Show tim REV dr hicks who was spiritual adviser to guiteau announces that the assassin ass assassin aasin is not in hell bell because there is no such place trin PREFECT of the seine is going to remove from the gates of cemeteries symbols not accepted by persons of all religious persuasions MORE TOAN TITAN worth cf of of ostrich feathers are exported from south africa the supply of feathers greatly depends on the supply of food washington monument has now courses of stone and is feet al inches high or 21 inches higher than the top of the fi figure fire re of america on the capitol Ga pitol IT WAS the novel on the land league undertaken for a weekly paper which was the last straw on the back of that exhausted lite literary iary came camel poor mr anthony A TEETOTAL bridegroom has lost an eye by a bouncing cork fro from in a soda water bottle and the drinking meli men aver that cumms extra dry has never been known to klosk an eye out chemical Chi mical review says that recent analyses of water from front the holy well at mecca where it is ia eagerly drunk by pilgrims show it to be ten times stronger than average london sewage THE TUE PIECES which are to be produced by sarah bernhardt during her first season next spring in london are francois I L by parodi feodora Fc odora by and lady jane grey by madame arnaud DELANEY with attempting to assassin assassinate ato judge lawson in bublin dublin was in 1870 sen fenced for five years for highway robbery of a lady and endeavoring to shoot a gentleman who went to her aid FROM A RETURN just issued by the french minister of finance with regard to the window tax which still exists inn france it appears that there are in that country houses of these have but one outlet have two and have upward of six WHAT PROMISES to become the largest iron furnace in the united states has grown up quietly in the virginia mountains and ia is now nearly ready to be put into blast it is in rockbridge county will produce tons of iron daily and belongs exclusively to english cap ita listo THE tile WOOD pavement of t the lie champs ely elysses ces in paris ia is being carried on oil at a rapid rate and the portion between the place de la a Conc condoide and the avenue de mar i engo has just been comple completed ted there cannot two opinions as to the desirability rabi lity of this improvement as the sorry condition of the old carriage road formed a chronic topic of legitimate complaint A YOUNG LADY of oakland cal married a brakeman in pique and then returned to her family and kept the wedding secret when it wae was discovered she sent for her husband and expressed her desire to live with him ho he agreed to this on the condition that at the end of six EIX months she could bake a loaf of bread that would meet with the approval of ochia his friends but it is hoped that he may be induced p p receive her bread or no bread THE DAY ef of formal lectures be fore student students of medicine said a physician will eoon soon bo be over all that the professor can eay say is as well or better laid said in books and these are now multiplying enormous enormously and becoming cheaper clinical lectures will last of course but their chief value depends not to couch much upon the lecture M upon its practical living illustrations all ambitious students etu denta new read up the d dienes pointed out to them as eoon soon as possible after the close of th the tim borth american review for january opens with a symposium in which three of tho the most premi nent advocates in this country of the revision of church creeds creed a namely rev dr newman smyth rev henry ward beecher and rev dr lyman abbott set forth tho the grounds upon which such revision is deemed necessary as a a defense of revealed religion against the encroachment croach ment of skepticism and asan as an adjustment of the relation between faith and science university education for women a question that just now is being warmly agitated both here and in england is discussed by prof W le conte stevens P who though lie zealously advocates the measure mex sure commands the attention and respect of its its opponents bonen ts by the eminent fairness with which ho lie states the adverse arguments gu ments prof isaac L rice gives a definition of liberty deduced from a profoundly philosophical study of the phrases of political evolution from the earliest anglo saxon S axon times to the present day american english by gilbert af tucker is a s spirited pi defense of our atlantic cis fashion of english Eli glish speech against the aspersions of sundry british critics tho the rev dr II 11 W thomas writes an article that can hardly fail to strike a sympathetic p chord in many a mind on the ra responsibilities of progressive think thinkers bigotry in the medical profession by dr david hunti hunt is a protest from the pen of a respected member of the medical profession against the first commandment of medical ethics which forbids association with any but regular practitioners practitioner finally i charles T congdon under the r sin ill apt title of adulteration Adulte ratio n of intelligence exposes some of f the grave evils to bo be apprehended from the monopolization of telegraph lines press associations and influential public journals pub i dished at 30 lafayette place new york THE tite INDIA sanitary report for 1880 directs attention to the satisfactory circumstances that the health of british troops serving in india estimated as averaging 59 men showed a considerable improvement as compared with the year before the death rate was about 28 i per thousand as against a fraction over 34 the decrease is stated to have been mainly owing to the improved condition ef of troops in the field in the madras army thelle the health alth of the troops appears to have been exceptionally good the death rate about 10 15 per thousand the lowest ever eyer recorded AN ENGLISH medical journal does not agree with those who would do away altogether with tobacco instead of making temperate use of it i the writer says we live in times in which the custom is to denounce dino unco as deleterious every everything which happens to be plem pleasant ant man could probably live without tobacco as ho lie formerly did without clothes but the fact that both these luxuries are in the nature of comforts com forta should not necessarily spur us into action against again cit either of them |