her hus.
band.
The past year has not been very
profitable one for the London dealers
in secondhand books. The falling off
has not been so much in the demand
as in the supply, although the demand
from America is said TO have declined
heavily. One firm which in 1884 sent
$40, 600 worth of books to this country
last year sent only 81, 500 worth.
Speaking of American heads and
their increasing irregularity in shape,
| II may be remarked that there are
several fine American heads which
their owners think would fit quite
Isnugley into Cardinals hat. Boston
and Baltimore each believed it will cap
ture the next hat Of this pattern that
will be sent to our country.
Mrs. Charles f. McKim's new
house at Lenox, Mass, which attracts
some attention as q revival of the old
colonial style, has a roof that looks
about hundred years old, the appear
ance of age being due to the fact that
the shingles. instead of lying In
straight and fiat courses, are in partly
depressed lines. This device has been
successfully tried in several other
houses.
Thackery's old school, the Charter
House, was some fifteen years ago re-
moved into the country; and now the
whole establishment is advertised for
sale, and the old g. Gods" whom Col.
Newcome has made 80 famous, will
live where they please, and receive
pensions. This, at least, is the idea.
A similar course was adopted in the
case of the Greenwich pensioners, but
Chelsea Hospital continues on the old
lines.
A9-year old lad, who had been exer-
cising his young brain on physiology
of late, saw two drunken men stagger
by the other night and remarked to his
mother: 1.-The nerves of the body all
centre in the brain, and when they
take whiskey into the stomach it enters
some of these organs and Immediately
goes TO the brain. Ifit were not SO
suppose they would walk as straight as
they ever do. But, as the brain is ex-
cited, they become dizzy"
Few ecclcsiastics In any age of the
church have been more active or
achieved more through the combined
use of tongue and pen than Mr..
Dupanioup, whe passed away in Oc-
tober, 1878, in his seventy seventh year.
He was born, of poor parents, in tho
village of AK, In the Province of Savoy,
on the Sd of January, 1902, and lived
through, and for over half the period
was an active participant in all the
great movements of the ninteenth
century.
OfSir Walter Scott, George. Eliot
says. Z" like to tell you that my wor-
ship is peculiar, began to read him
when was 7 years old, and afterward,
when | was grown up and living alone |
With my father. was able to make |
he evenings cheerful for him during
he last five or six years OF his life by |
reading aloud TO him Scott's novels. |
No other writer would serve as sub
'titute for Scott and my lie at that
ime would have been much, more diff. |
,ult without him. 1t is personal grief,
! heart wound TO me, when | hear a
ieprecatory or sighting word about
Scott"
DR.. Porter, President of Yale COL
ege, writes in clear, forcible style,
md rarely, If ever, fails to render his
meaning plain to every intelligent
eader. In his latest work on the ele-
nents of moral science he makes
'rave and earnest defense of the views
let forth, and presents with great
'ogency the objections which lie
'gainst 4 he evolution theory of morals,
II that of the skeptic, atheist, or
'gnostic. His criticism on the older
writer's, as Edwards, Bishop Butler,
'entham, Adam Smith, and skeptics
nd deists, as Spinoza, Hume, Hobues,
Collins, Cant, Hebert Spencer, j. 8.
I'LL, and their teachings, are lmarked