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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5465, 2 March 1889, Page 4

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Dundee, Scotland, is to bo mado a city. The Russian Budget shows a surplus of 1,000,00') roubles.

Sir Donald S-niHi, of Montreal, has a piano worth £5,400. Hon. Chauncey It. Depew carries a life nsurance of £100,000.

During ten weeks forty-nine men committed suicide at Monte Carlo.

German Clocks are driving the American article out of the Chinese market.

A society for the protection of young children has been started in Spain.

The people of France have 1,000,000,000 frunos invested in the Panama Canal.

Ex-Gov. Barry, of New Hampshire, is 92 years of age, but is in vigorous health.

Balloons aud par.ichutcs have been sent to Suakim for the use of the British troops.

The Princess Jouriewski, tho widow of the late Czar, will spend the winter at Nice.

The Princess of Wules was 44 yoars old on the Ist of December, but she does not look a day over 30.

President Carnot, of France, has received from the Emperor of Brazil the decoration of the Order of Christ.

The present Earl of Granville's father was famous for having lost £'.23,000 lit whist in a single sitting.

Tho number of streets in Loudon is now upwards of 28,000, and new ones are added at tho rate of 300 per year.

During the year 383,695 immigrants landed at Castle Garden, an increase of 1,977 over the previous year.

Herr' Hertenstein, the late president of the Swiss confederation, died from the effects of ill-treatment of a corn.

Patti charges more overy year for her absolutely farewell warbling. She is now singing in England for £700 a night.

Tho iitfel Tower in Paris had at last accounts reached a height of CGO feet, and is by far the highest erection in the world.

An autograph of Henry of Navarie, attached to one of tho letters whi<:h that Plumed Knight Jailed to burn, sold for £20 in Paris.

Prince Bismarck is strongly in favor of the projected anti-slavery congress, which, supposing it to take pliice, will probably be held in Brussels.

A steam machine for cleaning out tho retorts in gas works has been put to service successfully iv Philadelphia. It does thu work of eight men.

Advertising vane aro not allowed to appear ou the principal boulevards in Paris, on the ground that they obstruct travel and frighten horses.

Ono of the promised sensations of tho Paris Exhibition will be given by a man ■who will make daily balloon ascensions mounted on a horso.

A Mexican eorcoreM has predicted that Mexico will conquer the United States in 189U, aud Home of the Mexican papers say that she is infallible.

The first patent ever issued in America was given to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, iv 1700, for an improvement in the manufacture of potash.

Tho Queen of Portugal in having a charming time in Pans. Tho milliners, dressmakeris, and shopkeeper* generally are also having a quod time.

A New York clergyman aayn that "no one but a bu«o hypocrite would publish Bible versus ut the head of a daily paper which records prize-fights."

It w estimated that a cranberry marsh of 200 acres would niaka its owner rich in yielding five successive crops, but the rule is two Dad years to ono good one;.

Leaven worth cluiina v, mule ;J8 ye«r.i old, and ho has never been ill v il»y. Stookgrowora tsiiy that all domestic unimals would livo longer if more kindly treated.

A Richmond woman has patented an oyster can which can bp opened in two eecuuda without the aid of a knife. It lias been wauto. fur twonty-nve years pust.

Tho Rev. Ilcury White, of the Savoy Chapel, London, states th;tt out of 1000 couples whom he has ansisted to join together only one pair had found marriage a failure.

Hop-g r owing it) on the decline in England, this aroa dovoti'd to that crop this year btjing 8 p«r cent, loss than lust. Small fruit culture is iucroasing, also market gardening.

Tho Prince of Wales in reported to have laid neido cuiich, "lid the New ork diulew und Auglomauiucs are wild with excitement. They don't know what to do with their hands.

Arrangements are being ma.de by which travtfllurs on the Austrian and Hungarian railways will, from next spring, be emtbied to borrow books at railway bookstalls to be read during ft journey.

Miss Lucy Campbell, a Boston girl, seventeen years old, recently touk part of tho Mendelssohn prize ut tho Royal Conservatory at Berlin. She is the first violoncellist that has, over won this distinction.

A district near Smyrna—a imrrow strip of land «bout sixty miles long, and avenging some eight miles broad—yields the anuual produce of dried tigs that is exported to overy lttrga city in Europe.

Ira Payne, the American gun expert, asserted in Paris that hfl has diwovered v process for the manufacture oi" gold from mi alloy of silver and copper, and i.4 trying te raise fundi to start the proper works.

The oininoun word cancer is being freely used in Berlin in regard to tho Emperor's malady, and Mh health gives riao to grave auspicion, added to tha f act that tlwre is cancer in his family on his father's side.

Continental ladies are following tho English fashion. The latest addition to the citusb ot aristocratic shopkeepers ie an ex-lady-in-wuiting to Queen Isabello of Spain. She has just started a millinery busiries* in Paris.

