MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 877, 21 October 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The latest international exhibition ;at London was a financial success. The ! first teas of the new season arrived at London from China by steamer July 29th. The Ameer of Afghanistan has pardoned the partisans of Yacob Khan, who remain at Cabul. A committee has been formed at Frank!fort--Qn-the-Main for getting up ■an international dog exhibition. Prince Frederick Charles of Pussia is 'to pass *he summer at the sea baths •of the island of Sylt, Schleswig. The Duke de Chartres, who is now colonel in the French army, is gone to Algeria to fight against insurgents. Steam engines to the value of £949,025 were exported from Great Britain during the six months ending June 30th.

A public park on the Thames embankment, London, between Charing Cross and Waterloo bridges, was opened July 22nd. A poultry disease, which is ascribed to the continuance of the wet weather prevails among the broods of pheasants in various localities of England. Five hundred and forty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars in gold were spent by the city of Berlin for the support of her poor in 1870.

A panic prevails at Athens on account of an anticipated brigand invasion. An expedition is undoubtedly organizing on Turkish territory and military preparations have been made to oppose it.

According to advices received by the Paris " Patrie " from Algeria, public opinion in the colony is much excited by the continuance of the insurrection, which displays unexpected tenacity and persistence. The " Athanoßiim" in reviewing volume 2of Marson's '* Life of Milton " which covers five years only of the Poet's life, says that at this rate we may expect about six volumes more before the whole is complete. At the assizes of Manchester, England, July 29th, a baby-farmer was convicted of the manslaughter of one child, and of neglecting to supply proper food to three other children. She was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.

It is stated in the weekly health return from Berlin that cholera is certainly entering Riga, on the Baltic, at the mouth of the JJwina. In Tambow, in Central A sia, out of 30,000 inhabitants 458 died from cholera in the Week ending in July 13th. The Leipsic University recently had a funeral celebration to honor the memory of those of its students who died in the defence of their country during the late Franco-German war. Of the 400 who enlisted, 2 died by accident, 12 of disease, and 48 on the battle-field.

The "Volkstaat" speaking of the number of sick and wounded in tl q German army during the war, says that apart altogether deaths the Central Bureau of information reports that within twelve months it had authenticated 555,000 German cases of wounds and sickness, and 78,000 French cases.

The number of Irish dogs on which the two shilling tax was paid in Ireland in 1870 was 270,422—a dog to every twenty persons. The tax produced £27,042 j and after deducting £7,095|f0r expenses in the administration of the act of Parliament there remained £19,947, which was paid ever to the local authorities in reduction of local taxation.

M. Thiers wrote the following to M. Gulbert, lately Archbishop of Tours, to induce him to accept the Archbishopric of Paris: " I believe that anarchy is vanquished for a long time in France, but the See of Paris none the less demands a man of devotedness and self sacrifice, and it is for this reason we beg ot you to accept the responsibility." Frenchmen seem to have been made desperate by their defeat. A resident of of the town of Tours, Paul Gratien, shot dead a bailiff and a gendarme who had gone to his house to effect a seizure, The National Guard having

been called out, besieged him in his dwelling, where, after a desperate resistance and having wounded several of the soldiers, he blew out his own brains rather than surrender.

General de Lamotte Rouge has just given evidence before tbe Committee of inquiry into the causes of the insurrection. He said that he was only six days at tbe head of the National Guard, two under the Empire and tbe rest under the Government of the 4th September, but he had seen enough to condemn that institution without pity. He laid great stress on the utter unworthiness and incapacity of a great number of the officers elected. A number of weavers in the district of Todmorden, England, have presented a memorial to the medical department of the English government, in which they say that the use of kaolin, or Chinese clay, in the manufacture of calicoes and other gray goods, injures their health. They state that in some mills sizing, including China clay is now laid upon the warps to the extent of forty, sixty, and one hundred per cent.; that before the American war the percentage was twenty, and that ingredients believed to be poisonous are used to make the China clay adhere to the warp.

Tho French publisher Carpentier, lately deceased, was egregiously vain, very rich, profoundly ignorant, and a laughing stock to the literary world. He devised the reprints of oid authors in duodecimo, known as the "formatCarpentier," which he sold at three and a-half francs a volume, and almost drove the stately octavo out of the market. He made much money, as everybody rushed to buv his " Montesquieu," "Moliere," "Rousseau," etc., in good print, and at a price less than seventy-five cents each. But as he grew rich, bought villas and built houses, his pride and vanity grew intolerable. He fanced himself superior to the whole guild of authors whose works he published, and was cordially despised in consequence. The Kansas (Mo.) Journal records the death of Jacob Fournais, at an estimated age of 134 years. He was a Canadian Frenchman by birth, and for upwards of fifty years was a hunter and trapper in the employ of the Fur Company. About thirty years ago he was pensioned off as unfit for service. Nobody knew his exact age, but he was known as an old mm when some how fourscore were children. When a youug man he was working on a piece of ground which he had purchased, near Quebec, when Wolfe was killed on the heights of Abraham. That event took place 112 years ago—on September 13,1759. A movement is on foot among the Wesleyan body, with the object of erecting a memorial chapel at Oxford to the two Wesleys, John and Charles. Themostimportanteventofthemonth, one of the most significant that has occurred for many months, is a protest by the shoe manufacturers of New England against the tariff. Tbe shoe industry is the largest single indstry in the country, 3t employs more men and greater capital than any other manufacture, and the effect of their declaration, that the tariff which was framed to protect is really ruining them, will be electrical. This is a revolt in the very camp of the protectionists. Coming, as it does, after a similar insurrection on the part of the woollen manufacturers, it betokens tho rapid dissolution of the most corrupt rings in the country—the tariff ring. The protest is signed by nearly four hundred leading manufacturers in Boston, Lynn, Haverhill, and the other shoe manufacturing towns of New England. Its importance cannot be over-estimated. It has been published all over the country, and will do more than a hundred Free Trade speeches to convince the people that Protection is ruining local industry. Such is a picture of Protection in America. In the " Lecture Room Talk" of Mr Beecher, reported in the " Christian Union" is a painful appeal from a drunkard's wife, who asks prayer in behalf of her husband. Mr Beecher very solemnly discourses of the efficacy of prayer, and concludes by offering a prayer, the opening petition of which was " Thou that didst stop the bier." The round figures of railroad interest are easily learned and rememhered. The whole length of all the railways in the world is 120,000 miles. The cost of the same was, in round numbers, ten billiohs 1 of dollars. Those of Great Britain are the most costly, and those of the United States the least so. The railway system of the world is supposed to give employment to over one million persons. A couple of eggs, which throw those of the moa into the shade, have recently been purchased by the authorities of the British Museum. The ' Times' says —" Eggs of an extinct bird of Madagascar, which might well have suggested the idea of the gigantic roc of Arabian romance, have from time to time reached Europe, of late, and the British Museum has now acquired by purchase two specimens of these eggs from fluviatile deposits in Madagascar. The larger egg has a circumference of thirty-six inches in the long, and thirty inches in the short axis." It is said that the nansea and vomiting produced by swinging and sea-sick-ness, can be resisted by applying to the epigastrium a layer of wadding dipped in collodion. This, wc are informed, should extend over the ziphoid cartilage to the umbilicus, and be left till it falls off. If the adhesion be imperfect, the) application" should be renewed.