NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tho Poj)e is reported to have amassed woulth amounting to £4,000,000. Tho hot weather nuned the mortality in Paris during tho week ended 21th August from 840 to 1290. Berlin thieves have hit on the trick of opening cab doors whilst tho cabs are in motion, on the ohanco of umbrella* or other small articles falling out. Mies Sybil Thorold, youngest daughter of the late Bishop of Winchester, haw quite recently boon received into the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. T. M. ITealy, M.P., has condemned the refusal of the Dublin Corporation to join in the national memorial scheme to the late Mr. Gladstone. Tho Indian authorities in their care for native forests have decided to cancel the lease of the Pyiumana teak forests in Burmah. The offence of the lessees was their extensive felling of green timber. The Spanish newspapers alleged some weeks ago that a serious Separatist move* ment was going on in Jamaica in favour of annexation to the United States, but the report met with a prompt denial. The Battersea tradesmen * struck ' against the payment of rates as a protest against costers, who were alleged to be taking away all the trade. Summonses against thirty tradesmen were issued. Some of the Russian heretics known as Dukhobortsi, and exiled for their religious vi»w« from the Caucasus country, have in accordance with arrungemeuts made by the Cyprus Government been landed in that island. I The British Consul- General in New York mentions in his lat>t report that a preliminary examination has been made for a ship canal from the Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario) to the Hudson River, on which New York is situated. A London Salvation Army •' Captain, ' who was fined for causing an annoyance to the inmates of a house by persisting in singing when requested not to do so, went to prison for a month, in default of paying the 40s ordered. Lord Londonderry, in a public speech, attributed the resent Ministerial defeat in South-East Durham to measures of a Radical character, unpopular with the Conservative Party, carried through Parliament by the Salisbury ' Government. The urban district council of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, has appointed a young lady, Mias Kate Sibley, to be assistant overseer and rate-collector for the parish. Miss Sibley's father and grandfather were the two previous holders of the office. The Colston Hall at Bristol, in which the Trades Congress held its annual meeting, was burned down a day or two after. A number of local trade societies had sent their banners to decorate the hall, and these were burned, together with the belongings of many of the delegates. Pillars of a bridge builb by the Emperor Trajan are to form part of the structure of the new biidge across the Danube: The engineers attest the strength of the Roman work under an Emperor whose reign began exactly 1800 years ago. The Commission of Cardinals controlling the revenues of the Holy See has prepared an address to the N Catholio Committees, I pointing out that the contribution of Peter's Pence is diminishing by more than two million francs a year. The decrease is most remarkable iv France and Spain. News has reached England of the death of two sons of Professor A. J. Church, the classical scholar. The young men were farming in Canada, and while fording the Athabasca river with a drove of horses the elder was swept away by the current, and his brother in attempting to save him also disappeared. Their younger brother was on the bank at the time, but all attempts to rescue tho young men were unavailing*. Cardinal Vaughan, replying to a correspondent, states that it is impossible for a dispensation to be given by the Bishop or the Pope or any representative of the Catholic Church to act as minister of the Church of England, or of any other denomination, for the purpose of furthering the interests of the Catholic Church. The Dublin Corporation has elected James F. Egan, of New York, to the office of city sword-bearer. Egan was sometime back sentenced at Birmingham to 20 years' penal servitude for treason felony. His conviction led to frequent discussions in the House of Commons, and after serving about 10 years of his time he was released. He afterwards went to the United States. The well-known swimmer James Finney accomplished a great feat of endurance in tho sea off Blackpool recently. For a wager he left Blackpool North Pier at 2.45 p.m., and arrived at St. Anne's pier quite well at about 8 p.m., having swum about ten milea. When about half-way he rested some time in the water to take advantage of a turn of the tide. I An Aberdeen paper announces that a ! colossal granite monument is being made I by an Aberdeen firm, to the order of the Transvaal Government, for erection at i Pretoria, as a national memorial of the repulse of the Jameson raid, and the recog- | uifciou of President Kruger's patriotism and valuable services to the Republic. Nitrate of amyl possesses the power of I causing / insensibility very quickly in a , human being 'breathing its fumes. The ' effect is equivalent, temporarily, to a paralytic stroke. It is very oheap and plentiful, and an American eleotrioian proposes to use shells tilled with tho ohemioal instead of gunpowder. He argues that a few gallons of this nitrate dashed on the deck of a warship would soon render the crow holpleas. According to a correspondent of the Guaidian, Lord Grimthorpe has spent, sinoe 1877, no loss thau £250,000 in the reparation of St. Albans Abbey. The correspondent adds: — 'No matter how, in the past, architects, lawyers, and priests may have differed about the outside, the inside now oertainly presents a splendid appearance, is the pride of Hertfordshire, and is this summer largely visited by tourists and foreigners from London, and, indeed, by residents from all parts of England.' A gigautio combination of iron and steel companies is being arranged in tho United States. Two large concerns have consented to amalgamate, and it is expected that two others will come in. The four companies are the Minnesota Iron Company, the Illinois Steel Company, tho Cambria Iron Company, and the Laokawanria Iron .and Steel Company. It is understood that the capital of tho combination is to be fixed at 200,000,000d01, or, say, £40,000,000. The new combination will bo aggressive, seeking to wrest business away from British and other producers wherever it can. A rather curious prospectus, says the Globe, hat been issued in Halle by an enterprising limited liability company, l'oimed for the purpose of supplying hosts and hostesses with what may be termed 'convenient' guests. Almost any kind of gentleman may be had for a certain sum, and the following are the oharges made : Dancing men in evening dress, 2 to 50 marks ; dauoiug men, good talkers, 2 to 80 marks ; dancing mon with monocle, 3 to 10 marks ; cotillion specialists, 3 to 76 marks ; old gentlouten with decorations, 3 to 75 marks ; noblemen to take hostess in to supper, 20 marks. Nature publishes a letter from Bettws-y-Coed, recording an extraordinary experience. On killing what was supposed to be an a'ddor, about. 38in long, its captors opened him, aud found inside a large toud, about half-way down the snake's interior. It was thought that the toad, whose head was much wider than the snake's, and whobe body waa many timea as large as his enemy's head, must be dead, but as he began to move water was poured over him, and whisky and water poured down his throat, the result of which heroic measures was that he revived, stood up on all-fours, d'stended like a balloon, and darted at the stick in a most comical way, eventually disappearing.