GENERAL SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XLII, Issue 62, 10 September 1891, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Francisco, 20fch August. Patti has signed a contract for a farewell tour in Ahierica. ThU Cunard Company havo contracted for a steamer to do twenty knots at sea, reducing the voyage to Now York to five days and a half. Several colonels in tho British army havo apph'od to tho War OJficc to suppress tho circulation of Socialistic Hterainro among tho KoltllcM. Tho vicinity of the Chapel of Knock, County Mftyo, Iroland, was crowded on Sunday, lfith August, with thousands of Invalids afflicted with all forms of disease awaiting tho curativo blessing of the Holy Virgin. Miss M'Master, a Seotoh sportswoman and dead gjiot, is about to bo ospoused by the Marquis of Ailgu. She is porlionlobß. Mrs. Prank Sheldon, the American female explorer of Africa, was so much injured physically by tho trip that she lies very low in London. Her doctors nay sho will bo an invalid for tho rest of her life. Cardinal Manning mudo public on 16th August v lottor donohnolnj mfllcß, Church fali-8) lotteries, and all games of chance, ostensibly to benefit tho finance of the Chnroh. Henry Irving, the actor, has recovered tho uso of hiß voice by an operation on bis throat. Bussiiin Jews arriving dt twjiioa, Liverpool, GlasgdWi and other British ports, will start by difforent lines for tho united States. Tlioso who left Hamburg during the week ending 2nd August will not be landed all at one placo. but will bo divided up among tho loading American ports, so that they may not attract too much attention and oppooition. Lady Caithness, by virtue of her millions and her enthusiasm, succeeds Madame Blavatsky as high priestess of tho theosophieal movement, or osotcric Buddhism, as some call it. Lord Salisbury refused the Grand Prussian Order of tho Black Eagle offered him by the Emperor of Germany duriuj his recent visit. A considerable number of Welsh tin-plate workers propo~o ler.ving England for America. They will not bo under contract, in ordov to avoid tho law forbidding tho importation of contracted alien labour. Mr. Morley, speaking at Leamington on rd August, s.iid if tho Liberals dropped Homo Kulo as thoir foromost plank it would oad to the greatest split the Party had ever known. He predicted that Ealfour's Local Government Bill would bo an irretrievable step towards Homo Eulo, and would moan tho suicido of Unionism. Sells Brothers tako a largo and welloquipped circus and menagerie down from 'i'riboo to the colonies by the Monowai next month. Carl Sherr, mining expert from tho colonioi, drowned himself at 'Frisco. Roman Catholio nuns and Sisters of Charity hnvo been certificated to teach in the public schools or Toxaa, tho Attorney-Gonoral of tho State holding there is nothing in tho Constitution to prevent them. Leprosy has been developed in Now Orleans. The subject, a white woman named Mary Bolt, died there on tho 16th August. Thoro are half a dozen other cases reportod in tho city. A couple married at Denver (Cal.), on tho lGth August, took a balloon ascension for their bridal trip, under direotion of Professor King. E:aohing an altiindo of 8000 ft, the billoon collapsed, and shot earthward like a plummet for nearly a mile, when the folds of silk suddonly oxpandod, and the remainder of the descent was comparatively gentle. Tho balloon alightod in a cornfield noar the town. Its tenants were unconscious, and romainod in that condition several hours. Cholera has made its appearance in Ohio. On 12th August Henry Hilton and daughter wero stricken down with it at Springfield. The physicians pronounce tho disease to bo of tho trno Asiatic type. Frank Melbourne, tho so-called Australian " Kain King," is oxp'loded, as regards his phenomenon. Twico before have his efforts been unsuccessful, and. on 10th August, at Canton, Ohio, his third failuro hai shaken tho faith of people in him 'below par. Instead of raining the her.t from an unclouded sun became almoit unbearable. He may be i ablo to product) rain in Australia, writes a j sneering reporter, bnt his machine is of, no avail in Ohio.