BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 12397, 10 January 1905, Page 1

BREVITIES

lie Government have" decided tb.-obtain fy» motor carriages similar to those in use ml-lingland 'as an experiment on the suburban railway lines for passenger traffic. , lhe accumulated funds of the Railway Superannuation Fund amount- t0.£60,000. i? 6 ,5™ now to' 1 1? paid out amounts: to Jblo.uyo per annum. . The trouble at the -Wairau Hospital has reached an acute stage. On. it being proposed yesterday that Dr Anderson be again offered the position, the chairman, declined to exercise his casting-vote, and resigned. Aaother chairman was elected, and finally the question was, deferred pending . the framing of new by-laws as to the medical staff. Dr Anderson is to be asked to take charge in .the meantime; . Day and night Germany is said to be for war with England, and Vanity Fair' declares that Englishmen deceive themselves if they affect to regard Germany as a friendly Power* so long as the continued reinforcement of, the German fleet is the order of the day. . At Chicago University the girl students in the mixed classes removed a picture of the Magdalene from their dormitory, on the ground thai the semi-nude figure was not fit for male visitors to see. i 60^^7 ;. ■%''' of '*«»■-United States Cabinet- dedmed to speak at a club banquet ou the anniversary of Washington s birthday, holding that Cabinet Ministers ought not to mate public speeches. m S°- companies associatod -with the Morgan combine have had «£*• » dividend this year, duo to the fcet that the Transatlantic business has I been subjected to abnormal tafltserhjes. A London message states that tidal floods nave done enormous damage to the piers Sid *R a^ eDadeS at Scarboron g b > Yarmouth, lTie son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, who has been on a visit to India, was feus? weUed by Lord Curzon, viceroy of India.. .An advertisement for a hall iwrter at the Birmmgham.Liberal Club at a salary of iJos weekly produced nearly 300 applications. Uisapprovmg of a newly-apr.ointed companioo to her invalid sister, a Birmingham girl unsuccessfully tried, to commit s&ade by _BwaJlowing a corn cure. Mr Holman, one of the inspectors of rcbools m England, daiounees the immohe suggests that the t teDdra< 7 <« pmsro true morality at its source. A special department has been created at the French itdmiralty for the study of all matters pertaining, to the construction of soomarmea

A medical authority sayj- that in rail-' way collisions the. passenam who are asleep escape the bad effects'of shaking and concussion. °

Li Siam it is usual for judges, counsel and all spectators to smoke cigarettes and cigars during a trial, and occasionally, too, tea is handed round. The Grand-Council of China has- approved • .suggestion that all soldiers and students should abandon pigtails, and have thcif hair close-y cropped. A Liverpool gentleman possesses a clock whereof the face is comoosed of a circle of tanned human skin, on which the hours are embroidered with woman's hair. Though recommended by one of their committees to undertake the sale of picturepostcards, Wantage Town Council consider that the proceeding would be undignified. parah Bernhardt has committed stage suicide nearly 30,000 times—lo,ooo by poison, 7,000 by jumping into the Seine, 5,000 by revolver bullet, and 5,000 by dagger. Professor Geikle has estimated the amount of sediment carried to the sea by the Thames in a year at 1,865,903 cubio feet. - In Brail, at the funeral of an unmarried woman, the mourning color is scarlet. The coffin, the henrre, the trappings of the horses, and the livery of the driver are all scarlet.

Smoking in the streets has now bem prohibited: by the Municipal Council in Wsetin, in Moravia, under pain of a heaw fine.

In a five-hours' deep-sea competition «t Dover, in which seventy anglers took part, the prize for the heaviest fish was taken with a whiting turning the scale at 6oz. Disapproving of a newly-appointed companion to her invalid sister, a Bristol girl unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide by Bwall owing a corn cure. A little girl at Cheshunt (Eng.), taken ill, was allowed to nurse her pet cat in bed. The animal died, and an exhumation of its body reyeab that it had had diphtheria, from which ailment the child is now suffering-

After years of deliberation, the New Tork school authorities have decided to adopt plans for a "sky-scraper" school, which will accommodate 7,500 to 8,00(3 pupils. The structure be ten storeys high, by far the \v^_ l - elementary publi« school in existence, will be.erected al once.

Among the articles included in the movable property left by ex-President Kruget in Europe the following'are enumerated for the purposes of the will:—One bottle of snuff, one tall -silk hat, various psalmbooks, a large Bible, six smaller Bibles, and two envelopes containing hair and beard of the deceased.