NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 138, 13 June 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

« Greenwood Cemetery of Brooklyn, is indeed a city of the dead. Last year tho population increased 5713, making the total numbers 259,893. General Saussier, the present Military Governor of Paris, is the person selected as the chief of the French armies in case of a new war. General Saussier is now sixty-two, but as fresh and vigorous as whou he was forty. The National Oat Club are offering silver and bronze medals and certificates for the best original essays on <( The Cat." The essays are not to contain more than 1500 words, and the competition is open to all children under 16 years of age. There are 167,255 miles of railroads in tho United States, nearly enough to span tho world seven times. There is a movement on foot in the Salvation Army to place a complete set of the late Mrs. Booth* writings in the quarters of every Salvationist officer. It is estimated that to do this would oost £1200. The earnings of the London and North - western Bailway approach. £5,000,000 per annnni. The total nitrate of soda imported into the United Kingdom in 1869 was about 120,000 tons. Chicago is agog over a new brand of liquid intoxication which has recently been introduced within her borders. It is called Japanese whisky, and its elfects aro declared to be dynamic Mr. Justice Chitty has declared that a married woman is free to dispose of her life assurance policy with tho concurrence of her husband. Frescoes are paintings made upon the walls themselves. In fresco painting the colours are laid upon upon the lime while it is still soft and wet. There is said to have been a great i'alling-off in the consumption of the time-honouredj hot-cross buns this year. Gloss windows, except in churches and gentlemen's houses, were rare before the time of Henry VIII. The Paris Figaro states that rocently four persons Buffering from, tuberculosis have died from the effects of the transfusion of goats' blood. A wife in Bamsley left her husband and took rofugo in h»r father's house. The husband broke open the door, seized his wife, and carried her homo. He was charged before the magistrates with assaulting her, but was discharged. The husband's solicitor said the case resembled the Cliteroe abduction, and " they had no legal decision ns to the amount of violence a man might use in securing his wife." A new departure in cremation is reported. A patent has been taken out in France for an electric f uruacs for the rapid iucineration of human remains. According to a calculation baaed on the dust collected by a small batch of Bnow in London in one . month 1000 tons of soot settle monthly on the 110 square miles of that metropolis. Archdeacon and Mrs. Prescotfc have presented a beautiful font, which has cost £1000, to Carlisle Cathedral. In 1824 the standard acre wag ordered by Btatute to contain 4840 yards. The first Act for the relief of the poor was passed in the reign of Elizabeth. The distance from Liverpool to Hong Kong (via Quebec) is 11,691 miles, and via New York and San Francisco, 12,879 — a difference in. favour of the Canadian route of 1188 miles. The sex ratio of deaf-mutism in most countries is 55 males to 45 females — a most natural result, as man are more exposed in their outdoor advocations to accidents and ailments indncing such an infirmity. The Emperor of Germany will be accompanied by his consort when he visits London this summer. The Kaiser and Kaißerin will then inspect the German Exhibition. It is stated that Admiral Fitaroy will succeed Sir George Tryon as Admiral Superintendent of tht Naval Beserres. An English explorer named Pike and his guides, while hunting the musk ox within the Arctic Circle, lost their way, and had to tramp hundreds of miles barefoot on the ice, and were almost frozen to death, when rescued. In the passing of Bills no British sovereign has ventured to exercise the right of veto— that is, of withholding the assent— since 1707. Whalebone has just been sold in Dundee at the extraordinary price of £1 19s. 7d. per lb. ; about £4450 per ton. At the hearing of a summons in Bolton it was declared to be illegal for tradesmen to weigh paper with groceries. Out of 2,700,000 residents in Paris, it is calculated that 1 in 18, or 150,000, live on charity with a tendency towards crime. In London the proportion is 1 to 30. A Florida orange grove of 100 acres was lately Bold for £26,800. A gentleman and his wife wore acting as.watchers before an " altar of repose" iv a Roman Catholic church at Teddington. Suddenly the drapery became ignited, the lady rushed out for assistance, and on returning found that her husband had fallen dead from excitement. The Dominion Government has decided not to interfere with the Provincial Act abolishing the official use of the French language in the courts and Legislature of Manitoba. Steps will be taken to test the constitutionality of the measure in the courts The wife of afarmeratßilborough has triplets — all girls. It is mentioned as a curious coincidence that tho wife of the previous occupier of the farmhouse had four children afe^a, birth, and that the wife of his horse-, man also had triplets. The yearly loss of value in gold coins by wear and tear whilst '*' circulation has been found to »* to £400 in every £J,QQO.<^