NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 80, 1 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

At the Wesleyan "Conference at Manchester, on July 29, a discussion took place as to the question of ontl largemont of the basis of membership in the Wesloyan Church. The >. Revs. W» F. Slater, F. W. Macs donald, R. Gregor)', J. Monham, A. 5' M'Aulay, and others took part. Mr. - M'Aulay strongly urged a more !, rigid enforcement of Mothodist disn cipline as being essential to a greater success. A few years ago it was thought r improper for a woman to be a foreign i missionary unless she were a misr sionary's wife. Now thero aro 2400 f unmarried women in the mission t field, besides, probably, an equal t number of married ones, i" The amount of British money em - barked in colonial investments and i" securities is increasing very rapidly, and is estimated to exceed 3 £744,000,000. 3 The triennial world's conference t of Young Men's Christian Associations will convene in Stockholm, i Sweden, iv 1888, by special invita3 tion of the King. The mortality iv the list of Presii dents and Vice-Prosidents of the '■ United States is quite remarkable. , Mr. Haj'es is the only living ex- • President, and now that Mr. Wheeli er is dead the venerable Hannibal Hamlin is the only person living i who has been elected Vice-Presi-dent. The city authorities of Paris have just tested an Austrian invention for , automatically lowering coffins into p graves without ropes. A coffin was [ placed on a kind of rectangular L platform, and surrounded with funeral drapery, which concealed the , grave. When a spring was pressed ( the platform, with its lugubrieus j burden, descended slowly into the i earth. Tho price of the apparatus , is £80, and the inventor states that , it is use in Vienna and Milan, the 1 rate payable being 6 francs for each 1 burial. On the 16th July Paris was flooded j with a printed prophecy, according ' to the Cagliostro method, of the L future career of Boulanger. Ho is . to be victor over Germany on No- | vember 7, 1890, and President of the French Republic in May, 1891. ' A movement is on foot among a a certain class of English Jews, headed by Dr. Adler; to prevent | men who are merely elected ministers to small Hebrew congregations from assuming the title of reverend , without undergoing some form of initiation. In America, the " laying on of hands " is recognised as the means of conferring the title, but in England, it seems, no such form of ordination exists, and. this state of things Dr. Adler proposes to mend. The Kansas law requiring druggists to get twenty-five women to sign their petitions for permits to sell liquor is proving one of the hardest conditions yet imposed upon the trade. Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, speaking at the annual meeting in Westminster, of the English Church Defence Association, referred to the threatened assault upon the Established Church of Scotland, and maintained that that institution was now in a truer sense than at any previous period in its history the church of the people. The Church of Scotland I Defence Association, which he representod, therefore expected English members of Parliament to neutralise in the House of Commons the votes of the English Liberationists. A colossal bronze casting of a buffalo's head, the largest one piece of bronze casting in the world, was run into a mould at Fischer's Bronze Foundry, New York, on August 9. The head is to be placed on tho oast portal of the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge now building over the Missouri liiver, between Council Bluffs and Omaha, and will weigh 4300 pounds. The Chicago Times' Little Rock, Ark., spocial says: — The trial of Delta Heinby, son of old Sarsa Chee Fuer, head chief of the Cherokee nation, for the murder of his sweetheart, a girl of the Choctaw tribe, in September- last, is in progress here. The tribes havo had many fights on account of this murder, and it is estimated that at leaßt 100 warriors have been slain. All the leading braves and chiefs of both tribes are in attendance. The prisoner, when arraigned, filed a plea of not guilty, but at once broke out into loud lamentations and began singing his death song, which he kept up until romoved from Court. He will probably be hanged. The grasshopper plague is giving serious trouble in Algeria this year. The efforts made to destroy the eggs have proved useless. In one district ; 50,000 gallons have been collected and burned. This represents the destruction of 7,250,000,000 insects. Mr. J. D. Dougall, who wrote the article on " Shooting" in the " Encyclopedia Britannica," is of opinion that the reason so many volunteers miss their aim so much when at the target, and especially when practising at tho device called the "running man," is that they shut one eye when they glance along the sights. He advises taking aim with both eyes, if anything like certainty is to come but of military skill with the rifle. The Executive Committee of the American Exhibition has generously decided to admit free during the summer months several hundreds of i poor children daily to all parts of the ; Exhibition, the "Wild West" in- ■ elusive. This kindly thought eman1 ated from Mr. J. K. Whitley, the director-general, and was immediately taken up by the President, , Colonel Russel, and his colleagues. ; A special dispatch from Nuremberg, of July 29, states that the | German hop plantations have con1 siderably improved, and the pros- ' pects are now much brighter than was tho case a fortnight ago. Bavaria will have a good yield, and in Bohemia, also, the crop promises well. The aggregate yield of the German grounds will fall short of 1 that of last year, but owin£ to the large extension of plantations, nothing like a scarcity will be experienced. The now very rare verdict of feh At m was returned by a Plymouth

