CLIPPINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2979, 12 January 1881, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

PR)r. Philip Sohaff, the Bblical scholar, is quoted :-.* jiving that " the Eible is not to be regard ..u a-< a book so much as a force." P. B." Hall, ouo of the original '49ers in California, when the ru:<h to the gold mines took place, diocl in Hoboken last month, ab the ago of 75. American missionaries are sheltering and feeding 500 Mussulmans and Christian fugitives in the mission building outside of Urumlah, Persia. Moody and Sankey are reported to have seriously shaken the Salt Lake polygamists. Pity they do not reside there permanently, as they might break up the Mormon Church in time. Seven million dollars net profit was realised by a Chicago firm on a speculation in pork this autumn. There are other bonanzas in the Uuitcd States besides those to be found in the Comstoek lode.

Professor Hitchcock, State Geologist, has been prospecting on Mount Washington, and has found a boulder which proves that the summit of the mountain was submerged during the glacial period. The population of both continents of America is reckoned at between 84,000,000 and 85,000,000, 55,000,000 of whom belong to the Northern and Central divisions, and only 25,000,000 to South America. An ounce of good tea contains about ten grains of them, quite sufficient to create very unpleasant symptoms, something like over-exhilaration, or, to place it mildly, intoxication.

A desperate murder occurred in London County, Virginia, a few weeks back. Merril Fott made a fatal assault on his wife's sieter, then shot himself, and while dying proceeded to complete his murderous task. His wife, appearing, killed him wilhastone. Her sister died in a few moments.

Mr Charles Loring Brace, the well-known American" author and philanthropist, has just published a pamphlet, in which he argues that merchant vessels should be unmolested in time of war, and advocates the entire inviolability of private property on the seas.

The Abbe Bicherry, who acted as vicar to Rev. M. Loyson, has retired to the Trappists' Monastery to seek pardon, and to &ecnre a fitting state of mind for having joined the old Catholici. He ought to have been certain "to be off with the old love before being on with the new."

In speaking in Sydney on the Chinese question last month, Sir Henry Parkes remarked that as fast as one million of their military forces might be destroyed in a war their place would be immediately supplied by another million.

The Argus was not the first—but the third—newspaper issued as a daily in Melbourne. The first morning journal was the Patriot, under Johnny Fawkner, the second the Herald, managed by George Cavanagh, and the Argus was the third.

A volume containing descriptions of all the presents ever given to a queen is certainly an oddity, but it is said that Queen Victoria proposes to issue such a book. It is to be illustrated by photographs, and to includo not merely costly gifts, but simple tokens of affection which had been given by her poor subjects at Balmoral.

There are four archdeacons in tho Church of England in Victoria, only two receiving any salary, the third being the Dean ; and the fourth, Archdeacon Stretch, draws his salary a? administrator- of the Bishop of Melbourne's Fund. Archdeacon's Stretch's salary is £300, and he acts without payment as curate to the Dean. The highest-paid archdeacon receives £450 a year. Last year 720 children under twelve years of age were sent to gaol in England. The offences were principally pulling a flower, or stealing a few apples, or turnips, or ears of corn, or the criminal has broken a window, or trampled on somebody's grass, or done something for which a gentle thrashing would be an adequate punishment. Princeton College, IS .Y., has just been the recipient of the princely gift of 100,000 dollars from Mr Robert L. Stuart, one of New York's best known and most public spirited citizens. This is not the first time that Princeton College has been indebted to Mr Stuart for liberal benefactions.

Professions do not predispose to suicide, but instruction does. No man kills himself because of his trade, but a good many men till themselves because of their knowledge, Not only has the revival of suicide almost exactly coincided in time with the modern extension of schooling, but suicide is now most abundant in the very regions in which schooling is most expanded. It is not everybody who knows that the name of Lord Cowper is pronounced Cooper, that Majoribanks is Marchbanks, that Cholmondeley is Chumley, that Belvoir Castle is Beevor, that Bicester is Bister. Everybody, however, acquainted with the local or personal usage would conform with it.

In order to deepen the shadows of a picture which she drew of a wife's degradation, Miss Elmy, a speaker at the Social Science Congress recently held in Edinburgh, represented the married woman as the only servant who receives no wages. The only objection to this view is that tbe married woman is not a servant.

The Socialists ejected from Hamburg will probably go to the United States. Herr I"ritzcher, a German Socialist deputy, is about to go to America to enquire into the condition of the ];tboring classes. The American < has passed a bill admitting women wiio have practised three years in the State Courts to practise as lawyers before the Supreme Court. A Roman villa has been discovered near Bracling, in the Jsle of Wight. The external walls, aa at present cleared, measure about 52 feet by 37 feet, and enclose about six or seven chambers, with passages, &c, connected, there is reason to believe, with many others.

