News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 253, 27 September 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Business carried on uninterruptedly — In a street m Paris the other day -a chair was seen on which lay. a hat WithY the following notice;-" Please don f t forget the poor beggar who is just • Ukitif hit breakfast." ; -/< :' .?,.% She : « So you are anxious toluiai every wish I may express r He: 'YeVmy aSored °Jt 9 ' V£ r J ono ' TOthout an:exception V She : « Then marry my mother— she is a widow-!' " - T . Ll^ d bett ? r chant* tb_it rug,{ Baid8 aid a lady to her seryant. f Don't yqu think it co ? rob a°/ a * ea b?«er with the carpet In thi* way r was the response, ' W %£^SS^7^^-- ia Anwri <» 300,000,000 cans of preserved food. Although Russia hHs' vast: coa'i bedshe imports nearly a lf the* 'coatlS, of thirty.Bi_men-of-war, of which fourteen .are i_w# Ger . m ™* ? law «tudeafr tmjist , stiSr law for eight years before he may p?aS flour at £11- per ton, and sell itat £20 It is stated that thereartf 46,600 efoare miles of unbroken foreat m North •33E ioma. - / . „ . "^ An inch of. rainfall J« equal, to ■ ' 23.W0 ?:.rar a T ? or u >wm *$& XT 1 ?' A ri ?^' V 'o'''Mw :i a-ved by the National Lifeboat Institution durin^fiftvnine years i5' 29,608. ?. '; i -n *"^ i y wS? Wilw^ brid^ wer-th6 tna_t, which his now complete, occupied six years m budding.' • * *, x .. The firm of Wm. Bell and iCo^oiMn manufacturers, Canada- turn o%™££ five organs every day. ' ' * 1*- : An eminent medical _ha_f m! ren a reetn » due to- vaccination: _n? re i? a . afcWns i ite bein 8 made m Oobuw Atoudria !^2^^^ 1 Sir William ArmstKm_vthii fafiiv jgji England,:4uring thelait^ Bp\Vula e tors. COnCOCted *" '■«-»«» train, and was carried far beyond his das* -ST; ,p W «** JokeTh'viinW saidjie to a fellowipassengef.' »Tes-hu_ a M- e J a^ ct f, h8d '' ™ tb e 'ejoindeV; thiYtS; Bal i 0i this three, or four weeks PatXßedau\ IvM « Jt c " la the tr *th., iu His l H«nottr I war, that s the reward the ipalpeen gave _J_ pri Tl_- c from says;— Nq W Plymouth seems i very dull, and everybody down on his luck. There 18 Sr y ft w *Pence m the place.?'* The New Zealand .Shipping, Company's B.a. Doric was visited m Wellington by several thousand persons, all ef whom expressed unqualifi_d>adhiiratioh of the noble ve55e1. ...... . ... .............. .... ... _.__..„.. ,.., Messrs MiUs and Cable have luccesaf ally S^r^ft'M the ; four beUs required for the Wellington Post Office clock. The bell, weighs between 6 and 7cwt. The largest bell of the quartette will be cast next week, and will weigh more than. 12cwt. ■/.. . r