NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The averaire age at which women iniiiiy in civilized countries is set down at 2'> •> years. Two-thirds of the chiofs of police nt Americau cities are Iribhmeu by birth m extraction. There are 172 political papers in Puri", and more than half of them are daily. Whole fields of peii6 have been entirely destroyed in Essex by the pea-wevil The British Government is reducing its debt slowly. Its bonds are of three disiimt sorts— fund, unfunded, and terminable annuities—and they yield 2£, 2£, and 3 per cent. Frank G. Lenz, a bicyclist, started on n trip around the world Now York on Saturday, June 4th. Ho expocts to be front' two years, and will cover about 20,000 miles on the wheel. A proposal has been made to kill tlio sparrows in America by giving an electric shock to the trees in which they are roost - ing. An artist named Oolomnn shot liim«plt' dead in tlio parish of St. Mary's Church, Charing Cross, shortly boforo the arrival of a wedding 1 party. A butler, whose income was £01 a year, was ordered to pay £100 damages for breach of promise, at the rate of £2 a month. A Parisian horticulturist claims to have succeeded in forciug the growth of violets by electricity. Paper from spiders* webs is miulo in China, and though nearly transparent, a sheet will bear two columns of distinct priut. The sacred white spider furnishes the necessary web. It is estimated that ovor 100,000,000 of people now speak the English language, over 69,000,000 German, over 41,000,000 French. Mr. John Harding, of Leeds, has collected over £80, consisting of nearly 20,000 pennies, for local charitable institutions. Ho would never accept more than a penny, although he might bo offered as much as a sovereign. Forks -were not introduced into England before the reign of James I. The English derived this pieco of refinement from tinItalians. The use of forks was at first much ridiculed in England as an effeminnti' pieco of luxury. A couple of inmates celebrated Hieir golden wedding in Spilsby workhouse There was a wedding fenst and a special service in the chapel. Seventy-five women formed a mob, ami prevented a wedding in Kentucky town because the bride's first husband had been dead only two weeks. Last year only five passengers wore killed on all the railways in the United Kingdom, while 147 were run over and killed in tho streets of London. Professor Marshall tell-* its that tho oik in a general way requiius to grow from 120 to 200 yenrs before it. is fit to out for large timber. Briiit-h oottou operatives spend moro than any other workers for intoxicating liquors. The Yorkshire Penny Bank has in its custody six millions of the saviugs of tho Yorkshire people. In 1872 it had only £330,000. A child three years old is half tho height it will ever roach. A good sewing machine is supposed to do the work of twelve women. An estate in Kensington of about fmir acres was recently sold for £170,000. In Berlin, hereafter, paupers who div while a public charge will be cremated. The first mention of writing is found in Exodus xvii. chap., 14 verse. Attar of Roses comes principally from Southern Roumauia. About 7000 teachers have petitioned tinLondon School Board, asking that assist - ant teachers may bopormitted to udmiuistvr corporal punishment. In the Chinese languago the sam word may bo either a noun, adjective, verb or adverb. The language is monosyllabic. The microscopists say that a mosquito has 22 teeth in the end of his bill— olevon above and the same number below. A boy of 16 has been sentenced to death at Manchester, for stabbing another youth to death in a faction fight, in that nity. Half a million persons, it is said, are, in one way or another, employed on tho Sabbath in connection with the drink traffic, and two hundred thousand of those arc young women. A collier at Manchester was sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude for manslaughter. Because his wife refused to give him money to bet with, lie threw a lighted paraffin lamp at her, and, leaving her in flames, went out and locked the door. Nearly all the royal personages of Europe aro cousins, and not very far removed, sis it has been laid down by a German genealogist thut every crowned head of Europe, barring Turkey, is descended from one or two sisters who lived about 150 years ago. The values will bo stamped on the new coins, except gold ones, and tho four-shil-ling pieces will be withdrawn. They manago their criminal business very carefully in Borne. It has taken the authorities three years to complete the arrangements fqr the trial of seven persons for forgery. Meanwhile the suspects have been in gaol. The authentic history of China commenced 3000 years B.C. Tho Bristol Electric Lamp Company ara making a lamp for use on bicycles. An accumulator large enough to supply current to tho lamp for 20 hours weighs 2/lb. The light can be switched on and oft without dismounting. An alligator in the Crystal V.ihuaquarium has not tasted food for eighteen months. Miss Culbertson, in charge of the Pienbyterian Chinese Mission in San Francisco, has been warned by a letter from tho Chinese highbinders (bravos) that if *Au\ attempts to rescue Chinese girls from the brothels, her life will bo in danger, as will alhO be the lives of the teachers at Onmission. She is calmly told that thc"-o unfortunate females are "property," and must not be interfered with. When the men ami women of tho East Indies want to wash their hand", the} squeeze the juice of a lemon over them and sluice them briskly in water until they are clean. Daspatches from Berlin, June 17th, say that Edward Schnitzler, otherwise Emm Pasha, is not dead, as was reported recently. News from Zanzibar had been rec<>i\>>'l stating that Emm had recovered from tin small pox, and had arrived at Biikobar. The American bi-chloride of gold erne for drunkenness has been established m Copenhagen in the shape of a sanatorium for inebriate , and is attracting great attention. About a score of confiriuo<{ drunkards, according to the reporf, line been satisfactorily cured. An ornithologist says that birds ff 111 1 - quently commit suicide. The number of Jews in Russia to-il.n- is about 5,250,000. Aa early as 1597 the jasmine, so famous for the odour of its flowers, was in cnmuiwi use in England as a wall shrub, and tor covering arbonrs. There is a dispute in America about tlio copyrightof ''Uncle Tom's Cabin." Itßeems that the greatest part of Mrs. Stowe's income is still derived from royalties on thin book. i " Cuthbert Withers, "who writes in the i Radical Review on "Women's Rule in . South Africa," is in real life Mr. Joseph | Gill, one of Stanley's ablest lieutenants. ' In the oourseof his wanderings Mr. Gill came • across a tribe ruled entirely by women. He speaks highly of the behaviour of this tribe, which, among other things, carried on a prosperous trade as canoe makers. In 1650 a Jew introduced coffee into Oxford, and in 1662 it was first introduced into London. Thirteen years later Charles 11. looked upon coffee-houses as meeting- • houses for rebela.