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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6029, 20 December 1890, Page 4

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Vienna has paper water pipe*. Aluminum is tho rarest metal. Ireland's exiles are 70,000 a ycftr. London has more Irish than Dublin

London has more Scotch than Edinburgh Berlin, with 1,500,000 people, has 1,398 dootors.

. Stanley makes tho length of tho Nile 4,100 miles.

The lati-st decreo of English etiquette is that boards must go.

Miller, it. is declared, writes the worst hand in the United States.

Tho rails in the Unitod States would go around the earth twelve times.

Frenchmen living out of Franco number, according to a recent census, 408,000.

Russia has a high tariff. Twenty per cent, in gold has been added to tho duties.

Tho town of Metz is guarded by 20,000 men—tho strongest garrison in the world.

The vintage which is now in progress throughout France will prove a fairly prolific one.

Stretton say? a little over eijhty miles an hour is the fastest tho locomotive of to-day can accomplish.

There is now scarcely a mountain in Switzerland which has not a railroad running up to its summit.

The girl with only an ordinary appetite consumes about forly-fivo tons of food in tbo course of her life.

Tho total annual homo consumption of opium in China has lately been reckoned to bo about £84,800,000.

It is reported that, owing to tho now Tariff law of tho Unitod States, 1000 weavers in Silesia are idle.

A patent has been taken ont in Franco for an electric furnace for tho rapid incineration of human mmains.

| git is reportod in Germany that the Emperor is going to introduce American cars for the passenger sorvioe.

Berwick. England, is suffering from a plague of flies nnd fleas, consequent on the landing of a cargo of bones.

A relative of Compt de Paris, Frank de Verne, desoended from a noble family, is in gaol in New York for larceny.

The British Consul at Zanzibar reports that from 80,000 to 100.000 weapons aro imported into Africa each year.

In tho Prussian mines last year 712 men out of 317,000 (or one out of overy 445) wero mortally iujured in ac2idents.

The Arohbishop of York, who stands next to the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England, is seriously ill.

Tho great Pyramid of Egypt is estimated to have cost its builders tho equivalent of throe million pounds of our money.

AtHickling, Englond, recenlty, a woman aged sixty-seven years was killed by a ram. Tho ribs wore broken in fifteen places.

A snow-white swallow, hatched and reared under the eaves of a glass roof in Gronollo, is interesting the ornithologists of Paris.

Empress Frederick has purchased the former residence of Martin Luther for a charitable institution in memory of her husband.

According to a writer in the London Times a regular traffic iv Italian children is n part of tho trade between Italy and Great Britain.

Dr. Tarrasch, the chess ohampion of the world, doclines to play in Havana against Steinitz, because ho has too many patients to look aftor.

A Polish member of the Austrian Reichsrath is organising an expedition to enquire into the condition cf tho Polisl colonists in Brazil.

Mr Punch is actually growing- funny. Ho lately spoke of the performance of tho new opperatta La Cigale (Tho Grasshopper) as "Tho Grasshoppora." . .

Dr. Nansen expects to start for tho North Polo by February; Ist. He is provisioning a vessel for five years, and will be accompauiod by a dozen men.

"Ho pressed her to his breast and sighed,"read the elocutionist; nnd the,;boy in the rear gallery brought down the house by veiling, " Which side?"

In Paris out of 2,700,000 rosidonU it is calculated that 1 in 18, or 150,000, live" on charity with a tendency towards crimo. In London the proportion is 1 in 30.

Sinco bull fighting has becomo one of tho fashionable amusements of Paris, jewels of Spanish design havo acquired considerable popularity, eaya the Jeweller's Weekly.

Stanley Palmer, a prisoner in tho New Caitle, Del., gaol, has invented a toy puzzle for which he is said to have been offered £2000 by New York speculators.

France is going to havo a submarine boat. It will be built by tho inventor of tho Gymnote, and will bo 131 feet long. The Erencb aro not afraid to try experiments.

Tho Oeservatoro Romano assails tho authorities of tho city of Rome for allowing an organisation known as tho "Jesus Christ Republican Socialist Club to exist.

Seventy-five Germnns who have been induced to go to London to take tho places of tbo strikers in tho akin-dresser trado have been assisted to return home by the strikers.

Tho latest statistics show that there are 71,287 lopers in Bengal, 13,944 iv Madras and 13,842 in Bombay. Tho lepers in the native States are not included in these totals.

The richest banker in the world is Baron Bleiohroeder, of Berlin, who is the agent of the Rothschilds in Germany, but is individually worth moro than any one of the Rothschilds.

The municipality of Gonoa has, it ia reported, consented to restore the house in which Christopher Columbus lived. It is rapidly falling into_ decay and hai long atood iv need of repair.

Dom Pedro has arrived at Cologne. Ho is a pathetic figuro, feeble, unhappy, constantly accompanied by an attendant, and muttering at intervals iv conversation: " Brazil! Oh, dear Brazil!"

Tho repressive measures adopted by Russia against the Jews aro bearing fruit in tho gradual collapse of tho flour mill industry throughout tho country, the capital in which was all found by tho Jews.

