News in Brief.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

News in Brief.

Lord Gillford, who was Sir Goorge Pryon's ilag-lieutonuut on board the Victoria, has just been appointed to the now battleship Resolution. Lord Gillford, who lias been staying with his father, Lord Olumvillium, at Portsmouth, has quite rouovored from tlio fihock of the terrible catastrophe which he witnessed. T ho sudden changes of climate encountered by soldiers when troops are moved from one quarter of (ho world to another—*, nro estimated as increasing 1 the mortality of Europe by 50,000 mon. A medical journal declares that something' like 50,000 cases o; lead poisoning, causing much sickness, occur yearly in England From drinking- home-made wine and beer brewed in glazed earthenware pans. In 1880 a lime tree in Berwickshire four feet iv diameter t>ix feet trom the ground was blowu clean down and rained and replaced again. It shows no trace of its) injury . Two men to five women are employed in teaching iv the United Stales, though tho average salaries of man are increasing much more rapidly than those of women. An order was made for the committal to prison of the Marquis of Donegal for nonpayment of his tailor's bill. The order was, . however, rescinded, the County CourL _ x Judge having learned that ho had no^JA)\vbr to sond a member of the House of Lor3s to prison. Another lion for the Queen was brought to Liverpool on November 15 from Akassa. Li was Suuc by the Royal Niger Company, und is understood to be a present from the Emir of Nupe. Tho death is anuouncod at Essogg, in Hungary, of Mdme. Sarb*, who was born iv 1777, and consequently lived for 110 years. During tbo lust ten years Mdmo. Swbs has live-l uioitly upon coffee. Another Communist colony is to be started iv East Africa. Everything will bo managed by * voluutury groups of selfgoverning men, who will own all they can r.iiso, but liavo no exclusive right to tho laud. Lady clerks are now to bo employed in the Sank of Englaud. They will have to do mainly with notes, and will not bo soen by the public. Several well-known London banks already employ female clerks. Reviewing the past season, Vanity Fair remarks that the most sensational party of the Beason was Lady Colebrook's Sunday night dance, which proved too Continental to suit the sober Englitilt tastes. Fulse teeth are now made of paper, and they are stated to be as satisfactory as auy others made. A curious wedding was recently solemnised at Upper Saudusky, Ohio. The contracting p.trties were William Johnson, nearly 90 yearn old, and Mrs. Isabell.i Brown, a^ed ti.O years. In Dakota, with afour-hoMeganjrplough, from six to seven acres a day U commonly ploughed. John Oliver Hobbos, or Mrs. Craigie, as she is culled iv private life, is one of the most remarkable writers of the day although not yet twenty six years of age. She is an unusually handsome woman, but her health is not vory good. Unlike most literary women John Oliver Hobbes dresses very smartly. Physiognomists state that first impressions in tho study of countenances arc nearly always the most reliable. Two little children became lost in the woods ou Lord Carlisle's estate recently. A search party scoured tho locality throughout the night, aud the next morning these real " babes in tho wood " were discovered lying under a tree locked in each other's arms, and fast asleep. The Duke of Norfolk has purchased the Ainberley Castle and estate adjoining his Arundel property. The castle, a fine ruin, lying close to the Brighton railway, is now used as a farmhouse. The proposed Pasteur Institute for India is meeting with considerable support. I'rance will begin this year the construction of thirty- two warships of all classes. Seventeen years ago a vessel laden with valuable machinery sank near Liverpool and was supposad to have been swallowed up in ;t quick.*aud. Bee jntly the machinery was wa-hed up on tho beach. TSie competition for tho Lady Jenkinson'H Tiialbc.-g Scholarship at tho Royal Academy of 3lusic took place on Dee. 18th. fhe schol trahip was awarded to Edith 0. Oreouhill. There are, according to Dr. Stanley, the late Dean of Westminster Abbey, still eight of the olives of Gethsemane standing, ' ' whose gnarled trunks and scanty foliage will always be regarded as the moat affecting of the sacred memorials in or about Jerusalem." The celebration of Guy Fawkes* Day at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was attended with fatal results. The blazing material of a huge bonfire fell, and one of the spectators named Jease Warden, a postman, was involved in the flames and burned to death. A quantity of bones and several ancient horseshoes having deeu discovered while excavating at Hendon, has led some to mippose that the Battle of Barnet was fought near this sp»t. Dr. Parker is posing as » prophet. " Next year," said lie at fhc City Temple, " will b2 one of thu hnghtest in all the hihtory of Eughtud. A bright white light fills the whole country in every corner. Russia also will have great prosperity, and will make a great advance upon herself. Germany, especially North Germany, will have a hard time of darkness and suffering." During some excavation at Ramsgatethe other day a skeleton, to all appearances that of an Anglo-Saxon chief, was discovered. Venice, where oysters were some years ago cheap and plentiful has been eomj^£> to offer a reward for the conviction or 1 ' persons found dredging out of season. The oyster merchant of Venice has almost disappeared. A woman in France is charged with causing the death of her husband. He arrived home druuk, and, pushing him across the fire, she told him to lie there and roast. Having done this, she left him and went to bed. The treasurers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ! have received an anonymous gift of £2500 1 towards the maintenance of the society's i ' missions in 51 dioceses in all parts of the. world