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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6144, 9 May 1891, Page 4

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A Florida tree gives milk. London has 5,700,000 people. i t( Great Britain has 500,000 union miners. Hamburg has 30,000 people wanting work. Only one set of twins is recorded in the Bible. The warmest place in Europe is said to be Malaga. There are 15,000 bicycle riders in Philadelphia. About 750 couples are divorced annually in Berlin. The Indians in Alaska eat atrawierries eoaked in seal oil. Germany's population by the recent census is 49,420,842. It is said more wateris consumed :i Philadelphia than in London. Japan's 33,000,000 acres of land support a population of 34,000,000. By the Whetstone Automatic System 600 words are telegraphed a minute. Land valued in Berlin have inoreased 65 per cent, in the last ten years. The underground system of telegraphy is gaining favor rapidly in Germany. In Germany more than 130,000 married women work in shops and factories. A distinctive church dresa for women to wear on Sunday is proposed in England. An opening song for the World's Fair at Chicago is expected from the pen of Tennyson. Sixty thousand tons of cork are used for bottled beer consumed annually in Eng-? land. The Czar of Russia is the richest sovereign in Europe, and one of tho richest men in the world. Austria now requires Russian Jews to hold a special concession to trade in the country. The Methodist Church needs 1,000 new preachers every year to keep its pulpits supplied. George Vanderbilt's palace near Asheville will cost £2,000,000, and ie to be the finest ever built. Somebody has computed that if 32,000,000 people should clasp handa they could reach around the earth. Russia will check German immigration at the south and will curtail privileges of Germans now there. Fifteen closely printed pages of the London City Directory are filled by the Smith family in that city. The question of paying , members of Parliament for their cervices is now being widely agitated in Great Britain. Owing to the small number of births in 1871 there are too few young Germwis ready to enter the army this spring. Coooanut butter is said to be rapidly superseding oleomargarine among the poorer olasses in Germany aad Switzerland. Samoa is a group of fourteen volcanic islands. The area is 1,077 square miles, population 37,000, of whom 300 are whites. The new Indian census shows that the red men number only 249,273. Ten years ago there were 256,127, and ten years earlier 272,456. There are twenty-six monarchies and twenty-five republics in the civilized world to-day; sixteen republics are in South America. Whatever the reason may he there ia Dot a coin of the United States which has the head of a man, or its representation, on its iurfaeo. A carpenter's plane, which antiquarians assert to be over fifteen hundred years old, has been found in the old Roman city of | Silchester. The quotation, " Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding email," is from Fredrich yon Logau's "Retribution." If the 30,000,000 barrels of beer used in England were emplied. they would fill a river 300 miles long, 21 feet wide, aud 5 feet deep. In France warm meals are provided for the school children of tho poor by the Government. In this way France spent last year over £40,000. There are 603,000 Catholics in Vienna. There are more than that-, in Now York. Next to Paris, New York is the largest Catholic city in the world. The panorama was invented by a Scotchman named Robert Barker, who obtained a license in London in 1757 and. erected a. rotunda on Leicester Square. Queen Marguerite of Italy, owing to the great distress now existing in Rome, has ordered that 200 soup tickets be daily distributed to the poor in her name. Following the example of liondon and Paris, Rome has established a bureau to marry impoverished but proud noblemen off to heiresses, American preferred. The ten largest cities in the world are:_ — London, Paris, New York, Canton, Berlin, Vienna, Tokio, Chicago, Philpdelpbda, St. Petersburg, in the order mentioned. A large territory in Northeast Russia remains unexplored and an expedition has for two years been engaged in mapping out about 25,000 square milee of this region. Chicago has undarground and successfully working 404 miles of electric light cables, 660 miles of telegraph wires, and 6080 miles of telephone wires and cables. Twenty-six lepers were recently baptised at Purulia, India, malting in all 118 lepers received into the church since the commencement of the asylum, three years ago. The death is noted of Mrs John Thomson, wife of the Glasgow wine merchant and grand-daughter of the poet Burns. She was in the seventy-sixth year of her age. A Bill has been introduced in the British Parliament to limit the length of a Privy Councillor's speech to half-an-hour, and that of any other member to fiftten minutes. The fifty largest libraries in Germany possess 12,700,000 volumes, against those in England with about 6,450,000, and of North America with about 6,100,000 volumes. There are in the United States 4,980,240 Methodiste, 4,292,291 Baptists, 1,229,912 Presbyterians, 1,086,048 Lutherans, 480,176 Protestant Episcopal, 491,985 Coxgregationalists. Of the leading commercial nations, Great Britain and Germany have the gold standard, the United States, France, Italy, and Spain the double, and