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FOREIGN' GOSSIP. The fact that the last two years, 1878
' and 1879, had almost precisely the same
The American show at the Berlin ' total exports of fresh beef, may indicate
Fish Fair is the subjectof admiringcom- the reaching of a maximum, but an in
ment forits fullness, variety and rarity, crease of 70 per cent, in the live-cattle
The French are a thrifty people ' fMrt of 1879 ovct 1878 may acconnt
Last year 2,000,000 persons of that na-1 for thc lack ot " fresh beef . At all
tion deposited 138 800,000 in the sav- even's the trade is already important
;n oanks an, lucrative, and besides, as Colonel
" .1 Sellers would say, there is all Germany
The two sons of the Prince of ales, and France that must one day be sup
Albert Victor and George, have been plied. The success of the experiment
promoted to the rank of midshipmen. ,a been in underselling British beef;
With this official advanconicnt itis con-1 the less agreeable side of the picture is
solatory to know that their pay will be that good American beef can often be
increased from one shilling to one and j bought cheaper at retail in English cit
ninepence a day. ies than in America. Xcw York Sun.
The microphone ha? been success-! "
fully employed by Prof. Mine, of Tokio, Domestication of the Buffalo.
Japan, to "announce the premonitory
signs of an earthquake. He places the i The early explorers of the Mississippi
instrument in pits remote from roads. Valley believed that the buffalo might
and he is careful, also, to exclude all in-1 be made to take the place of the domes
sects, the movements of which would, tic ox in agricultural pursuits, and at the
of course, affect the indications, and same time yield a fleece of wool equal
lead to false inferences. , in quantity to that of the sheen; but no
Axinsidious worm called the fluke is ' persistent attempts have yet beer .made
l. o,.r t!,n .hniii. In Hrit . l" umiic " ) UUiUCSUtJUUII. J.UUL UIU
causin:
Britain actually exceeding, in the ag
gregate, the cost of any of the wars
which have figured in the indictment
have been found guilty.. In f.ome parts I ?V?JV?Z ! 1
buffalo calf may be easily reared and
thoroughly tamed has been conclusu ely
proved, but little attention has been
paia to tneir reproduction in con-
of England, chiefly ir i'the southwestern ""ring the last century they were do
provinces, whole llocks have perished, 2 SWjlK T.
and not a sheep is sound
Mr. Gladstone's eldest son has been
returned for East Worcestershire in
which the large Lyttleton estates lie.
The late Lord Lyttleton was Mr. Glad
stone's brother-in-law, being married to
the second daughter and co-heiress with
Mrs. Gladstone of the late Sir Stephen
Glyn. This eldest son of Mr. Gladstone,
who was a Lord of the Treasury during
his father's administration, is profound
ly siuniu, ami couiti wuu uuiicuu uu
tain his degree at Oxford. The fourth
son, Herbert, who was defeated at Mid
dlesex, but who mil be returned in his
father's stead for Leeds, is especially
bright, and is likely to make his mark
in the House.
The Sovereign Count of Erbach
Erbach. who claims descent from Char
lemagne's daughter Emma and her
midnight lover, Eginhard, has offered
his hand to a gardener's daughter,
Fraulcin Luck, of Bessungen, near
Darmstadt. His Highness's imperial
ancestress, whose stone coffin, in which
she and her lowly-born consort were in
terred together nearly eleven centuries
ago, is preserved in the venerable castle
of Erbach to the present day, set her
descendants an example, by herself
contracting a morganatic marriage,
which they have not proved amiss in
following.
On Good Friday morning, at the
Church of All Hallows, Lombard Street,
London, according to a custom which
has been observed for the last 287 years,
sixty of the younger boys from Christ's
Hospital attended the service, after
which, in accordance with the will of
Peter Symonds, made in 1593, they each
received at the hands of the church
wanlen a new penny and a packet of
raisins. Another very ancient custom
was observed at St. Bartholomew the
Great, Smithficld, where at the 'conclu
sion of thc service an old tomb in the
church-yard was visited, w hen the Bcv.
