General News.
The Bishop of Exeter, speaking at an Odd Fellows' dinner, at Exeter, said he believed that if it were possible for all the working classes of the country to organise themselves so as to be quite independant of all charity, tha term as ordinarily used, real charity would greatly increase. It would take its proper place, and be what it ought to be—the sympathy of man with man, each in his turn feeling the need of the other, and none feeling that he traa below the other. ' S
In making a careful survey of,the mq'untain d'Fspiaup, near the Spanish "frontier,"' in the Pyrenees, Dr. Phene has- found circles and ovals formed of stones, .like ' those on Dartmoor, and both straight"anil curved avenues. He has also witnessed ■ the ceremony of the fires of St. John, on the eye, of his festival. The fires, are. lighted by the clergy while a service is chanted, and after the burning the charred - wood is distributed to every household, and kept religiously all the year, as was the custom in Britain before the Christian era. At one of these fires at Lunchon, living serpents are burnt in the flan.es. Professor Blackie says :—The Sabbath, as the Christian Lord's day, is not infringed byany amount of rational recreation so long as sufficient time is reserved for those religious services and exercises, both public and private, for ...the practice of which the day was specially set apart by the early Church. The supposed inconsistency between religious exercises-in the morning and innocent recreation of a Sunday is purely a Scottish fancy, altogether unsupported either .by the ■ traditions of the Christian Churches, or by the conditions of a well constituted human nature, and resulted practically in the artificial creation of an awful sort of piety, which, by the erection of a sornbsdt wall or -partition between devout h^mSg 0 and natural gaitey,. has a tender; ejyco make religion odious to the young and Christianity ridiculous to the wise. A remarkable invention or improvement has just been patented in Germany by Professor Klinkerfues,. the principal astronomer at the Observatory of Gottingen, and widely known for his meteorological and physical researches. . The improvement now referred to consists of a method by help of which it will be possible to dispatch as many as eight different messages simultaneousjy along a single wire. An apparatus has likewise been devised by which all the messages will at the same time be mechanically written down. Eecorder (to wifcriess with bandaged eye): " Did he have any provocation when he struck you?". Witness: "IJe may have had something of the kind conoealed on his person,' -but it wag a bnck he struck me wiinV ''
'-V- Sydney, January 22. A monster meeting of watermen and miners was held on Wednesday" afc Temora about water supply. Inflammatory speeches were made to the effect'that they should take the dam by force. Ultimately it was agreed that if the high prices were charged they would go and take wafcer. ihe meeting condemned the action'of the Warden in upholding the local squatter by giving him verdicts against the watermen.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3774, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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519General News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3774, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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