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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 August 1886, Page 3

The English peers contol HH99 church livimgs. Beecher preaches b«M lo a little desk iiirule from w>mill fr**ixi the Mount of Olives. Prof. Tvnilall say s the sky is indebte.l for it* blue colour lo the jiarticle* tioatuig in the air. Missionary Houghton, murdered by East African natives, belonged to the Methodist denomination. Dr. Newman Mall s church, in London, operates nmteen Sunday schools in which are enrolled .'ifSX) children. Armour ACo. of Chicago have contracted to supply the Ereftch Government writh 7,00<).(5X) pounds of canned beef. It is believed that ex-Alderman Jaehne ha L made a confi-ssion since going ti» Sing Sing that will implicate others in his crime. The city of Alierdeon. Dakota, furnishes trees to all property-owners who will plant them on the streets opposite their pro|>erty. It IS said that there are 10,000 families in Chicago without a copy of the Bible. The number of families tbnt have a copy, but never open it, is not given. The mam building of the New Orleans Exposition, which cost over fiOO.OOO dollars. W' as put up at auction the other dav, and the highest bid received for it was U0:»0 dollars. The remains of .Tames F. Leonard, the first operator to read telegrams by sound, nr• being removed from Mississippi to j Frankfort, Ky., where a suitable monument will bo i rooted by bis old associates. Pope I*eo XIII has at length consented to create three French ( ardmals, so that France may again have the representation in the Sacred College which she hail be* fore her rulers began to persecute the Church aivl despoil her ministers. M. M. Moreau and Miguel show that the sea rapidly purifies the pestilential atmosphere of continents. Murine atiuos* pheres driven upon land purify the air of I the r. gions they trawr-. . They act upon | . 1 Tin- Ragged School Union of London, , i F.ngiand, baa under its care 215 Sunday j afternoon and evening scho> Is, attended Iby 42.it04 children; 17:1 day and week- | night schools, with an attendance of 8,074 ; and 7fi industrial schools, with all attendance of d,sdd. It has 11,50, voluntary unpaid teachers, and is accomplishing a >■ . nt of •i. Tin- 80-j 'tore Egyption announces that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff lias pur•l a I 1 ti e palace of Ghizeh for the sum of ATho,(nX) sterling. From that it is thought that the Brill li High Commission intciiils to romain permanently in Egypt. This is one of in,! numberless palaces which the nx-Khedive built with borrowed English and French money. A bill is now pending in the Massachusetts Senate which puts the tenure of teachers on the samo basis upon which subordinate officials and employees in other branches of the public service stand. That is. the teacher, after he has had a year or more of trial and has proved sat “.factory, can be chosen for an indefinite term of years. By the existing law a teacher must be re-elected every year. Electricity is now exclusively used in the Kimberley borough, a London paper ■ays, for killing dogs papttmd under local ordinances. Thedoomod animal is placed in a box that is insulated and “ short-cir-cl< 1 " with connections to a Brush machine ordinarily used for lighting twentythree lamps. Ah soon as the circuit is taken off. after the dog is placed in tho box the current goes through the body, killing him instantly. Of Louis Napoleon, Carlyle said that during his stay in London the future Hnijieror reminded him of a poor opera singer out of an engagement, “ and heaven knows he now has a large engagement on an elevated platform; but wan o' these days it'll all come tumblin' down into the bottomless pit." This was in 1857, and Napoleon 111 was in the height of his glory, but the great historian seemed already to foraee Sedan and tlia fall of the second empire.