BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 1

BREVITIES.

Fearing that lie would be punished for spending 7d on sweets, instead of buying fruit for his mother, a schoolboy at Adorf, Saxony, threw himself in front of a tram, and was killed. Some curious evidence was given in the Deuel v. the 'Collier's Weekly' libel case at- New Ycrk. Colonel Mann, editor-in-chief of 'Town Topics,' admitted that he had borrowed £36.000 from various influential men in New York, including W. K. Vanderbilt, J. W. Gales, C. M. Swab (head o£ the Steel Trust), and Pierpont Morgan. He sent- Messrs Vanderbilt and Gates some ' Town Topics' stock -as payment at par value, but Mr Vanderbilt returned it. The admissions to the Dunedin Hospital last week numbered 21, and 18 patients were:discharged, leaving 108 inmates in the institution on Saturday. There was one death (Lye Sin) during the week. Fine weather was experienced for the St. Patrick's Day holiday in Sydney. A cleaner employed in the infected; area (Sydney) has been found to be Bufferinc* from plague. ° Colonel Marchland, of Fashoda fame, is seeking election, to the French Chamber of Deputies as a Socialist. falling 2,000 ft from a balloon at Wilf City, Texas (U.S.), an aeronaut named Cooper was killed, though the only bone broken wa-s one in his wrist. It is officially announced from Rome that Dr Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, will be created a cardinal at the end of the current month. The revising barrister at Pretoria has upheld the right of niilitaiy men earning £IOO a year to vote, thus reversing the decision of tie revising officer. Mr A. D. Searle, a prominent mineowner of Leadville, Colorado, who died recently, left a sealed package with instructions that it was not to be opened till the day" of his funeral. It was then found to contain a funeral sermon written by himself. Deterred by illness from attending his court in person, Judge Berts, of New York, tin January 13, conducted the proceedings at Albany over a long-distance telephone from his room in Kingston. He b'stencd to the speeches of both counsel, and then summed up the case for the jury. As the latter could not agree, Judge Betts discharged them, also through the telephone. A discarded manual fire engine is- being used for advertising purposes by a wellknown London firm, the horses and engine being fitted with firebells, and several men in the uniform of firemen riding upon it. The fire brigade '- authorities have' called the attention of the police to this\fbrriv of advertisement, but apparently they ihave' nopower to prevent it. .V There , being no :heir to the throne of China,,the<Dowager-Empress has summoned all the eligible Princes to the. Palace at the coming of the New Year. She will keep three or four of the brightest at the Palace for a year or then aoipinate one as tie Emneror's successor*