Show NOTES in a recent duel duei near paris between a lieutenant of dragoons and a civilian the military mans bullet struck his opponent but could not penetrate his thick clothing whereupon the civilian politely declined to continue the fight because he would not risk spilling the blood of a french officer whose life belonged to his country TI the ae pair ma marched relied off and breakfasted together the new vork post graduate medical school has bemi bean so successful that it moved to a new building oil on february which will enable it to give hospital advantages to its matriculates the new building is very large being five stories high and having a front of 95 feet the new announcement announcement gives a list of physicians who were ivere tat matriculates lates for the year ending november 1883 I 1 the births and deaths in Lon london donfor for the 5 ending december cember Ie 09 1884 1684 have been published the population in 1883 was estimated at and there were births regist registered ered cred the dirth rate was the lowest since 1860 the deaths recorded were against during the year previous the death rate thus being reduced from to fatai Fatal accidents carried off 11 2997 and only cases of smallpox small smail pox were recorded the rev mr dir shaw of mada madagascar as r ele eie brity writes that the aritiz british nation a sends with one hand missionaries and bibles to its people and with the other introduces into the country that which crushes out the moral and religious life of the natives ten thousand barrels of rum are imported in one year on the cast coast at so cheap a duty as to be retailed at twelve cents a quart frequently at sundown whole villa villages es are drunk and even little children stagger around the outcry over the houses of the poor has spread to paris Ai alarming arming statistics are published of the increase of overcrowding and consequent spread of disease and no less than schemes of reform have been presented to the municipal Mun cipal council the deaths between 1870 and 1883 have increased per inhabitants from 48 to 96 in typhoid fever from 53 to in diphtheria from 11 to 74 in smallpox from 30 to 43 in measles and from 7 to 18 in scarlet fever A man ili iii lies lles in the new nevy york bellevue hospital with a rubber tube through his brain ills his nama name is bruno know and last thursday he shot himself between the eyes with a 32 calibre revolver the bullet took a slightly downward course passed through the brain and lod iod lodged ed within the skull unable to reach it it by any other mean means S the doctors sawed out a piece of the back part of knows knowl skull and extracted the bullet inserting a rubber drainage tube it is stated that lie he gradually I 1 Y grows brows better sir george elliot member of the british parliament some time since sent orders to newport that all mas and crews of ships then in the docks were to be entertained at dinner on christmas day at his expense on being informed that it was found difficult to obtain a caterer who would undertake so bir big bi a job sir george replied by wire 1 telegraph no further non nonsense sense tense the dinn dinner e r must take place lace accordingly one of the hotel E keepers consented to arrange for a good old english feast and it proved I 1 a great success in every way ivay A case of extraordinary cruelty to a wife was heard a couple of weeks weeks ago at dundee scotland A young man named hutchison a baker went home drunk and quarrelled quarrel led with ills liis wife I 1 threatening her life and ill using her until he lle was tired lie then pushed her out of the window of the building which was wa s 80 feet high and kept her clin clinging to the roof for an hour when the police police forced an entrance to the house and arid rescued the woman in an exhausted condition she had only recently been married the prisoner was sentenced to two mon months terl tEri s hard labor A german journal mentions a case of whooping cough treated with turpentine by of berlin with astonishing shin res results tifis the patient was a little url uri lri iri three and a half years and a fatal sue seemed imminent the doctor prescribed ol 01 ten 11 grams rains syr al alth aith threw abac eighty grams a teaspoon tea spoon ful every three hours the ho next day when he saw the child he could hardly believe his eyes she was sitting up in bed with it a great slice of bread and butter ili in her hand which she was eating and evidently enjoying the tile conglis od had totally disappeared and no evil results followed the following description of the mahdi by bellanca byi byl manca lanca peney will in view of his ills being so conspicuous a character be read with some interest mohammed ahmed is a man of medium size of a light copper color with a ve very ry black beard and has three parallel scars on each cheek lie ile is extremely thin for he undergoes very rigorous fasts before making lis his its appearance in public he lle inhabited a hole hoie underground round where he wept continually over the universal corruption the malid mahdi only wears a shirt and drawers of daf dai damour nour or heavy cotton cloth sandals for his feet and a small turban on his head the 11 rail nail all ail street news gays says the rates from the missouri river elver to salt lake are a again aln ain set back to 25 cents per pounds on all classes owing to the U unwillingness of the tripartite roads to allow the advance of rates while other points in the controversy are unsettled this would indicate weakening on the part of the union pacific wh whose ose officials probably thou thought ht eliat that its new allies would coincide with anything n they did in the utah pool evidently these allies do not feel bound by the tripartite compact as by refusing to sanction the restora restoration tiou of rates to salt lake they assert their independence which probably will wiil prevail until a final settlement in the meantime the union pacific will keep on losing money as be doing ba on a 25 cent rate and 1000 mile haul A correspondent writing from paroman utah says we understand that the sectarian minister here ig going 0 in to leave lease us and return east also also aiso that he has been unusually worked up up lately preaching reaching about 11 mormons cormons Mor mons and calag calling them beasts intended as a harting parting parting broadside of course he refers ers to 0 the practice of plural marriage there is one thin thing that seems curious that is while the sectarians sect arians denounce I 1 yn a we TilA xi ekra eyra tty key kev yat at elleve believe the bible to be the word jorj of god and draw their religions religious fro from in it det del yet favor that hat good old book speaks strongly in favor of polygamy it cal cai caily calis Is persons who practiced it holy men and holy women and the children of these pol poi polygamists are arc called the holy seed alythe and the land laud these people dwelt in the holy land and the book that tells about this holy people and holy land is called the holy bible we lind find a great many passages ill in it denouncing crimes of al all ail kinds kina but none denouncing polygamy |