Scissors.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5634, 19 September 1889, Page 4

Scissors.

A new raarblo saw cuts two and a half inches a minute.

London's policemen number M,247 haekmeu, 14,267.

Cotton cultivation is being extended all through. Central Asia.

Stop chewing gum and eat peanuts. It has been discovered in Boston that they will curu dyspepsia.

Stutisties just published show that there are soldiers six feet or over in height in the British arm 3-.

Under the now scheme of imperial desence tho native Indian Stntes will furnish 30,000 troops, mostly cavalry.

In spite of his far from outicing name, William Swindell, of Allegheny City, Pa., has made a, fortune as a contractor.

A movement has been started in England to restrict the output of iron. It is claimed that the present eupply ia far in excess of tho demand.

In the portrait which Sir John Millais ia now painting Mr Glfldatone is represented bitting , , with his little grandson standing by his knee.

The connecting link between man and the brute is about as well illustrated by a prize-fight as by anything else.—Nashua Telegraph.

Franco has some of the oldest trades uiritms in tho world. Tho Paris Carpenters' Union, for instance, has been in existence for 600 years.

She—What does a Chinaman call his sweetheart, I wonder ? He—Uovey, I suppose. You know they speak pigeon English.—N.Y. Sun.

The Russian papers report that some exceedingly rich veins of gold havo been struck" iii tho Chinese gold diggings at Yoituga or Mokho.

Louis Kossuth is eighty-seven years old, and yet the fire of patriotism burns as fiercely in his heart as whtu he dared death for his native land. Last year the Argentine Republic shipped 0i5,00U tons of eoru. This year it will go above '2,000,000 tons. This is owing to tho rupiuly increasing immigration. The Congo State will ask the Belgian Government for an annual subsidy of £00,000 for ten years to ensure tho continuance of the whole Congo railway. Otto Siegler, aged fifteen, to amuse his friends, dropped from tho Suspension bridge at Cincinatti into tho Ohio river, a distance of eighty feet. He was uninjured. Martin FarquharTupper, the once famous author of "Proverbial Philosophy," lives in a handsome country house in England. Ho bears a striking resemblance to Longfellow in his old age. Five medals of honor were awarded at the Universal Exposition to British exhibitors. The painters Alma-Tadema and Henry Moore, the hcuiptors Alfred Gilbert and Frederick Leighton and tho etcher Seymour Hadeu. Clearly Explained—Omaha Teacher—l would like some one of the class to define the meaning of vieo versa. Bright Boy— It's sleeping with your feet toward the hoad of the bed.

A hailstorm in Villafcanca, Piedmont, Was of such fiionuour. stones that more than one hundred persons were badly hurt, and a boy and a girl had their skulls fractured. The weight of some hailstones was estimated at two pounds.

"It is by no means improbable," says London Irutb, " that the Landgrave of Hesso will marry one of the younger daughters of the Prirco of Wales, and that tho hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Lun-genburg will become the husband of tho other."

Christianity increases iv Japan at about iJOO addition per month. Twenty years thcro was ru»t a public periodical iv Japan. Now there are more than five hundred nf various kinds, and most of these favorable to Christian civilisation.

Dr. W. 11. Russell, of the London Times, has made a joke. Somebody asked him why Patrick Egau was tent to Chile. "Well," replied the Doctor, " Chile w famous for its i'nrt!>quakes, and if nny ninn uuilcratumis laud agitation it is Egau."

On Sundays, when on the imperial yacht, Kaiser William officiates himself. Tho crow is drawn up on the quurtor-oeuk, and in front of a provisional altar, covered with the war ensign of tho German Navy, tho Kaiser rendu, iv a loud voice, a eermoi:, and concludes ihe service with some collects and the Lord's prayer.

If reports be true, Emma Abbott has had made the costliest dres.s known to tho modern dressmaker. It oust £800. This is more than three titnce aw much a* Sarah Bernhardt , !* best gown, which oost £210, and nearly seven times as much as Mine. Doche paid, £120 for all the costumes the used iv creating the " Dame aux Camellas."

An Anglo-Indian ludy boasted that her Chinese cook was much cleaner than her neighbor's Indian chef. They visited the respective kitchens. Tho Indian's pot.s and ■puna and utensils of all kinds were filth} , . 'iuo Ctiiuauian's vessels shone, like mirrors, and Chang , him.»elf was sitting ou his box, wushinjr himself in the soup tureen.— Saturday Review.

