Scissors.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5505, 18 April 1889, Page 4

Scissors.

It is reported that Prince Bismarck ie threatened with facial paralysis.

Tho cider crop in Europe, last year was only two-thirds of what it was in 188/.

:"Didßen Jonson write Bacon's Works?" is the title of a paper recently read before tho JN'ow York Shakucpearo Society.

One hundred and fourteen women studied medicine in Paris lust year, and of tin* number but twelve were French. In 1878, thirty-two were studying in Paris, all but five being foreigners.

A " Congress of Realities ".is announced to bu held at the buthiug place of Klamponbergf, near Copenhagen, in June. A jury of painters mid »<:u)ptora of Copeuhagen has already been formed. Tile, lis'nel nn >M«i:— I.«m Wca IKUgUU fit tlie Lord Chamberlnin'H otfico that tho Duchess of Marlborough fieeks to be' presented at the next drawing-room. The matter ia exciting some interest in Court circles. Richard Gntling , , invpntor of the Gatling k*un, has devised a polico gun for urn in riots, which will fir« 1/20U nliotw a tniitnto. JHj/ch cxphmvoa, he thinks, will be the destructive forco employed in future warfare. There has been mudo in Geneva a musienl box tlmt )ilnyn entire operas, tho solos rendered by pipes representing the human voice. Those newest of hii. raonjouf invoiitions ore to bo exhibited at the Parts Exposition.

The Salvationists who went out to Indii ere having a huril tirno by mtuon of nick. non« incident to the cMinnfci nnd to their at.

tempt to imitiite tho native lmiiiiHT uf lif... T"->!.ty 'it tli" ftrrt lifty w)wi went, out a year ag.i arc , frirt ttr combat, nw\ ten of the forty who wutit tint more recently arc on tho sick list.

Prince RiMmirek has be«.-u a most printable dealer in wood, which hi« cstutcit fiunwh in vast, nhiindunuo, on tiecourit of the fp. ciul rntuH tri-anted U> him by th« niilr'.uuis. T1j.. 1 othci CK-rmnti woodi'iittc r.< liiiviiiit; lii»t. i-triifjk aviiiicl r!ii> f-v-riii-m, and the Prince will liuvu to compute on equul turniH.

Mr. G. Kninr),, M P., MfsrnphM hs f.)!|..«-- ll'll,, J .||-lil.M".!i:if.:. 1' -Uil-Vl.-11, M HiVin'wjll-.IM !i,t:V.>}/:i|n.r I " 'J'l'.Jl^Vllll] wunU tliouMnd'ln i.f iiiiiwitiH, cnrp('(it»'r«i, mid briokinyi-ri* 30« diiily." JolmuueHburg, from which Mr. Kwio'-h in the centre of a valuable gold-producing area.

Mr. W J Lintoii, iho livinsr mi'inlier "f the old ."uhool of wood engravers, is visiting Eiigliind niter uprndiug a l.irgr*hure of l.is life in America, .-md founriit.g thiTc a M'hool uf eitgruvil-r- Which hun vvidoty depiiriod fn>in his. severe priucipler!. lie liiiti ttirauL't'd tijit'oturo on tin- mt of wood cugi'iiviug in London. '

Italy's litiuucm uni iv a v< vy bad way, the govoriiruent'H'expenditures must be.reducud. and' tiixation increiiHcd, and 'it is oven said th*t her penplo nro dying off a disease produced l>y v lack of nutritious food ; and ywt whe i« rendy to expend additional uiiliions upfm nhips of war that unlikely to go out of fanhiou before the time conies to them.

Tht> saying , that wherever an Englishman goes ho will find a Scotchman rh«>r»- bofore him receives additional force from an item of Burmese news. "Tho toriim imposed on Sawee, Sawlapitw's heir, included the payment of an annual tribute of Itri.sooo to tho British Government Sawneo won't like that. ',' Bang , wont (saxppnoo " was bad enough, "but " bang go Ka.'flOOO " is worse.—Globe.

A painful sequel to tho supposed poisoning of a. boy named f'otre ar.Dulstoti JiaK occurred. Mm. Brown the wife of a cabinetmaker, of I'ortesouo Avenue, Mure Street, London, gave the child eomo colored sweets. It was suggested thona were poitiououa, but at the inqueetitwasßtated thty were pure. Theidea of having had a hand in thu child's death so affected Mrs. Brown's mind that sho bad to be removed to an asylum.

At tho beginning of last your tho "Nitrate King" presented ewh police officer of Eithiim with a sovereign new from the Mint. This year it unfortunately happened that it becamo tho painful duty of tho police to impound some of the gallant colonel's cows found straying on the public highway, and had to anmraon him to the Woolwich Police Court for the greenyard fees. Tho gentlemen in blue have not yet received a new sovereign this year.

At the Liverpool Police Court Catherino Fowler (17) was charged -with stealing an overcoat, ulator, dress, and other articles, the property of her employer. Sho absconded, taking tho articles with her, and also her employer's stopeon, aged 10. Sho pawned the eoa' unci they went to Manchester, but the lad repenting walked homo. The prisoner wntj apprehended at Old Trafford. The jirl, who was respectably connected, was remanded in charge of her father.

A cab-driver named Hedges, who was buried on Sunday afternoon at Bow Cemetery, wns on Monday last iv Piccadilly, when he was ordered to' move on by a police-constable, whe, finding ho took no notice, mounted the cib, and, thinking , the deceased was unweU took him to tho hospital, where it war. discovered that he was dead. At the fuiiura) on Sunday no fewer than seventy cabs, -yith Lord Shrewsbury's permission, followed the open em , containing , the coffin, aid besides cabs, Lord Shrewsbury also sett t. wreath. The deceased leaves a wile &nd family of three. . Six Brunswick young ladaes cave organ-

ised themselves into an " Old Maid Club. , ,' The youug ladies, it is said, have pledged each other never to marry unless the oonsent of every member of the olub is first obtained!, fti whioh eaao the consenting members aro to act as bridesmaids, and. each of. them present the bride with. a handsome present. One of the members is already nonplussed. Having had the question popped, and being unable, to get unanimous consent for the ceremony, she is now waiting for the dissenting members to meet their "fates," when she feels that they will relent.

Mr. Juhu Boyle O'Reilly, mentionid by the Fenian spy lie Cnrou, is one in whose adventurous life politics have played a secondary part. 'When a mere boy he joined the oiivHlry regiment ot which Valentine Baker was the colonel, and John Devoy, another of Lβ Caron's figures, sWore him in as a Fenian as he was doing sentry duty in the Royal Barracks, Dublin. Soon after he was Bentehced to death, then to penal servitude for lifeJ He spent what he calls a happy year and a half in Millbank, and was then sent to Western Australia. Eventually he got away iv an open boat, was picked up and lauded; and ultimately made a name in the States by his poetry and his work for the Boston Pilot.