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At Velletri, where the commemoration of Garibaldi took place, there is a chamber in which, at different periods, Ferdinand 11., Pius IX., and Garibaldi happened to sleep. The municipality of VeUetri has placed in this chamber a marble tablet with the following inscription :— "In this chamber Ferdinand 11., of Bourbon, on the night of xviii May, mdcccxlix., in face of a few regiments of volunteers, in vain aougbt to sleep in the midst of an army. Here reposed Tic torious on the following night Guiseppe Garibaldi. Pio IX., returning from Portici to Rome, here dreamt of grandeur and stability of Government among foreign swords. Here returned in mdcccliXXv., and .here, the country free and secure, slept Giuseppe Garibaldi, and here no one will ever sleep again."
" The Star of Bethlehem '' is to reappear some time this year, or next. On the 11th November, 1572, Tycho Brahe discovered a star in Cassiopeia which equalled Sirius or Venus in brightness for a month, and then fell back into its former insignificance. Conjecture has sought to establish a connexion between this phenomenon and two similar apparitions that occurred in 1264 and in 945. A not unnatural inference was that the same increase in the brilliance and apparent volume of this remarkable star must have occurred at the same intervals of time previous to 945, which would bring us to about 630 and 310, aad the date of the Nativity. This star is. now again due, and the world of star-gazers is eagerly looking out for it. -
The 176,000 shares in the Suez Canal Co., bought fpr England by Lord Beaconsfield for a little over £4,000,000, ate now-j worth double that sum. The transaction i was denounced at the time as " simply i throwing four millions into the sea."
One of the trifles which the English people hare to pay for is the maintenance of the Royal Yachts Victoria and Albert, the cost of which, during the last ten years, has been at the rate of £30,000 a year.
A Springtield Sunday school boy caused a momentary sensation last w*ek because of this speech, which be made, as he tendeqad his usual contribution: " Here's my penny. Father hadn't any and mother hadn't, so I took this out of the yeast oup. I was bound to bring one, even if we had to go without yeait."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4533, 16 July 1883, Page 2
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393General News Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4533, 16 July 1883, Page 2
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