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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5915, 21 August 1890, Page 4

Scissors.

Great Britiiin hr.s .392,G5G miners. London has C,OOO union \?omen oigarsn'skers. Lord Brassey is the owner of 10,000 acres ie Australia. Moscow has a society for the endowment of poor brides. Over 500 ladies in Wnshiogtan are wearing divided skirts. A son of tfco Sultan's brother-in-law has been captured by brigands. A nobleman is feeding daily 1,000 victims of the fnmino in Tokio, Japan. The chef de cuisine in charge of Queen Victoria's table ia a Mohammedan. The religious belief of the people will not be taken in the coming English census. Soudanese soldiers arc being , recruited in Egypt for service in the Congo Free State. Queen Natalie of Servia has had her lifo insured for £-10,000 for the benefit of her eon. Mile. Louiso Michel says that many of the pleasaritest hours of her life have been spent in prison. A glass trumpet is now used for the phonogrurli, and it reproduces sound to perfection. The ex-Qaeon Isabella now spends her time in Paris talking übiut " When I was at Windsor)"

Herr Miguel, the new German Finance Minister, favors an increase of the incomo tax and corn duties.

Professor Druminond's'' Tropical Africa is being printed in' embossed characters for tho use of tlio blind.

Italy is trying to divert the flood of Italian emigration from America to her newly acquired colonies in Africa.

Hoses in silver bowls are tho most fashionable table decorations for dinner parties in Paris just now.

Among , Tims cabmen are several Englishmen who appeal particularly to strangers " who do not know one word" of Frenah."

New ocean steamships are boing built on tho Clyde for the Cunard, National, and Stato Lines which will cotno out next year.

You can't praise a man for having done a great thing without hearing from the little jnan ut his side who " advised him to do it."

There is an agency in Paris where moneyseelung noblemen may see a ;< correct list " of American families having eligible daughters.

The largest contingent of recruits ever demanded by tho Kussian War Office, 270,000, was fixed for the next enrolment by the latest ukase.

On the antiquity of the Book of Psalms. Mr Gladstone adopts the late Canon Cook's conclusion that 73 Psalms were written by the " Minetrel King."

A new lion hunter has arisen to succeed the lato Bombonnel in Algeria, named Cattier,' who invites not only men but •women to come and hunt.

Dr. Gatling, the inventor of tho Gatling gun, is said to bo at wort on a new artificial ice machine, which, he believes, will make ice at one "tenth the present cost.

An English plaintiff lias recovered damages and costs for injuries doae to his clothes by a barbed-wire fence while walking along a public path after dark.

It is roughly estimated that tho census which has jus? been tuken will chow tho population of New York to be 1.700,000. Chicago claims 1,250,000 inhabitants.

Tho Bangror County Court Judtre on Jlonduv lu'itle a peremptory order of committal for 28 days against Lord Charles Kerr for non-payment of fifteen guineas for saddlery.

There are 600,000 children in Great Britain insured at this moment, and the Bishop of Peterborough behoves O'OO are murdered every year for tho insurance inonev.

Arrangements are now in progress for tho betrothal of tho Dukn of Clarence and Avondale (Prince Albert Victor) to Princrs-i Victoria of Teck, and it may bo expected that the betrothal will shortly bo announced.

Mr Stanley is likely, so says tho London correspondent of tho Liverpool Mercury, to net his knighthood. His glorification of LordSalisburyhasundoubtedly strengthened the Government, and will tend to make Mr Stanley tho persona yrala to the Prime Minister.

Mrs Langtry ears that " a woman of the deadest white skin, with bluo eyes and blonde hair, becomes a poem when sho dous a yellow gown." So cjuotes a New York dramatic contemporary, " and," it adds on its own hook, " the man who pays for it becomes a tragedy in three seta wbx-it he sees the bill."

Hypnotism has reached that point that tho French authorities think of creating a superior council of medical jurisprudence at the Ministry of Justice, to ba composed of medical men and magistrates, who will by required to givt< opinions an to the responsibility of criminal* in connection with the questions of suggestion and hypnotism and heredity.

At tho last fitting of tho Academy of Medicine, M. Labordo of the Paris faculty announced his discovery of a new anesthetic, which he calls crystalised uarccin. A solution of this subst-mco sends tie patient into a sound sleep free from vomiting or digestiutr derangement and without subsequent torpor. i?o far experiments have been confined to rabbits.

Sir Edward Hamley—Lord Tennyson's friend and comrade—relates that ho rend the first criticism of "his novel, " Lady Widowhood," just before his eutrancu into the Battle of the Alma. " I wu» Bitting on my horse," he says, " waiting for the order to" advance, when, as the brigade of Guards passed, an officer said: ' Here, Hamley, there's a criticism on your book in this,' and handed me the Times, which had just arrived."

In his music-room Alma Tadmiia has a magnificent piano, all the cover of which inside is lined with parohment, where artists who play upon tho ioftrument write their names. The sides of the piano are inlaid with ivory ; the upper pan of the keyboard is of tnofaio, representing bird.i upon branches, the leaves of which contain the music they are siugiug, and tho seat is a miniature of Uio Great Mogul's throne. This expensdvo caprice cost its owner enormous sums.