Austria and Russia the silver. The coast line of Europe, including, of course, the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas, ia about 17,000 miles ; that of Asia, 33,000 miles ; that of America, 31,000 ; that of Africa, 16,0C0. Woollen cloth was first made in England in the year 1331, though it was known in Oriental countries since time out of memory ; it was neither dyed nor dressed in England until the years 1667. Woman in Sweden have been declared not eligible for the General Methodist Conference, the votes having been taken all over the country. The Methodists in Germany have arrived at the same result. A lady of ninety-eight, the Marquise de Brives, who" is without heirs, has, after providing for old domeatica and poor friends, eettled £640,000 on Cardinal Lavigcrio in return for an annuity of £1,000. Cardinal Manning ia eighty-two years old find Gladstone is oighty-one, ;md when the two cronies get together and tain about their boyhood days, they are as happy as old soldiers on pension day. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has just decided that the funds held by the trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, amounting to nearly £10,000, are not subject to taxation. The bodies of many of those drowned on Gibraltar bar by the'sinking of the Utopia were found bo firmly clasped together, owing to the last desperate fight for life, that it was difficult to separate them. In Germany 5,500,000 women earn their living by industrial pursuits, in England 4,000,000, in France UJoO.OOO, in AustroHungary about the same, and in America, including all occupations, over 2,700,000. The Belgian Cabinet has declared in favor of household sufforage, the adoption of which would increase tho number of voters from 130,000 to 730,000. The Liberals, however, are not contjnt with this concession. London artists complain that the painters' light during the present winter has been the worst which many over remember. There have been eight weeks of fog —eight weeks during which painting has been practically impossible. The spot in Rome where Nero committed suicide is said to have been discovered. It is on the Pincian Hill, and was identified by the discovery of a stone with an inscription fixing the location of the villa where it is known the deed was done. An official letter from tfce Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia to the Governor of that State says that one of the iv mates has been there for fifty-four years, aud is one hundred end nine years old. *

A mngnifioent monument in memory of the abolition of serfdom by Alexander II has just been placed in a square in Moscow. It is to cost two million roubles, and wiil at night be illuminated" by a great number of electric glow lamps. Deep indignation is expressed among all classes of Englishman in regard to tho reports current as to the treatment of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, by her husband the, grand Duke Sergius of Russia, brother of the Czar. Ellen Mary, described as an American lion-tamer, was torn to pieces recently while going through her performance in the lions' den at Ahlebflck's menagerie in Chemnitz. Her mangled and lifeless body was got out after a desperate fight with three lioness. Tho President of Franco is chosen by_ a majority vote of both branches of Parliament, sitting together as a joint assembly, and hia is sevon years. Usually, however he is compelled to step down from office by pressure from Parliament before his term end 3. The Times welcomes with joy an addition to the family Smith, Smyth, dtnytbe, Smitt, Smit3, Smidb, Smeitz, Sraid, Smet, Schmitz, Sohmitte,Schtnitt,Schiaits,Bchmit,Schmidtfl Schmidt, and ISchimd in thy person of Jirhard Schmith of Gravesend. It is a great family, and mighty upon the earth. The year 1900 will not be a leap yea-, for the reason that Popo Gregory in constructing the calendar now in use ordered that all central years not being multiples of 400 should not be leap years. Omitting throe leap ytars in every 400 operates to nearly reconcile the civil and solar years. Military service is compulsory among the continental nations of Europe. Every ablebodied man is liable to army service from twenty to forty years of age in France, and from eeventeon to forty-five years of age in Germany. ,;,'|The actual service, however, except during war, is comparatively short. The chaplaincy of the English House of Commons is about the easiest and best-paid office that a minister can hold. Archdeacon Farrar holds that position and its duties are to read at the opening of each session a manuscript prayer which has long been used for this purpose only. For this service the chaplain receives £400. a year. The Salvation Army has opened a large room in Amsterdam, Holland, and is doing much to relieve the distress of that city. On the second night the building was opened for the purpose over two hundred outcasts were sheltered. The King of Denmark has given 50 Ixones to Major Wilson of the Salvation Army, to help the work of the army in Denmark. There are indications that a large gang of murderers are engaged in the work of killing men who make large winnings at Monte Carlo, and doing the act in such a way that death would appear to have been caused by suicide. The investigation into the death of Dr. Leidermann has brought to light that he was snared by a woman, and that she and her paramour took his life and his money.