TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 164, 11 July 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Charles Turner dead. The Pope is dying. Martial law in Chicago. Strong easterly weather. Star summary to-morrow. Opora season suspended. Wairarapa left for Sydney. Bellamy's is safe for this session. Another native trouble threatened. Further strike troubles in America. Wreckage found on tbe Wesb Coast. Outward 'Frisco mail next Saturday. Remuera Social Union to-morrow evening. One hundred thousand Americans will strike. * San Francisco strikers preparing for battle. Central America bas ninety active volcanoes. Dr. Newman objects to too much talk ia Parliament, Schooner Isabel bas arrived from the South Sea Islands. " This is an age of utter humbug."—T. McKenzie, M.H.R. Tbe Hon. VV. P. Reeves is back in hia place in Parliament. Mr J, C. Firth left for Sydney last evening by the s.a. Wairarapa. Sixty per cent, of the earthquakes occur during the winter months. Mr J. T. Arundel left here for Sydney laßt evening by the steamer Wairarapa. Auckland Harbour Board could not get a quorum of members yesterday afternoon. Algeria bas 2,500,000 acres of cork forests, and the best corks come from that country. The next of tbe series of Carlton socials will be held in St. George's Hall to-morrow night. The railroad service of tho United States gives employment to about 1,000,000 people. Two-thirds of the gold now in use in the world was discovered during the last fifty years. The Odd Fellows in the United States number 696,008, and the Freemasons 695,193. Twelve thousand microbes, strung in a line, would make a procession only one inch in length. Mr Adam Porter, Chairman of tho Auckland Harbour Board, is suffering from influenza. There are now 800 subscribers bo bhe lending branch of the Auckland Free Public Library. A Southern paper has an advertisement of " a cottage to let, containing six rooms and an acre of land." London physicians assert that a new form of throat disease is caused by bhe wooden pavemenbs of that city. ' The Government have assured the House that erery care is taken to' preserve forest reserves in the colony. To force the timid bachelors of Canada into matrimony, there is serious talk of imposing a tax upon them, f Mr James Adams, of Ponsonby, who has been seriously ill with influenza, is recovering, and out of danger. The death rate averages less among clergymen than among aoy other class of professional men. Lighter work. Eleven blind mon lately rode in company on bicycles, from London to Birmingham, a distanca of ond ..hundred miles, Tho military "funeral of the late Captain Bruce, of the To Awamutu Mounted Rifles, took plaCo ab Te Awamutu this afternoon. Captain Norris, pare owner of the losb brigantine Indiana, whose wreck we reported yesterday, is now at Launcesboa (Tm.). The line of railroad which extends farthest east aud wesb is the Canadian Pacific, running from Quebec bo bhe Pacific Ocean. The funeral, with military honours, ol! the late Dr. Galbraitb's son, surgeon of tha City Guards, Invercargill, waa largely attended. The Cust Railway Station, Canterbury, was broken into on Sunday evening, bub the thieves obtained only a lew shillings in coppers. Orangemen's anniversary soiree and entertainment in St. James's Hall tomorrow evening. A good programme haa beon provided. Tiburzi, the notorious Sicilian bandit, enjoyed the distinction of having been sentenced fco death thirty-seven times. He has jusb died of old age. Suicides are becoming so frequenb ia Denmark that it is proposed to check bhem by a law turning over the body of every suicide to a dissecting-room. Susan Porter, of Burlington, Mo. (U.S.), tried to see how long she could exisb without food. Fifty-two days of fasting sho foolishly endured, and then died. A London schoolboy staggered hia teacher with this definition of faith : •• It, is the quality by which we are enabled to believe that which we know is untrue." There will bo twelve telegraphic cables between America and Europe when the two now in process of submergence shall have been laid on the bottom of bhe sea. An immense fortune has been made by Peter Mullsr, in the preparation and sale of cod liver oil. He employs 70,000 persons, on tha Loffoden Islands, off Norway. At Christchurch, yesterday, the discharge of Roberb Noonan, hotelkeeper, was suspended for four months, on account of his books not having been properly kept. "Various views of Auckland, including a fine picture of Newmarkeb on Saturday afternoon during the football season, appear in the "Graphic" mail number issued today. The concluding lecture on the " Dispensations of Scripture " will be given by Mr Aldridge in the Foresters' Hall ut 7.45 tonight. Its title will be " The Time of tho End." A New Orleans dispatch says an Italian colony is expected to settle on the Yazoo delta soon, where ib is proposed to redeom. some 6,000,000 or 5.000,000 acres of 'anda subject to overflow. Performers in the Band of Hope Queen's Birthday gathering programme are requested to attend Wesley Hall nexb Monday evening, to prepare for the Rev. L. M. Isitts' reception meeting. A French astronomer is of the opinion that the red glow of the planet Mars is caused by crimson vegetation. Ho thinka that bhe grass and foliage thero are rod, not green, as tbey are on earth. The depressing iufluonce in the world'a markets for wheat to-day is the Argentine surplus. Thia republic of the far South ia sanding to Europe evory week almoet as much wheab as the United Spates ia ship* ping. Instructions to the janitor of a public school in Portland, Mo. (U.S.), are sometimes written on tho blackboard. The other morning tho janitor paw written on the board this sentence, "Find thegreatesb common divisor.*' " Hullo I" he said, "is that confounded thing lost again." A conundrum from the coffin wa? lately fired at the woman who was preparing tha body of Peter Johnson, a coloured man, for burial, at Elkton, Term. (U.S.). Sbe was wiping the brow of the supposed corpse with a wet towel, when Peter arose in the coffin and asked, " What's all dis yet fill*' about ?" Peter is now all righjr*< • v..,