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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5978, 1 November 1890, Page 4

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South Australia has 1.5,000 Germans.

It is impossible to "steal " a million dol

The Manchester, England, Canal is nearly completed. The torpedo-boat had its origin in the United States.

Fire ami brimstone loft Sodom without a house and Lot.

France h.is just two marshals left—Can rob. rt and Mm: Million.

Thero are thirty-nino theosophical societies in tho United Sttttos.

Outside of tho potato crops Irish farmers havo had a generally good year.

Salvator is pronounced as spelled, with the accent on till three syllables.

A Now York dentist has the pleasure -ol operating upon tho Czar of Russia.

Tho average weiyht of an American man is 14-. pounds; of a woman, 125 pounds.

Iv Great Britain one-fourth of all those who live to be sixty-fivo years old aro in the poorhouse.

Married women are not permitted to tenet in tho publio schools of Philadelphia, Widows aro permitted to teach.

Tho trans-Saharan railway scheme is backed by tho Banquo do Russe et Francaise. It is to bo 2000 miles in length.

Geneva, which was once one of tho most inexpensive cities in which to reside, is claimed now to bo as expensive as Paris.

Jim. do Barrios, widow of the ex-Presi-dent of Guatemala, denies that she is ongaged to ex-King Milan. She never me' him.

Tho Corean alphabet is phonetic, and is so simple that anyone can learn to read in a day; nearly all the women in Corea cau road.

Like Others.—Mrs Bunting—What does your husband think of tho warm weather ? Mrs Larkin— He often applies a heated term to it.

"The Africans in natural resources are the richest people in the world," says Bishop Taylor, the missionary Bishop of the Methodist Church.

The population of London can be hos'' estimated by tho not generally known fac that it is .creator than that of Norway anc Sweden combined.

A Government room at St. Petersburg is o-20 feet long and 150 in breadth. A battalion can Completely manoeuvre in it- Twenty thousand wax "tapers furnish light.

Herr Krupp, tho great pun manufacturer, has a plan for connecting tho city of Viennn with the Danube by canal. Tho Austrian Government is considering it.

At the Tinmen tiagedy in Russia, where tho prison guard fired upon their charge. twenty of tho latter were killed and twelvo wounded out of 100 political prisoners.

Tvndall. the eminent, scientific lecturer, wis seventy years old Friday week, and snent the anniversary of his birthday in Switzerland, high up among the glaciers. \ modern jrun of 0-inch calibre will fire a .hell weighintr 1000 pounds, a distance of eight milt... ««1 * >-''•" " f , , £-i™h OR, . l I b, ° will throw v '2,200 pound shell fifteen miles.

Liwe indnstrv on the Islo of Wight, long _ioi_loc_ed. has been revived through the efforts of Princes Beatrice, who has been inelegantly described as a "crank on lace."

Tin Jewish Workinurmen's Club in LonA, m i. sending many poor Hebrews to Pilot be and will provide them with funds with which to purcha.su land and start a

General V.teU, who turned thinirs top«yturvv in Central America, has just roiu-hed hi. twenty-seventh vcar-tho aire at which jfnpol_.nnassuui._d command of tho Army of Italy.

It. is reported that influence due to the mediation of a friendly court are at work whioh point to an approaching reconciliation between Prince Bismarck and Emperor William.

What Troubles Chicago-Thoy arc all upset in Chicago over ttw Comto do Inns title Thero isn't a man iv the whole town who can say whether Comte is pronounced Corn-tea or Compt.

At Panama an anti-Chinese society has been formed and tho Colombian Government ho* boan petitioned to pass rest, tchon laws Several Chinese worn roughly handled recently during a public demonstration. " I had to bo away from school yesterday " .aid Tommy "You must brinir an „* u . n " said the teacher. " Who from . "Your fa-her." "Ho ain't no i_ooa at makin' excuses. Ma catches him every time."

Mi'ks Helen Oraser of Cincinnati is a ru-toms broker and is doing a large business It is a difficult work that takes a loiur head and extensive knowledge of the tariffs and monetary systems of all countries of tho world. , Tho island of Cuba is now in a state of ox ,. o . a ive lawlessness. Tho bandit chiefs aripear to bo in control. In fact, even in the larger cities of Havana, Santiago, Pay-amo'iind Clenfuegositis unsafe to go about after dark unarmed.

One of Emerson's rules of Hfo was this : " Make tho most of yourself, for that is all there is of you " Ami he said to Mr W'-odberry ■' " I do not road tho sad in literature. The world is joyous and should not be painted in black. Melancholy is unendurable ; grief i-t abnormal."

Princess Maria Anna of Portugal, who is betrothed to an untitled doctor, is credited with this epigrammatic reply to a friend, who asked her how she could bring herself to marry so far below her own rank: "I prefer Vo marry a man without a name rather than a name without a man."

Mile Courbet, sister of the celebrated painter, has discovered the existence of an establishment in France which has be-m for homo time past taming out canvases Bi-i.ed "Courbet" by the score. One of tho forgeries was accepted for tho Paris Exhibition last year whilo a genuine Courbet was refused by the jury.

The Marshal of Mstislavi, Russia, in imitation ot the Governor of Odessa, has i .s-ied a proclamation ordering that corporal tr'ini.bmont shall bo publicly inflicted upon all Jews who do not rdiow proper respect, to Christians. If Jewish children continue noisy in tho streets, tho synagogue trustees sltal! be flogged in the marko.-pla.-o.

