NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 29 March 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

According to a Rome correspondent, Government information states that the Mahdi hus called all his chiefs to Khartoum, without thoir troops. His object is unknown. Another despatch states that a Dervish army, in the absence of the General Menelik, had captured and burnt Gondar ; but the Abyssinian army, coming up, defeated the Dervishes, killing three chiefs. All the piofits of all members of the Dynamite and Powder Mills Trust of Germany will be pooled. Sixty per cent, of them will go to the dynamite manufacturers, and the rest to the powder men. £1,334,491 is estimated as being tho aggregate amount of last year's British contributions for foreign missions. This id £105,000 more than the previous year's total. A barquentine rig is very common in the West Indies. It consists of three masts with square sails only on the foremast ; a brigantine, in fact, with an e^tra fore and aft mast. The Swlbs authorities have by no means abated their anti-Salvationist crusade. Salvationist reunions have been entirely forbidden after nightfall in the Canton of Neufchatel. From Oaklands, Illiuois, it is reported that a veritable wild man has been captured by the oitizens of Sargent township. His hair measured over five feet in length, and from appearance it had not been combed for years. His beard was fully two feet in length, and covered all of his face. His language is unintelligible, and no trace of where he came from can be discovered- It took the combined strength af a dozen men to hold him in order to bind his hands and feet. The citizens are in a quandary what to do with their catch. Another train robbery is reported to have been committed in the Cherisaw Indian territory, on the Atchison railroad. Fifteen masked and armed men boarded, the train, cut the locomotive and express oat loose, ran tl^em. some miles, and then threw the driver and stoker from the locomotive. Then the robbers halted, attacked the express car, overpowering the express messengers, stole 2Si,ooodols , and decamped. A Central News telegram from New York states : — A report from Consul New is published, in which he gives his impressions and experiences in connection with the recent strike of dockers in London,. His conclusions are arrived at partly bj' his own knowledge of men and things, and partly by official statistics, and he estimates that tho loss entailed by the strike on commercial interests amounts to fully £2,000,000, whilst the companies must have lost as much aa half that sum. The Athemsum publishes a oharming instance of Mr. Browning's kindness of heart. A young girl was set as a school task to write an explanation of "Prospice." Not satisfied with her essaj, she ventured to send it to Mr. Browning, to whom she vraa an entire stranger, and he took the trouble to make sundry corrections and additions, winding up with — " There, my dear young lady, I have done the little that was necessary, and hope it may suffice. — Affectionately yours, Robert Browning." Four hundrod plans have already been received by tho committee who offered prizes for the heat and secondbest project fox the proposed Watkin Tower. The Kreuz Zeitung, in an article on the report of the delegates of the German manufacturers who were sent to England to study the relationsbetweeuemployer and employed, declares that, in spite of their unwillingness, German employes will sooner or later have to grant their workpeople privileges akin to those enjoyed in England, particularly in the formation of trade unions. The Commission of Inquiry has begun its work at the Panama Canal, which will be examined section by section. The investigation w.iU last about six weeks. Says Henry Lal>ouchere in London Truth-r-'-' O£ all living Emperors, now that Dom Pedro has been retired, the Emperor of Austria is the best." The truth about the yoi\ng King of Spain's illess is tha,t tho boy has an hereditary constitutional weakness in him,. Bjis bones were a long time gro.wing, aud the sutures of th.o skull •wer;Q not closed until b,e was two years old. Over $0,00)0 m^en, women, and cb,i\A r , en &?& employed in the tobacco industry of New York, oi whom about 16,000 aj-e, cigar-makers proper, th.c, Test being oigaretterj^a.ke^a, shippers, bunohers, packers, pftatera, aud Box-makers. More than 6,,QQQ ci^ar-»makers are women, girls, a.nd small ohildren. Some branches of the trade are almost mona^pjbed by girls — for instance, th.9. making of cigarettes. The n.a^waaiitiea which predominate a.?ftaftg the cigar-makers are th,Q Geroans, Bohemians, and English ) but there are also a number oi Poles, Hollanders, Cubans, Hun., garians, with a few Snan.vwcfe, Americans, French, and Russians. The aggregate., burthen of the steamers fanning the P. and 0. Conipany's fleet is 197,961 tons, and [ they are fitted with engines aggre^ gating 188,800 horse-pow.es, The cost of navigating tjh^k "steamers in 1888-9 was. £a,&05,Q1G. The coal oon^«jmed \jjas. represented by 4560,42,1'; ' Mrs. l?aul Ruttrett, o% Pennsylvania, w,^ shot dead by burglars, ■w.hite trying to prevent

