NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■'; Residents' of.Leeds baye'depided .in favour 'of,'se#erage.'and tramway, schemes .involving ■■ V an expenditure, of £1,360,000..: . • A bridge connecting Cruit : Island, County ; Donegal; ! with: the mainland l collapsed .'while ,'a dance' was '.being:;held on' it, 'and; many 'persons; were thrown . : ,V 1 lt;;Vaa\.6tatefdWragv.yjo ihearirigu.of' - a .divorco case at. Detroit that 'iar "girl' ;had. blfered, a. ; -wifo £1000; for,,her husband,- and that- tho bad, accepted,,tho offer. . , i 'While performtog.i'aV.tbb ;,01ympia, Liverpool; ' William 'James slipped on -the stage ■' and fractured his. knee-cap. The audience, .believing': the:.stumbletfl^be^iteitional,'• laughed ;hearti!y.":^V : ;: : ;J..: > ■ A carnage .of anr electric- tram .' oil" the v. Liverpool l : and- Southport '.line';-caught ' ! 'ftre; : " ; and the-passengers: had- to bo hurriedly romovcd.: The: train .was stopped and the fire * extinguished. : ••• -.v'-v-i;'' ■ Erwin'F; Miller, who was married to-Miss..,.. Irene KhneV' at Redlnll, Pennsylvania, .used.. . the's'aiiie liorse,tt : bnng-hik^bhddUioniq.uiat• ' His.fatherf had used . on' bis; wedding > journey,-. ? . twenty-three Vicars before^;,;;:;,.;r',-> The.'Rev; Prebendary H. jW. j Moss, head- : : master of .Shrewsbury School/ contemplates - residing,Ciftero holding >'the s for' .more than :ye^.---''SBr^bmyyWS" l 'v'. had .only three headmasters since 1798. . i i Tho death occurred at-Liverpool op- Janu-.:.:. ary 24 of Gaptam- John ,Robevtsou, >.who. was wounded at. tl/o : siego of Lucknow.- ■Roboi.t •.. ' Scotrick,., latej'of;.the,,,9sth., $op.t,i!,wJbo,. was, present at Lucknow; was,-- buried, nutb;.milir.-, tary honours at Boston. ■, , : Several cases: of ''DimnV'Diseaso" :-bave occurred at 'Bishop * Storttord.. The symp'tbms'i'of the r disease, whifth ; was' w 'first. . covoredin a neighbouring' Esses palish by ■ Dr. Dunn, mcdical officer of hoalth, aie a white' rash, with swelling -of Vtbe .eyes, mouth, and'tongue.; ■'r ■ ! Tho report on the London .Zoological; So- . . ciety's menagerie for. December last .-shows ; ■:tbat"there, 'were, lTS;,additions r to,.the,,colleor ■: • 1 : tion,. .including,)a ;family' a of rat-....; tailed surpents, which were born in tbe. gardens: By ■ far -the greater number of ...the now arrivals wero .birds,, finches ,of : many,, .and . .various kinds v. ; According to a New Yoik journal, £50,000.000-is spent-annually m the United ' States on sweetsi ' •'•' The Boar'd :of 'Aidernien of New York City- .. lias'passed 'ari : :; ordinance;, forbidding ~woiiieii ,to; smoke .ill public places. ~ " Margaret Butt, the infant daughter of: a • • private -in tho Royal Marines, ■ was placed • asleep in a mail cart at- Chatham 'recently, arid a little later tho mother saw. a cat lying over the child's face: "When shb pulled: the; . cat away she found that the:child was dead.•' ' The new, lighthouse which lias, beenXuiider. :. constructionVduririg tbc. last two.;,-, years -,on C .Strumble, Head, : Pembrokeshire,, .was - used.-,v. ''for-tho first time on., January, 21., - The light,,' .r which is: of; mora than 400j000-candlc • po\vor, .-. , is white in'.colour,j aiid shows.-.four:.flashes in • ■ ; 'quick succession every,'fifteen;seconds. : :,,;V : ; ' : Mr. W. T. StVacl; in'. ; giving I ',,his. blessing " !to "Tho -, Mystic," "a ;ne'^ ! 'jo.urnal,' :',;whoso t .'... ambition" ; is' to popularise the 'occult, .says.:,, '■ "What' you want to,. do.'is to jjet; people to,. 'invpstigato. eve^ything,even _',do\vii' to-.; tlio'.,-,:'/ -reaifinp::;of..tho^tea-lcaves;^in*ilie bottpiii. of a cup.".' .. ~ ; .. 'i A superstitious man, ;namod:::f Cleorge Marble, .of, Worcester,... Massachusetts, , .has ' just discovered; that ho -proposed ; on ■ Noyem-.j-bpr 13, 1907, was engaged oil December 13, and was. niarric<l.on,.Jiuiuar.v;l3,,-,1905.;, At,.-' the- wedding-,,therewere„ .tlurleen ,'brides-;.... .'maids, | and, at '....tlio .reception^tli.ere > wera, thirteen courses v and,'tliirty-iiin'c, guests.. ; ;l Mr.'-D. Jones, of Carnarvon.- 'the'retiring : ; eliairman' bf ' tho' -North Carnarvonshire r..; "Welsh ''Calvinistic- Metliodists, '• critjcised'':';in "outspoken''' teriiis' :those ministers ' who in-':', dulged' in tho; siiiokiug liabit: It hurt him ; to the quick, lie'said, ttf see ministers .with " pipes in their " mouths about 't he streots;; and ho declared-that they set' a bad example- "' ■ to the young. A