Scissors.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5903, 7 August 1890, Page 4

Scissors.

I'ri iv a leva" addressed by one of Queen N:.ih:.lie's ladies of honor to the editor of the Giiijdiir.ine of Belgrade, it. appear.-, th.it tb.it vnluippy woman has been absolutely precluded from seeing her son, the youthful sovereign of Servia.

A correspondent of tho London Standard i-uiis ntttntiim to the cricket in a sinsle issue of that journal as a total for six matches'of 3,7-1- runs, or 624 riir.s per match, which he considers the best on record for two days' cricket.

A painful sensation has been created in Milan by tbo suicido of tho wealthy banker, Spusrliavdi, whose house is one of tho oldest ritid"most firmly established in Lombardy. He was 74 rears of ago, and shot himself with » revolver, while laboring, it is believed, under a snoden derangement of his usually clear mental faculties.

"It is reported that the famous Louis Quiuze clock at Milton-hall, the Northamptonshire scat of tho Fitzwilliam family, has just been disposed of to a representative of the Rothschild family for £30.000. The clock is said to ha.ye been a wedding present from a foreign potentate to a former Countess Fitzwilliara. It is 14ft. high.

"Upon the estate of Prince Pozzo di Borgo, in Corsica, the old palace of the Tuileries is beinu- reconstructed, with tho very materials of which it was formerly composed. For lifter it hud been set fire to by the Commuuurds, the Prince purchased the walls as they stood, and bad tho stones marked aud numbered as they were taken down. Judicial proceedings havo been instituted in Vienna against Professor Bru.hl, president of the Institute of Animal Anatomy, for haviug published a work entitled The Truth in Nature ; or God, His Works and Tradition, Examined from a Scientific Point of View. This, it is alleged, is an outrage on the established religion of tho empire. In order that tho literary quality of the memoirs which ho is preparing for publication may be worthy of the importance of the events to which thi-y will relate, Prince Bismarck has associated with himself in the work of preparing them M. Buzzi, a native of one of the Italian cantons of Switzerland, n ho has already distinguished himself in the fii'ld of historical research. According to a Hamburg newspaper which is understood to enjoy the confidence of Prince Bismarck, he devotes a portion of every day to making a selection from the innumerable letters ho has received during his public career. These fill 10 largo trunks, and as yet be has examined only n third of them. He preserves those which he regards as interesting and burns tho rest.

A good story of Louie the 18th is told in tho Recollections of tho Marquis of Verne, just published in Paris. When the King had become grossly corpulent by his gourma><dise, the faculty prescribed that his breakfast should consist of oue fresh egg only. His servants were ordered to procure tho largest egg they could find, and when he had emptied it ho filled the shell with such dainties as he most preferred, and greedily devoured them.

In order to testify his friendly feelings towards the French nation, the Czw of Russia, has issu"d a ukase authorising the holding of a French exhibition iv the buildings erected fir tbo Moscow Exhibition in 18S2. Considering that the Russian tariff is protective to the extent of being prohibitive of importations from abroad, tha raisou i<" A.re of such an cxliieition is by no means clear.

A band of youthful malefactors, eleven in ruimb- r, the eldest of whom was only fourteen and the youngest nine, has just b»--en broken up by the police in Paris. They subsisted on plunder, and had for their lender a buy named Marchandon, fourteen years of age, whose elder brother had just been guillotined for murder. On being locked up for tho niirht, Marchandon committed suicide in his cell.

M. Ernest Kenan is ahou 1 , to publish a new book, entitled The Future of Science, iv which he examines the intellectual and materia', work accomplished by collective humanity throughout the ages, ai,d prorvmnds the theory that each nation leaves behind it a short r**nmc, which, as it were, the extract and quintessence af the millions of obscure beings who have passed away, and that this " pair.ting by masses," as he calls it, is tho grand process of Providence.

Poor Til. Spitzner, who died the other day in Paris. leaving- behind him a gallery of pictures valued at £800,000, was thus referred to by a newspaper published at Lille : —" The death is announced of Spitzner, the collector, whose establishment was installed every year at our fair." The Spitzner herein spoken of is au Austrian showman, who annually exhibits casts of the heads of notorious criminals who have beeu executed during the year. Such is fame !

