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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5887, 19 July 1890, Page 4

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■'How long was Seddon's speech ?"' •' I don't kuow, i didn't havu my gas meter with me."

The little prayer beginning "Now I lay me down to sleep," was written by John Rogers, the martyr.

• There are about 640 miles of electric railways in the United States. Kansas leads with thirty-four miles.

The virions Socialist organizations of New York are reported as representing a membership of 27,800 men.

Grants were made last year from the British Royal Literary fund to tho amount of £1,000 to fourteen women.

Chancellor yon Caprivi is a bachelor. American heiresses will swarm in Berlin this summer.—N.Y. World.

A woman character was first acted by a I woman, so far as tho English stage is con-J cenifd, on November 9, 1056. *|

Queen Christine of Spain is thirty-one years old. She is said to be the most popular Queen tho nation ever had.

It is a mistake to say that rain falls alike on the just and tho unjust. The latter always has the umbrella.—Puck.

Neither the North nor the South forget its soldiers. There are 101 ex-Union soldiers in Congress to SI ex-rebels.

Among 05,000 lads who recently offered themselves as recruits for the Army, suys" Lord Meath, 430 per 1000 were rejected for phvsioal unfitness.

Perspiration is nature's dovid* for keeping the body cool. The curious thing is that •when the perspiration is greatest, the temper ia often wannest.

Fredeiiek Shields aud Anna Parsons, each of whom is seven feet tall, have recently joined hands and hearts at the marriage altur in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Count Taaffe, the. Austrian statesman, is an Irish peer with a Welsh name ; and his predecessor, Count Crennovillo, was destcendod from a Bishop of London.

The total length of the streets, avenues, boulevards, bridge*, quays, and thoroughfares of Paris U set down at 000 miJes, of which nearly '200 are planted with trees.

The Church of England Bible Society has just celebrated its eighty-sixth birthday, and issued a French version of the Now Testament in which there are exactly eightysix errors.

It is said that of the 5,000 clubs ami societies in New York nearly 4,000 aro distinctively German. The tendency of a German to form a society could not be more forcibly illustrated than'by these figures.

Mrs (wishing- to make [up a recent ounrrel) —Good niorniu', Mrs Fiyrui. Is there onything '-'i kin bring yex from tit' market this mornin'? Mrs Flynn—Phut do yez take me for— a rcsavyor of stlioli.-a gooii- ?

A pretty Kensington eirl nttles this cfi' hko luuuii: —"Sis r.Uvr sieves «.f sifl-.-d thistles and a sieve of uiipifted tliistles. I itici » niftt'J tlu-tle sifter nnd an uusift-'(l tbi.-tli' sifter with 11 sieve <.-f sifted thisth-s and !i sieve of unsifted thirties.

It is not sTMierally known that the custom of keepiuir birthdays is many thousir d year.-* old ; it is recon'Si;-! ii. the fortieth chujjter of Geii'sis, twentieth verse : " And it came to puss the third day, which was Vhiira'ih'a birthd.iy, that he made a feast unto till his servants."

The sacrifice of widows on the funeral pyre still goes on in Ruli, »n lflnnd near Java. They are burned ftloutr with the remains of their husbands. The latter's slaves also share tho *nmo fate if ho be of high rank. A short time ago three wives of a chief were cremated.

Mr Walter Besuut, Mr Henry Kinglake. and some other admirers of the lato Richard Jefferies have exerted themselves successfully to secure a monument to him in Salisbury Cathedral. The commission has been given to Miss Thomas the Australian artist, whoso bust of Henry Fielding adorns the Shire Hall of Taunton among the other Somerset worthies.

Here is a littlo story for somo despots. "I understand the language of birdn," save a magician. Tho king- asked him what the owls iii tho ruins were saying. '• Thuy are praisinjf your Slujesty ; during your father , * reign they say it was difficult to find broktn down buildings where they might rest in quiet, and rear their families ; but now, thanks to your glorious war*, thry havo whole villages where they live in peace."

George Bidwell, the principal i« the great conspiracy to dofraud tho Bank of England, now earns his living by the sale of his book, "Forging His Chains," and by giving lectures calculated to warn all y<nmg ineu and those holding positions of trust of tho misery, auileiing, and ignominious death -which invariably follow an attempt to acquire wealth through the commission, of crime. Men of the Time has secured a new editor in Mr Georpe Washington Moon. This is tho «rentletrr.i!i who took Dean Alford to task" over his "Queen'fl English." Mr Moon* reply, " Tho Deatrs English," in an entertaining book to reud._ There will not be ntarlv ho much fun in his edition of Men of the Tirao, but it is promised thai 500 new names shall be introduced.