A s-vei-b by the burgomaster of Nitrembur.Mit lb" e.ioso of a concert in the choral festival hall at Vienun. proclaiming tho union of all Gorman-spo-tlting races in neaee or on the battlefield, made tho an_ier.ee so ent.husit-.stic the Austrian and German conductors embraced and tho audience kissed and hugged ono another.

It is at present impossible to obtain any dotal' i CMii.erttiusr the fato of Ismail Pasha, but, there is unfortunately every reason to believe that tho former famous ruler of EnvPt hltrt b « ! '" removed, in accordance with tb'n ole traditions of Turkish despotism. Ismail had .£l.oon,om. in bonds on Ins person when bo went to Constantinople.

A farmer named Brunt*, at Westerwieh, r.ermaiiV, suspected his wife of unfaithful- ",.,. He called her and their children into '~.;'[,,,,., barrod the doors, told his wife she ' 'i t "lie for her sin, and made the children "'", f o r her. Ho then bound her to a wooden bench and hacked her head off, and afterward blew out his own brains.

r UP Cnngreiratinnalist speaks out on colleges for women ; Our colleges for women are still iv the stage of experiment. One of their defects lies in attempting to <,iv.. a training precisely identical with similar Institutions for men, without reference to tho fact that the home is, ami must fo-evcr he, a women's highest sphere of

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Of all the. vegetables which furnish nourishment t- man"tho banana is tin. most Prolific A sin-do cluster often contains 100 lo ISo pods and weighs from sixty to eighty pounds. Humboldt says that a piece of land 120 square yards will produce 4000 pounds of fruit, while the same area will rarely produce moro than thirty pounds of wheat or eighty pounds of potatoes.

It is said to bo an easy day when Sir Morrell Mackenzie gives less than fourteen hours to his professional duties. Sir Morroll is liko an Amorican in the value that ho puts upon time. Ho says: "I like Americans because they know what timo means. Thoy waste no words, go straight to tho root of the matter, and they know us well as I do when tbo conversation is at an end."

There am now 120 women in tho Berlin telephone exchanges. It has !,. en decided to uso only women m .r.uuv, as i. lius been found that their v,i .c-i aro much mom audible than ram's, own... n< the bu, iei pitch. Tho men previously m Ua ); ed have t . >cc ..--•h'U'-'"d, b-.it have been gruduX ,IrViE-"'i oii' 'o dii'io'eiit wor'-:. In ono X'taV-Hi «!::«« there arc fifty t hW«H.l*y, only tho chief and iiwpeotiug ..tait being men.

A Frenchman hr.> ili-covov,-d that the human u-.nulh v* gradually working its way around toward tho h-ft ear, and account* for it by 'be invitH-iUc ...'. rknov of men to eat chiefly wirh tho to'th on the left ride of the month, 'i'his <--'-•«_ ™t tho teeth on that "ide and gives th. ; ia-w a cant toward the left I" the eour c o. a few ages it is believed tliut tho mouth will approach tho

left ear, and thero is some danger, if the process keeps on long enough, that it. may get around to tho back of the neck.

Tho ukasd puts the Hebrew now where tho laws of England put him in tho time of the PlantiiKenets. According to Madoo's " History of the Exchequer," the rulo was to floeco and misuse him, but for a consideration he could obtain protection and right. Joseph gave 40 marks that his son Hakelin might, be dealt with sccordiug to justico ; Juriiet, of Norwich, 1,800 marks to reside in England with the King's good will, and Murell, the Jewess, £100 for leave to marry Isaac, the Jew, as their espousals. Now the Hebrew sits in I arliament, and ouo of that race was her Prime Minister.

A Peoria paper informs its circles of renders that the Columbus tower which is to bo built at tho World's Fair in Chicago will bo about 1500 feet high, with a diamator of about .100 feet at tho base ; that it will be buiit on the same plan as the London tower, and will be surmounted by a tremeudous dome, where there will be a concert-hall and music in tho air ; that thero will bo cig-hteou elevators, two of whioh will run olear to the dome; that :v

hotel of 4000 rooms within tho structure is part of tho plan. This geonis to be all settled, although the directors have not yet been able to settle down upon a site for a..y part of tho exposition.

Abnnt forty is, according: to tho writer of the article, on Wilkie Collins' novels in Temple Bar, tho golden prime of literiity labor. It was between thirty-fivo and forty-five that tho .ltithor of "Tho Woman in White" find " Tho Moonstone " wrote his four best stories. Nothing that eamu before or after from his pen achieved a like fame. Tha.ketay was thirty-seven when ho completed "Vanity Fair," and fortyono when he published "Esmond' -- perhaps the most finished of all his w ° rKS - Dickens wroto '' David Copoerfield at thirty-iiiue, which was tho ago of George Eliot when " Adam Bede " first made her famous : and Anthony Trollope was fortytwo when ho achieved his first groat success with " Barchester Towers." Those who fall short or aro in excess of this fruitful period, however, niiirht derive comfort, as tho case may be, from the case of Chaucer, who is reputed to have written the " Canterbury Tales" between fifty-four and sixty, or of Victor Huiro, whose romances, " Notre Damo" and "The Toilers of the Sea" —each equally remarkable for boldness of invention and imaginative powerwere produced, the ono in his twenty-ninth, tho other in bis sixty-fifth year. Very Hired aspirants for literary famo may draw courage from tho case of Theophrastus, who is believed to havo sit down to write his only great literary success, " Ethical Cnaracters," at tho ripe age of ninety.