News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 96, 19 March 1884, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

i in-.. „- ::.-...* f ( . — - ;-: -;..- :■ ... „., '■' In 1885 fcKerejwill be* Hungarian Exhibition at Pesth. A man h^ beea fined at Dewebury, in Yorkahir^, for assaulting JBmns the hang* man. .■■-<• •■ r ■1 ThjßiGrand Council of Valais "(S'vitzern j ; , land): have deceided .to re<introduce ttie j.jleath penalty in the'dahton fbrlhe crime of murder. ■' '• ' ; '. i / ,•&': i. At Newry repently, 'there 1 was solera-* nised the marriage 'of a farmer unmed Pait6n; aged 83, to Miss Margaret M'Kee, aged 60. '' ■•■■ '?i.Tc;a*/.A;-' .."i -. \'j England and France have come to an understandrag 'in regard to the proposed property tax upon foreigners : residing ia : Egypt.i . " An English ju'dge ; is reported' taihaVe.: ,; expressed an opinion the.ojther .day; than no solicitor ought to make more than £500 a year,; .. V/ , ; ,., .. . „ , „.: /. , i The duration' of registered bright sun* shine in England in tlie week ending .December 8 was 8/O.hpurs, tha sun being 'a'boVe the horizon durfne 55 9 4 'h6urs. The Legislative Assembly "of BritisU' Columbia has passed a resolutionrinstruct--1 ing the 1 Government ' to introduce a bill • restricting Chinese immigration,,,; .. ., . ., The council of the Society at Arts have elected Sir ,%e,derick.Abel >0 C.8, ? .D.0.L. > ; >; E.^-.Si,. as their. chairman, in succession ' td the late Sir William Siemens. : . It is ; computed that 680 persons "perished through the feundering,o:E/ fiah'ing vessels in the gjfjts jjnifee- coast of New England, Nova Scotiai and New"^ " fpnndland, .during lf,qv., last, ■...■.<:.) .'.,') Proflssor.Qwen'a^BJalie' pf. health >Anc| his declining years have necessitated his i resigning his appointment as superintendent of theNatural.Histotjf depKrtmenis in the Eritisn Museum." ' . .A. _Bch6olm3ster li in London' lately punished a boy by.tying^a.piece of string, "-. to his tongue,and fastening the other end to a chair, the, bqy' being kept, in tKat ;", position for a considerable 'time il" '„;' ;. .yV.h.Bfi) a m*n's;.wifp. comes. ia and sees,' him, razor in .hand, [and with his face /all -, , lather, and asksjtiim : | Are F ou it's a provo king t^ing for him -to answe^ : : ' No, I'm blacking, rthe stove,' but it Vis - : human nature to so reply- [j. '?/ _ .^.! A Mr H , a coxcomb* onre days'! -hearing people apeak ot age and appear-*/' anca, said, r* Jerrold r doh^t you,ttiink F . look ; much younger. than:.jli ,am .': 3Dhe re. : ' ; ply waa, It is not your looks, my boy, itis your conversation.' . i. ;■■''■!•■■■ .;•!•.■ ' What are you :gbihg^to do when' yoll grow up, if yoi don't know how to cipher ;' asked a teacher of a slow boy. ' I am. going to be; >, school teacher,, and. <j make Ihe boys do tha ciphering,' was the reply. ;■. .;..> ..-,- : . „: .. .. _ : .•. ■ * ' *-I am troubled wath cold £|«et»' •said-. Fenderson. 'tljalw^ys .sleep. jtfr ; my stockings in wihfer.' "<slancing aVJFenderson's number thirteen, Foggs" remarked, '* I Should think you mij<ht do it eiiilv.' ■; ■ ; y» ;.. \V il A ?