NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is reported that tho Chinese Embassy at Berlin has received instruction!) to propare for sea tho two powerful armoured ships Teng Yuen and Chen Yuen, which wore built in Germany, and have hitherto been detained at Kiel owing to thn doubtful rotations of China with Franco. The great North-west of Canada will soon be overrun by another army. General Booth has sent instructions fb the Toronto detachment of the Salvation Army to form a brig-ode for service among the Indians and tho half-breeds, and in July he was to bo thero himself to take command. The soldiers of the Army in Canada are said to have taken up the idea with enthusiasm, nud tho volunteers from Montreal, Toronto, and other townß are so numerous that the General cannot find' places in tho brigade for them all. Tho Legislature of Connecticut has passed an enactment imposing a maximum fine of £0, with imprisonment for a maximum term of three months, " upon every person who shall sell, lend, or give, or offer, or have in his possession with intent to sail, lend, giro, or offer any book, magazine, pamphlet, or paper dovotod wholly or principally to the publication of criminal news or pioturos und stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust, or crime." A largo outlay will shortly bo mado on tho cnnals and harbours of France. A lump sum of £38, 1C0, 000 is to be expended, of which £28, 620, 000 are for canals, £4,000,000 for ports and harbours, and £24,000,000 for rivers. In addition there has boon a supplementary grant of £4,000,000 for the ports, and £3,200,000 for tho canals. Havre ntid Bordeaux ore to have large amounts spent on harbour works. A meeting of representatives of trade and industry has been held in Berlin for the consideration of the project of a Universal- Industrial Exhibition, and has affirmed the wisdom of holding such an exhibition in Berlin, and its opinion tbat the year 1888 ia tho Attest for the purpose. The meeting is described as having been very onthusiastio and unanimous in its decisions. Eight ago yoars the Congo was littlo more than a geographical expression. Up to the Falls it-had boon explored, and below this barrier various traders had established themselves. The tipper oourse was, however, only known from the narrative of Mr. Stanley, while the little ascertained regarding the habits of the tribesmen on either of its stretches was not pleasant 1 enough to encourage a closer aoqaaintanoe. To-day the river itself and the lands which it drains occupy more spaoe in political literature than any other region of East or West Afrioa. At a meeting recently oonvened in London by the Duke of Westminster, a resolution •was adopted .declaring the necessity for the extension of ragged schools. It was stated that there are now 50,000 ohildren in 187 ragged schools in London. "M. Brimon, the French Premier, is said to be an Evangelical Protestant, of marked purity of private and publio life, of nnflinching integrity and rectitude, opposed to tho concordat and to making the church an instrument in the hands of tho State. Of the 35,053 recruits enlisted for tho British army during 1884, 28,203 wero raided iv England, 3G68 in Scotland, and 3883 in Ireland v Since the beginning of the present century more than 100 Jews have been ordained as olergymou of the Church of England. The Austrian Central Tourist Club has addressed a petition to tho Assemblies of all Austrian Alpine Provinces to pass a lawprohibiting the Wholesale uprooting of edelweiss now carried on. The petitioners point out that hundreds of thousands of tho plants are dug up and sent abroad, even to America, so that the favourite plant of all lovers of tho Alps will be totally exterminated except in a few remote places. A movable coffee stand has been started by the burgomaster of Osnabruok, a member of tho German Society, against the abuse of spirituous drinks. On one occasion of the -weoldy and eattlo motkets, and tho fairs and kermesses, good and wellprepared coffee and milk with sugar is sold at Id per cup. Tho results aro said to have been highly satisfactory. A French archroologist, If. Sailhvrd. has discovered the workshop 'of a pre-historio nrmourer in a steep rock on the coast of Brittany. The -workman lived in a. stone ago, and his skeleton was found among the various ctone weapons and implomonta upon which he had been working. ! Tho English Court of Appeals has issued a perpetual injunction against the use of steam-rollers on tho streets of London and elsewhere. ' This result is due to the action of the gas companies, who have shown that their pipes are injured by the pressure of the rollers. The Austrian Government has issued stringent orders requiring passports of all travellers who enter or leave Bosnia and Herzegovina. This unexpected measure has been renndred necessary by some recent doings of Panslavist agitators, and is levelled principally at these persons. A terribla. crime was committed near Stockholm recently. A blind man, formerly a soldier, lodging with a Bhoemaker, killed, while under tho influence, of drink, the shoemaker, his wife, and their adopted daughter, whilo they were asleep, by beating out their Jjrains with an axe. Clara Mills, eight years old, redding at Manchester, was eating a nut given her by her sister, when a bit of shell got imbedded in one of her lungs. She was almost ohokod, at tho time, and was removed to the Infirmary. Inflammation of tho lungs set in, and proved fatal. ■ The new lightning express between Paris, Cologne, Berlin, and St. Petorsbargh makes the whole journey in fifty-six hours and ahalf, being a reduction of twelvo hours as compared with the old arrangements. A New York telegram states that Mr. Garland, the Attoruey-General, has decided that the head money tax now levied on emigrants arriving in the United States, applies equaliy to tourists. Twelve thousand season tickets at 2lb, have already been sold for the Inventions Exhibition in London, while for the Healtheries only 5000, and for tho Fisheries only 3000 -were issued altogether. Probably this is in a considerable degree due to Strauss' Band. Resolutions have been passed at Kingston, Jamaica, tendering the services of the inhabitants to the Government for tho protection of the island on the terms and conditions laid down in the Volunteer Militia Law of 1879, and appointing a committee to arrange for a volunteer organisation. The French captain who, on the march at Vizillo, tied a private to a mule's saddle, has been cashiered for a year; and the Government journals quote this punishment as evidence that torture is not tolerated in the French Army, although the Opposition prints affirm that it is frequently inflicted. /A commencement has been made with the work connected with the repair and preservation of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, which has most interesting historical associations, and as burial-place of Shakspero is the object of universal interest. The estimated cost of tho work is £12,000. The fine Early Norman tower is to receivo first attention. The ancient doorway near Shakspere's tomb will be opened to give access to the new vestry which it is proposed to erect on the site of the old one. The entire number of recruits for the Russian Army and Navy in 1885 is fixed at 230,000. The dar has sanctioned the tax on coupons. The new law camo into effoct on Ist July. The first wedding in America was that of Edward Wilson and Susannah White, at Plymouth in 1621. An effort is being made in Italy, under Government direction, to acclimatiso the Japanese tea-plant. Nino-tenths of all the forecasts made last year by the French weather bureau are said to have been verified. The Argentine Government is more successful than that of any other Spanish American country in securing immigration from the Mediteranean countries. It pays part of the passage money and assigns each family immigrating to tho confederation farming lands to be paid for in instalments. The new river tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, in Tennessee, about 100 miles from Chattanooga, fell in a few nights ago, owing to the vibration caused by a train which was passing through. Tho tunnel fell upon the cars, tsix persons being killed outright, and 20 severely injured. The inconsistencies in the administration of the law in England are shown by the following example : — On the same day one man was fined 20s for striking a woman two violent blows in the face with his fist, while another, for stealing a duck's egg valued at Hd, was sentenced to one month/a imprisonment with hard labour. iovera of the magnificent iv nature all the world over will be grateful to the Legislature of the State of New York, which has just voted a sum of 'nearly £300,000 to purchase the lands on the American side of the Falls of Niagara, in order that they may be "restored to and preserved in a state of nature, and that every part of them shall be for ever free of access to all mankind."