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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. FROM ALL SOURCES. The widow of ex-President Johnson Is very feeble from asthmatic trouble. Wm. B. Astor owned 3,000 houses in New York, and left a fortune valued at $50,000,000. Tn th« nssf bmisft of representatives there are 181 democrats, 98*republioaas, 61 i ,r ’,r r0 j a!K:< !i , I* UB oHc, liberal 4 indeperT/tantT dc «! n * d s an “ stm incomplete, r MhiiiirMi h.1. Uib y lemm The soldiers of the United States picture was finished in September.'—N. World. The New York Herald states that the death-rate of that city has increased to an 300,000 francs ($60,000) the latest work of Slclssonier, which is now on its way to this country. It represents a regiment of French cuirassiers going into battle and saluting their chief, Napoleon I., who is seen standing on a bill in the center of the scene. The troop.'of horsemen covers almost the whole foreground, the nearest figures being about eighteen inches high. The excited and war like appearance of the soldiers, in marked contrast with the cool and dignified exterior of the great Napoleon, is said to be admir ably portrayed. This painting, the largest Moissonier has yet done, being five feet long, was begun in the latter part of 1865. In 1867, when the work was farfrom being completed the whs one red I50,v00 francs lor it !•- air. rrobasco, of Ciuoiumtii. Tu» 08W was was Report of the Commissioner of Edu cation. The fifth annual report of Gen. Eaton, com missioner of education, gives the following statistics:’ Statet. Tef* Total* School popnlation„„„.......13,736,672 139,378 13,876,050 Enrolled In public schools 8,030,772 69,209 8,090,931 Average daily attendance. 4,483,073 33,489 4,621.654 No. children between 6 and 16 pears old.... 10,636,674 No. teachers employed 241,300 Total Income, pnbiic schools’(States) 4 81,277,636 Total income, public schools (Territories). 831,219 Total . 8 82.158,905 Total expenditures (sites, hnildisgs, fur niture) Stajes .................... .„....* 11,362,239 iiittir*', Territorfes.7.7.."..T”*’*.’.".7,.. iw.w ’ PARAGRAPHS OP THE PERIOD, Total...... 15,043,903 army have deposited of their scanty wages during the past year, with the paymaster general, $325,256. The Prussians are evidently growing tired of so much warlike preparation by their government. Last year there were 80,000 desertions from the army. A newspaper is defined to be a wb dow through which men look out on all that is going on in the world. It is an infolding encyclopedia, an unbound book, forever issu ing and never finished. Mr. Thomas, of Chicago, is the next man who has a motor which will “supersede the use of steam.” Thomas has the same trouble as Keeley. His power bursts every barrier and oozes out of the pores of the metal box when he attempts to confine it. It would be a relief to find bne motor-man who can really box up his power. Some aping Americans are trying to introduce fox-hunting into New Jersey. If the New Jersey farmers are properly pro vided with shot-guns, this demoralizing imi tation of the English will be speedily put down. The stage-coach imitation, in which a crowd of feeble-minded New York Ameri cans ride to the races and imagine they are true Britishers, is all that the country ought to be called upon to endure at once. A good man may “ go off half- cocked,” but a good gun never does, and amateur sportsman should make a note of this last fact. An experienced person says in the Boston Advertiser“ It is a universal rule with men who are accustomed to fire arms to keep the hammer at half-cock, as then it is impossible to discharge. A blow from the rear would break the lock before it could strike the cap, and that is next to an imposibility, there probaly never having been a single instance of the kind.” The contested election cases in the house will exceed in numler those of any previous session for many years. Ike clerk of the house has already received notice of fifteen contestants, and the papers in many of the cases hove already been filed. The contests are in the following districts; 1st and 2d of Alabama; 2d, 3d nnd 6th of Illi nois ; 13thof Indiana; 9th of Kentucky; 3d, 4th and 5th of Louisiana; 4th of Massachu setts; 1st and 2d of South Carolina; 2d of Virginia, and 8th of Wisconsin. . In Wm. B. Aster’s death the people of New York