The manufacture of spurious certificates of character for male and female domestic* of dubious reputation is not: confined to the cities of western Europe only. It has just been discovered in St; Petersburg that a functionary connected with one of the Universities has been making a handsome income for years past by selling documents of this kind, written ou paper emblazoned with his emit of arms, and duly authenticated by his lii'-'hly respectable signature.

A story current in Berlin of Prince Bismarck bavin-.r once consulted a celebrated fortune-tiller in St. Petersburg, who predicted that he would become a great person - litre in a great empire, but that, he would be eventually laipplanted by a person coii-ue.-ted with navigation and the navy. Years afterwards he remembered this prophecy, it is saio, and it led to his removal of Admiral Sto.-ch from the head of the German Admiralty. But this also was tho post foriiierlv held by Prince Bismarck's successor.

-Tory the First, who in spite of his feminine name, is a man, and professes to be King of the Sedangs, has been arrost"d at Haiphong on a charge of swindling. While in Brussels ho ran heavily in debt io the Und lord of the hotel in which he wan and on departing left behind him, .-is security for the payment of his bill, a box containing, a.s ho averred, a necklace of pearls of inestimable value belonging to his Queen. The box was see led with the Royal Anns, and when a legal tribunal authorised thi- breaking- of tbe seals nothing waa found inside but a- r.umber of cowrie shells.

The celebrated champagne cellars of M. M. Chandoii, at Epernay, aro now entirely l'ghted by electricity, tho motive force being supplied by two dynamos of 00Jior.-.' each, with .'our iiccumulatiinj b:«tt'-rii;.'i. Besides the fixed lamps, there arc numerous movable ones to enable tbe workmen to shift from place to place, in piir.'iiinif their operations. One great ndof the electric system of lighting is that it eiiahlus tho maintenance of that uniSonnity of temperature which is essential to the production and maturation of good champagne.

Captain Calvo, who recently made a balloon ascent from Madrid, cam? very near losing his life. The apparatus, iv its do.-Mvnt uii'in the palace of Hetortello, knocked down several chimneys, in-jured various roof.-., and played sad havoc with ipiito a not .york of telephone wires. The intrepid aeronaut succeeded in yiapplinjr the iron balcony of a fourth floor window iv the palace, «n:d in extricating himself fi'uiii the car, which presently foil with a tri-ca-t crash iv thu strut-'. Captain Calvo

ese ip -.J wirli o:i!y :i low scratch.-, ami »-„* enthusiastically ebeered by the popul.ee or. presenting i '"iseif at the window througt wliich ho had entered the building.

The sale of tho magnificent collection of works of art Sec, formed by M. Seilln're was brought to a conclusion in Pans ou the 11 tli ot'-V ay. It realised upwards of £000,000 On the last day, a suite oi" iliawingroom furniture, covered with old 8.-auvio tapestry, and consisting of eight pieces only, was bought by an English gentleman for or about i'.iii'A fur each of the six armchairs and twoe ouehe*. A secretaire of rosewood, ornamented with gilt prouzes and enriched with three panels of old Sevres porcsluiu, painted with ilowers, und belonging to the time of Louis Qiiutoize, was knocked down to tbo Princuss oi V/agram for „I,SOO.

The manager of the famous lmulonette company iv Paris has announced that ho is prepiring for next wintu. i now pieit entitled, "Tho Mystery of the Nativity," to b pi iduc it with appropruti i-ioury, niuM<, it,d (.ostunies It will i ompii«c four table iu v out of which will pit tnt tin interior of the stable at Bethlehem ; another tin shcuhirds h team 'to the ai -join host by night: a third the star of tho Magi ; aud a fourth the Adoration. The comic element will 1 )*. Mjpiud t-'j Amor 1 _<*, who will dthitt i Mmoirms di-inui _ tnd the mv n_t' is em Inl to n totju ill good CithoiK iii t nil U{,n tif Vii-in "VI iry , Md 1 - ( n < v hi ill not be