Year: 1875

a marked increase for 1872, 1873, ant


1874. In 1870 and 1871 the war natur


ally caused diminution. In the forme


year the number during the twelv,


months, was 2,298. In 1872, however


despite the fact that the war and tn,


Commune had reduced the population


by 25O, 900 inhabitants the marriage tota


rose to 1888; 1878, 1880 unions oc


CURED, and last year 1892.


THERE have just been discovered in 6


house in Great Peter street, London, 8


sideboard, bookcase, and an iron chest


which were made by Peter the Grea,


when he was living as workman in


England, and which are said to have re


mained where and as he left them in


1893. They have now become, from


having been considered rather as lumber


the property of Russian nobleman-


Gregoire Tschertkoff-who intends pre-


senting them to the Emperor of Russia,


in order that they may be placed among


other relics of Peter the Great at Mos


COW.


The French Court of Cessation has
just given decision of interest to CLEAN.
ers French farmers are as close-fsted


as our own typical New Jersey man), and


they have in this generation driven the


cleaners out of their fields as thieves. 1t


is now decided as contrary to law for a
farmer to turn sheep into his fields for


two days after harvest or to CLEAN the


fields himself, or to sell the right, because


the poor would thus be deprived of


the benefit which humanity and law
have reserved to the INDECENT" Is there
any other country where the pitiful thrift
of cleaner could become subject of
litigation?


1T has been claimed that the cypress Of
Somma, in Lombardy, is the oldest tree
on record, but a late writer overthrows
the claim by stating there is at Anurad
hapura, in Ceylon, bo tree that was
planted B. G. 2SS-that is, 246 years be-
fore the Lombardy cypress sprang into
existence. The DO tree is so decrepit
with age that it would have blown down
long ago were it not for a strong wall
encircling the trunk and pillars support
ing the main branches. Every leaf that
falls from the tree is picked up with pious
care by the Buddhist priests and preserved
in a holy part of their temple. The
leaves are thence sold to the people as
sovereign panacea for their sins.


The attention of the Italian Ministry
was recently drawn to the continual alb
straction of valuable books, manuscripts
and works of art from the Italian mon
asteries, more especially from those under
the Roman jurisdiction. Energetic meas
ures, it is said, will have to be taken to
prevent this branch of industry from
being carried on, for the monks and nuns
have found it so profitable that they will
not willingly relinquish it. Not only il
Illuminated manuscripts, choral books,
small paintings, embroideries and images
have been made objects of traffic, butt
some cases even colossal altar pieces have
been taken down from their places, and
have found their way into the hands of
Paris and London dealers. Large con-
ventual libraries have been disposed of
in the same manner, and to add to the
scandal, it is said that hundreds of chests
of unknown contents have been sent
out of the Vatican itself provided with
the Papal seal, and by this means allowed
to pass free of search and duty, and
have been expedited to Civita Vecchia,
to be sent away on French ships.


A New YORK correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes: There is gen.
tleman in this city formerly well known
in Boston, who has been lame for many
years, one leg being shorter than the
other, and he has been compelled to wear
an iron shoe. He heard of woman in
who cured such desperate dis
eases by the touch. He crossed the At
lantic and found the woman in a peas
ants hut. She pretended to no miracle,
made no pretensions to religion, but
claimed that in manner all unknown to
herself she could cure bone difficulties
by manipulations. She touched the
limb, and with her unaided strength did
what the united medical faculty of this
country could not do-restored the hip
Joint to its place, out of which it had
been kept for years. She sent the pa
tient back cured man to this country,
he leaving his iron shoe behind as a
trophy. What she did for that man she
can do for any man in the world, in de-
spite of the patients faith or unbelief


AT recent meeting of the British
Association, Mr.. Beauchamp Tower read
a paper on a machine for obtaining mo-
tive power from the motion of a ship
among waves. A spring is wound up
by the motion, and thus the power is
stored away for use. This suggests
mode of getting force for our rapid tran
pit. In falling from a given height a
stone generates force enough to raise it
again to the height from which it fell.
By parity of reasoning, man in walk
ing down from Thirty-fourth street for
example, cxerts force enough to carry
him back again, If there were only some
means of storing it up for use. The
pressure of walking feet against the side
walk could be utilized to wind up an
immense spring, or series of small
springs, the unwinding of which could
be made to draw whole carloads of men
they would go. In turn,
the pressure of the cars on the tracks
could wind up springs enough to draw
them back again, and thus what is prac-
tically perpetual motion might be arrived
ut. When we think of all the unutil-
lied pressure in the world, of the myr-