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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5176, 22 March 1888, Page 4

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The Brisbane revenue returns for February amount to £214,39.3 against £177,301 the previous year. Twenty-five South Australian shareholders in the Broken Hill Proprietary will receive £113,920 of the declared dividend. During an exceptionally severe period of cold weather early last month 40 sentinels on the Russian frontier were frozen to death. Andrew Outhbertson, mailman, lost his life while heroically attempting to convey food to starving men across a flooded creek near St. Lawrence (Q). The total value of the mineral products of the United States in 1886 is officially reported at £93,000,000, tho largest annual production yet recorded. A Kansas horse-thief turns out to be the son of one of the Siamese twins. And yet ho doesn't know his father. All he knows is that he was brother to tho other twin. The number of telephones in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, reported on January 1, whs 13,000, while in the United States, at the same date, there were 1G3.600. Among tho 32") members of the present United States House ot' Representatives there are 6 physicians, 2 druggists, 3 clergymen, ami 210 lawyers ; 17 are college-bred men. Dr. Schlieniann has recently discovered the remain* of one of the oldest temples of Aphrodite, which is mentioned by Homer, Herodotus, and Pausanius, on the island of Cerigo, the aucient Cythera. Following in the wake of the recentlyprinted Thackeray's " Letters," there will appeur in Scribner's Magazine some hitherto unpublished letters of Mendelssohn, chiefly written to Moscheles, hia friend and master. It is stated that the Podc's jubilee gifts include 60,000 chasubles, 12,000 cups, 8,000 crucifixes, and a great quantity of other ecclesiastical properties, which will be exhibited. Their value is estimated at £3,000,000. When Bulgaria was created a principality by tho Congress of Berlin, one of tho conditions imposed religious liberty. As a practical result two Jews have just been elected members of the Municipal Council in Sofia. This is a decided contrast with the bigotry displayed in Roumania. It appears that tho last half century has ■witnessed in England and Wales an increase of tho aroi of municipal government amounting to 455,27S acres, while the population under corporate government has increased hy tho enormous amount of nearly 7,000",000 of persons. It is stated that a Lamlou firm has received au order from the Kussitin Government for a Htx-t "f balloons for war purposes. Each balloon is. to carry a car which will accommodate wix men, ami will cost, witb appurtenances, £.";00. Tin; balloons are being made of .1 preparation ot asbestos, and they will bo iilL-J with raruried air. A rather innovation in dancing parties has been made lately iv Paris. It coubistts in arranging tho ladies who take part in cotillons according to the color* of dresses. Hurmouious tints are thus evolved, and unexpected vagaries of color Locoiuo manifest to the eye of tho arti.-t. In 11 diversified party tho eitect is often luiwi and startling. It is said the fashion tume? from Vienna. A singular tiiintr lias happened at Madrid. Queen Isabella—tin , nmthov of the late King —has been ordered to leave the capital. She had begun a herioua intuguo tv involve the Regent in tukingbidi-s upon <ionje,<ie- politics which must have iik.ant tin , ruin of dynasty. The scheme Doing discovered, Senor SagaMa required thut shy should at once desist, or le;ne Madrid, and tho €XQiieeu, being indignant, ':hus<; ihe latter alternative, ih',' Government oiliuixls s;i\v her as far »t> It needi l.iirdly tie Saul that the Regvnt is quiU- five at any reproach iv the m.iilji , . As far us eon Id be estituatcl up tv !h<> end of January, the IVu-'t? jubil-w present.-. Amounted to close on four millions an.l a half sterling. The. Sultan's jubik'o <jrii't wus an UHHiiiit of gold, profu.-eiy studded with precious stones, whi-jh iri valued at tIO.OOH. It was presmiud by the Armenian I'atriuruh. The President of tile Frei.ch llepulilic t-etit two mugnifiuitiit vasi't; of Sevres China, along waii iicordial lettc-r of ooiigratubitiun ; *ud His Holiness received JJ-O,O<K> from the monks of tho Chartreuse ; a diitiiKnni rose, valued at .tl2o,0i)0, from Ecuador; and a huge golden stall, tilled with irold dollars, from Sun Fmnei.-eo. Correspondents of the Field have recently been citing iti~t;i nf-/-; of Ha,vii"nr ljt^ronit; intoxicated. One says ttiut he lias known many dogs that would readily drink either beer or porter, and seemingly thoroughly enjoy it. He knew two terriers belonging to men in a J)riigoon G-uard liogitnent who would absolutely get helplessly drunk, and have- to be carried home from the canteen. One of the dogs iv particular was fond of fighting when in his cups, but in bis sober senses was very good-tempered. One night this dog was beaten in a light by another, and his owner exclaimed that it wiw not fair, as bin dog was too drunk to fight. Another corro.-2)<>ndent says that the wellknown bull-terrier Victor was a beer drinker. Ho would drink beer until he became quite intoxicated. A remarkable Aleutian has just passed away iv the person of the Baron Albert yon Dietrich, Strasbourg, in his 80th year. He was descended from Dominic yon Dietrich, ■tvho riigubd the treaty by which Strasbourg ■was given to France in the time of Louis tho XIV. It waa before Bitrou Albert's grandfather, Friedrich yon Dietrich, who was first mayor of Strasbourg during the Ecvoluiiou, that liougct de l'lsle first sung the "Marseillaise." Friedrich wae gullotined iv Paris during the Terror. Ilia son died in 1800, leaving a widow and four children. The family owned large factories, which wore begun near Niederbronn b} f Johanu yon Dietrich m the lsth century. Over ,"000 workmen were employed usually by tli': deot-a.-ed baioii and his brothers, mid they were- the first ironfounders in I ranee who adopted Bessemer's procfss for tho manufacture of steel. Mr J oil 11 Eiiskin has, in a recent lotter to the London Daily Telegraph, given the following as liiri iiuirwev to the question " Are v:c ceasing to \,c r" : —" We are not cea.-'iiiif, V-eaus-e for the ;J0 years, attheleii>t, ;\->j h. He ceased to be English. Swindling was i.ot formerly the method of 3jUg!i»h tr.ide, iu..r advertising its uec(!s>ity. Luxury was not anciently the glory of English liiV, :u>r darliii'-.-s and filth its inevitable oondilion.O t):iee iva imported frum Anicriuit neither ni'.-uL nor ih:.'.;!:lts ; from France, neither art not religion. Our British navy did not use to iight with torpedoes under v:;i'it.r, nor our British army "with rillea from bubi:i<l ti h'.slge. And to keep to tho cuso before the magistrate— neither Iloumn nor English pi-ace consists in allowing our police to be shot by burglars or forgers (unless perchance tin; revolver : ZBi.s.s tire) ; but primarily in forbidding tho sale of revolvers to any private person whatsoever."