J. Morgan laid twenty-one sixpences on
the tomb, which were picked up by
tw enty-one elderly females of thc parish.
It is said that an old lady left this bene
faction, and that she lies buried in the
church-yard, but the exact spot can not
be pointed out.
Thc Boast Bert of Old England.
The roast beef of Old England is
largely furnished nowadays from the
stock- ards of Young America ; and so
with the beef on the hoof. In 1875 four
million pounds of fresh beef were scut
from this country to Great Britain ; the
next year the export jumped to thirty
three millions; the year following to
forty-nine millions; w hile for the past
i nies, and interbred with domestic cows.
I producing a half-breed race which is
tertue, and which readily amalgamates
with the domestic cattle. The half
breed are large, fine animals, possessing
most of the characteristics of their wild
parentage. They can be broken to the
yoke, but are not so sober and managc
ble in their work as the tame breed
sometimes, for instance, making a dash
for the nearest water, with disastrous
results to thc load they are drawing. It
is somewhat difficult, also, to make a
fence which shall resist the destructive
strength of their head and horns. But
the elforts at taming buffaloes have not
been many or seriously carried on, and
no attempt appears to have been made
to perpetuate an unmixed domestic race.
Probably after a few generations they
would lose their natural untractableness,
and when castrated would doubtless
form superior working-cattle, from their
greater size, strength, and natural agil
ity. Ernest lngersoll,in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Girl Pound In China.
Mocko Edwin, a Burmese, who has
been educated in this country with the
view of sending him as a Baptist mis
sionary to Burmah. lectured recently in
Baltimore. Speaking of the deplorable
condition of women in the East, owing
mainly to peculiar religious teachings,
he said: " Girls in China are believed
to have no souls, and to kill them is not
murder, and therefore not to be pun
ished. Where parents are too poor to
support the girl children, they are dis
posed of in the following way: At reg
ular intervals an appointed officer goes
through a village and collects from
poor parents all the girl children they
can not care for, when they are about
eight days old. He has two large bas
kets attached to the end of a bamboo
pole and slung over his shoulder. Six
infants are placed in each basket, and
he carries them to some neighboring
village and exposes them for sale.
Mothers who desire to raise wives for
their sons buy such as they may select.
The others are taken to the Govern
ment asylum, of which there are many
all through the country. If there is
room there they are taken in, if not
they are drowned."
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A lady of Troy attended three hun
dred funerals last year. She probably
writes letters to the funeral fashion pa
pers. -V. Y. Com. Adc. Her life must
oo a perpetual rehearsal. Evening Jtul
Ictin. What exposure that woman must
be subject to ; she'll probably die of
coffin. Varren Hill Times. She must
be dreadfully tuckered out. Strength
ening prescription gratis : Take to her
two years it has been fifty-four millions I beer. Bumjtoicn Jlanner. If her ap
each. This increase is.prodigious, but petite for funerals doesn't pall she'll un
it is paralleled by that of the export of l dertaker three hundred this year.
live cattle. In 1870 there were 31,593
live cattle exported; in 1879 there wtre
13G.720. In the pa-t four years there
have been exported, in roun'l numbers,
300,000 live cattle and 200,000,000
pounds of beef. Enormous as these fig
ures are, they still increase, and lately
1111'P liiuin citnnfnmanfnil vf rm-in oKin.
ments of live sheep and fresh mutton. ' quit. Idleicild Mirror.
Siiuedunk Herald. She doubtless
plumes herself as the champion
mourner. Finlhersrille Record. And
possibly has cultivated a good tomb
stone. Musical Hicieic. Think that
bell toll'd a lie or made a miscount.
Truthteller. Brethren, the subject is
too grave to be so trifled with. Let's
' The Geodetic Union of Europe and
' Africa.
