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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5664, 24 October 1889, Page 4

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A Polish (Jlub has been opened in Londou. The new fortifications of Puris have cost £160,000,000. Germany will strengthen its army to keep paco with that of France. Of the English Bench of Bishops, twelve are p edged abstainers. Elixir of life promises to be shorter lived than the blue-glass cure. It is proposed by the Salvation Army to establish a hospital in London. Insanity has increased iv Paris between 1872 and ISSB by 30 per cent. There are said to be more than 9500 tobacconists' shops in London. It is said there aro 50,000 eligible voters in New Pork oity who never vote. Floods in the mountain districts of Austria have caused great loes of life. Eiffel Tower shares are quoted on the Paris Bourse at 160, 100 being par. Weather Prophet Wiggins is to be knighted by Queen Victoria. Why ? The Maybrick Committee has resolved to agitate for a pardon for Mrs Maybrick. The Duke of Fife is in a queer position. He is not hie wife's equal; yet he is her peer. The Prinoo of Walee home farms at Sandringham now extend over two hundred sores. The nightmare is going out. At least that is the opinion of the Bombay SurgeonGoneral. . The promoters of the tunnel between France and England hope to build it in a few years. Gladstone has written to express hie sympathy with Sara Bernhardt upon the death of Damala. London is to have a " honeymoon hotel," to which only newly married couples will be admitted. Mrs Langtry is reported to be with Mr Gebhurdt at Aix les Bains for the benefit of her health. There is said to be little doubt in England that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the next laureate. The stockholders of the Eiffel Tower in Paris have already received dividends of 429 per cent. It is calculated that during a London season the average amount spent in flowers daily is £5000. A company for the manufacture of Irish linen will build extensive mills at Blackpool, England. The French Commander-in-Chiof, in case of war, would be General do Saussier, Governor of Paris. A company in tho City of Mexico proposes to bring Irish colonists to peopl Mexican lands. The French Government will not reply to General Boulanger's demand for a trial by a court martial. Nashville women have started to raise a fund to save Andrew Jackson's old home at Nashville intact. A letter-stamping machine that cancels 24,000 stamps an hour is on trial in the New York post office. It ie reported the new German army bill involves an increaeed expenditure of 200,000,000 marks. The oldest public house in England is the Seven Stars at Manchester. It dates baok to the time of Edward 111. Chauncey Depew says in an interview in London that " Englund has not been so prosperous for ten years past." Ten thousand people perished in recent floods in Wakayama, Japan, and 20,000 others wore rondered homeless. The corn fair in Vienna had only about half the usual number in attendance owing to the Jewish boycott against it, Tho license law of Sweden forbids any person drink witlioufc "ptxrclxflsiiiLr , something to eat at tho same time. It is said that before the construction of the Eiffel Tower begun forty draughtsmen worked nearly a year on its plans. ' First Little Boy—ls your father fond of fish ? Second L. B.—Yes, very ; be has C.O.D. printed (in his business cards. The Berliner Volkszeitung cays that the new powder requires bronze cannon and that all the steel guns will huve to go. In target practice with smokeless powder, Italian military authorities say, double the usual number of bite have been made. Upward of twenty-eight largo bales of human hair were brought to France in the last steamer tlmt arrived from the Orient. The Canadian Government has decided to abolish the twparare schools, and the unt oi French an the official language in Manitoba. The average flow of petroleum in the Baku region of Russia is 88,000 barrels per day as againet 25,300 barrels in the United States. The lace trade gives occupation to almost seventy thousand women in Normandy, and to nearly two hundred thousand persons in France. The King of Spain took his first sea bath at San Sebastin. His eldest sister, the Princess of tbo Asturias, aged nine, curried him in. A public school in Delmar is partly situated in Delaware and Maryland. Each State furnishes its own teachers and scholars. Wagner's ouly son, Siegfried, now grown, is studying to be an engineer. He looks like his father, but shows no marked musical talent. A fearful hailstorm occurred in Calf a county, New Mexico, recently; stones of immense size fell, killing 2000 out of a herd of 3000 sheep. The Discouto Gesellohaft of Berlin, in conjunction with an influential Hamburg bank, will issue Chineso loans to the amount Of £8,000,000. According to Dr. Ozeretskofski, hysteria exists among Russian eoldi-jrs and presents as various diversities of form ac it does among -women. A London journal states shirts of chain armor, which cost about £100 are now worn by more than ouo distinguished person on the Continent. M. de Froyciuet has issued a commission to enquire into the feasibleness of employing « wallows to carry war messages, in lieu of carrier pigeons. If the young women of this ceuntry were ftskod to select tho national flower they would not hesitate long over tho matter. They would say marigold. A rector and congregation in the .pariah of Cheadle got into such a row over the length of the service that the Bishoo of Chester bad to be culled in. The richest man in tho House of Commons is «ud to be MrMcEwan, Home Rule member for ouo of the divisions of Edinburgh, worth £1)2,000 per annum. Ihe Spanish Government in much distressed tit the steady ''ncreiise of emigration, chiefly of able-bodied peasants and the working glasses, to South America. If ( it be truo that Germany is seeking an alliauce with Portugal, the reason may be looked for in the eagerness of tho former Power to extendt its influence in Africa. Teacher.—Whore do good little boys go when they die? Johnny.—They go to heaven. Teacher.—And where will I go? Johnny.—l don't want to tell.—Truth. A Mohammedan mosque baa been built at Woking, England, and a Buddhist temple htis been opened in Paris. 'lherd are about three hundred Buddhists in Purin.

Among the modern " Mysteries of Paris" is a shop devoted to the sale of tea. At the retail counter a real live Prince may be seen any day weighiug up packets of the loaf.