lose a public benefactor. Mr. Astor fully carried out his father’s purpose of giving to New York a magnificent library, and supplemented the elder Astor’s dona tions to the Astor library in a very handsome manner. This great collection (now number ing 150,000 Volumes) and the superb building which contains it form an enduring monu ment to the public spirit and taste of both father and son. Their millions have not been selfishly applied. The Pacific Mail Steamship com pany has brought an action against the state of California to test the constitutionality of of the law which forbids the landing of criminal or immoral Chinese at San Fran cisco. This law has obliged the steamship company frequently to carry back celestials to their native land. The case is before the United States supreme court, and will be argued in Janaary. It is thought that (he president, in ills forthcoming message, will touch upon this vexed subject of Chinese immigration. The California law has had little effect in pre venting the influx of Chinese. In the forthcoming report of the postmaster general, he recommends a repeal o! that portion or the amended postal law of last Besson which increased the postage on transient newspapers. He does not, how ever, recommend a repeal of any other por tion of the provisions relative to third-class matter. It nos been found that the revenues of the department, from the package mall, have increased, notwithstanding the fact that the rates were doubled. Before this increase, the government darned merchandise pack ages beyond the Mississippi at a lost. The increase of rates gives a profit on pack ages east of the Mississippi river,and.payB expenses and a little more through! to the Pacific coast. Mr. A. T. Stewart has bought for alarming extent, owing to deficient drainage and Impure drinking water, which have the effect ti making the whole city a very breed ing place of malaria with the concomitant typhoid fever. The Herald gives the follow- comparative table of death-rates in thirteen of the large cities of the world, from the sixth report of the Massachusetss board of health for 1874: Estimated Deaths New York.... Population per 1.000. 27.61 Philadelphia 19.54 Brooklyn 24.46 St. Louis . 16.27 Chicago 20.31 Baltimore.... 350,000 21,14 Boston 23.60 Paris 1,851,792 21.01 London 21.04 Berlin 32.03 Vienna 31.0* Bombay 29.00 Calcutta 25.00 General Sherman’s report. — The nual report of Gen. Sherman, after statin^ the geographical limits of the various com mands, says the aggregate strength of the line of the army according to the last re ports received, is 1,540 officers and 25,031 en listed men, made up as follows: Five regi ments of artillery, 270 officers and 2,504 men 10 regiments of cavalry, 422 officers and 7,20(i men; 25 regiments of infantry, 848 officers and 11,000 men, available recruits, hospital stewards, ordnance sergeants, etc., 33,201. During the past winter troops in the depart ments of Missouri and Texas were employed in arduous and severe winter campaigns against the Kiowa, Cheyenne and Comanche Indians on the Staked Plains, that have for years been engaged in depredations on the Texas and Kansas frontier, resulting in their disarmment and subjection to authority. If military commanders can have control over supplies needed by these Indians, as they now have over their persons, I am convinced, by a recent visit, that a.condition of peace can be maintained. The Sioux Indians have re cently made incursions into northern Ne braska, mostly to steal cattle and horses' from the farms along the Pacifie railroad and north of it. Gen Crook is of the opinion that an army noting defensively oaunot prevent these incursions, and suggests that troops be sta tioned in the midst of the Indians so as to watch and prevent them leaving on a pre tense of hunting. This is impracticable unless the army can have supervision of the neces sary supplies of these tribes within the re servation; which is now not the case. The reports of several commissioners, which have under military escort recently been engaged In exploring the country ana in negotiating with these Indians, will throw much light on this subject. Generally speaking, the damage to life and prosperity t>y the Indians is be lieved to be less during the past year than in any former year, and the prospect is that as the country settles up it will be less and less each year until all the Indiausare established on small reservations; but until they acquire habits of industry in farming or stock-raising they will need food from the government, be cause the game on which they have hitherto subsided has diminished rapidly. To Tell the Age op Sheep.