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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Corporal punishment has been abolished in the Chicago public schools. The United States last year exported 250,000 head of live stock worth $11,000,000. It is estimated that seventy years and $1,000,000 will be required to complete the excavations at Pompeii. Bismarck and other German statesmen are lightening diplomatic cares by turns at the "fifteen puzzle." During the year 1879, 1,032 persons were killed and 3,513 injured on the railroads of the United Kingdom. The Kentucky Legislature,?[posted] journal, The Roman Catholic Bishop of Osaory, Ireland, ?[condense] the ?[last] league as a mere mask for ?[Facianism] and Communism. S. A. Bemis, of Boston, whose father rang the church bells to announce the British advance on Lexington in 1775, offers the old South Church a new bell for the old one. The village of San Luis, near Santiago de Cuba, has been destroyed by fire. Three hundred houses and seven persons were burned, and three thousand people are homeless. The commissioners of the World's Fair are already crowded with applications for space. The work of securing necessary legislation in the various states is being ?[pressed]. Of the 237 members in the House of Commons 750 are merchants, manufacturers, or commercial men, fifty-two are lawyers, six journalists, thirty officers of the Army, and three clergymen. The senate of New York has voted in favor of woman suffrage, by 17 to 11, The Senators say they are in favor, not of suffrage, but of allowing the question to come before the people at large for their decision. Student-fooling flourishes not at Oxford. Eighty undergraduates have been "rusticated" because some of them locked a proctor and two or three fellows in a recitation-room, and the others refused to tell. Boston has appropriated $25,000 for the celebration of its two hundred and fiftieth settlement anniversary, Sep.[September] 17th, and invited Governor-General Lorne and staff and President Hayes and cabinet to participate. Professor George L. Vosc, of Bowdoin College, Main, who is regarded as an authority upon subjects, says that over 200 railroad bridges have fallen within the past ten years. He attributes these "accidents" either to the selection of bad materials, faulty construction and imperfect supervision, or all of these causes combined. The ?[Sunba] ants are very destructive to the sugar cane in Brazil. A process has been introduced for the purpose of destroying these pests, and it has proven of considerable success. Some ?[litres] of carbon disulphide saturated with sulphur are poured into the galleries occupied by the deprelators, and the solution is fired by means of a fuse. The ants are killed by the explosion of by the fumes evolved. ?[Thebau], for whom, last year, a cradle of gold was made, incrusted with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds of incredible value, has just died of smallpox. Vast sums were spent upon the little fellow, and all the people living round the palace stockade had to buy new cooking kettles, lest the smell of rancid oil from the old ones might offend his tender little nose. Bog-butter, a substance found in bogs in the west of Ireland, and supposed by the common people of the ?[district] to have been ordinary butter hidden away ages ago by the fairies, or hastily buried by smugglers, is not of animal origin at all, but has been shown by Mr. John Plant to be a perfectly natural production arising from the decomposition of the vegetable matters forming the peat, and to belong to the large family of mineral resins, or hydrocarbon compounds, of which ?[Daun], in his "System of Mineralogy," describes the composition of seventy species. |