There are not more than twenty Russian prinefs entitled to be styled grand dnke. There a.ro ny» grand dukes Niohulas, three grand dukes Michael, and two grand dukee Alexis, Sergius, George, Alexander, and Constantino.

Queen Victoria has abolished thu royal kenuel of stag hounds, aud with it the Master of tho Buck Hounds. This was doubtless effected partly by a, de.siro for retrenchment and partly by the comments of the press.

Amateur photographer (who has has been showing some of bin attempts at portraiture) —I should liico to take your little girl, it you wouldn't mind. Little Girl (who has seen tho specimens)—Oh, no, mamma, don't lot. him take me; I'll be good.— Moonshine.

Viotor Emanuel, the heir to the Italian throne, will shortly bo betrothed to Princess Clementine of Belgium, inttuoriCHis having been brought to beur upon the Pope to induce him to withdraw hie objections which have hitherto prevailed upon the family of the Princes*!.

The intended Waterloo monument in Brussels to be erected in memory of the British dead progresses vory favorably. The Belgian Committee has now closed tho fund, and Count Lulaingo, who will execute tho memorial, nays that the money collected will be ample.

Tho most noted song-writer iv Philadelphia is Septimus Winner, who still owns a music fatore iv that, city. It was ho who μ-rol- '''- p''pul*r ballad, "Listen to thu JMuJkiu ' 'iiril." Tiie Hong was fit-Ht published in 1855, Mr. Winner using the oom do plume of Alice Hawthorne, whiuli was his mother's mtuden name. Tho pruiitw, it is said, exceeded £20,000.

A widower married a second timo aud his choice was a wealthy lady about fifty yciiw of age. When tho bride and bridegroom returned home from the wedding the husband, introducing the wifo to his children, said : " My dear children, kins this lady's hand. Sho is the new mother I promised to bring you.' ; After taking a suuaco look ut tho new mother, little Charley said: 41 Pa, you have bueu fooled. Sho ain't new at all!"— Texas Sittings.

The economists have discovered a ruro piece of extravagance on the part of the Oomnmnder-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, ■whiuh will be brought boforo Parliament. It appears that when tLe Duchess of Edinbuw went from Malta to Athene her boiuiet bot wu« left behind. As soon as the mintake W ae discovered a verael of the Mediterranean anuadron was ordered back to Malta, for tko missing box, and it was brought on to Athens at an expense ot several liundrod pounds to the British taxpayer. The name of Canada has boon_ long a matter of dispute timonß etymologists. It has been .supposed to have uriocu from au oxelamatioii of Wine ot the oarly Pottueueeo navigator*, who, obeervnig the deso.lation of the country', father cried out or wrote on thoir maps, Aea-Jiada, acu-nada, ««there m nothing lun-e.' It has also Uucu ™. raosed to hiivo taken its uamu trom tho S h cnada, ,i can.l, from the rfmp. of Z.country, formuig tho bunks of thP St Lawrence : but tin more received Sanation is the Indian one, ca.mta a Mrioa of huts. Hochelaga w the S£k but littlo known, uaino of OttnttOa.

Tho King of Spain hae just begun hit*, education, whioh ha» been confided to_ an English lady, Miss Davenport. Ho is a very strong boy, ugly, hut bright and good-tempered. " Ho refused to allow hiiEnglish nurse to ho sent away, and though, for a kiiifr, he is allowed very little of hiown money, his motberrelented when she saw the grief with which the little man viewed the separation. The youngCrowu Prince of Germany hits also begun his education, though it is tho military, not the intellectual, part of it. Hβ is drilled daily by a sergeant of tho Royal Guard, and 18 a sharp, smart, little fellow, likes h:s drill, and learns it with all the aptitude of his family. —London World.

Tho Lincoln County Now?, the organ of the town that has just given to the world the first five-masted schooner afloat, tells how this class of vessels was named. The first vessel of this rig is said to have been built in Gloucester about the year 1712. When she went off the stocks into the wuter a bystander cried out, " Oh, how she scoons !" The builder instantly replied, " A schooner let her be ;" and from that time vessels thus rigged have gjne by that name. The word euoon is popularly used in some parts of New England to denoto the act of making stones skip along tho surface of tho wuter. The Scottish scon means the same thing. The Word appears to have been originally written schooner.-

Two of the law courts —one on the Chancery, the other on the Queen's Bench side—are likely to be engaged during the coming sittings iv the investigation of tha circumstances, or some of them, under which a youth may run through a fortune on tho turf and elsewhere in a twelvemonth. It wUI bo old, old story, the only new feature hoing the magnitude of the amounts and the recklessness of the plunging. Tens of thousands lost in betting on everything almost on which a bet could bo made, thousands paid to acquire a stud, to train the horses, to maintain them, and to send them about to races. Last scene of all, the money-lenders, and the sale and disappearance of another racing stable. One transaction, it iv said, will show £5000 lent for a einglo month on ample security, and £2000 paid for tho accommodation —180 per cent por annum. After this tho 60 per ceut charged in other oases where there was security also i« a mere bagatelle.