News in Brief.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

News in Brief.

* One of the Bights of China is the antique bridge of Suen-tchcn-fow, 2,500 feet long, and 20 feet wide. It has on each side 62 piera, upon which huge stones aro hud, somo of them 20 feet laiifj. Many thousand loads of stono were used in the erection of this wonderful bridge, which is regarded by engineers as indicating constructive talent as wonderful as that whioh raised ths Egyptian pyramids. The Hamburg Ainorican steamship Normiiunia, which sailed from New York on January IB for Genoa, returned to that port with her upper works damaged by a tidal wavo whioh swept over the forward part 6Tf the vessel. Some dnmago was also fiouo to her ducks and ouuiu^. Thore wan no storm at tho timo. Seven of the crow of the Normannia wore injured, ono fatally. A set of iron fetters was exhumed in tho churchyard of St. Andrew*, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, recently. It is supposed that a malefactor had bcon buried with the fotter* attached to his ankles. The domeitio pets of the world curry 30 per rent, of tho common contagious diseases from house to h-jusc. The Chinese alligator, wliich has long been supposed to bo oxtinct, han boen rediscovered, and specimens of it sent to the Royal Zoological f4ardens at London. Marco Polo, in describing the specimen, Bays that its gall was a specific for the cure of hydrophobia. A young woman of Paris was recently found looked up in a police station on her wedding morning by the man who came up from the provinces to marry her. She had stolon the trousseau of a wealthy young woman, whioh had been sent to hor to havo' the initials embroidered on it. Half-a-dozen English members were sitting together in the House of Commons lately, and wore, as is often the case, discussing some of the personalities of the assembly. They agreed cadi to write down the uamo of the man whom next to Gladstone they cnn.sideiod the best orator. When their pnpers were compared, all were found to contain the samo name— that of Mr. Sexton* The Canadian mammoth cheese, weighing 12 tons, which was one of the attractions at the Chicago's World's Fair, lately arrived at Liverpool, to *be exhibited throughout England. During the past fifteen years tho numbor of solicitors practising in Manchester has risen from three hundred and seventy-six to six hundred and ten, and the President of the Incorporated Law Society (Mr. Morrell) was daring enough to express tho opinion that the figures aro a sign of general prosperity in the city. Earl Spencer has appointed a committee of experts to visit Government dockyards and inquire into tho system of paying seamen's allotments. It is felt desirable iv Nitval circles that sailors' wives and relatives should receive their money through the Post Office, instead of having to go to the dockyard, as at present. It is said that from the beginning of the year. all the women who had hitherto been employed as clerks and telegraph operators on the various Russian railways were to be dismissed, and their plaoos supplied by men. The greatest height over reached in a balloon was 26,160 feet. Two of the threeaeronauts who made this ascent were suffocated. An interesting volumo sold in London recently is the " Caxlon Memorial Bible," ' designed on the occasion of the Caxton Exhibition held in 1877, in commomoration of the fourth hundredth anniversary of the introduction of tho urt of printing into England. The book was printed at the Oxford UniverMty I'reus, enly a hundred copios being issued. It bears on its title the statement that it was " wholly printed and bound in twelve hours on this. 30th day of June, 1877, for tho Caxton celebration." An American professor the other dar infected a letter with cholera bacilli, and when it was taken out of the post-bag, 24 hours later, the bacilli were still alive. Bacilli were also found liviug on post- cards twenty hoars after infection. The Customs authorities at Sun Francisco havo unearthed a big smuggling ring, which ha» been operating on an extensive scale. Several arrests havo bwu made, and others are expected. A French vogeturian society, lik« ancient Gaul, hae become divided into three parts. One wing calls itself eeratlito, to indicate thai ie believes only iv eating cereals; anofhi-i will be known us fruitunn, because it timiks fruit the only proper food ; and another has been dubbed (überile, because it believes in eating rooU Mr. R. C. Dutt haa revised bio •* History of Civilisation in Ancient India " (b.o. 2000 to A.n. 600), and it will appear in Trubner's Oriental Series. The first volume deals with the Vedic, Epic, and Rationalistic periods, the second with tho Buddhist and Purauio periods. A subscription lia« been opened in Italy for a monument to the musician Piilestrina, the tercentenary of whose death occurs in 1895. Palestrina's music is almost exclusively used in the services at St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel. A Vienna woman ia said to bo driven, almost mad by the never-ending sounds of | music proceeding from her heart. Medical experts also declare that mnsical tones, in a , high pitch, can be heard proceeding from ' ' the woman's heart. The report of the Yorkshire Fishery I Board for last year states that salmon are I fast, disappearing from the Onse and the . Humber. In 1887 the number of fish j captured in the Board's district was 2648, I weighing 29,4631b ; hist year only 872 were . caught, weighing 74461b. j In Milan they have certain. " stands " for tricycles, which can bo hired at a trifling cost. Each tricycle has a driver.- bo that the hirer has nothing to do with isither its propulsion or direction. . The fan depends upon the distance to be rraverstd or the time to be occupied by the journey, according to arrangement. As to speed, it is believed the tricycle can go about twice as fast as the ordinary cab horse. Probably the greatest feat of railroad engineering ever accomplished in Connecticut has just been completed. The Shore Line Division, in entering New Haven, now passes through a tunnel of bard rock about 400 feet in length. It required six months to complete the undertaking. The orange crop of the State of Florida this year ia placed at nearly 4,500,000 boxw.