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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6102, 19 March 1891, Page 4

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Eighty thousand strangers visit New York daily.

Mine. Bernhardt La 3 been attacked by the grippe.

It costs 64 cents to run a train a mile in England.

Germany will make a fortress of the city of Breslau.

The Bank of England was incorporated July 27, 1694. In Great Britain 100 cities tax themselves for public libraries.

Ex-King Milan, of Servia, now calls himself tfie Duke of Payola.

Date trees seldom bear until they are twenty-five or thirty years old.

The salary of the Vice-President of the United States is £1,600 a year.

Garibaldi's family have refused £12,000 for the patriot's former islet home.

In France there is a Government tax of 2 per cent, levied on all bets on races.

The f+erman Government does not allow Russians to -work in its powder factories.

The largest tonnage passenger steamer on the Atlantic is the City of Paris—lo,soo.

A dealer in artificial limbs says that 300,000 Americans have lost one or both legs.

Th 6 French Rothschilds made a Christmas present of 120,000f to the poor o: Paris.

Some colossal sculptures are to be removed from the Island of Cyprus to the British Musenm.

Brazil has enormously increased her paper currency since the establishment of the republic. ,

Husband —"I don't think much of that Bramble girl." Wife—"Well, you had better not."

The central arch of the bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, Mo., has a clear span of 520 feet.

Sir Charles Tennant has received an offer of £20,000 for Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting, "The Fortune Teller."

Easter Sunday in 1891 comes on March 29th. It can never occur earlier than March 22nd nor later than April 25th.

Iron bolts exposed to water in the bridges over the Thames have, in twenty-five years, been eaten away one-half.

The American Baptist Slissionaiy Uuion denies that it is about to abandon its missionary work on the Congo. A London matrimonial agent boasts o having arranged 40,000 marriages between members of all classes of society.

Anegro woman at Dryline, La., named Anderson, recently gave birth to four children, who are all alive and doing well.

Biankets are loaned to the poor during tho winter months, free of cost, by a kindheiirted citizen in Brunswick, Germany.

The enormous and unprecedented aggregate of 821 racers have been entered for the Washington Park stake.-iof 1891, at Chicago.

The Indiana House ha* passed a resolution favoring a co-operation among half a dozen Western States to tax foreign capital. gjThe Australian Ballot till which has been introduced into the Maine Legislature is closely modelled after the Massachusetts law.

Valentine's bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson has been completed, and will be unveiled at Lexington, Va., the 21st of July. The Empress of Japan is a scholarly \roman, who has done much to further the social revolution of the last twenty-five years. Tne latest mails received at the State Department from Chile announce the dedication of a new Presbyterian Church at Santiago. The project of Baron Hirsot to establish a colony of 500,000 Russian Jews in the Argentine Eepublic is being vigorously pushed. Sir Charles Dilke, who is residing in Paris, predicts an exchange of shots in the spring between Newfoundlanders and French fishermen.

About five hundred veterinary surgeons in Great Britain signed a paper condemning over-head check-reins as painful to horses and productive of disease.

Emperor William still refuses to recoarnise the social status of journalists, whom he haP designated as " press vagabonds, who poison public opinion."

Mr Henley, aged 95, finished an uninterrupted life of pauperism in the Gosport (England) workhouse He was brought there when 6 years old in 1801.

A prophet baa arisen who says the world will be densely overcrowded before it is 200 years older. People who own suburban property would better hold on to it.

The King of Italy has accepted the Presidency of the Christopher Columbus Committee, which is arranging the celebration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America.

jL,ord Salisbury is said to work fourteen lours a day, writing and reading dispatches. Add to this the time consumed in social duties and he rarely gets more than four or five hours' sleep.

Don't find fault with your neighbors, even though you have nothing else to do. If you ■want occupation you can get a good deal longer job by hunting for the virtues they think they possess.

J. M. Baker, who has been elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Gibson county, I'enn., is a blind man. He ie a young man, and obtained his education at ithe State School for the Blind.

Mrs Rachel Stillwaggon, who has just died at Hushing, Long Island, aged one hundred and five years, made all her own clothes and performed her own housework until she >v-as ninety-six years old.

Mrs Schliemann says she proposes to continue the excavations at Sissurlik, and that they will be carried out in conformity with Dr. Schliemann's plans under the direction of Dr. Dorifield.

'Ihe last open letter of Dr. S cliliemann was to the Wiener Neve Freie Presse, and ■was a denial of the report that hie daughter, Andromache, wr ; about f> be pushed by him into marriage.

The Spanish Government has decided, instead of erecting a monument to commemorate the discovery of America, as was first proposed, to rebuild the port at Palos, irora which Columbuß sailed.

The Pope has appointed a commission to the religious situatiou of South America with a view to reorganising the episcopates there on a system based on common law and religious liberty.

" The oldest clergyman" in the Church of England, the Rev. John Elliott, Vicar of Eandx-iok, began his hundredth year on December 19th. He has served in Rand--wick for more than seventy yews.

Europe has to go back to 1830 to find a winter to compare with the present, when fh« harbor of Genoa has been frozen over and Emporoi* William enjoyed the novelty of a sLeigh-ride on the river Havel.

o\nng to the savere weather the expulsion of the Hebrews from lheir homes in the northern provinces of Rrssia has been Buppendud. Mnny familieß of those expelled are said to have perished in the snow.

The new home purchased in London by Mrs is one of the most palatial in the Kingdom. The marble .staircase alone cost £20,000, and all the rooms have been fitted up iv the most magnificent manner.

Elias Howe, Jr., whowasworth;£2oo,ooo, •wu-> tho richest private whoservedin the U.S. ■wnv. Ho enlisted in Brideport,, Gonu., in 18G2. At one time, when supplies were low, be paid ihe two months' pay of his entire company.

John Jacob Astor, who is coon to many Miss Willing , , of Philadelphia, is endowed -with six feet of solid physique, an imperturbable fund of good nature, excellent health, and is booked for an inheritance that cannot fall short of £20,000,000.

•Of all big cities Berlin probably gete the raoefc vegetables from a dietance. Her winter cauliflowers come from Italy and Holland faer new potatoes from Malta, her beana from North Italy, her pickles from Holland, her onions from Russia, Hungary, and Egypt.

Prince Bismarck is said to bear up well against the neglect into which he has fallen, finding mental occupation, and diversion as well, "in his business enterpilses. He is •n-n;ec>;iUy interested in his new brewery. The Princess takes their changed position far more to heart.

Strangely enough the nominal rulers of threo European nations to-day aro children Spain has a baby King, Servia a boy monarch, and Princess Wilholmina, a little girl of ten, frail and delicate, now bocomes the rightful sovereign of Holland, under the regency of her mother. The University of Geneva has juet made an MD of the young Polish Countess Wanda ron Szcawinska. Her fc.-aduation Jiwie was a rem&rkaby leaned paper oou-

cerninn- the eyosof crastaoeoue animals and the effect of light and darkness upon them. The Countess Wanda will practice in Poland,

The late George Bancroft was a good man of business, in which respect he was unlike nine literary men out of ten. Though he was never economical in his living expenses he left a very snug fortune. As an illustration of the enthusiasm of his old age it is related that he took up the study of Shakespeare when 87, and prosecuted his new pursuit with all the ardor of youth.

The queen of Roumania during her recent sojourn in England, say foreign papers visited a needle factory. While watching the work one of the men asked her majesty for a single hair from her head. The queen granted his request, with a smile. The man who was engaged in cutting the eyes in the needles, piaced the hair under the needle of his machine, bored a hole in it drew a fine silk thread through the hole and then presented it to the astonished queeu.