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4 A Btained glass window in St. George's Church, Geeloug, has been destroyed by some larrikins. A trial shipment of New Zealand soles and flounders, packed in ice, is to be sent from Dunedin to Melbourne. Mr. Plimaoll, M.P., and Mrs. Plimsoll are about to make a tour in India for the benefit of the hon. member's health. The Hon. George Higinbotham has refused the vacant Supreme Court judgeship offered him by the Victorian Government. Thomas Carlyle' has begun his autobiography, which he intends to be hia laat work, and which is to be published after his death. To every eight hundred persona in America there ia one minister, while in India there is not one minister to three hundred thousand. Messenger, the rowing man, is about to leave for England. Before doing so, he ohallenges to pull against anyone in Victoria for £100 aside. The man Basford, who was said to have been struck dumb at Jamestown, S.A., while using profane language, has recovered the orgaixu of speech. A testimonial is to be given to Mr. Cunliffe Owen for bis services to the English Exhibitors at Paris. The amount subscribed already amounts to over £3000. John Arabine, a mining speculator, formerly of Gippa Land, placed a charge of lithofraoteur in hia mouth, and, setting fire to it, blew his head all to pieces. A capital of £5000 haa been raised for the Proteßtant newspaper soon to be established in France. Publication will be delayed until the secured capital Bhall reach £8000. The Rev. Mr. G. D. M'Kay, one of the missionaries of the Presbyterian Church stationed at Formosa, China, haa just married a Chinese girl, Misa Chang Mia Tsang. Swimming classes have been formed in Melbourne, under the Collingwood Board of Advice, and the other day 750 boya were receiving leßsona at the Emerald Hill Baths. Lord Beaconsfield'a brother, Ralph Disraeli, ia chief clerk to Sir George Jesel, Master of the Rolls, and himself a Jew. In case of the Premier's death Ralph would succeed to the title. Garibaldi will, perhaps, be a man of comfortable fortune after all. He haa sold to a company the privilege of quarrying granite on the Island of Caprera, to pave the streetß of Rome. Krautz, the executioner of Hoedel, is tnfeiion of the day in Berlin. He ia a neat-little man of 35. He wore a full evening dress when he beheaded Hoedel, and on hia breast were medala gained in the wars of 1866 and 1870. He wonld accept no compensation for his work, considering himself paid by the honour it

afforded. Magistrates and court officials warmly shook hia hands after the deed, and he was invited to many festivals. The greatest the Australians had in one or two of the American matches waa the underarm bowling, which waa very destructive, and off which no scores worth mentioning could be made. With the exception of a few towns on the coast of China there are in all that Empire scarcely a dozen Hebrew families. The Jews are hardly known in China, and only the learned are aware of their existence. Seven Protestant denominations now have an organisation in Borne. The Waldensian, the Methodist, the Episcopal, the Presbyterian, the Plymouth Brethren, the American Baptists, and the Apostolio Baptists. They number in all about 700 Italian adherents. The largest Sunday school in the world is at Stockporfc, England. The building accommodates about 4000, and the school has branches which accommodate 1000 more. The number of teachers registered Bince the school was opened, is 5085, and of scholars 90,804. The Teloogoea in British India are coming over to Christianity in true Pentecostal fashion. The Bey. Mr. Clough writes that in a certain district he baptised 3262 persons, making the total conversions between June 16 and July 31 (about seven weeks), 8690. The report as to the Duke of Sutherland being liable for the City of Glasgow Bank liabilities has been entirely disposed of by the authoritative statement to the effect that the Duke is not " either directly or indirectly a shareholder in the City of Glasgow Bank." Larrikinism is rampant in Hobart Town, and complaints are general of the insufficiency of of the police force. Several arrests, however, have been made, and tbe cowardly ruffiana have been sentenced to pay a fine of £10 each, or in default six months' imprisonment. Miss Florence Nightingale is now Bixty years old, and lives in London almost a prisoner to her room, so ill is she. Once a year she takes her widowed mother to Derbyshire. She wrote lately in a letter to a friend : " Overworked a 8 I am, my health is necessarily bad. Thank God, who stiDs gives me work to do for Him." Misa Marguerite de Rothschild, who is to be converted to Catholicism previous to her marriage, is now taking daily lessons from the priests, and will not be allowed to see anyone except the immediate members of her family until she has " taken her first communion." Baron Charles gives hia daughter £70,000 only, or about £3000 a-year, a mode3t figure, which removes any possible suggestion a3 to pecuniary motives. For 27 years Mr. Tenniel has been known as the artist employed in drawing the most important illustrations of the comic journal Punch. He showed iais talent for art while yet a boy, and worked at it on the old classical lines, so that, while his cartoons in Punch generally '.ack the charm that is found in a rude fidelity to nature, they are always pleasing to the academic eye. Mr. Tenniel has besides painted a fresco in the Houses of Parliament, and has illustrated several books with a charm all his own. He works with much rapidity, and with so great a perseverance that he has never taken a holiday till latterly. He is an amiable, good, honest man, modest, retiring, and personally little known to the world. There waa a time when he waa very fond of riding, but now rides no more. He ia 58 years of age.