Scissors.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5263, 5 July 1888, Page 4

Scissors.

Longhtind in quicker than shorthand— on a clock.

Groat Britain hns 15,000 temperance or ganieations.

Damascus is to havo etreet-cars just like any civilized city. Dr. J. C. Ayer'e widow is reported to be worth £5,000,000.

All public religious processions have been prohibited in Italy.

Queen Victoria has been made a colonei in the German Army.

The late 3£me. Boueicault's diamonds have, been sold at auction.

The French Se»iito has fixed tho term 01 army service at three years.

Kate Rullm, the American pritna dciritm, has scored v success in London.

Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has seven carriages for her own use.

Worth makes the man—except in Paris, where ho makes only for women.

In a London lawsuit, the cost on one side has already amounted to £100,000.

Patti is in Buenos Ayres. Her firit ap pearanoe was before a £4200 house.

There is a clergyman in England named 'Straight whoso ourato is named Crooked.

The chamois, it is said, were destroyed wholesale last'winter by avalanches in the Alps. :

The Eiffel Towor is rising steadily and is becoming one of the wonders of the world.

It is stated that President Cleveland has gained 75 to 100 pounds during the past three years.

The English Government is disquieted by the strengthening of the French and Russian Asiatic squadrons.

The new Bt. Catherine's Light, Isle of Wight, will be tho most powerful electric light in the world.

M. Bonnet of Lille, Franco, has invented en improved process for spinning and weaving glass into cloth.

Mies Louis Corbiu, of New York, will soon wed Horace Walpolo, nephow aud heir of Lord Oxford.

A now steamer, the Empress, on the Dover- Calais route, is expected to cross the ohnnnel in fifty minutes.

The Duko of Devonshire let* his lands on ninety-nine years leases, with option of purchase within the first ten years.

Tho Imperial Geographical Society of Buasia has decided to send a special expedition to explore the mount of Ararat.

The Government of Portugal have imposed an additional duty of 25 to 30 per cent, oil grain aud flour shipped after May 4th.

The Russians have bought moro than ten thousand American pianos in tho past ten years and tho doinand is inorcaeing constantly.

Sir Andrew Barclay "Walker, formerly Mayor of Liverpool, has offered to give £•250,000 toward building a. cathedral in that city.

Lord Lucas, tho owner of tho domain containing Matthew Arnold's last restingplace, spent £160,000 to keep the railroad from crossing his grounds.

Mrs Bloomfield Moore intends to found a hospital in Au-triii, in which incurable patients will bo experimented on with electricity, " etlierio force," &c.

After the National Capitol, tho most expensive public building in the New World is the New York State Capitol at Albany, Bardly completed. It cost £3,400,000.

In Denmark most of the girls are trained in agriculture, which is thoro an important industry. The owners of farms* receive pupils who undergo a regular training.

Edith Martincau, niece of Harriet Martilieau, and daughter of the distinguished Unitarian clergyman, has been made a member of the Koyal Society in water-colors.

Things grow worse and worse in Russia. The latest outrago was at a concert in St. Petersburg, where two selections were played by forty-eight pianists upon twentyfour griuid pianos.

It is no longer considered " bad form " to carry a bundle on tho street. The most fashionable womon in .Philadelphia mny be seen carrying bundles on tbo street daily.— Philadelphia Timos.

Haruka, Empress of Japan, snys the London Queen, will visit America next ■winter, travelling in state with a dozen maids of honor, numberless officials, and every incident of luxury.

1 Tho greatest grain fleet that ever loft 'Chicago at the opening of navigation began starting on Sunday night, April 20th. It comprised ninety-nix vessel* u-ud tho cargoes aggregated bushels of gram.

It is announced that negotiations between an English company and the Oldentoirg Government for the construction of a great port with docks at Nordenhaman, opposite Bremorhaven, will shortly be concluded.

Great Britain's " drink bill" for 1887 is published, and amounts to £125,000,000. Of this £36,000,00 was spent for spirits, £75,000,000 for beer, £12,500,0.00 for wine, and £1,500,000 for cider and native wine.

There aro in England 347 female blackpmiths wlio actually swing heavy hammers, and 9,138 women employed in nail-malnug, who make nails for horse-shoes, 10,522 women bind boJfks and 2,302 assist in printing them.

A a an evidence of Iho progress that modern ideas are making in Japan, it is stated tliat that country ia now building thirty-four new railroads, at a cost of over £10,000,000, and it has hundreds of niilesof railroads already built.

A wooden farmhouse near Arlington, Nebraska, was burnt down on May 3. Tha neighbors who saw the fire went to tho rescue, but found only tho charred remains of seven human beings. One daughter, who was absent, is'the only survivor of tho family.

Fran Eeis in Friedrichsdorf, near Horaburg, the widow of the inventor of the telephone (German), upon the motion of the Under-Secretary of State, Dr yon Stephan, has had an annual pension of 1000 marks during her lifetime granted to her by the Emperor.

The Russian Nihilists lately arranged to release tho-author, Techernischeffsky, who has been in prison in Astrakhan for thirtysix yeais on account of writing two novels displeasing to tho censor, His mental and physical condition were such that flight was impossible.

The Collector of Customs at New York recently levied duty on two elephants imported by Adam Forepangh from Cuba. The Treasury Department at Washington has ordered that the duty be refunded. The fact is that nothing dutiable was found in their trunks.

