NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 144, 28 May 1881, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Those who have tried it confess that a large henlthy mustai'd plaster worn at the brick contains more heat than a heavy overcoat. " Cruelly inurciered by his playtnatos," is the singular inscription on child's tombstone at North Short, Sydney. A junior member of t^e Household Brigade undertook to walk from London to Brighton m twelve hours, The distance is 55 mileg and be did it easily m 9£ hours ; the wager was for £500. Pope Leo is said to be seriously ill suffering from difficulty of breatbiag. compelled to forego his pleasure m the gardpp. and to stay m bed a good part of the '1&7« :'■.■•, i. : ... .. Mr Elliot Square, a solicitor, was acci dentally killed.-, at. Plymouth, England. While m conversation with a surgeon, the shaft of a running cab s'ruck. him m the eye and pierced 'His 'skull, causing death m a few hours. c . • s ; ... There are now m actual circulation m America £62, 657,000 m gold, £18,162,675, i i 6ilver, £K9 336,205 m greenbacks, and m national bank notes £68,412,670 Total moni y actually m the hands of the people. Nov. 1. is £212,508,765. and the nationa treasury has some £60,000,000 on hand be iitep. There are so many beasts and birds m the gardens of the Zoologri'ial Sneiet of London that they cannot lie kept alive without being fed daily on living fi*h that the agents of tho society are permitted to catch fi-»h m th* fr» sb waters of Kngland duiinu the c\r>sn season, by viitue of a sp?ci il pro vision m an Act of I'aili^m-nt. The Carthusian friar.*, who have established tlifiinselveß on a large scale m arc now m treaty with the Duke of No folk for one of Mh estates war their vast monastery at Ciwfo.d. This esla-lili-bment wil : so^n be as r>norm f 'Us ancomplete as any of tho-e old mona^erio on whose extinction England used to pride herself. A' a recent exhibition by the Cremation "ifity of Milan, thn body of \]c. snndro MaMzoni, the author of the Prometsi Sposi, was displayed within a glxzeil co;iin w h so startlingly life-like an appearance that it would never have do sed a behoMei'smind that he hid b en dead seven days, to say nothing of the fact that he had been dead seven years. Joubert, who was appointed commandant ~by the revolt© I Boers m the Transvaal, w;ie formerly a clerk m Melbourne, Auftialia. He arrived thero from the (Jape, and finding Auatrnlit tooslo* for nis ambition, soon returned t > the place whence he came. Out of 219.000 children, between B'x and and fourteen years of age, living m Pans there are about seven thousand who attend no school It is somewhat singular that, with the exc -ption of t v e hospital m the KnoDenfert-Rocherean, the administration does not p ssess a einglo crehe, orphanage, ' or' any establishment for the* recep'ion of children, either municipal ordepartmen- i tal.

Mr Le Dmc. the United States Commis sionor of Agriculture, has completed arrangements for th". e'tablishment of an fxyeiimental tea farm near Summerville. about 25 miles from Charleston, South Oaro'ina. Sir Richard John Giiffitb was appointd by the British Government m 1830 to make a general valution of the Land m Ireland, and upon that valution ihe vaiio i* 1 cal and public assessments are now made. Hence the term ' Griffith's valufion." ft is sta-i^d that a memorial is about to be presented to Mr. Gl id-tone, with a vicv to securing a pen ion from the Civil Lint for ihe (wo single daughters of thft Lite WiJ. li.m Ho.-.c, author of the >l Every Day B ok,' 1 '• Table Biok," &c, and tb.it it i<> strongly supported by Mr Samuel M-rley, M.P. the Heoordcr of London, the Chairman of the Sch ol Board for London, and ot'aw infltif rtial g^ntkraen. j Pr nee Nikoshadae one of the boon companions of the Czarowitz, has accused Mile, j Prnskovaya, a colonel's ('aughter, witks ealing from him six million francs. She retort i that he gave, them to her. The CzTowi'z ha-! orc'ored him to let the girl alone bnt the matter ia nowin the feinHg; of the law, and as the girl is a beauty with whom all the courtiers are bewitched, the: j prince has to run the gauntlet of a score of! j duels. "