them from robbing her husband's jewellery store. Archdencon Jones, of Waterloo, the oldest beneficed clergyman in [ England, died on December sth, in j his 99th year. He was educated at St. I John's College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. degree in lSl.'i, and M.A. in 1819. He was ordained in 181.% in Lincoln, and entered priest's orders in the same year at Chester. From that time to 1850 he was incumbent of St. Andrew's. Liverpool. He was then appointed parpetua. curate of Christ Church, Waterlool in the diocese of Liverpool, and in ] 855 was appointed archdeacon. At Ocean Grove, New Jersey, the municipal authorities have adopted the plan of watering the streets and flushing the sewers with sea water. The waves of the sea are also compelled to pump the water up to tho reservoir. Thiß is accomplished by a very simple arrangement. Between two piles of tho pier a wooden door or float is pivoted, so as to swing under the action of the waves, aiut the oscillating motion thus obtained is caused to work tho pistons of tho pump. The Empress of Germany was so charmed with the Oriental stylo or' furniture during her recent visit to Constantinople that she left an order in that city for the purchase of Oriental fnrnituro for a oomnh'te suite of rooms. Elmer Erwin refused to treat James Rice to whisk)' whon they met iv a saloou at Stanton, Nelu-ahkn. Taking out his knifo, Rice stabbed him to death. Ancient Rome received from witl lout well-nigh seven times the volume of water now poured into modern Rome. This cit)' is the best supplied with water in the world. Noxt to Rome, Vienna is said to bo the most favoured capital, if not in tho abundance, at least in the purity of its drinking-water. The name of tho now women's temperance organisation is to he tho Non-partisan Women's Christian Temperance Union. "I was sitting with some friends at sunset among the ruins of Karnok, with a group of Arabs around us," writes a correspondent. One of our party said, " Mohammed, why does the sun rise here and set over there ?" The youth looked puzzled a moment, and then with acquiescent content anawored, "That is the business of my God and not the business of me." By the will of the Earl of Laten the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, &c, has been bequeathed £1000. Rare and early Bibles, to the number of nearly SQO, were sold by auction in London, forming two collections. These included the great "He" and the great "She" Bibles, and others remarkable for misprints whioh they contain, such as the "Whig-Bible," so called because Matt, v., 8, reads " Blessed are the place-makers." -A-a important rumour is thflt Bryonmos, Arohbishop of Nicoaeuiin, has found in a Turkish library at Damascus a manuscript of tbe New Testament dating from about the middle of the fourth cpntury. It is a discovery of importance equal ta that of the Codex Aleph. After March noxt all lifeboats will be required to carry a gallon of vegetable or animal oil, in a distributor of approved pattern, for shedding the oil on the Bea in rough weather. The Chinese paterfamilias rnaies an annual arrangement with his medical man by virtue of which he guarantees him a fixed . sum each year, the payment of whioh coasos, however, the very day that any member of tho household falls sick. A porter at Hexham Station encountered what he at first thought in the darkness to be aretrievor dog, which attempted to attack hijiu The porter at once laid hold of a Bhunting-pole and disabled theanimal with a blow on tho head. He then found that he had been attacked by a Russian baar, which had escaped from a travelling circus. A Portuguese meeting at Rio do Janeiro resolved to suspend business with the English people and to send a telegram to Lisbon stating that themembers of the colony there are prepared to make any sacrifice for their native country. It is no longer (says n correspondent) correct to raise the hat with a florid sweep of the arm as once it was. It is lifted now an inch or two in a perpendicuilair direction, with a perceptible economy of movement,, exertion, and gesture. A quarrel between a negro helper and a young white man named Roberts, at Greenville, Alabama, has resulted in the negro pouring gasoline ovor Roberts. Another negro, touched off the fluid with a lighted lamp, and in an instant Roberts was enveloped in flames. He ran wildly up and down the main street of thetown; but there was no one awake> and he was roasted t