—A sheep’s front teeth the first year are eight in number, appearing all ofasize. Second year the two middle ones are shed out and are replaced bytwo much larger than the others. Third year two very small ones appear—one on either side of the eight. At the end of the fourth year there are six targe teeth. Salaries of superintendents........ $ 924, Salaries of teachers (States) 46,201,609 Salaries of teachers (Territories) 502,286 Total .» .$ 47,623,633 Miscellaneous expenditures (States) 4 11,609,159 Miscellaneous expenditures (Territories).. 93,936 Total 8 11,703,695 Total expenditures for schools (States) 8 74,169,26' ‘ ' ' Terri tori) Total expenditures forscbools (territories) Total....;.. 803,121 Total value of buildings, sites, etc. (States )8464,130,947 Total value of buildings, sites, etc. (Terri tories) i. 1,572,500 Total 8165,753,447 COST OF SCHOOLS PEB CAPITA. The following table shows the per capita rate of expenditure during the year as ar ranged: 111 States and Territories 9.8. - §.52-33 fljll j iM $14.43 8.75 Hl»i !s-| s L •• | : S3 r i st-V $20.45 14.15 18.85 18 53 19.66 12.00 21.62 14.93 13.03 18.02 14.17 13.73 10 70 19.13 ?M ill? Massachusetts $14.70 Ohio 11.40 Louisiana.....,..,,..,.. ,. 11.00 Nebraska 10.72 lthode Island 10.40 Connecticut 9.47 Vermont 7.04 Now York 6.94 Iowa 6.63 Michigan 6.83 New Jersey 3.82 Indiana 5.70 Illinois 5.6O Maine 4.94 Maryland 4.51 Wisconsin 4.16 West Virginia 4.14 Minnesota 4.06 Missouri 3.00 Mississippi 2.89 Tennessee 2.09 Virginia 2.02 South Carolina 1.95 Alabama 87)3 Jeorgia .63 (ew Hampshire Florida District of Columbia. 10.70 llontana 7.90 Colorado 7.23 Arizona 4.41 mtail 2.73 Cherokoe Nation 7.40 NOBMAL SCHOOLS. The commissioner presents in this report a much fuller exhibit than has previously been made of .the conditton of the normal schools of the country. In 1870 only 53 reported; in 1871, 65; in 1872,98; in 1873,143; in 1874, 124. These schools had in 1874,966 instructors and 34,405 pupils. Normal schools are now supported in all the states except Nevada and the District of Columbia. The graduates for the year numbered 1,832, of whom 1,386 are engaged in teaching. ’ UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. and.uulvewities reporting 343 1 oiicges and universities not reporting 10 Umber of Instructors - 3,783 : umber of students 66,692 alue buildings, grounds, etc,, (303 report ing) .. .839,170,223 Value productive fund 23,060,309 income from (163 reporting) 1,341,890 . loeelpts from tuition (168 reporting).,.... 1,768,929 611,606 1,99),333 13.50 11.55 10.83 7.80 9.30 9.02 7 82 3.72 9.17 6.80 6.62 5.70 4.54 3.40 5.08 4.23 1.95 7.05 6.59 18.93 15.63 13.84 ‘ 33.23 5.09 15.29 porting) Amount scholarship funds (53 reporting)... ttnjbor of students in colleges. 26,315 umber of students in schools of science 5,035 Nnraber In schools of superior instruction for women.................... 17,255 Total................ 48,855 (umber students preparing for college 11,855 (umber students in academies 7,817 (umber stndents in preparatory schools 4,606 Number stndents in preparatory sclentllic schools ............... 1,534 'Don’Pedro, of Brazil, will bring $200,000 worth of diamonds when he conies to visit this country. He is. going to give them away to young men who part their hair in the centre. Troy has a wrinkled, sallow old man who, being about to seek a young wife, inquired at a drug store for “the man as enamels faces, so’s to make ’em look pooty.” An auctioneeiyat a late sale of a.i- tlqv.iti™. put up a helmet with the fol lowing candid observation; “Tula, ladies and gentlemen, is the helmet of Romulus, the Roman founder, but whether he was a brass or iron founder I cannot tell.” • If you in lager find no bliss, and loathe cigars—no child to kiss—no wife to love—no gal to hug—don’t seek oblivion in the jug; and if you .$ 74,974,388 haven’t any sister, just ask some chap to lend you his, to spark for a little while—then “ splice,’’ and all the rest will come in nice.