The omission of daily washing with soap, and the wearing of foot covering so tight as to compress the blood vessels and retard the circulation of the blood through the extremities, are the most common causes of cold feet. The remedy is obvious ; dreas loosely and wash frequently.

Last month twenty-six railway trucks, and a tank containing 600 gallons of kerosene, were consumed at the Hartley Vale siding of the New South Wales Shales Company's works.

It is rumoured that a young man in the Ballamt telegraph office has been in secret league with a well-known sharebroker to give him private information as to the purport of messages passing on the line.

The "Red Cross" Fruit Preserving Company, at South Yarra, have last year put up 20,00 cases of jam, exclusive of large quantities of jellies, bottled fruits, pickles, sauces, and vinegars. All the fruit preserved is colonial grown.

The first half-yearly meeting of the Prahran (Victoria) Coffee Tavern Company shows that, although the business has only been conducted for sixteen weeks, yet there is already a balance of profit, and the business is increasing rapidly from week to week.

Dr R. H. M'Donald, of San Francisco, offers 100,000 dollars toward an endowment fund for a Christian University, on condition that an equal sum shall be raised by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Congregational, and Methodist denominations. In Austria —from 1870 to 1877 (eight years) — lightning occasioned upwards of 40,000 fires, and destroyed more than 1700 lives.

Judge Hilton and Mrs Stewart, in administering the estate of the late Alexander T. Stewart, hare appropriated sums, which ■will probably amount in the aggregate to 3,00Q,000 dollars, to the establishment at Garden City, Long Island, of a college for the education of young persona of both sexes, ut a charge of less than 100 dollars a year, including travelling expenses from New York or Brooklyn. I (By the census just taken in England, it is found that the Joneses carry the day, and are more numerous than the Smith, After

the Litter comes the Williams, Taylor, Davis, and Bi'own. .Johnson stands lentil, Robinson eleventh. Wilson twelfth. Tompson, with ti, " p,' ; takes only twenty-fourth place, and Clark, without an "c," is thirty - eighth. Among tho strange, names are Albertina Regina Victoria Gbbha Boult, Tumeriea Henrica Ulrica, clv Gloria Ide Lavinia Rebecca Turner, and Hostiliana OpHgenia-Maria Hypihile Wadge. Of the deaths by lightning in France, M. Boudin some years ago collected statistics which showed that during the thirty years, beginning in 1834 and ending in 1863, as many as 2038 people were struck dead by lightning in that country. Miss M. E. Braddon has written thirtynine novels. She lives at Lichfield House, Richmond, England, and is married to Mr John Maxwell.

"When I was fighting for my seat in tho House," Mrßradlaugh says, " I received at least threescore letters threatening my life. I put them all in the waste-paper basket, although one or two of the communications were works of art, and were decorated with skulls, cross-bones, bleeding hearts, and daggers. There is," he adds, " always a fair proportion of lunatics who, in times of excitement, write strange letters to pnblic men.

Dr. Lou See On, a Chinese physiciun, has registered in Buffalo, New York, under the new law. He says that he was licensed to practice by Lou Com. Chong, a duly authorised person in the province of Canton, China, Emperor Ton Kong ruling at the time. The County Clerk thought that the diploma written in Chinese would have to be photographed to be recorded, but Dr On offered to make a copy for filing. When you sell your business and the good-will of your trade, establishing yourself again as a dealer, you not only must not solicit the patronage of yonr former customers, but also cannot deal wiHi them. That is, sxicli is tho case if our courts accept the precedent established by the English Court of Appeals. President Grevy's salary and allowances amount to about 180,000 dollars yearly, the salary proper being 120,000 dollars. At the end of his seven years' term he will, consequently, have received 1,260,000 dollars out of the public treasury. Colonel Gordon is credited by the North China Herald with having offered this plain language to the Chinese Ministry : — "It is idiotic for China to think she can field against Russia. But, if you will fight, then carry your Court and Emperor, your archives, and all the rusty and creaking machinery of your central government, far away into the interior of the country ; for once hostilities are begun on the eastern seaboard, Russia will, in a few weeks, be mistress of Peking. Only be assured that this means the downfall of your dynasty." The'llome Secretary, Sir William Harcourt, has come to the conclusion that sending lads to gaol for trifling offences is a state of things that requires a remedy. An unruly boy for some act of childish mischief finds hitKf'clf for the first time identified with the criminal class. He consorts with hardened offenders, and very soon like them becomes an outcast and a gaol-bird.