News in Brief.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

News in Brief.

A curious art exhibition is promised in Paris this summer— a display of Mussulman art, the first over seen in France. Freckles may be safely treated by touching' each one with a moistened crystal of common nitre. The picture of the Panama prisoners is deaoribtd m a pitiful one. M. Charles de Lotseps spends much of his time sitting in a chair with his head buried in his hands ; M. Blondon presents symptoms of paralysis ; and M. Baihavt seems to be rapidly becoming an old man. Every time a train (say of ton carriages and a locomotive) is stopped, the wear and tear cost amounts approximately to 2s. 3d. The insanity of King Otto of Bavaria has atsumed a somewhat alarming character. He refuses all food and drink. Orders have been received at Chatham directing that the constructing of tho battleship Magnificent, the most powerful vessel ever built at that dockyard, is to be taken in hand at once. To explore Africa in a balloon is tho project of two French aeronauts. Every gem known to the lepidary has been found in the United States. The French Chamber has rejected tho pmpnsals to tax foreign resident^ but Agreed by show of hands all aliens on French territory would have to be registered. Lord Randolph Churchill, who was never a strong- man, is said to have become a physicial wreck and mentally a hypochondriac. His brother, the late Duke of Marlborough, was not robust. It may interest some young writers to know what Mr. Stevenson considers to be the secret of success in literature. "It is," ho said, " elbow grease. I can always tell when an author does not write over and over again. Literature is an art that takes placo in time ; therefore, the main point is to be certain that you have everything iv the proper order. If a man has every word and every sentence and every subject in the right order, and has no other gift, he will be a great writer." Of the entire human race 600,000,000 are well clothed, 250,000,000 go habitually naked, and 700,000,000 only cover the middle part of the body. A young merchant in Berlin has just married the woman who nursed him when a babe. She was then seventeen years old. Tlip bridegroom is an extremely wealthy man. The Dundee millworkers who came out on strike, rather than submit to a reduction of wages, have won a complete victory, the manufacturers having withdrawn the notices. Mrs. Annie Besant wears a bloodstone ring sent to her by Madame Blavatsky. In speaking of it she said : "It is veiy magnetic. After it was givon to Madame Blavatsky she wore it during the remainder of hor last incarnation. I shall wear it ilurimr the refat of mv stay on earth tlii& time." Jacques lnaudi, the "calculating youth," who created much curosity among tho learned societies of Paris some months ago by his extraordinary feats in arithmetic and mathematics, is now in London. He received practically no education, but nevertheless works out abstruse sums in an astonishing manner. A commission of the French Institution, including Dr. Charcot, examined him, but failed to account for Inaudi's curious capacities.* The Church of All Harrows, London, still possesses an income originally given to it for the purpose of buying faggot* for burning heretics. Mr. Rider Haggard's new novel, some,what in the manner of "Beatrice," will proliab!}' be called "The Way of the Transgressor." , ;~-~ r-^_-. Men attending tho pana i- «vwJv< are never known to have cholera, small-puv, scarlet fever, or influenza. In Iceland, that country of gentle and old-fashioned customs* it has always been the fashion to present to i.ie baby, when it" first tooth appeared, a lamb, to be its very own, cared for and tended as no other pet could be, and never to be parted with. It is rather surprising to learn that on an average 100 corrugated iron churohes are erected in England every year. The St. Petersburg Church Messenpror says that out of 1000 pilgrims journeying to Nazareth, the majority perished from exposure during the terrible weather oncountered on the way. There are 15,170 free schools in England and Wales, with 3,429,577 children. Tho total number paying a fee in schools receiving a fee grant, but still charging a fee ranging from under Id to a little over Cd, is 849,091. In the Island of Ceylon 760,000 acres are devoted to the cultivation of coacoanuts and 40,500 acres to cinnamon. It is proposed in Mexico to enact a law designed to repress duelling by making the practice as dangerous as possible, so that one or both of the principals are certain to be killed or badly wounded. Some time ago the Now York Herald announced that tho appointment of Poet Laureate has been conferred on Mr. Ruskin, but the statement was afterwards proved to bo unfounded. However, a recent English paper says : — It is positively stated in quarters which ought to be well informed that the Laureatship is to bo conferred upon Mr. Ruskin. Stones from the pyramids of Memphis have been taken to Cairo, and used for building houses. The probable duty on the estate of the late Mr. Abington Baird's estate is said to have been £30,000. He was, consequently, one of the wealthiest sportsmen in the world, if the statement is true. The French Budget shows a deficit of nearly £5,000,000 sterling. In America electric tramways have displaced 30,000 horses. All the smokeless powder raado in Russia during the last eighteen months has been found to become useless shortly after having been stored. Efforts are being made to remedy the defect, but so far they have been fruitless. Some of the medicines at present in use by European physicians arc enormously expensive. A preparation of the Calabar bean, administered for lockjaw, called " physostigmine salioylate," is worth £100 an ounce. One of the largest forests in the world stands on ice. It is situated between Ural and tho Okhatsk Sea. A well was recently dug in this region, when it was found that at a depth of 340 feet the ground was still frozen. A useful application of the electric motor is that of giving easily-controlled power to the invalid tricycle chair. A storage battery under the seat supplies, it is claimed, force sufficient for fifty miles, without recharging, at a speed of eight miles an hour. With a view of preventing the spread of cholera, the Ameer of Bohkara ordered a complete disinfection of the caravanserais, harems, and bazaars in his territories. On the Russian side the Government ordered a quarantine of seven days for all arrivals. The Pasteur Institute in Paris ia still aa popular a resort for hydrophobia patients as it was when the fame of the scientist's cures by innoculation was at the flood- tide. The other day ton persons, who had been 'bitten by a mad dog, presented themselves in a body to receive treatment. A stable of the late Duke Fawcett will be unveiled this month in Vauxhall Park by the Archbishop of Canterbury. From the statistics of emigration from Ireland during 1892, it appears that the number of emigrants who left Irish ports in 1892 was 51,000, a decrease of 8868 as compared with 1891, the numbers of men and women being about equal ; 60,867 were natives of Ireland. The faloon can fly at tha rate of 160 miles an hour.' A larg* AtlanUo liner burni about £2600 worth of coal every trip. There are in London over 1400 plac»a of •worship. * -