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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6003, 20 November 1890, Page 4

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Ruskin has two volumes of poems in the press.

Pasteur is small, pale, and limps when he walks.

The roller-skating mania has again broken out in London. Now York grocers -want fruit and vegeabies sold by weight.

Compressed carbonic acid promises to revolutionise warfare. F. C. Burnand gets £3000 a year for oditing London Punch.

Tho fashionable London woman now dyes her hair a mahogany color. The Czar's picked personal, body guard consists of fifteen native Corsicaus.

Ono hundred and thirteen places in the United States are called after Mad Anthony Wayne.

The Jewish residents at Sebastopol, Russia, have nearly all received orders to leavo the country.

The. log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln lived while a boy will find a pktco in the World's Fair exhibits.

The Scottish Home Rule party is enquiring into the condition of tho crofters who emigrated to Manitoba.

Marriages of convenience, which havo been a social bane in France, are said to be ton the decline there.

An extraordinary outbreak of influenza, fortunately of a mild typo, has made its appearaneo in London. Mrs Jefferson Davis has received subscriptions for 45,000 copies of her husband s life, to appear shortly.

Tho library of Napoleon 111, saved from the Tuileries when it was in flames, is shortly to bo sold by auction. Of tho twenty-six barons who signed Magna Chnrta all but three hnii to "mako their mark," being unable to write.

Boucicault's first wife was not Agnes Robertson, but a rich English widow who died after three years of married life.

It is .tattd at Bucharest that tho Crown Prince of Rouumnia will shortly be betrothed to Princess Victori.i of Wales.

The prison "population of Eniriand has fallen oil of late years. Out of 113 prisons fifty-seven havo been altogether closed.

It is *aid tbat money can nover give happiness. This is an experiment, however, that every man wishes to try for hirr.selh

Dr Schliemann's excavations in Troy aro m .king slow progress on account of tho depth of the deposit of earth on tho ruins. The Czar is the largest of all living landed proprietors, owning an estato which is nearly equal in area to tho whole of Franco.

The population of New Eniriand has increased noarlv half a million in the last ten years. But tlio farming population has decrease .

The United States is by far the hirgest consumer of post*?-' envelopes of any nation in the world, Over 600,00J.000 having been used the past year.

Bishop Blyth of Jeru .ilr .v says there are now' in Palatine nearly 70.00U Jews, whereas in IR SS there were only 23,000, and in 1841 only 8,000.

Li.ut..i_nt Murks, the "Russian cyclist reached Paris on October ..th hriviou-accom-plished tho distance from St Petersburg, 2,000 miles, in thirty days.

Ministers declare that in nine oases out of ten brides lire much more self-possessed than are bridegrooms when the mam ago ceremony is being performed.

In 1820. a pair of ru.be>- shoes was seen for the first time in the "United States— they were covered with cilding and in shape were like tho shoes of a Chinaman.

Captain Geortfo Mackenzie, the chess player, is dying from consumption in Manchester England, where he recently look part in an international chess tournament. Tho President of Uruguay lives over a millinery store with his wife, but having the entire resources of the country at his command tho expense does not worry him.

Col Lebol, the celebrated inventor of the Frcnei. mwrizirio _un. is fifty two yen™ old and has retired on account of ill-health after thirtv-iivo veiir.V service in the army.

The Prince of WaliM i. a direct, descendant of Xi in. Alfred, b.n. th., thirty-thud great _r.Tid.on. Tha- tlio *.n?li. 1. throne ha* remtiinod in the same family for over 1,000 yarn. The bin. ting of the "Iron Gate," tho great rocky pass of the Danube, i* now in process. 'This work has b<?cn oonteir.pl .ted since Trojan's timo, but no one has hud the courage to undertake it.

The once famous Engli .1 vaoht Cambria ■which beat tho American schooner D.iunt-los'-'in a nice across the ocean, his jil»t aailed for tho West Coast of Africa, to become a " palm oil trader."

The form of real ctato deeds in tho State of Now York has Ivan reduced from three p ft "es to one, and tho cost of recording is fo ._ than half what it used to he. A good example for other State--.

Experts say that the buried city of Pompeii has m'-t vet yielded up a third of its artistic treasure, and that, at tho present rate of progress, .eveni! years will el. p.fl . efore it is thoroughly unearthed.

"The Twelve Apostles" i . the nam. of a strange variety of bird in Queensland, Au. - tralia. Thov invariably fly i. _••<■._* of twelve. They resemble, blackbird-, in appearance, but are of a rustier color.

It is stated that arrests of Armenians sit Constantinople continue, and that . ixty of the prisoners have already endured torture for the purpose of oxtorting evidenco from them favorable to tho Turkish cause

A letter to tho Now York Herald say thatl GOO men aro now at work on tho Nicaragua Canal and Railway, which latter has bPCII extended four miles inland. The health of the employes continues good.