Last year the most notorious trust was the Bread Union in London. It took in all tho important bakers, 277 in number, in the metropolis. The failure and entire dissolution of the trust bus been announced.

Mrs Alice Shaw, tho American whistler, has signed a contract with Patti's Russian impresario to give exhibitions in Russia, Roumania, Austria, Germany, and franco, beginning in St. Petersburg next month.

Tho banquet of tho International Vegetarian: CongresH iv Loudon re:cntly, consisted or porridge, stowed and fresh fruit, ejrgs and lontil cutlets, with tomato sauce, mushroom patties and savory sandwiches.

Tho returns of the Registrar-General show that in Rouen, a city of upwards of 100,000, not a single birth occurred during one of tho days of a week in October ; and Havre follawed a few days later with a blank record.

Tho painter Munkacsy, who is vluiring Buda-Pesth, has promised to paint a colossal picture for the now Parliament House of tho Hungarian capital, tho subject being the first appearanco of the Hungarians iv Europo.

An English engineer proposes making double--shelled boilers, maintaining a pressure between them. By this means he calculates that a much high'cr pressure can be carried than is possible even with tho coil boilers already in use.

Lady Theodore Martin, who was known to the stage as Helen Faucit, has recently placed a tablet on tho wall of the little church'ntLluntysilioChurchtoconioiemorate tho fact that Robert Browning worubipped thero for six weeks a few years ago.

There nro twenty-fivo Amazons from Dahomey visiting Berlin. Tlioy aro coffee brown in color, slender, but not handsome, with faces tntooed. They wear short blue •woolton Crocks reaching to tho kneo. Tho *hiof, Gumma, by name, wears a frock of blue velvet.

Vera Sassovilitoh, the famous Nihilist' ■whoso adventures and hardships in connection with the Nihilist, Hnrtmanu, attracted to her world-wide attention and sympathy ten years ago, is dying at Geneva, whither she sought refuge after escaping from the clutches of tho Russian authorities.

An astounding piece ofj.'vandalism is reported to be iv progress in Egypt, with tho connivance of the native officials. Three gangs of workmen, under two local sheikhs, are daily extracting blocks from the lower courses of the two largest pyiamiils of Gisch. Those arc broken up on tho spot, and carried away on camel back for building purposes.

In Moscow may bo soon in the st routs any day a. beggar who was a few years ago one of the richest men in the city. His father left him £1..300,000. but he gambled it all away. He cared literally for nothing but gambling, acd St' lie h-id the money again fa would lose it once ;;»ore in the same way.

The Bombay barbers are still in rovolt against the shaving of widows' heads. They declare tho practice is not enjoined in the Hindu Scriptures. The Guzerat barbers are the first to strike, and there aro 500 of them. They fine and boycott any of their class known to have shaved a widow'shead.

Recently at the close of the celebration of the Buddhist festival, in the province of Sze Chuen, China, a number of organised mobs attacked several Christian villages and burned the buildings. Twenty native converts to Christianity were killed during the disturbance and their bodies thrown into tho Yangtse-—ianif river.

A oolony of Russian gentlemen and ladies has been formed at Vishuoe Volotchok. a large town on the river Tsna, in tho Government of Tver, with the object of practising the sexual tenets of the novelist Tolstoi. The colonists aro all young, of the educated classes and well provided with funds, mauy of them being nossessed of large fortuues.

There are 912 suhmerine cables, exclusive of tho seven Atlantic cables, with an aggregate of 112,7-10 nautical miles; 1,000, JOU miles of overland wire; the United States has 770,500 miles of wire , France 220,890, and Gr 3 at Britain ISO.OOO milesi; the United State in 1889 transmitted 0b.000,000 messages, Franco 30,050,000, and Great Britain 60,000,000.

More than 5000 stone masons in Berlin are without work or money. Tho builders say that tho stoppage of their trr.de, from which this state of affairs has resulted, is duo to the recently increased agitation of the Social Democracy. Every one is afraid to contract for new buildings for fear of a strike for higher wages on the part of tho working men as soon as the work is tinder way.

Agno Rankin, the venturesome young girl of Fulton, Ky., who got into the Penitentiary through her penchant for wearing boy's clothes, and who was pardoned and immediately ran away from homo again, is in more trooblo. She wont to work as a farm hand near Kenton, Term., and her sex was discovered, whereupon a very proper old magistrate of the neighborhood sent her to jail for further investigation of the case. Agnes gives a reason for her conduct which is worth some consideration. " 1 prefer to wear men's clothes," she said, "for tho same reason that first led mo to put them on. They insure mo employment wherever I go. Were I to come into this community dressed as a woman and ask to bo allowed to do a hard day's washing for 20 cents, I would neither got tbo work nor be allowed to stop in the house without being indorsed by ti responsible person, or showing a pocketful of recommendations to satisfy the household of mv respectability. But if 1 come rigged as a man I get plenty of work at §1 a day and no questions asked. I discovered a good while ago that it doesn't pay to be a woman. Women are no good."