Show CLIPPINGS iba aek rev 1 v bayard taylor the traveler gaie gage gave a course courte of four lectures before tiie tile the mercantile library association os of san francisco for which they paid him 1500 fever and ague prevail to an alarming ex tent in the mining communities comm coma unities bordering on the plains particularly about placer and el dorado counties putrid sore throat was prevailing in san francisco scarlet fever rever had also zado lado mado its appearance the late earthquake in san francisco n not ot only shook the inhabitants buildings t ac in a manner not quite agreeable in some iastan ces racking the latter from the foundation to the reef but jolted a large frame building BO so badly that after resisting the influence of the shock for a day or two it fell down 4 by an order which passed the board of supervisors th the san francisco railroad com corn ta pany is authorized to construct three distinct lines of railroad to run through the main traveled streets from north to south in traverse directions ta the news of santa cruz monterey count ty states that the average yield of wheat on the pajaro bottom lands is sixty bushels to the ar acre arre re but the profits to the producer are small email 8 S the marysville marksville Marys ville express says that dr friezer Tri ezer of that city has a living rattlesnake which has been for twelve months without food and although as a general thing it is inactive and lies motionless yet at times it is ger ier very y lively and will not allow you to approach near without rattling away at a furious rate the doctor has also what he calls a ground sn snake ake which has been in his possession about five months and has never tasted anything since he has had it A london letter ietter writer says that charles dickens is about worn out fast breaking up his cares his troubles his habits and incessant labor to make both ends meet have taxed his mental powers till they are breaking ty down in I 1 his reading he looks like a decayed beau a patched painted perused he dowager s the empress eugenie eugenic it is stated has just jast presented the dress worn by her on her first appearance at church after the birth of the prince imperial the embroidery of which cost to the statute of the virgin on the altar of notre dame de do la garde at atmar marseilles se illes the inhabitants of paris have recel recently itly presented the empress eugenie eugenic two superb vases of gold weighing ounces they f contain flowers of gold each flower emitting 0 an odor similar to the natural one of the flowers which its form represents there was a severe snow storm in the white mountain district new hampshire sept and the snow is a foot deep in some places above the ledge on the path from the glen gien the old residents say that never sinco sinca 1816 1416 and 1817 has there been weather of equal severity at so early a period in the season the ship nearest in size to the great eastern was built about thirty years ago she was called the baron of renfrew was six hundred feet ion lon long iong andaas composed of large logs clamped to together othel ethel in the roughest manner it was predicted she would not steer but she did and crossed the atlantic she was noth i i ing more than imported timber patched cr er to avoid the timber duty and was broken sup tup immediately on her arrival the government did not approve of the arrangement 0 and prevented a repetition of the experiment an attempt at economy by one of the is told in a french paper going to ao paris he registered eight trunks at metz but bub bat but only seven arrived he was very anxious iele lele telegraphed graphed to metz and learned that the eighth had been left behind on account of its excessive weight in reply to a question he said it contained a million twenty franc fiane pieces the price of registering a zy was at once augmented from fr to fr much to the capitalists chagrin though he got the valuable baggage ba 0 on the of september the bank of england had in circulation notes to the amount of it is stated that the kill elii eing king C of sardinia contemplates conferring the order of the annun ziata zlata on those french marshals who commanded in the late war this order is one of the oldest and most distinguished in europe end and is generally accorded only to princes theae are in all at present only thirty four 6 members embers it gives the possessor of it the title a of cousin to the ring king and confer upon him the privilege of sitting near his majesty in all ill official dinners at court the russian government has undertaken again the project of joining the black sea with the caspian sea by the sea of azof the project has been entertained before and aban there is at present very strong 0 prospects of its realization A man in milwaukee shot a wild cat within the city limits stretched at full length it measured five feet while the actual length of its body was nearly three feet it was very lank and poor although possessed of great muscle and was doubtless driven from its usual haunts by the pangs of hunger the Au augsburg asburg gazette calculates that by account of the late war war a sum of sterling was directly expended by the different powers france and austria each figure for piedmont germany russia various italian states and england at a meeting in paris of the shareholders of the proposed italian railway by the sim plon it was stated that upon the completion of the proposed tunnel under the simplon Sim plon the alps that formerly took 12 hours to pass r will be passed over in half an hour in that s short time the traveler will pa pass ss from the valley of the rhone to the valley dossola and the lake of geneva will be only four hours from the lago maggiore the experiment of lighting 0 by gas manufactured from water has rece recently antly been tried at gilmin wilmington ton del with apparently good success the gas ia is made according a to the patent of prof proc sanders of cincinnati and is said to be very pure and brilliant and much superior in color and strength of flame to that produced from coal while ahil e its ador is rather agreeable than otherwise its cheapness is a great recommendation as it can be furnished at a cost of from 30 to 50 cents per thousand feet a clear saving of more than 2 on the current prices in new york on the annual consumption of gas in philadelphia estimating it at cubic feet the saving 0 would be and allowing 0 new york double that quantity the saving to the public would be per year the gas is stated to possess 10 per cent greater illuminating power than that made from coal A case in which the sum of fifteen cents is involved was recently brought before the police court in claremont CIa cla remont NH nap and after learned and able arguments on both sides the case was decided against b the plaintiff an appeal was taken to the supreme judicial court the action was brought to recover the value of braiding nine woodchuck skin whiplashes among C the many reforms contemplated by the emperor of austria is one which will place all forms of religious worship upon an equally free basis removing 0 all the restrictions placed upon protestants and protestantism 4 the number of protestants in austria is estimated at about three millions two mill million on two hundred thousand of whom are in hungary or about one fourth of the people of the kingdom this is a much larger number than is generally supposed to be there and the reform will be hailed with delight by them |