No less than oighty-nine newspapers have been started in the State of Washington between January 15th and June 15th of tho present your. Of this number fifty-seven have been started weft of tho mountains.

In China all tri?» land belongs to the State, and n trilling sum per acre, never altered through lon . en', in.", is paid as rent; this is the on' . tax. in thu country, and it amounts to but about sixty cents per head.

Weeden, i-> his " History of Yew England," says that, in 1058 fifteen families came to Nowport. K.I , from Holland, bringing, with their goods and mercantile skilir the first throo degrees of Free Masonry.

Mrs Colt, widow of tho inventor of the revolver, has several millions of money, and lives in tho handsomest residence in Hartford, Cfc. Sho has, out of her own resources, erected a handsome Episcopal church near her homo.

The.i.-mature of Christopher Columbus -~,,; ~• '..or jirico than that of any other dead and gone celebrity. It is quoted in tho Paris market al -I.OOOf, while that of Titian only fetches 3,000f, and Rafael's is worth l.oOOf.

It was not the Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, who was lost in the recent wreck of a Turkish man-of-war, but Osman Pasha, a son-in-law of the Turkish admiral. The former is alive and commanding the Sultan's body guard.

Dona Emilia Pardon Bazan, according to an English critic, "is tho greatest of Spanish writers, perhaps tho greatest of living European writers ; certainly in England no woman can he named who comes nigh her."

During the six years comprised in tho period 188?, to 1889, no less than 289 pupils of the public schools in Prnssia have committed suicide. A largo number of these suicidos wero inspired by tho fear of not passing examinations.

Lord Wolseley is convinced that the days of cavalry fighting aro over, so far as England ia concerned. He lately addressed the Yeomanry cavalry at Sheffield and advised its members to make themselves efficient marksman and good fighters afoot.

Rubinstein, in his autography, thus estimates the proportions of ptople of tho leading nations who understand music :— Germany, 60 por cent.; Franco, IG per cent.; England, 2 per cent.; United States, higher than England.

Rhoda Broughton, the English novelist, has written twenty-two books and published but ten. She is 60 years old, snowy-haired, hut sweet-faced and sunny-hearted. She has a pretty homo in Oxford that it has taken her a quarter of a century to procure.

Heathen nations have different legends as to the origin of women. The Japanese hnliove that she grew on a tree, the Laplanders that sho was once a rabbit, tbo Persians that .ho fell from the heavens, and the Australians that sho was once a ioad. Two new sorts of tea are reported from abroad In England fa«hion has taken up _ mixturo of dried and cured hops. In Ger- j

many they are using strawberry tea, decocted from the young leaves of the straw- | berry plant, after they have been dried and prepared liko Chinese tea. It does net do for Japanese newspapers to speak ill even of dead rulers, much less of the living. Several Japanese editors have been sentenced to four years' imprisonment with hard labor for speaking disrespectfully cf the Emperor Jimiuu, who, if ho over existed, lived about 600 years ago. Three years before the battle of Waterloo Napeleon lost a pooket-book at the crossing of Beresina. After a lapse of more than three-quarters of a century it has been discovered in the possession of a Russian lady, who received it as a souvenir from Count Felix Ledochovsky. Prince Victor is among the candidates for its purchase. A search for the oldest clergyman iv England shows that the Rev. John Elliott, Vicar of Randwiek, will be one hundred in tbree months. Ho preached up to the age of ninety-five regularly, and occasionally last year. He goes to church now regularly every Sunday, and occasionally visits parishoners. Thomas Moonlight mortgaged his farm for §500 iv 1861 and used tho money iv raising tho First Kansas Battery. A year later Case Broderick joined this battery as a private and served in it to the end of the war. The two men aro now, by a singular coincidence, running for Congress against each other. Mile. Louise Gautier, a young French lady who had tho misfortune to be born deaf and dumb, has nevertheless passed with honor all the examinations of the Ecole dcs Beaux-Arts at Paris, receiving not only her diploma, but an appointment as teacher. Sho has been taught by the Grossolin system both to read tho lips and to speak, so that her infirmity is hardly noticeable. Looking Ahead—Littlo Johnny's father had been elected Commander of a Grand Army post—an honor of wliich he had good reason to he proud. Johnny could not conceal his exultatiou when he heard the news. " O papa, I'm so glad you've got to be a commander!" he said. "Thank you," said his father, "But can you tell mo, my son, why jou ate so glad ?" " 'Causo you'll have soldiers at your fuucral I" answered Johnny. Ono of the most pregnant sentences that Beecher ever uttered was, " Do the best you can where you are. aud when that is accomplished God will open a door to a higher sphere." In actual life this truth i 3 proved to be ono of tho natural laws iv tho ! spiritual world, and one of the natural laws in the business world, and one of the natural laws in tho world of scholarship as well. Theso opening doors are always above us, and tho ladder by which wo climb to them is always the samo. Tho rungs aro individual duties well performed, and they must be mounted one by ono.