Yonug man (to little bioilier of girl on whom he has called)— Dees your sister Ella ever *peak of me, Johnnie ? Little Brother y es ; often and often. V.M.—What does she Hiv? L.B. —Well, s-he said to pa onoe, •when pa said you were rather fresh looking, that cho didn't think yon knew enough to go in when it rained, but that don't matter, for I see you've brought your umbrella.

" I desire to insert this small advertisement in your paper to-morrow morning." t< Tbis," . s »id t'"-' advertising clerk, lookinjr it over, "will go amongst the ' wants.' " •'Hava you no 'wish column r" " "No, mum." " " Then, frir," said the young lady haughtily, "you need not insert it. I simply vrinh a situation us governess. Thfit is all. It is not a ca*o of want. Is there any newspaper printed ia English in thif phtco?"

The largest fee Sir Astley Cooper ever received wan literally thrown lit his bend. He operated very successfully on a millionaire, by name Hyatt, and so delig-hted wiw tlie old" inun with hie recovery that he pive £300 to each of his attending physicians. " But you, sir," cried tho patient to Astley, "deserve something better. Titke that, fiirr" With that ho flung his nightcap at the surgeon. Sir A alley replied with dignity, as ho picked up the cap, " Sir, I will pocket tho affront;" and well for him that he did, for the cap was lined with a draft for 1000 guineas.

One of the richest women in Australia arrived in London last week. She is a young widow with a forture, it is said, of £25.000 a year, and her story illustrates what " a tfold mine " is the Broken Hill silver mine in New South Wulea. Tho lady's husband paid £120 for certain shares in this mine. When he died a short time ago the shares were comparatively valueless, ami ho thought he whs leaving his wife and younir family in destitution. Shortly after his death the shares rose suddenly to a price so marvellous that lho widow sold a half of her share for £11)0,000, and is now receiving £25,000 a year.

"Which class of our population is the most addicted to reading ? Some interesting , light is thrown on this (j^uestinn by tho latent re- ■■ ■ . ■ "" ■ ~'!: iin Free libraries A-.iiyujißt oilier tublts therein given i.-> o:il- i-howiiijr the occupation of borrowers admitted during 18Ki'. iieholars and students, 1u52 : elcrks ami bookkeepers, 1138; errand and ofiico boys, 301 : teaciierw, •29h ; shop a?."is-ttiiit.s 200 ; jcwv-Hfru, 2ld : compositors and printcw, I i>2 ; milliners and dressmakers, ICO. Almost at the bottom of the h.-t come journalists, ij: iiewsuireiits, 2e and reporters, '1. Is this because they liare librarie." of their own, or beeuuso tlie peoplr who write in newspapers lose the tasto fo reading buoku. —Pall Mull Gazette.

JPeorle about the RuKsian Court are now beginning to enquire whut htis btcoino of tho sum of £15,0U0 or tberuuboiits which ■Wiis contributed ut St. Pttertilmig for tlic relief of the during , tho recent famine, 'lho sufferers are reported to have receivuil neither the money nor provisions purchased with it; while by a curious coincidence, Prince Nicholas "has lately been enlarging his pahtce, and is just nowbuildiujrhiriiself a splendid villa among the mountains. Ho srot rid of several thousands of his starving subjects by the ea.sv expiJt-nt of packing , them of!' to Siberia.—'me World.

The entrance of the eldest son of th c Prince of AVidi'S into the Liouse of Lord* during the lifetime of his father is, mys " Atlas, , ' an event unique in English history, 101 , tin , fii"p]t' rc-ii!-'.'ii ihiit thy ntnvlv created L>uke of Uiiusioj mid Avondale and Earl of Arh'H'j is tij'oiity eldest son of a Priii'w of V,"..i(.'H. Mm.'* i'riixti- of Wall's were, wi-o L ■-: nttnii.eu, iiiuc-h k<3 passed by several yv;ir;', I■-1 --* Ju-.jonty whilo hi , , father wus sr.li :-:.■ ■ir-/; pparent ti/tlie Crown. Frederick i>u!... ; ot ildiuburgh, aftcrwuruß Frinco oi" V^.t'o:-—the Fnd wiu «■>» " alv/v endisatiwi," :n.i'> at'tuv il.tiv. ii-tt " nomort- to be said" — t-i■...-..- to doing so. Hut George 11. beciirat . King wiiilu his son whh a amor. I