jury oh Saturday night in the case of a man named Thomas Jolly. Ho had tied his feet and hands together, and then thrown himself into the water, having previously announced his intention of committing suicide in that particular way. The docoased was buried iv unconsccrated ground. A Houuslow correspondent states that there was a serious disturbance ainongdt tho men of tho 10th Prince of Wales' Hussars at Hounalow Barracks. It is stated that ns somo of tho men wore dirty on church parade a special afternoon parado was ordered. The men on hearing this shouted out and hooted their officers, and refused to obey. Mr Murphy, M.P., has raised an action for £1000 against tho captain of tho warship Shannon. Mr. Murphy's wrong is alleged to be that tho commander of the Shannon caused a green flag, which was floating from Mr. Murphy's j'acht in Bantry Bay, to be ' pulled down and purloined' by a party x>f sailors. The action has beon sottlod by the captain paying £10 and making an apology for the mistake. The flag was returned to Mr Murphy in a registered letter. The Marquis of Bristol called attention in the House of Lords to tho subject of international arbitration, and moved. "That the llouso, in view of the yearly increasing European nations, is of opinion that tho formation of an international tribunal for the reference of natioual disputes in the first instance is highly to bo desired." The London Lancet says pooplo can easily protect themselves and thoir children from the bites of gnats and other insects by sponging tho akin and hair with a weak solution of carbolic acid. It will drive away the whole tribe. The solution nood not be mere than six or seven per cent. acid, and it may be added to water till tho latter smells strongly. It is perfectly safe. Horses and cattlo could be protected from flies in the same way. Tho French Government are Baid to havo concluded an arrangoment with the Edison Company, whereby the latter will have possession of the exteusivo vaults of the Palais Royal froa. The vaults will bo turned into a central storehouse for electricity, and tho company are to undertake the lighting up of the whole of the Palais Royal and other places. A Harvard graduate is the author of a book on. " Romantic Love," in which he proposes to prove that romantic love (as distinguished from conjugal affection) is a modern sentimont not over 600 years old. Was Loander engaged in a swimming match when he 'swam across tho Hellespont, all for his lady love to see.' ' The St. Stephen's Review says that the accident to the Marquis of Lome in the Jubilee procession, when the noble lord was thrown from his horse, was a put-up trick ou his lordship, as the horse, was a known bad one. Everybody is puzzled to understand why Mr. Arnold White, tho Marlborough-stroet attorney, should have beon knighted. Tho fact is that Mr. White haß transacted a great deal of confidential legal business for mombers of the Royal family and this is his reward. Photographic out-fits are to be placed on board all United States mon-of-w#r, for the purpose of illußtrating despatches. All points of value in navigation are to be photographed, and the pictures are to be preserved for reference at tho Navy Dopartmont. The officers are encouraged to qualify themselves as photographers. Four hundred Chinese washermen are on a Btrike in Now York. If the reports are true the wages aro very high — 14s a day and board for ironers, and 8s a day or 3Cs a week for washers. Two shillings in advance is demanded by eacH department. Some of the bosses have surrendered. July in Philadelphia was the hottest that city has known since Iho establishment of the Signal Service Station in 1872. It had a heat death roll of 110 persons, to say nothing of prostrations. Its maximum temperature was 100 deg., minimum 68, and its mean temperature 80. The Russian Government is said to be considering plans for arresting the depreciation of Russian paper money and to contemplate the imposition of a tax upon foreign commercial trnvelJerß, a measure that will be aimed principally at the Germans. The premises of Messrs. Shore, cast nail makers, Birmingham havo been wrecked by a body of men ou strike against a reduction of wageß. For several minutes tho works wore subjected to a bombardment of stones and brickbats. The grain crop report of Kansaß for July shows a remarkable decrease in wheat and corn. The former has lost 28 per cent, and the latter 50 per cent, since tho Juno report. Tho decrease iB attributed to drought and chinch bugs. According to a St. Petersburg journal, a Russian ecclesiastical mission, consisting of an archimandrite, three priests, and a number of inferior clergy, will proceed early next month for Abyssinia, taking church vessels and books. The prices of beof and mutton in Yorkshire have never during the past thirty years, been so low as they are at present. Best beef is barely making 7s per stone of 141b, and mutton 5Jd per lb. Writing in the August number of The Young Man, Mr. Ruskin says : — " No man should marry until he has made himself worthy of a good wife, and able to maintain her and his children in comfort. And ho should choose her as he would choose his destin}' — with range of choice from earth to heaven. No man should marry under four- and- twenty; no girl under eighteen. A negro woman at Mexico, Mo., left two of her children in a room while she went to -spend the day. On her return it was found that tho eldest had torn off and eaten part of the breast of the youngest child. Whyare pawnbrokerslike pioneers of progress ? Because they are always ready to make an advance. A wag passing by a house which had been almost consumed by fire, inquired whose it was. Being told that it was a hatter's " Ah !" said he the loss will be felt: 1