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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5194, 14 April 1888, Page 4

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The widow of Mayno Reid, the novelist, is -writing his life.

Louise Michel has a large family of pet birds, cats, and doga. The Valley of the Seine is to be fertilized by the sewage of Paris.

Professor Proctor thinks the, interest in astronomy is on the wane.

The gigantic Eiffel tower in Paris is reported in danger of falling.

An "express" train in Norway runs at an average speed of twelve miles an hour.

A bill to prevent railroad trains from running on Sunday is now pending in the lowa Legislature.

A writ has been issued on behalf of Sir George Chetwynd against Lord Durham for libel and slander.

Professor Tyndall has reported a white rainbow and Lord Monteagle follows with the same observation.

It is reported that the Crown Prince of Italy and Princess Henriette of Belgium are about to be betrothed.

A visitor in Florida says the State is ■wonderfully fertile, rut largest of all its products is its crop of lears.

Prince William of Germany was niado a Major-General on January 28th in honor of his twenty-ninth birthday.

Here 13 the latest conundrum out: "What mixed number does the present year represent ?" It is given up ? Well, I jj.

A pair of twins borne in Somersetshire, England, recently, were named Ju and Billy, in honor of the Queen's jubilee.

Leo XIII always dines alone. No King in Christendom ever receives higher honors than to be invited to partake of a cup of coffee.

Walbeck, Germany, has a law forbidding drunkards to marry. It will not be complete till it forbids married men from getting drunk.

De Grimm, the cartoonist, who writes hie name in four-linn pica size across every piece of work he does, is a son of one of the Czar's tailors.

Nice has suffered greatly this year from its memorable earthquakes. There were 15,000 visitors lessf roni October 1 to January 12 this year than last year.

Teacher—With tho exception of the animals Noah took with him into the Ark every living creature perished in iho Flood. Doubtful Tommy—The fishes, too ?

It is said that over one hundred white girls in Chicago are married to heathens. Thus does not include those who are mated to Anarchists and Board of Trade men.

Minister (to widow): " I hope the dear departed was prepared to die." Widow : " Oh, yes, he was iusuml in three good companies."' —Building-and Loan News.

They were out in a boat, and she very innocently asked him if it was possible tv steer with one hand ': Ho had never been there before, but he caught on like an old stager.

People don't really kii-« the PupeV toe. The Pope's foot is encased in a silk stocking, which is again encased in a. dainty slipper embroidered with 11 cross, which the pilgrim touches with his lips.

Richard K. Fox of the New York Police Gazette derives an income from that paper of $200,000 a year, and The 'Christian at Work is printed on one of his presses, not being üblo to own one.

Customer: " Hang it all, man ' whutiire you aboutr Leave go of my nose ! " Barber (somewhat under the influence): "Lave go! Be jabers an' if I did now 1 should fall down."—Harper's Weekly.

The heir to the Russian throne, the Czarevitch, is iigaiu su tiering from the ■wasting disease whicli uiliieted him v low years ago. His early death is believed to be a certainty, lie is twenty years old.

M. Renan Ims undertaken t- write for a French periodical on the reigns of David and Solomon, in which the writer will continue his story of the people of Israel from the point to which the volun'e recently published brings the reader.

Princess Beatrice is so offended with the treatment of her husband, Prince Henry of Baltenburg, that she hardly speaks to any of her brothers or siMors. She has petitioned the Queen to make her husband a Duke, and ia desirous of abdicating her royal ran);.

Mile Mariu Bastia. a prima donna in Italy, •where she enjoyed a great reputation, starved herself to" death recently. She left a letter stating that her giief was w> great because her enormous size prevented her from appearing on ilie stage that sho preferred death.

M. Louis Figuier has just publitdieda little brochure, in which he reviews the theatrical -casualties of the Inst hundred years iv Europe and America. The record us given by M. Figuier shows a total of 5,741 killed and 2,3' iX injured, or an annual average of 57 killed and 23 injured.

Germany has passed a law making heating railway cars by means of steam from the locomotive compulsory on all trains running within the empire within seven years. It is stated thut this method of Seating trains has been in satisfactory use in that country for several years.

The Turkish authorities are doing their best to discourage Jewish immigration in Palestine- Foreign Jews, freshly arrived in die Holy Lund, are forbidden to stay there longer thau thirty days. The Christinas, especially those of the Greek Church, are treated much more indulgently.

A new plan of supplying the city of Paris ■with au abundance of pure water has just been scut in by M. G. liitter, who proposes to bring the water from the Lake of INeufchatel, in Switzerland. The oust of the enterprise is estimated by him at 300,000,000 {francs, and the time in which to complete it at six years.