The latent thing in paper is a paper chimney at Breslau, fifty-four feet high. It is made of solid blocks of paper joined with a special cement. The structuro is considered to have many valuable characteristics not possessed by brick chimneys, ono of which is that it cannot bo strack by lightning.

The will of a French advocate contains the following bequest: "I. giro 10,000f to the local madhouse. I got this moneyout of those who passed their lives in litigation; in bequeathing it for tho use of lunatics, I only make restitution ;" which, to say the least of it, was rather rough on his clients.

Parisian prophets nro not taking , much stock in Boulanger's future. Ho was fifty years old on April 29th, and they argue that since Napoleon became First Consul at thirty, and Napoleon 111. was elected President of the republic at forty, Boulanger is a triflo aged for any great revolutionary deeds.

Another name is to be added to the long lint of fashionablo ladies whom misfortune has driven into the bonnet and dress-making business. In this instance the lady belongs to one of our olJest Catholic families, and the cause of her taking to earn her bread is that she lost all her money playing at Monte Carlo.'—Glasgow Herald.

The celebrated eighteenth century villa, Marble Hill, up tho nveratTwickonham, was to be sold at the beginning of Juno. It is ono of tho notable houses on tho Thames, and it is remembered, among other things, that George 11. contributed £10,000 toward building it for Henrietta Howard, afterward the Countess of Suffolk.

Science has claimed tho sponge fishery of the Mediterranean. The native divers who could stay under water no moro than two minutes are being driven oni by meu in regular diving armour, who can work by the hour. A German professor has originated a method of planting cuttings from sponges, aud it is being prosecuted with BUCCOBS.

Messrs Spiers and Pond scoured from tho royal cellars of tho late King of Bavaria, among other wines, some Steinwoin of 1540, tho days of Henry VIII.; Lcinstenwein of IG3I, tho reign of Charles I.: Steinwein of 1731, when George 11. reigued; Johannisberg of 1811, the beginning of tho Regency ; and Kudesheimer and Hockheimer of 1822, when Goorge IV. was King. *

Tho dividing up of Africa -increases each year and has received additional impetus since Germany began operations four months ngo. "The Statesman's Year Book" shows that up to the close of 1887 Franco has secured 700,000 square miles, Germany 315,100, Great Britain 429,183, Portugal 697,335, Spain 103,870, and Turkey 403,873, or a total of 2,744,607.

Tho centenary of the death of La Pcrouso was celebrated at tho Sorbonne on April 20 by the French Geographical Society. M. do Lc-.'sep. , , who presided, is the nephew of Barthelemy do Lesseps, who accompanied La IV-rouso. M. Barthelemy do Lossops was the only membor of tho expedition who escaped the shipwreck, having been sent bnok with reports to France by way of Siberia and Russia.

Four men wero captured tit Liverpool recently and charged with a sensatitmnl burglary, they having broken into the lions of Chief Detective TV illiams, on » recent occasion when he was away, and stolen a quantity of silver presented to him by tho Magistrates, and many other articles. Tho robbery was committed in broad daylight, tho thieves walking out with their booty through the front door. They were remanded.

The' latest invention in gunnery is tho uho of electricity in place of the percussion lock, tho battery being situated m the stock of tho rifle, and the spark furniehetl by means of a primary coil in a manner similar to the portable gaslighters, which, as is well known, when used with chloride of silver dry battery, will stand a use of 35,000 times without recharging. It is claimed that tho use of electricity as a detonator will make it possible to uso tho high explosives in rifles, and in this respect it may bo claimed to form as great an improvement over the percussion lock as was the latter over the flint lock.

" An Englishman in New York " writes : " Englishmen are very apt to grumble at their income tax; wnat wonld they think of such 11 tax as the American personal estate tax, which operates in tho following cheerful manner 't Supposing you save ti little money und invest It in railway bonds, you aro in duo course served with a notice that your personal estate is assessed at fthe par valuu of the bonds) and later you find you have to pay a tax amounting to 2i per cent, of this num, not calculated on the income derived from it, so that in forty years tho State of this 'free country' has taken from you every cent you have invested. See how this compares with the working of tho income tax. If in England you invested £1000 ut 6 per cent, and the income tax stood at Cd m the pound, you would pay h sum of 25* to tho State annually, but if you invested it here you would have to pay "the sum of £25 annually."—London Figaro.

Ono of the handsomest men in town, a prominent officer of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, told a reporter of a remedy for reducing flesh, which, he says, is really wonderful. It is the same that Bismarck, tho German Chancellor, has subjected himself to, and from which his avoirdupois was decreased some sixty pounds. The first thing ono must do upon arising in tho toorning, my friend says, is to drink a globeful of cool, not cold, water. In a quarter of au hour repeat it, and just before breakfast drink the third glass. When you first try this you will feel as if a whole watermelon had been disposed of, but after a morning or two this " swelled" feeling will havo ditMippeared. Continue this water course for several weeks and your surplus will bo gone and the fear of bursting vest buttons over. lam euro it is a great remedy, and recommend it to my friends who are afflicted with obesity. Tho effect that this stomach bath 2ias had on my informant' if surprising. He is twenty pounds lighter than two months ago.