The important work of connecting
t the systems ot triangulation covering
t Western Europe and Northern Africa
' was consummated in thc latter part of
I October last. Preparations for it hail
ibeen going on for several years under
the direction of Gen. Ib&nez and M
Perrier, acting respectively for the gov
ernments ol spam ami trance.
Four mountain heights wero "elected
for signaling operations, namely, Mul-1
hacen and Tetiea, in Spain (the former
being the highest in that country), and
Fihaoussen and M'Sabiha, between
Oran and the frontier of Morocco. It
was decided not to trust alone to solar i
signals, but also to employ the electric '
light at night, and the event fully justi
fied this resolve, for the solar signals J
totally failed, being seen neither in bpain
nor Algeria. The difficulties of the en
terprise, then, will be obvious on con
sideration, for to produce the electric I
light with sufficient intensity it was
necessary to ha e recourse to electro- j
magnetic apparatus driven bvstcam en
gines, and tho problem was that of haul
ing up Gramme machines, engines of I
six-horse power, and various instru-1
ments, to summits of 1,000 to 3,550 '
meters height, making roads on thee
desert mountains, organizing supplies
of water and fuel, andfinally providing
accommodation and sustenance at each
station for twenty to one hundred men
and fifteen or twenty beasts. There
was a military guard attached to each
station (in Algeria especially this was
necessary), and tho soldiers worked
in roadmaking, etc. The time open
for operations was short between tho
intense heat and the early snows. On
August 20 all were at their posts
Colonel Barraquer on Mulhaccn, Major
Lopez on Tctica, Captain Bassot on
Filhaoussen,and M. Perrier onM'Sabiha.
But in vain were solar signals sent by
day and electric by night; the vapors
from the mediterranean proved imper
vious to the beams. At length, however,
on September 9, after twenty days'
feverish expectation, M. Perrier per
ceived the electric light of Tctiea,visible
sometimes to the naked eye, like a round
reddish disk, as bright as Alpha in Arc
turns, which appeared nearthe horizon.
On the 10th he perceived the French
signals, and a period of definite observa
tion was entered upon, extending from
September 9 to October 18. The geo
detic junction of the continents was at
length realized. Tho numerical results
arrived at with regard to those four im
mense triangles ol some seventy leagues
length of side are given in a communi
cation by M. Perrier to the French
Academy, and are shown to have satis
factory accuracy.
By this work the geodetic operations,
in the British Islands, France, Spain,
and Algeria, were united into one grand
system of triangles, reaching from thc
Sahara (31 X. L.) to the northernmost
of the Shetland Islands (61 N. L.),
giving a meridian are of 27, the great
est hitherto measured on the earth.
Scientific American.
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The Overawed Gambler.
The cool; unflinching gaze of a brave
man, it is said, will awo a tiger. The
statement 'is perhaps an exaggerated
one, but we will tell an incident of a
man whose eye awed a human tiger.
Some forty years ago, thu citizens of
Natchez, aroused by the excesses of the
gamblers infesting their city, drove
them out, and threatened them with
death if they ever returned. Promi
nent among those citizens were Capt.
Quitman, a leading lawyer of Natchez.
A month or two later, he and a small
band crossed into Texas to aid those
who were fighting Santa Anna and his
Mexicans. Late one night Quitman ar
rived at San Augustine, where he found
the people overawed by a large gang of
gamblers, some of whom Tiad lately
come from Natchez. They recognized
him and resolved to have revenge. Quit
man quartered his men in a large build
ing, while he occupied a room in an ad
jacent house. lie had just taken off his
coat, when the door was thrown vio
lently open. A tall, fierce-looking man
entered. In his belt was a bowie-knife,
and in his rirht hand he held a pistol.
I Fortunately, Quitman hid not laid aside
his belt-pistols, and drawing one he
I raised it quickly, so that the man was
covered by it.