—St. Louis Times.. Montgomery Queen has purchased 100 African ostriches, and is about col onizing them on his place near Hay- woods, a small town fifteen miles from San Francisco. It is his intention to raise ostriches solely for their plumage, each bird yielding over $200 worth of feathers yearly. He has invested $100,000 in the enterprise. Tomato Honey.—To each pound of tomato allow the grated peel of a lemon and six fresh peach leaves. Boil slowly till they are all to pieces, then scpieeze them through a bag. To each pound of liquid allow a pound of sugar and the juice of one lemon. Boil together half an hour, or until they become a thick jelly. Then put them into glasses and lay double tissue paper over the top. It will scarce])' be distinguished real from honey. We live in a land that is fragrant with flowers, < In a world that is fair to behold, With its starry blue sky and its green shady bowers, And its riches more precious than gold; But the people are very peculiar indeed, And oft to extremes they will run, With appetites sharp and no bounds to their greed, They must have whole hog or none, The whole hog or none, The whole hog or none, They must have the whole hog or none. Where She Was.—In a Baker street car yesterday some men were talking about the nerve of William Tell in shooting an apple off his son’s head. To vex an old lady .who was listening, one of the men said: “That whs Mr. Tell; but what did his wife amount to—why doesn’t his tory mention her ? ” “I’ll bet a huudred dollars!” called the old lady in an excited voice, “ I’ll bet a hundred dollars that she sat up half the night before patching that boy’s browsers so he’d look decent to go out!”—Detroit Free Press. 9.23 5.47 8.93 8.79 26.76 17.79 2.56 6.99 24.06 Totfl... , - 25,039 Every State reports one or more school of science; twenty-seven states report schools theology; twenty states report law schools; twenty-seven states report regular schools of medicine. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. The Catholics have eighteen seminaries, 144 professors, and 1,238 students; the Bap tists have 16 schools, 53 professors, and 638 students; the Presbyterians have 15 schools, “ professors, and 294 students; the Congre- fUnaliata have 8 schools, 50 professors, and 2 pupils; the Lutheran church has 13 schools, r>2 professor?, 426 students: (■'- Fifth year all the front teeth are large. Protestant Episcopal has u schools,pro- — - * 0 lessors, nnd 294 students; the Methodist Sixth year all begin to show wear—-not till then. A Good Dentifrice.-—Dissolve two ounces of borax in three pints of boil ing water; before quite cold add one tablespoonful of tincture of myrrh and one tablespoonful of camphor. Bottle » use; Add ond wine- the solution to half a pint of tepid viater,and use it daily. It preserves and beautifies the teeth and arrests decay. Episcopal church has 7 schools, 58 professors, 'and 321 pupils; the Reformed church has 3 schools, 12 professors, and 89 students; the United Presbyterians, Christians and Free Baptists have 2 sehbols each; and die Urn* tartans, African Methodists, Cumberland Presbyterians. German Reformed. Methodist church, south, Moravian 1 , Swedenborgian, Evangelical, United Brethren, and Umver- salists have one each.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. A strong solution of carbolic acid and water, poured into holes,, kills all the ants ft touches, and the survivors immediately take themselves off. Virginia Slaves at their Old Master’s Grave.—As soon as the funeral services at the new-made grave of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph was concluded, and before the grave was filled up, a veteran negro stepped forward and asked if there was anv objection to a service by his people. He was told that such a tribute would be acceptable to the family, and then a scene that should go down in history was enacted. Quietly Mr. Randolph's former slaves assembled around him, ! and then swelled up from a hundred ’negro voices that most pathetic of hymns: “ Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb?” A gentleman who was present says that in his whole life, extending over seventy years, he never witnessed any thing so touching. When the last notes died away amid the oaks of Mon- ticello. there was not a dry eye in the vast assembly—Richmond, Enquirer. The juice of ripe tomatoes will re move the stains ot walnuts from the hands without injury to the skin.