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Daily Telegraph (Napier), 5 January 1881, Page 4

- goncrally. financial Alumni will help * in it. 'I he small-pox is sweeping off, by hundreds, the Canadian Indians on the north J shoro of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and such ' is the panic that those not afllictod flee from 1 the dead and the dying. _ ] At a large Free trade meeting at Madrid the demand was made for the reduction of I customs tariffs with a viow of obtaining con- < cessions from other countries. The pinnacle of the Court House dome at Gainesville, Texas, has beenjtakon possession 1 of by a swarm of bees, which are now man- > ufacturing honey in wholesale quantities. Scotch lairds have got a better crop to : stand by than wheat. Some of the moors have been' let at such prices that it is calculated each brace of birds will cost the lessee : 30s. , „ De Baudry d'Asson has sent a challenge , to Gambetta, who as President of the Chamber of Deputies, was obliged to reprimand and temporarily expel him from the Chamber on account of his violent and unparliamentary language. The epizootic is spreading to an alarming extent among the horses in Montreal. The disease is more severe than on any provious occasion. The deaths, already numerous, are spreading most among heavy draught horses. When apples were unusually plentiful in America in 1878, 333,000 barrels were sent abroad, but it is calculated that this .year no less than 500,000 barrels will be shipped to Europe, where the crop is a failure. The prices in Europe are doublo what can be obtained in tho States. Andrew Gillen, a young man of bad habits, had been a suitor for the hand of Mary Ligerson, sister of the Corporation Attorney of °New York, but was repulsed by Mary and the family, and forbidden the house. On tho 10th October he entered and shot the girl through the head with a pistol, in the presence of the whole family, and fled. He hns been arrested. Gov. Colquitt of Georgia, in delivering his inaugural address on the 9th ult., dwelt at length on Hancock's defeat, and believed it as evidence of the decline of the Kepxiblic. He declared that tho main reason why Garfield was elected was Northern hatred of the South, and expressed a fear that sectionalism would be perpetual, because of Northern interference. The St. James Gazette oppresses the fear that the Ministry are driven, or being driven, toward legislation creating peasant proprietary throughout Ireland, probably with a view to extending its operation to the rest of the United Kingdom later on. The ultimate means will probably be the purchase of land by the State, and its distribution to the peasantry, to be paid for in a certain term of years. / A burglar who had stolen a large sum of - money from a house on the Boulevard Voltaire, Paris, was watched by the police, after the expiration of two years' imprisonment, and 14,000f in coin, which he had buried •under the root of a tree in a public park, were recovered. He was arrested with the treasure in his hands just after he had dug it out from its place of concealment. Apropos of woman's rights M. Ernest d'Hervilly remarks that women have never chosen the sea as a career. _ There wore no women on board the Argo, in spite of the attraction of the golden fleece. No women accompanied Columbus, although the discovery of a now continent ought to have awakened their curiosity. On land women have shown themselves brave soldiers, from the time of the Amazons, but they do not love the sea. Between 1856 and 1879 the tonnage of vessels built in tho United States has fallen from 469,394 to 193,031. Since 1871 nota single iron sailing vessel has been built in the United States. Fifty-seven tons of Greek marble have been delivered in London free of all charges, fey the Greek Government, for the pedestal of the Byron monument. The Rowland Hill Memorial Fund now amounts to £16,646, and a statue of him is to be erected at the soxith-east corner of the London Exchange. The results of the official inquiry into the causes of the Tay bridge disaster have stimulated railway authorities in Great Britain to strengthen the bridges on the lines under their charge, and subject them to more rigid inspection from time to time. Brownsville, in Texas, has been almost entirely destroyed by a great storm, on the 12th and 13th September. The storm also wrecked 300 houses in Matmoras, on the Mexican frontier. Several steamboats were wrecked, and some lives lost. The damage is estimated at 1,000,000d015. Electricity enables us to distinguish with absolute certainty between life and death, for two or three hours after the st oppage of the heart the whole of the muscles of the body have completely lost their electric excitability.