I " I know you and you know me," he
! said, looking the gambler calmly in the
eye. " I desire no quarrel with you, but
1 don't fear you."
The gambler glared at him for a mo
ment, and then, his features relaxing
into a smile, said
" Captain, you're a brave man, and I
will bo your inend," and he retired,
quietly closing the door after him.
A few weeks after, the vmr being at
an end, Capt. Quitman was returning
some overland, accompanied only br
his negro servant. Crossing a small
stream, and mounting the bank, which
had dense underwood on both sides, ho
found two trees felled across tho path.
Suspecting that he was in a trap, ho
turned and saw three men, armed with
guns, coming up in the rear. He could
neither advance nor retreat. Instantly
springing to the ground, he drew his
Eistol, and placed the horso between
imself and the robbers. The sharp
crack of a rifle behind him, and the rush
of the ball over his head, caused him to
turn. Seeing tho gambler whom ho had
met at San Augustinegalloping his horso
at full speed towards him, ho prepared
to sell his life as dearly as possible. Tho
man, dropping his gun to show that ho
was not an enemy, approached. Iteeog
nizing Quitman, he said :
" Captain, I'm mighty glad I had the
chance to servo you. I and my partners
were coming this way, and I, being in
the advance, saw, as l" turned the angle
of the path, the situation. Let's see if I
hit one of those robbers."
On searching, they found traces of
blood, but no signs of tho robbers.
Some years after, this gambler was
convicted of gambling, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment and one thou
sand dollars fine. Quitman paid one
half of the fine. Tho gambler, it is said,
subsequently reformed, and became an
estimable man, respected by all who
knew him. Youth's Cbmximwi.
A correspondcrt of tho Louisville
Courier Journal tells a story of a case in
regard to a patent on a corset, which re
cently came up in the United States Su
primo Court. The judges of this august
court are all very grave and dignified
gentlemen, and the black silk gowns
which they wear add to the solemnity
of their bearing. The corset patent was
a delicate subject to bring Into this au
gust court, but the contending parties
had gone to law on the question as to
whether "coutil" was cut on the straight
or bias, and in regard to the whalebono
casings. One patentee claimed that ho
had improved upon the original design;
that the first patentee's corset placed
the whalebone in the casing, and that it
had to be fastened with a needle and
thread ; that his patent had the advan
tage ef an invention which closed up tho
top and bottom of the opening. The
lawyer who was arguing tho case
brought a lot of the corsets in court and
distributed them to each of the Judges
that they might examine the Invention
as he explained it. The novel spectacle
was presented of each one of these gen
tlemen timidly scrutinizing the myster
ies of the bias and straight, and pushing
whalebones in and out of the casings.
All tried to look knowing and capable of
giving an astute opinion; they whis
peredto one another, of course exchang
ing only legal knowledge, but the ludic
rous situation was appreciated by the
lawyers and spectators.
Among the stories which are told
at St. Petersburg of the attempts made
by tha Nihilists to penetrate into the
Winter Palace is the following: Gen.
Gourko, when Governor of St. Peters
burg, had the right of entering at any
time into thc Emperor's room without
being announced. Once, however, tho
doorkeeper, seeing something unusual
about his appearance, stopped him say
ing it would be necessary to inform the
Emperor of his arrival. The General
objected at first, but, finding that tho
doorkeeper only grew more suspicious,
ultimately agreed to his being an
nounced. The doorkeeper then told
the Emperor of his doubts; upon which
the latter went to a writing tabic in bis
room, which was connected by tele
graph with Gen. Gourko's residence,
and telegraphed, " Where Is Gourko?"
at home," was the reply. This, of
course settled the point; tho false
Gourko was arrested, and turned out to
bo a member of the Kevolutionary Com
mittee. m
Speaking of the sudden variations
in the weather and the danger of taking
cold, a friend says it isn't safe to change
a pocket handkerchief nowadays.