CURRENT EVENTS.

Domestic.—General Grant has now been about a month at Mt. McGregor. His condition is not materially changed. At the beginning of the present week he had a day or two of apparent improvement. , Dr. Shrady has come to relieve Dr. Douglas in taking charge of the patient.

THE public park at Niagara Falls, purchased from private owners by the State of New York, was opened on the 15th, with extensive ceremonies.

THE National Council of Education, at Saratoga, On the 14th, adopted a resolution recommending that the legal school age be from 4 to 21 years, and the obligatory school age from 6 to 14 years.

IT is represented that deposits of petroleum in considerable quantities have been found in Wyoming Territory.

THE wife of Secretary Bayard, of the Department of State, has been lying so ill at her home at Wilmington, Del., for several days, that her death was expected ; but she was somewhat improved at the Writing of this paragraph.

THE tenth death from lockjaw resulting from the firing of toy pistols on the Fourth of July has occurred in Chicago.

NEAR Atlanta, Georgia, on the 13th, Mrs. Williams, a widow, locked her three children up while she went to a field to work. On her return she found her house burned to the ground and nothing left of her children but their charred remains. . A similar case occurred in Gwinnett county, two children being burned to death. In Georgia, within the past six months, forty children are reported to have lost their lives in the 83, IR16. In 8,1]. In eI’.

THERE were three deaths from fever in Plymouth, Pa., last week, and there are 130 persons still sick.

THE stage coach plying between Dodge City, Kansas, and Fort Supply, Indian Territory, was carried away a few days ago in a swollen stream. One passenger and the driver were drowned. The mules also perished. The mail bags were recovered.

Foreign.—Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild, of the great house of Jewish bankers, who had been created a peer with the title of Baron Rothschild, took his seat in the English House of Lords on the 9th inst., and as the Earl of Beaconsfield (D'Israeli) did not adhere to the Hebrew faith, this is considered the first Jew that ever Sat in the House of Lords. The oath was administered to him on a Hebrew copy of the Pentateuch.

CHOLERA continues very bad in Spain. The reports show 1,092 new cases and 473 deaths on the 13th, the returns from Valencia being incomplete.

THE long-continued drouth in the southern proVinces of Russia has completely ruined the crops in that section. The prevalent drouth is causing much anxiety in regard to the crops in the Bolabay Presidency of India.

CALCUTTA, July 14.—A severe shock of earthquake lasting several minutes was felt here this morning.

THE failure of the Munster Bank, of Cork and Dublirl, Was announced on the 15th inst. The liabilities amount to $8,750,000. The majority of its shareholders are ladies, who are solely dependent upon its dividends for their income. The directors express confidence in their ability to meet the indebtedness.

SMALL-POX prevails in Montreal, and nine new cases were reported on the 14th.

VIOLENT and destructive storms of wind, rain and lightning passed over Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Dakota last week. In some instances hail storms have been unpleasantly numerous in sections of New England and New York State. During one of these, a bolt of lightning entered the signal station at Mt. Washington (N. H.), and damaged the instruments and hurt a railroad employé, James Pamden. Both of his legs were paralyzed. The man was carried to the base, and his feet placed in the ground, the theory being that the electricity in his system would be drawn out in the same way as from a grounded telegraph wire. The treatment proved successful. Slight damage was done in the hotel by the same bolt. After the storm the ground was covered with hail to the depth of an inch or more, and the mountains appeared to be snow-capped.

LICKING adhesive stamps and envelopes is a perilous practice, against which the public needs to be put on its guard. We have seen bad consequences ensue from the habit, which is a very common one. who are frequently thus moistening the gum on adhesive surfaces suffer from local irritation, sore tongues, and the like, while every now and again we hear of special propagation of disease by the habit. A curious illustration of the way in which disease may be communicated was recently brought under our notice. An envelope received from a person who habitually took large quantities of morphia hypodermically was reclosed by the person who opened it by licking the adhesive surface, with the result of making him violently sick. The mere touch of the tongue of the taker of morphia had rendered the gum intensely nauseous. If this could happen, obviously there must be grave peril of the transmission of disease by such means. It is not likely that many persons would even incidentally reclose an envelope in this way; but the incident may serve to show how desirable it is not to run the risk of even taking in the impurities of new adhesive matters from, stamps and envelopes. It is very easy to avoid the practice. The danger only needs to be pointed out.—Lancet.

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