News in Brief.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

News in Brief.

Soveral articles will be despatched to tho Chicago Exhibition from Sandringham. The Princess of Wales will send a cornerchair covered with carved cowhide, cut by her own hands. Princess Victoria will forward a music-stool, with box seat for books, constructed from her designs. Princess Maud sends a musk-stool, the cutleather being hor own handiwork. Cotton- culture in South Russia, which was initiated some months ago by tho Minister of Imperial Domains, is now giving promising results. The earlier attempts failed through the ignorance of the cultivators, but since the Kherson School of Agriculturo took the matter up tho propagation of American cotton seed has proved entirely successful. A young girl, residing in Wai worth, loft her bed while asleep and walked nearly a quarter of a mile along the streets before she was observed. A 'policeman carried her home, but she expired almost immediately afterwards, death being occasioned by the exposure to the cold. Professor Conwentz, of Dantzig, has discovered at Lessen, Jakobau, and Mirchau, in West Prussia, at depths varying from two to four feet under the surface of the oarth, a tuber resembling a potato, which used to be an article of food many years ago, but had since been no longer heard of. Five hundred persons have been examined for colour-blindness by the committee of the Royal Society. The defect most common was found to bo red-green blindness, which fails to distinguish between red and green, both being often mistaken for white. Colour-blindness was found to he less common among women than men. Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, the future husband of Princess Margaret of Prussia, is described as one of the richest of the German princes. His fortune is said to exceed £6,250,000. The cheeks of a New York baby, recently born, were perfectly united from ear to ear by a piece of loose skin. It breathed through its nose. Surgical experts proceeded to cut a mouth, and when the operation was successfully performed the little sufferer gave its first yell. There is a surface of 5000 acres in Silesia, Prussia, which is usually- dry, but which every thirty years fills up with water in some unknown way and becomes a lake. A man was charged with bigamy at Woolwich, when it transpired that his firnt wife had two husbands living when he married her. Since the year 1888 there have been 25,000 murders committed in the United States. Franco thib season produces about 600,000,000 gallons of wine, and Germany 51.000,000. It is claimed that nearly throe-fourths of the confectionery imported into Morocco is of English origin. The Indians of South Dakota are getting ugly again. A party, led by a kind of chief called Two Sticks, stole on a camp of cowboys on February 7, and murdered them all "because they were white," as they said. An Indian war is in prospect. A legacy of £200 from the estate of the late John B. Gough has just been received by the American Temperance Society. Two months ago a young man was killed in an accident at Bloomsbury, New Jersey. A family, thinking it their son, claimed the remains, buried him, and collected the insurance money. Recently they wero agreeably surprised to see their son return home. The Grand Vizier of Turkey draws a salary of £30,000 a year. Last year 3,000,000 books were issued to the people of London from free libraries. Illuminated walking sticks are among the latest applications of electricity. A small incandescent lamp is concealed in the head of the cane, and can be ignited by s spring. A Bill to allow prosecution of persons who urge others to withdraw from the savings-bank has been passed by tho French Chamber. Wine in hermetically sealed flasks was recently found in Pompeii. Sunday labour in the Transvaal has been entirely stopped by legal enactment. Two young Amerioans, travelling simply for the love of adventure, have reached Pekin from Paris on bicycles. In Chinese the letter "I" is claimed to be pronounced 145 ways. Each pronunciation has a different meaning. A book made of silk has* been published in Lyons. The text is neither printed nor written, but woven. Twenty years ago an agricultural estate in Essex, extending over 555 acres, was purchased for £21,000, and £5000 was subsequently expended on buildings and improvements. The property has just been sold by auction for £4,950. Marguerite Dixblane, sentenced to death in 1872, for the murder of her mistress, Madamo Reil, in Park Lane, but whose sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, has just been set free. Miss Lottie Collins, the original Ta-ra-la-boom-de-ay exponent, is stated to havo recently undergone tho pleasant ordeal of having her salary raised whilst at Chicago from £100 to £240 per week. No wonder skirt dancing has become such a rage in fashionable circles; no nurseiy governess, model lady help, nor even captivating typewriter has yet been able to show such spleudid results. One- third at least of our lifo is passed in sleep. Tho Royal Hospital for Women and Children has received from tho Lady Mayoress a cheque for £1028 9s 6d, this proceeds of the Rose Show hold at the Mansion House. A Chelsea shop-porter, who robbed hie employer and was sent to gaol for three months, said betting, which was the curse of England, had been "tho cause of hit downfall. A sorvent gitl recently sent £2 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, collected on a card of the society picked out of her mistress' waste-paper basket. London has 10,000 cabs, 20,000 horses, and 18,000 drivers, and their earnings exceed £12,000 a day. The first turkey that was eaten in Franco was at the nuptial feast of King Charles IX., in the year 1570. A lioness in a menagerie at Islington devoured her two cubs. A lion which wrestles with a man is on exhibition in London. Something huge in the earthworm line it* quite common in Cape Colony. It is between six and seven feet long, and rosembles the ordinary angle-worm. An enterprising trader, named Lisbonne, a Frenchman, drives through tho streets of Paris in a conveyance propelled by oleotricity, soiling " revolutionary fried potatoes " to the Parisians. Tho chief constable of Chicago has engaged 400 European detectives to bo employed in protecting the public visiting the World's Fair against pickpockets aud thieves. The " Glory in Excelsis" was the earliest Christmas carol. Owing to the improved steam communication between Europe and South America, horses, native bred, from the pampas of the Rio Plata and adjoining districts are being imported directly iuto England and Ireland. A Gorman doctor claims to have discovered that the blood of an animal which hud recovered from au infectious disease can euro another animal from the same disease, if suboutaneous injections aro made.