News in Brief.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

News in Brief.

Another longest English word, " antilatitudinuriunisnlj" has been given. 'The (iermaus have such combinations aa " Jungefrauenzimmerdurehschwiudsuchttodtung Bgogonverein " and " Constatiuopolitauischordudclsackpfeiftfrgoselleuherbergflm cis - ter." The Admiralty has closed a contract for 17,000 tons of steel for warships. The custom of polygamy produces terrible results in China. At present, girls fetch a high price. One of 14 or 16 can scarcely be purchased for less than £20. In a place, a few miles from Hong Kong, three or four years ago, 20 young girls were stolen in a night, taken on board a junk, and carried away. Henry Ward, 13, while aswsting to repair some electric current wires at Prescott, near St. Helena, got in contact with an exposed wire, and was instantly killed. The Admiralty have sanctioned the aum of £4500, in addition to £04,000 already voted for this yoar, being spent on the cruiser Bonaventuro, at Dovonport. By the time she is completed she will have cost £'243,000. A Chicago merchant married a man by mistake the other day, and is now appealing to the courts to get the marriage annulled. The object of the supposed bride is thought to have been to possess himself of the bridegroom's money, thinking he would not care to admit that he had been duped. The manager of the People's Palaco, Sunderland, was summoned on January 20 for causing a troup of fifty Dahomeyan Amazons to live together in a six-roomed house. The new French battleship Jaureguiberry, named after the Admiral of that country who died in 1887, was recently launched at Toulon. She in 356 feet long and 7*2 feet broad. When completed for sea she will be about tho size of the Trafalgar. The disposal of London .sewage is a problem which gives tUe County Counoil much trouble. According to Sir Benjamin Baker's scheme, about £2,000,000 would have to be spent in reconstructing the whole system. A desperate duel with pistols was fought near Berlin recently between Herr Delacroix, a military equipment manufacturer, and Dr. Roever, a medical officer who accompanied Major Yon Wissman's last expedition to Lake Nyanza. No less than eight shots were exchanged, and at the last round Dr. Roever fell dead. An important find in palreontology has been made at Holzmaden, iv Wurtemburg, consisting: of a perfect skeleton of a plesiosaurus, and a quantity of tho remains of ichthyosauri. These monstrous relics of tho world's youth will be placed in the Berlin Museum. An Old Maids' Insurance Society is to be started in England on liue3 similar to the one already existing in Denmark. A young lady taken out a policy, payß her premiums, and should she remain single to the age of 40 she will be entitled to a sum proportionate to her investments. In a teak log which was cut through in the sawmills at Her Majesty* Dockyard at Sheeruess the other day a hollow place was discovered in the centre, in which was a bird's neat containing- four eggs. The log formed part of ji coii'-iginuut of timber delivered at tho dockyard some months since from India. For over 80 years it has been customary for tho priests in Russia on Christinas Day to anathematise the French for their invasion of Russia in 1813. The traditional prayer was omitted last Christmas for tho first time. Items from the Moruing Advertiser of a hundred years ago:— "Tho tar on attor- .. nios will certainly operate fpr tho benefit of mankind by lessening the number of potty foggers who have so long disgraced the laws of this country." At a stamp auction iv London recently £25 10s was paid for a Tuscany 3 lire, j ollow ; £26 for a British Guiana circular issue, 4c. : £23 for a Canada 12d black ; and £18 10s for a United States 18G9, 13c, with inverted centre. More people wero married in England in tho third quarter of last year than in any similar quarter of the last ten years with the singlo except ion of 1891 . The marriage rate was highest in London, the next place being taken by Lancashire, ami the uoxfc by tlie East Riding of Yorkshire. * Some very aucient books are to be found in the sacred relics of Cejlon. They aro formed of palm leaves, written upon with a metal pen, nud are bound merely by a silken string. The twin-screw first-class battleship Centurion is to be commissioned at Portsmouth to relieve the cruiser Imperieuse aa the flagship on the China Station. The Government of the United States has decided to build a torpedo cruiser, 260 feet long and 27 feet 6 inches broad, of 800 tons displacement. Her engines are to be of 6000 horse-power, and her speed, it is expected, will attain to the rate of 23 knots an hour. -■» The Czar of Russia receives no salary. His income arises from 1,000,000 square miles of land that he owns, comprising farms, forests, mines, and other resources. He is estimated to be worth £2,200,000 a year. «■ The famous marble church at Copenhagen, after having baen in course of erection for nearly two centuries, is now nearing completion. Turin Univereity has been closed in consequence of the disorderly conduct of the 1 students, who are protecting against the refusal of the authorities to hold an extra- , ordinary term for examinations. As rabbits aro to the antipodes, so are carp 1 3 the Pacific States of America. They Tidvo multiplied so fast since their introduction that they have driven away the wild ducks from the lakes, having destroyed all the weeds. A brutal outrage has been committed , near Charlestown, County Mayo. A donkey which was found trespassing upon some fields was seized by some ruffians, who saturated the animal's head with paraffin i oil, and then set fire to it. The donkey , received dreadful injurirs, and had to be , shot. The City of London must have a good many thoughtless persons. At different i times last year letters containing articles valued at over £1300 were taken from the p street-orderly bins — erected for receiving refuse from the roadways— where they had been deposited instead of at the Post Office i pillar-boxes.