| Show CLIPPINGS the palace of the luxembourg in panis paris caught fire on the oct last Th elarge hall hail was reduce do a amass i asta of ruins th the cupola and roof falling in on the alarm being given the firemen and detach detachments hents lents from the diffie different rent barracks were werd promptly on the spot pot and suc ceedee in gavin savin saving ait alt the uhe galleries of the museum the arch archives 1 ves and the library containing 0 upwards of volumes it is rumored in paris that the stale state is about to brin bring an action against a private individual for th be e restoration of cardinal riche head which was cut off when the inoa broke into the chapel of the darbonne Sar bonne at ahk th time of the great revolution and has hitherto been kept as an heirloom in inthe mhd family of a deputy into whose hands it fell among the scions of the house of boria boua parte is a son of old lucien the prince de canino the young man is a priest of the church and bein heln being heing the personal and favorite relative of his imperial cousin at paris has seen been himself raised from one ono clerical dignity to another till at last the influential post of private secretary and almoner to pio nono had to be accorded to him nothing else stands between him and the purple of the cardinal but the fact that he is not yet thirty it is thought however that the law may be varied to suit the case and that on the decease of plus pius IX lie he may be made pop pops through throng gh the influence of napoleon III I 1 the tile journal de constantinople gives an account of a cur ous religious ceremony walh has just taken place guthat in that city it is the reception by the sultan of the golden gutter in which I 1 is collected the rain that falls on the temple of mecca and which thenceforward is considered by bythe bytha the Muss ulmen as holy water thia this gutter has been carried from mecca and received by the 1 pompous pompons ceremony t les ies IV it ha has s been pla pia placed c 1 ea in bf the theold 61 paiau palao palace a at constantinople lp where the arms flags and other ather memorials bf Afo mohammed hammed a are re carefully preserved s in frankfort on the blain main and in munich are deano dead deag houses uses to tb which bodies are sent previous to burial eherd they are kept some two tim oi or three days for the purpose of ascertain ascertaining ingi whether life has become extinct or not on the fingers of the corpses are placed thimbles which are attached to a cord communicating wit with habell habeil a bell beil the slightest movement of a a finger rings the bell and thus in cases of suspended animation efforts are made to restore the body instead of burying it alive as no doubt often happens in this country in munich it is compulsory on the friends friend s and relatives of all whether rich or poor to send the hotly b ody to the dead house and allow it to remain a certain number of days in frankfort it is not compulsory but it is nevertheless a custom very generally followed publishes a recipe for the recovery of writing 0 obliterated by the action of seawater sea water the letter so damaged should be once lightly brushed over with diluted acid As soon as it is thoroughly damped it must be again brushed over with a saturated solution of yellow of potash when immediately the writing appears in a prussian blue after being 0 washed in a basin of clean water and dried first between folds of blotting paper and afterwards by holding it before the fire if the letter be of much value it can b be sized with a solution of isinglass before being filed the typhoid fever was raging quite violently in portions of pennsylvania in myers town lebanon county entire families have died with this fatal disease and but few families in the village have entirely escaped its ravages in berks county large numbers have died and as many as thirty five persons persona were interred in one graveyard in the course of a month victims of the same disease so numerous are grape vines in north louisiana that the louisiana baptist advises the making of communion wine from them instead in of purchasing 0 adulterated material for this purpose there are four shaker societies in ohio numbering 1050 one in connecticut numbering 0 two in maine numbering 0 ti two 0 in new hampshire numbering two in kentucky numbering three in new york numbering 1050 making in all eighteen societies each constituted of several distinct families or communities regularly officered with elders deacons care takers etc of both male and female orders according to their unique customs custom and numb numbering erin 9 in all some members sixty six cases of chinese silkworm eggs recently arrived iii in san Francl franci francisco francico co en route for lyons france the freemasons Free masons of san francisco havi have purchased a lot 0 of land for and will erect a building worth on it I 1 i 1 upon the glasgow corporations water works there thele have been executed some tunnels which presented remarkable difficulties there cheri is upon the whole work seven distinct tunnels for several miles alon aion along s loch chon s where the work passed through 0 a succession of ridges of mica slate largely mixed with quartz veins the pro progress 0 ress did not exceed three three lineal yards per month although the work wark was carried on night and day in the loch katrine katrina tunnel and generally in tiie tile mica slate the rate of progress was a bout about five fire yards per month in drilling 0 the holes for blantin bl blasting astin with gunpowder a fres fresh h drill or chisel was r required e for each gach inch in depth upon an average besides smaller structures there are 25 aqueducts of stone and of iron over rivers and ani ravines ravi lavinea ra vinea kes ies and besides about 45 miles of eav new pipe for distribution there are 20 miles of pipes from three to four feet in diameter for conveying the water to glas glab glasgow ow the belive delivery will wilt be at the rate of gallons per day the works have been leen three and a half years building and cost between and the total cost to glasgow inc adin the purchases from former compani companies es will be nearly spurgeon is reported to have sali said that ha lie approved of ministers getting a good salary for preaching and in this ibis respect he lie r on d cordially say that he was for his own part perfectly satisfied but if ever any one left ministers a large sum of money they generally lost their olce oice voice dr or got an attack of bronchitis or cometh something ng of that sort which put an end to their preaching |