The smallest newspaper in the world is tho Madoc Star, published in Canada; the size of it is 3in by and it is published weekly. Tho annual subscription is 2s. The first page contains foreign news, the second mining, and the third and fourth local news.

The antiquarian world will learn with regret that the Archaeological Society of Rome, which has done so much good service in tho exploration of the ancient walls and fortifications of the city, and of its ancient churches, is practically, if not formally, extinct.

Dr. Webster, the American Consul at Sheffield has recently completed the commercial returns, which show a vast improvement in the condition of Sheffield trade with the United States. The total exports of Sheffield goods to America in the present year amount to £1,066,411, compare d with £559,733 in the previous year, so the Transatlantic trade has nearly ckmbled since September, 1879. Tho explanation of the apparent paradox that a country can grow rich while it imports moie than it exports is a complex one. In England it is that the interest on money lent to foreign countries is practically paid in large measure in kind, and also that a large portion of the world's freightage comes into tlie pockets of British shipowners, and should so be added to the value of exports. The largent torpedo boat in tho Baltic, the Tordenskyold, belongs to Donmark. She Treasures 215 ft in length, by 42£ ft in width. Her speed is about 15 knots. She carries two swift torpedo launches besides appliances to shoot Whitehead's torpodos, and is armed with one 15in Krupp breechloader, the heaviest gun in any of the Baltic fleets. The ship cost about £150,000.

The remarkable red spot on tho planet Jupiter, which was first noticed last year, has recently been closely examined from the Potsdam observatory in Germany, and is unchanged in appearance, being distinctly redder than tho equatorial zone of the planet. It is proposed to provide New York with underground railway communication. A company—the New York City Central Underground Railway Company—has been formed. The lino will bo about 40 miles long, and will extend from South ' Ferry to Forty-second street. Tho line will average about 25ft below the surface, but at Murray hill tho depth will reach 62ft. It is intended to light both trains and tunnels by electricity.

penal stated to " twenty years' HpPßffJentwith thirty cats." — " An old woman, who was at tho meeting recently held in Melbourne to reprieve Ned Kolly made a very happy interjection. Mr G-aunsan was talking about Kelly's mother and sisters, and the sympathy that should be folt for them. "Yes," cried the old lady, "that's all right; but why haven't you got Mrs Kennedy and her children hero ?" The larrikins felt tho blow, and raised a boohoo" to cover the hit. One of the use 3of adversity is to enable your neighbors to buy all your new turniture at about 95 per cent off store prices. There is nothing in tho four quarters _of tho globo more unreliable than tho hind quarters of a mule. A young man with an umbrella overtook an unprotected lady acquaintance in a rainstorm, and, extending his umbrella over her, requested the pleasure of acting as her rain-beau. " Oh!" exclaimed the young lady, taking his arm, (( you wish me to be your rain-dear." Two souls witli but a single umbrella —two forms that stepped as one. The Syracuse Times gives the moral of the case of the man who choked to death with a straw —" Take it direct from the tumbler." Man proposes, and woman often wishes that he would not be so long making up his mind to do it." The earnings and savings of industry should be for a purpose beyond mere savings and earnings. We do uot work and strive for ourselves alone, but for the benefit of those who are dependent upon us. Industry must know, too, how to spend and how to save. The man who knows, like St. Paul, how to spare and how to spend, has a groat knowledge. The Boston Courier says : —The only way to improve tho Red Man is to make him a well read man. A compositor, like an organist, must look out for his stops, otherwise things will r,£t be harmonious. It is the easiest thing in the world to discover all the defects in a man when we do not like him. Bill for repairing—tho clergyman's fee for your second marriage. A cheerful temper is like a grain of musk ; it imparts its fragrance to everything that comes in contact with it, yet it always remains the same.