At Lat'ken, the King of the Belgians usbero'i tho Shah into tho great hull, where stood the Queen and her numerous ladies-in-waiting. "Yourharein, eir?" enquired tho successor of Feridouu the Giorioun. The King astouithod and amused, did not reply; wbereupou Jkasy-ed-J)een, regarding the matured age of tho ladies, added in an undertone : " You will suou ha vis to renew it, won't youir" The editor of the Wise county, Texas, Messenger deserves success. Ho hcchm to bo taking life easily and filling his paper with good-natured news. Still tho appeal touches our heart: "We live to eat and eat to live. Bring us a quarter'<s worth of peas, peaches, peaiw, plums, peanuts, polecats or 'possums and get the best paper for thirteen weeks. We will accept butter, beaiiH, eggs, chickens (if fully hatched), and any other digestible vegetables or fruits. Wo eat anything except codfish or grindstones."

His Piiiiil Victory—Two little girLs vrero talking about the prize-fight on tho day before its occurrence. Their mother was asked "if otiu of the men might not be killed. ,, "She answered "Yes." Tho elder girl said : " Well, I don't believe he'll go to Leuven." Whereupon the jourger resp.iu'.ied : " Then if Sullivan goes to that other place, he'l! whip Satan, und everybody will be glad."—Philadelphia Telegraph.

Tho industry of wood-curving, according , to a recent publication, was introduced into Switzerland some sixty or .seventy yiaivs ago by a native of Biienz named Cbi-ituiun Fischer, who used to spend his spurt- time in making trifling objects for tale. He started a night school for the benefit of the neighborhood and thus lidd the ioundution ot mi industry which now gives employment to between fIUOO and GOOO persons. He h'rt*t conceived the idea of niuking tiny models of Swiss chaletH, winch at once found a ready isale.

An ingi-nioiiß contrivance is about to bo brought out by Capt Wool ward, of the royal mail steamer Don, by which it in proposed t'j do away with oars as a means of propelling ships' lit.; boats. It consists of 1 hand-power screw propeller, which enables

iie boat to bu drivea by unyoue in it, though mauquuititci'l «with rowing. This, Cupt. KToolward points out, will obviate the ihairje of passengers who may got away rom a stranded ship finding themselves in a ioat without ohm or having them without nyouo flkiUud iv their use. The machinery likes up Httlo room, unci seems to be both ffieient and simple

A buily Texan went into a gambling ouse, and, after a sitting of a couple of ours, aro,-.e j>16.000 winner and demanded old for ids chips. The " banker " began iiubling in hin drawer, ostensibly for the irpowe of getting the money, but instead ■ought fuuh an ugly-looking six-ahooter, id levelling it at the Texan calmly rearked, "I pay these largo amounts in id." In a twinkling, and before thu banker" realised what he was doing, the !xan had him " covered," and remarked, And I receipt m tho same way. Pay that )ney or take your receipt." He got his iney. —Atlanta- Constitution. The finest private collection of pearls in fIUUB belongs to Wile. Doßiie, wster-in-Yof Thiers. It is valued at 1,.)00,000 nc.i. Slnie. Thiers, her .sister, shortly r»i'o her death, gavo to the State a pearl sklace worth 100,000 frunes. This neekn is now in the Thiers museum in the uvro. Tho Dudifhfl d'TJzua, "who, after c. Donne, hitri tbo finest jewels of all nch women, possesses a diamond neck- > valued at 1,200,00U francs. Msna. iry Niy lms a utoklaco of white" aud :k pcuriN, worth 400,0(30 francs. ho Maharajah of Singapore, who is now 'aiis, is astonishing even that blase city, coaches, attendants, costumee and exlituro art based on such a t>ealc of ance that he i-eenis to have thu wealth ioEu*tat his disposal. lit- far outi's thp of Persia, who has not im<ed Eiucpe with his deganeo this trip. Indian pottutato of Singaporo ban p been on the continent Leiorc, and ho s to like Paris ko well that bis stay bids obe a long one. Parisian tradesmen rely hope thai vho idt'inr.s of Ki.-gaporo -ot won recall him lo his native hind, ioriiv.-pondciit wlio hi:.-i met Bouianjfer udon writes:—••'lho general's man-

ner is, for a Frenchman, sedate, composed, tranquil ;_with the self-possession of one long used to intercourse with his fellow - men and with women. As to tho latter, the most sceptical never hinted a doubt. It is a good manner, without being remarkable "for distinction. Unknown, ho might pnss unobserved in a drawing room, nor is there much in his bearing to suggest the notion o<: greatness. A good .-oldier, a •■•ood War Office administrator, he possesses a certain frankness and popularity of address an easy command of conventional civilities and an extremely pliable temper to those rather adventurous politicians who use his name."

Forty Russian peasants, comprising all tho inhabitants of a small village in the Government of Kursk, have been arrested for burning the whole village to the ground to obtain the insurance. Tho curions feature of tho case is the evident innocence of these simple villagers of any wrongdoing. They made no secret of their plans, fathered together and placed in a safe placo such, of their effects as they wished to save, awaited a favorable opportunity, and applied the torch to their homes. These villagers explain that their houses were old and they were anxious to improvo the town by erecting new ones in their stead with the insurance money they expected. They are entirely at a loss to understand their arrest.