News m a Nutshell.
London has twenty-eight daily papers. More than one-half of the lawyers j^ Berlin are Hebrews. T^ Electricity is now used as a motive power for toy yachts. Denmark sent 2,000,000 cabbages to New York last winter. Sewing is now taught m the public schools of Springfield, Mass. A young girl named Bridget Kennedy aged fifteen, committed suicide at Lithgaw (N.S.TV.) the other evening, m a most determined manner. In the Melbourne County Court the other week His Honor Judge Cope had occasion to deter a person from " whittling" the now furniture with a peaknife. Mr A. G. Taylor, a member of the New South Wales House of Representatives, has been suspended under the new cloture rules recently brought into operation. Miss Lydia Amelia Harris, on receiving her B.A. degree' at the Melbourne University, was received by the students with the song, " She's a jolly good fallow." Sir Henvy Brougham Loch is not ft stranger toMel bou rue. He was there m 1850 with the Hon. Sluart Wortly. He became during hia stay m the city a social favourite,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 143, 16 May 1884, Page 2
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182News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 143, 16 May 1884, Page 2
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