Miss Margaret Alford, nieco of that distinguished Greek scholar and cleric, Dean Alford, Las won first place in the classical tripos at Cambridge, where, in the mathematical tripos, Miss i'awcotthad just before taken precedence by 100 marks of the mule Senior Wrangler. Beside these young ladies, two others, Miss Field and Miss Lea, take honors among tbo Wrangler?, while ten more are Senior Optimes, and four ure Junior Uptimes. Ko woman failed to puss the ex!iminationn with credit, when tix rai'ii ■were " plucked."

ProfesHor O. 0. Marsh, who has made various paleontolofjicul excursions in the West, becauio tho friend, in that far reirion, of Black Bull Bear, a bloodthirsty Sioux Chief. Tijia gcutlcman happened" to accompftTiy a circua to New-Haven the other day and resolved to call upon tho professor. Accompanied by a large party of hie warrior and equaw friends ho vi.-uted the Peubody Museum, and Professor Marsh lunched to nee tho chiuftain jumping up and down in his glee at meotin;< his old friend. The Professor, Black Bull Bear, and other Indians made speeches.

A thrilling talo was told the other day at an imjuext fit Clay ton-lc-Mours on a miner named Brtidehaw, who had beeu buried by a fall of earth. The rescue party worked at thu iniinenso mass of debris for three liouw, encouraged by the sound of tho buried man'svoice. Only ono man could work at a time, arid they were in constunt ajtprehun.sion of another fall of tho roof. At last they saw Bradrihav. - , with bis head just out'of the earth )lo im- 1 plorod them to do their utmost to savo him, rat another fall occurred, and tho deceased' -.rying "Good-1-yo, I'm choking-," was juried eight feet deep.

Sarah Bernhardt lias confessed fo an inerviower an intense but purely artistic lassiou for Stanley. "I think" him tho greatest of men," says the impulsive Sarah 'Do you know, I adore him. I have every hotoLTaph of him that has been published -full-faced, hide-faced in every concoivoblo attitude," (She would jump at The iancc of accompanying , the explorer into ie heart of Africa. "if only ho would aal: .c," sho said, " I would bs delighted to go ith him. Yes, I would go with him irough all ho has been through, and be ichanted." Stanlny will doubtlf>.-. be eased with this. What MissTeimant will ink is doubtful.

Thero aro two artisans of Biistol, mcd Johnson, who are tvvirn, und ln- ,- 'een whom tho simiHrity is fiji , j'luro r<— irkitbl'j than in ttyuktspeavu't; tv.o romias oven. Kof- osily they or the ue heiyht and wciyiit," hu\i:i; : - th.'. s-un'c ored hair, eye.", and complexion, i'lcr,t- ;- physic'll H!t:u?'ir£>mentß, iin,i feeding, liciiig , , running , , laiurhinir, oryir:;r, air.<>l •, and alike ; but they uvu of i same occupation, hold the tiitne position, [ have the came religions porfuiasion and is and dislikes. JJore .singular still, y bavo espoused very similar wives, and f havo the same number of children, > are of tho samo sexes, three girls and is boys each.

Sir Frederick Leighton, tho president of the Koyal Academy, is an exceedingly handsomo man, with uncommonly good manners. To these charming gifts he adds n, beautiful home. Venetian marble stops lead up to a studio so full of lovely that you can hardly discern the wood for tho trees. He has lately had a serond studio built out of tho older vast apartment. Tha new one ia entirely roofed with glass, in order to got us muoh lig-ht as possible for the artist's work in tho dull days of winter. His studio ia in a very droll situation. It is on the site of old Holland Park, Kensington, whero Lord Holland, the friend of Macaulay, lived fifty years ago. Leighton's houre has a magnificent garden behind it, but the palatial residence can only be approached by a very narrow street, it you go in at one end of that street you pass "between two rows of the tiniest, meanest houses, ocouoieel by tho purest class ot laboring people. If you enter the street at theothlrend, you must walk in between mews. Having passed through one or other of there mwin entrances, the road widens, and you find the doors of fcnr Frederick Leijrhton's palace and a multitude of smaller studios.

Once in two years tho artistic world ef London has an opportunity of indulging in a favourite form of idolatry—worship of " the Daly Company," who visit us biennially from New York. The astute Mr Augustin Daly has taken tho Lyceum|from JtTr Irving , , and invitations are rife to l'efipptioßS "in honor of the Daly Company." Mr Daly is the most successful specimen of tho non-actor manager in England _or America. Ho confines himself to adapting farces for it from the German, and exercising a general discipline over it. The backbone of tho company is Ada Rean, a somewhat awkward-looking but comely Irish girl, with a humor, refinement, individuality, and power of suggestion in her acting which critics pronounce unequalled. Her acting, somehow, seems something quite apart from herself. It is a sort of unconscious emanation. There is nothing in her appearance, her accomplishments, or her conversation to load up to it. It is inspiration—that is all. The Daly Company sheds its ingenues at. the rate of something liko one a season, the girls becoming: wives of Western millionaires—so that when the company comes to London you have always to ask after the health, not of tho last ingenue, but of tho ''ingenue before lost/ which the company huvo considerable difficulty in recalling. But as long as they can keep Ada Roan in a state of celibacy and hard work, the fortunes of the company stand secure. Not that it is merely n " star " company. John Drew, the lover, is what no other stage lover ever was from the beginning of creation—at oaeo handsome, humorous, self-possessed, cynical, nnd incisive. Aβ tho first "old man ,, of tho company—James Lewis—ia also an artist quite apart from all competitors in his power of delineating the elderly and bothered paterfamilias of tho States.