Sugar refining , by electricity is about to he attempted by a Brooklyn company, which «kinits to be able to convert a ton of raw sugar in two hours into hard white sugar, at a cost of .80 cents, turning out 3,000 barrels per day. Present cost is $7 to $10, and time thirty hours. The inventor is Henry Friend, a French -Aujerieaj).

" Go into the room and bring that cake on the table," said an Austin mother to her .son. " It's too dark ; I'm afraid to go into the room." "Go right into thiit room this instant or I'll go in and bring out the strap." "If — you — bring —out—the— strap" replied the boy, sobbiDg, " bring— — cafce —along—too."—Texas Sifting*.

Coal-tar has already given us the most brilliant dyes, tlie rarest scouts, the most powerful disinfectants, and saccharine, which, us the sweetest of known substance,

yet its usefulness seems to bo f*x from exhausted ; acd a, Berlin professor the other day assured hiH class that from coal-tar ho could brew as good a, cup of tea aa from tea leaves.

In view of the promised Government legislation on tithes in Great Britain, it has been ascertained that the total runt charges payable to clerical appropriators aud their lessees in England and Wales now amount to £030,039; payable to parochial jn•cumbente, .£2,41'J,103 : to lay impropriators, £7613,205; to schools and colleges, -£196,056. At a dinner at t3*c Mansion House, London, three foreign Consuls were present whom the Lord Mayor wished to honor by drinking their health. He accordingly directed the toast master to announce the health of the "three present Consuls." He, however, mistaking the words, gave i out the following: " The Lord Mayor drinks the health of the 3 per cent consols." —Philadelphia .Record. .Miss Coflin, it is said, carries a revolver constantly. Many of Mr Ijollew'js friends wonder at liii cool demeanor, while knowing as ho does that bullets are liable to penetrato his anatomy at any moment. But Kyrle knows that if those bullets are aimed at him, lie will be safer, by far, than thoso iiufortunatti enough to be standing about in his vicinity »t the time of the firing. As ,-i rule, a woman can fire a revolver about as well as she can sharpen a lead pencil. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes :—" An interesting rumor is going, which I must give uader all reserve. It is to the effect that Mr W. S. Gilbert has decided to build fortwith a new theatre iv London, at which new comedies from bis own pen are to be produced, and that in the first of the new plays 'will appear a new actress whose beauty and sialent will astonish the town. This enter3pris;e will, it is said, in no way interfere ■with Mr Gilbert's connection with the Savoy." Jin exteaordiuaiy appeal in behalf of «■ |

convict has ben made to Governor Oglesby, of Illinois. Tho convict is " Joe " Mackm, who was found guilty of being one of the chief conspirators in the Chicago election frauds in 18S4. The petition has been signed by tho Judge who condncted the trial, the prosecutor, every member of the jury save one, the Mayor, several Judges, a United States Senator and many other prominent citizens. All this is because a confession has been made by one Gallagher which exonerates Mackin.

"Maria," said Mr Wipedunks, as he came in and threw a folded document on the table, " I have just insured my life for five thousand dollars in your favor. There is the policy." "Thank you, Bilkerson," said Mrs Wipedunks; "I hope it may be many years before it will be of any use to me, if ever." "It will be of much use to you if you wish to marry again," he growled; "with five thousand dollars in cash you can pick out almost any fool yon like." " No, Bilkerson," she replied, affectionately, " I think I should want a change next time."—Chicago Tribune.

Considerable interest was recently aroused in Paris in the trial of two ruffians, Hazo and Darguesse, who made a bet to drown an unfortunate woman called La Bretonne, with whom they associated, for a cup of coffee. La Bretonno was walking with them across the Pont St Michel, at midnight, when they asked her to mount the parapet. She did so in a gay mood, and when on the parapet she blew a whiff of a cigarette which she was smoking into the faces of tho men. Then one of them pushed her into tho Seine. Hazo, the fellow who is supposed to have pushed the woman over, was sentenced to penal servitude for life, while Darguesse has to undergo 20 years of the same punishment.

An extraordinary suicide took place iv Liverpool. A young man who belonged to Manchester, named CharlesMarley, twentysix years of age, and who stated that he was a theatrical manager and engaged to a lady connected with one of the Liverpool theatres, recently took lodgings iv Hopestreet. He appeared to be very ill on Thursday night, and died shortly after midnight from the effects of laudanum. He had for some time been in low spirits, and complained that the actress to whom he had been engaged had jilted him. A misunderstanding, it appears, had arisen betweeu tlie two, and it was while grievously mentally afflicted that the young gentleman took a dose of laudanum. The painful part of the story is that the young lady to whom he was engaged was most devoted to him, and since his death she has been in the deepest distress, and so prostrated that medical assistanco has had to be called iv.