| Show FOREIGN NOTES oko jumbo and JaJa jo ja have settled their latest dispute ja ja sent to bonny a good slave to be kille 6 as a sacrifice to cement bement the treaty as they waned wanted no bad blood between them thomas brassey esq M ir P has given orders for a new steam yacht to be built at Birken birkenhead head bead she will be the lamest largest yacht owned by a private individual her intended romige being A very beautiful poem published by the ce central n t r al G glamorgan I 1 amo r ga n gaz gazette e t te commences as follows bwy gara y gar syn sya syn easha casha cashady cas hadr dr wlad al mag odd calon yn y n grebl a g mafe male am ara wadu hen gyuru fy ya yn fy a deim delai ladau the sons of archduke charles of austria had a warm abarin dispute in the presence of the emperor himself greatly excited one said to the other you are the tho greatest ass in vienna highly offended onnen ded ata at a quarrel in his presence the emperor interrupted them saying with indignation t come come young gentlemen you forget that I 1 am pres present ent 11 in an article on the present sacrifices to fashionable surgery the london medical 31 edic alPress press refers to the increasing number numb er of deaths from chloroform and arid considers it the duty of surgeons to investigate more fully than has yet been done the tile comparative harmlessness of ether without expressing 0 says the editor of the press 1 ress im more ore than a very strong suspicion in favor of ether we unhesitatingly say that every life lost by the use of chloroform while we remain in in comparative ignorance ignorance as to the loudl loudly y beclar declared ed security of the rival anaesthetics aesthetics an is a sacrifice not to the exigencies of surgery but to inconsiderate prejudice malmesbury recently explained some interesting facts about the rabbit as an article of commerce in england nottingham buys buya over 3 LO every week one dealer at birmingham ingriam takes a week and well informed persons ila iia had assured malmesbury that per week are ire kro imported into england from ostend A leading london hatter says his trade dress dreg rabbit skills skins per week the food supplied from this source yearly is estimated at 35 5 tons of the value of that is equal to the subsistence power ot of fat oxen of the average neat we weilt weight lit of 1000 pounds each there is a curious legal custom in england called the malden maiden assize it happens whenever at the sitting L of the assize court in lit any city the criminal docket happens to be entirely clear of cases when this occurs the sheriff with great formality presents a pair parr of white kid gloves to the presiding judge and an d the court adjourns ada bourns the gloves symbolize we suppose the hands of justice freo free from the taint of criminals such an occasion very rare of late has just taken place at norwich england and baron martin was the happy recipient of the 9 loves cloves 11 america has no custom of the kind and no occasion for it cincinnati times temos A of london thinks he lias has discovered an infallible cure for rheumatism namely the administration of hot sand baths he ile claims that the advantage of this mode of treatment consists es specially ally aily in the fact that it does not suppress perspiration like the hot water bath but rather increases it and another advantage it possesses is isi that it does not interfere with tho the respiration of the tilo patient as a s does tilo the steam bath or turkish bath it is asserted that the body can endure the influence of such a bath for a much longer time and i a much higher temperature can also I 1 be applied it can be used for in cants and permits of eab easy app application I 1 ica to a part or to th the e W whole 0 ae body if this remedy bhail shall prove enu effina a cious for so serious an ailment it will indeed be a boon to a lar large ge class of sufferers A company of english gentlemen have bought for about the porcelain aim aix works near staunton va which were operated till a few years ago by a local company the new owners intend to bring skilled workmen from staffordshire and fully develop the valuable deposits of porcelain clay found on these lands Bitici BRICKS cs A new wrinkle in the tile architectural line deserve deserves 9 mention you will no doubt have seen in lyt son some ic of your red brick fronts of public buildings a peculiar yellow of or buor buff brlek brick used for ornamentation I 1 was under the impression that these were brickbat brick but it appears that they are foreign being imported from liverpool in the church at twenty second and walnut ats the inside facing of the walls Is composed of these beautiful buff brick with a glaze or sheen on them making better finish ninish than a plastered wall as well as momo moro dumble durable these bricks are hollow and therefore show no moisture on inquiry I 1 find this sort of wall costs less than a plastered wall this TIA s calculation includes all the expenses of importation and in fact these liverpool brick can be laid down in philadelphia for less money than fine pressed philadelphia brick hence the use of them is spreading and likely to continue the first brick houses erected in philadelphia by william penn and his followers were built of imported bricks and now we are getting back again to the old customs philadelphia correspondence eucks sucks county th thi the tho babok of mormon the author whoever he lie was represents one of the ten tribes steering by the marinero mariners ma compass A certain clergyman who once onee called the attention of a high mormon official to the anachronism chron ism was blandly told that ho he had forgotten his testament and referred to acts 13 which reads as follows 11 mand and froin from thence we fetched a an compass and came to R heggum rhe Ehe gium glum 11 it is not recorded whether the explanation was or was not satisfactory to the gentile critic but his confusion at such unexpected elpe eted evidence may easily he be imagined the use of fetch in the sense of take tare occurs in several other passages in the bible and similar ones are frequently met with ill in english literature shakespeare wrote lil uli ill fetch a turn about the garden the phrase fetch a walk is still used in some parts of england waverley magazine JH JEWISH EMIGRANTS several wealthy hebrews from roumania says the new yew york R erald herald have lately arrived in new york as the pioneers of several thousand of their faith coming the present year from that that country they are fleeing from persecution and seeking an asylum in lit america where there is no persecution sometimes and expect to settle in nebraska it is also stated that a large number of hebrews are now devoting themselves vesto to agricultural pursuits in this country and arid several large plantations are successfully worked by them in georgia ac AN the death of the nil nii eminent ill nent english tragedian macready may be seized upon as all an opportunity to point a moral in regard to the value of intelligent and diligent labor As with the younger kean rean Macre adys great professional success was due as bue mue much buch h at it least to persistent high culture as to natural endowment which is an encouragement ager rient to other histrionic aspirants to labor earnestly and assiduously for superiority vo WO leam learn from cape capo breton nova scotia that the steamship great eastern after laying the new atlantic cable iq to take like a cargo flom hom cow bay C B to europe oil on her return trip to consist of fifteen thousand tons of coal and that one of the irin trin principal principal cipal shippers in lu caye breton has las cont contracted meted to load N the tho monster steamer in fifteen days who ever that the magnificent gnat at it T listern eastern when first floated would become a dingy collier |