Germany looks upon the Emperor Willium's reaent grand reception in the captured provinces of Alfiace and Lorraine as an indication that they are being Germanised.

Channel traffio between Dover and the Continent continues at highest human tide. No less than five extra mail packets are now employed to convey passengers, making sixteen in all.

To accommodate the demands of tourists, Switzerland hae had to open more than l,oou new wine shops in the last ten years. Apparently not jnuny Prohibitionists visit that country.

The demand, for its leather has brought the kangaroo into imminent danger of extinction, and tht Australians are contemplating measures for restricting tho elausrhter of the animal.

There ie a greatly increased consumption et silk in China, officially attributed to the large quantity required for court use on the occasion of the young Emperor's marriuKe m February lust. 8

One of the Southern humoriets and philoa>pher, S "EillArp," lays it down as a toed principle that " thenewo was given a back seat by tho God who made him, and ■he will keep it."

Tho valus to Scotland of the opportunities for sport is very large. Tho deur forettM, of wfciiih there aie luy, coveting 3000 squaru EiUeeol lar.d.ustltw, for agriculture, rent or illoo,ooo annually

The Porte has at last been roused to give some attention to its naval forces, and the iroiieladn so long left in utter neglect are being , docked and repaired, bo as to bo fit for servioe in case of need.

'The book for whioh the Shah has been making; copious notes during his European tour will be published. soon after he gets back to Pama." It will be translated into both English, and French.

A Dresden bank has contracted to provide the Mexican Government with the capital to construct a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehnantepee. The Knipps are to furnish the iron and steel for the road.

The .English Government is interesting itself hi tlio color blindness of seamen, and Home rigid examinations and experiments are to be made in the fall when all the naval reviews and shows shall have elided.

France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Russia, have nearly cleaned Englaud out of pure-bred Hackney, Clevelaud bay, and Yorkshire coach stock, and more money is now made in raising them than in trotters.

Tho betrothal of the last unmarried niece of Leo XIII. with Count Salvatore Salamei, a member of the Guordia Nobile, will soon be announced. The Count having no fortune whatever, the Pope will give his niece a dowry of £4000.

The lanco promises to become the ohief arm of all the horse regiments in the German Army. The Frenoh had discarded it entirely, but vow that they see it being adopted iv this universal manner by the Germans they are again beginning to copy them.

A 30-inch main used for natural gas at Pittsburg was being tested recently imder pressure from compressed air, when it exploded, the fragments and the debris being hurled among, a crowd of wor'men. Two men wero killed outright and 14 injured, several of them fatally.

Alexander Dumas,/?& is writing a new play and novel, both on the same theme. They aro to be published and acted simultaneously soon after the new year. It is said that the principal part in the comedy has beon written up to suit Mdile. Bartpt, of the Theatre Francais.

Dr. Sandys, the co-editor with the late Mr. Paley of a useful seleotion from the private orations of Demosthones, has recently completed his edition of the epeech against the law of Leptines, with introduction and critical and explanatory notes. It will be published by tho Pitt Press.

Bobby Sees the Opening — BobbyMamma, will you give me 5 cents if I am good all to-day ? Mother—But don't you think it would bo nicer to be good of your own accord ? Bobby—l guess not, because the teacher said it was better to be good for even a littlo than to be good for nothing.

Something Wrong—A child who had just mastered her catechism confessed herself disappointed because, she said, " though I obey the fifth commandment, and honor my papa and mamma, yet my many days aro not a bit longer in the land, because lam still put to bed at seven o'clock.—Times of India.

The name of the poet Tscbcrnisuhowski, whom the Czar has recently released from Siberia, is sxid by a newspaper letter-writer at St. Petersburg to be "a watohword among the people throughout tho length and breadth of Russia." It does look like a watchword of -just that kind. It appears to be capable not only of filling the length and breadth of Russia but of overlapping at both sides.

The British consul at Nish, in Servia, in his last roport mentions that at Avala, near Belgrade, quicksilver is abundant in conjunction with a green-colored mineral which has been named avalite, and the properties of which are still unknown. It is hoped that, amongst other uses, it may be found possible to apply it as a (substitute for arsenic as a coloring body, in whioh event the discovery will prove a very valuable one, as avalite is said to bo free from the poisonous qualities which make the eminent of areenio bo dangerous.

According to statements made in conneotion with the London strike, it cost as much to ship goods from London to Glasgow by rail as from London to Melbourne by ship. American, wheat, French eggs, Dutch vegetables and Danish cheese pet to English ports cheaper than the products of the midland counties. The complaint of high freight rates on English railroads ia old. They are due partly to Parliamentary expenses, partly to costly construction, and partly to unnecessarily high speed, beside the general drift of English policy in favor of foreign trade.

A Hongkong physician reaches the con> elusion from careful investigation tha

Chinese may be confirmed opium smokers and still enjoy good health. So they will live in a sewer and be as healthy as a rat, and resist various forms of vice and filih that would kill any white man. It is a part of tho Chinese physical capital which enables them to compete with ail other racee. Let no white peraon, however, imagine that because a Chinaman can thrive on opium and filth, he can do likewise. Hβ ia not built that -way.

Speaking of widows marrying made me think of an incident that happened near whtre I lived way back in the fifties. I lived next door to Dick Tolbot. He had five little brats. Dick went off hunting one day and shot his leg. It was mighty bad weather and at last tho doctors had to cut his leg oif to save his life. He lingerea along for several months and then died at last. I whs there tho night ho died. His wife took ou mighty bad. Some of the neighbors went to her to console her, but it did uo good. At last I went to the seemingly hcurt-brokeu wife and told her that poor Dick was gone and told her it did no good to " take on so." " 1 can't help it," said the, and continuing, pointing toward her children, said : " Juet think whatiheee poor children will have to come under a stepfather. It is more than I can bear."