NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are nearly 6,C00 Americans residing in Paris.

There are 2.0C0,000 hives of bees in the United States. • Kerosene was first UEed for lighting puipewe/in the year 1826. There are scattered over tho world about' 2700, Yonog Men's Christian Associat on?. Mr. A. S. Abell proprietor of the Baliiim«>re Sun, is Said to be worth £3 000.000. It is considere 1 probable that tie next. English Reform. Bill will extend the suffrage to women.

It is stated that the value of the gold raised from the soil in Russia in ISSf was £5.044,602. .

Josh Billing? the famous Yankee humourist said to contemplate a lecturing tour in Australia.

Mexico elects a Presideqt next year Diaz, is the favourite ca-.dida'.e for the Libera's.

An outline of the Temple at Jerusalem traced On Bias?, lias been found in tne catacombs at Rome.

The Governor of French Cochin-China ia a pentleman. with the Very English name of G'la' les Thompson.

The religions of the Buddhist', Brahmins and Ni.aboihed-irs, 1 strict'y prohibit the: sale of intoxicating liquors. The oyster industry in Maryland in all its branches, employs 25,000 per-.ocs and affords a living to 75,000. There- are more t!ian 800 000 people in Ireland who speak Irish, and 100,000 Who can speak no Other language.. There are Bow being built in England 784 iron or steel vessels the estimated tonnaje of which is over one million tons.

The revenue of France for the first half of the present year was £1,166,660 betow the estimate, of the budget. It is proposed to establish, in the Champs panoramas of Paris representing the city as it appears at various epochs The number of sheep in New Mexico is reported to have increased from 10,000,000 in ISSO, to 20,000,00.0 at the p'reaeut time. The old slave market of Zanzibar, where form-rly 30,000 slaves were sold annually, has been transformed into mission p- emises. The .turnpike tolls of Scotland are abolished and henceforth the roads will be maintained in Counties by an equal tax On landlord and tenant.

The German military papers announce that an exercise in the art of besei.ging and defendi°.£» a ' fortress will be held next autumn at Coblentz.

A large amount of £1,700,000 exn.ended by companies in working-men's homes'in Loudon pays an average of 5J per cent interest on the capital. Tramways have increased in England alone from 94 miles in 1876 to 444 in Jun-, I.SS2 and the capital invested from £1,250,000 to £6,500,000.

The Bnddhist priests of Japan have Commenced an agitation against the obligation both, of celibacy and of an exclusively vegetarian, diet.

The Italian Government refuses to allow the importation of any patent medicine unless eantioned in game properly authorised pharmacopoeia. The short service system in the army hag been productive of one recognised benefit—it has diminished the number of soldier's wives in the country. A recently published tea chart in London Bhows that the increase in the consumption of India tea during the past six years has been very rapid. The Canada-Pacific Railn ay is now finished from Port Arthur, on Lake superier, to a point 600 mil-s west of Winnc-pcg, a distance of 1,093 milts.

The art ctdlcetion of Emzl de Giradin, the ceL brated French journalist, is about to be dispersed by auct ou. Many of the objecte possess great historical value.

The carrjiug of signboards through the streets of .New York has reached t■ proportions of a public nuisance art! calls for the attention of the police author.ties, A hand grenade, in the shajieof a chemical solution enclosed in a glass bottle, has been introduced into the United State-? a:s an effective agent for e>.t.in.:ui: ;u; fires. A marriage alliance is proposed between Prince Albert Victor, the eldest; son of the prince of Wales, and the Princess Clementine, youngest daughter of Leopold 11. A comm.ttee of the Balloon Society has been appointed, with Colonei Beaumont as chairman, with a view to develOpe photography in its application to ballooning. Melih Sarkisshoff ahot his brother in the streets of Tifllis. A commissary of police curiously bearing the name of the fractricide, decapitated the assassin with a. single blow. Mr. Coleridge. Kennard, M.P., has introduced a bill into the House of Commons for making it. compulsory that all entrance doors of public buildings be so hung aa to open outwards. 1

At the French Derby when the victory of Frontin was hailed with exuberant manifestations of national delight it is estimated that the crowd numbered half a million of people.

Chiputura a chief of Makololo, formerly one of Dr. Livingstone's followers, opposes the Portuguese Occnpation. A strong military expedition is preparing to attack av,d punish Cbiputnra.

Sociaily, the condition of the United States does not appear to improve. "Toe awful ctaok of the murderer's pistol," says the New York Nation, "is still heard in every diiection,"

Secretary Cheoodler's list of United States war ships and steamers which he has for sale includes IS which have cost over £4,000,000. The Florida £382,500 and the Dictator £328,800. The subsidy wkioh the India office and the Government of India have decided upon allowing the Ameer of Afghanistan every year is to be the amount (approximately) of £120,000.

In |BorrisSnglebsk, in Russia, tho Iceuste are ravaging a tract of about 70,00.0 acres. Six thousand soldiers sent to the assistance of the inhabitants, are powerless to check the appalling destruction.

Mr. Beecher'a popularity does not appear to have greatly diminished. The annual sale of the pews in his church fetched $7400, against £7640 last year. The " first choice" of sittings realised £145. It is estimated that the people of the United States are mulcted to the extent of £.110,000,000 Sterling every year, by the increased cost of home products resulting from the iuiqnitious operation of the tariff. The. Nihilists are reported to be considerably_ interested in a Uew exploeive that is making quite a st'r in Europe. It is the invention Eugene Turpin and glories jn the name of "panclastite" or "brisetout." According to the Weisz system of -typesetting, recently introduced in Vienna, the type is oast in syllables, common prefixes, suffixes, &c., instead of letters, and a jreat saving of time is thus effected it is claimed.

According to the latest issue of the American Navy list, the United States possesses 40 wooden vessels and 13 monitors equipped for active Bervice, besides a drzen steamers and sailing vessels which are not fit for immediate use.

The forts constructed at the confluence of the River Wartha with tbe Oder, and the point of cover for Berlin against an invasion from Russia, is beini» converted into a firstclasß fortress, capable of sheltering 130,000 men.

There are now fully 30,000 wheelmen in the United States, and the popularity of the bicjcle is. increasing. In England over 5,000 bicycles are used in the mail service and there are at Isast 200,000 English wheelmen.

Permission has been obtained for the establishment of kiosks in Hyde Park, and the Duke of Westminster will preside at a meeting to bo held at Grosyenor Souse for the purpose of raising the capital necessary to carry out the idea.

The Russian papers state that several ancient gold articles, resembling in. general character those found by Dr. Schliemann at. Myceme, have been discovered on the northern bank of the Amu Darya, the ancient. Oxus about two days 3 journey from Kudue.

The American newspapers mads unparalleled arrangements for getting a report from Wimbledon of the fhootipg of the American team. One New York agepcy had a corps of 20 men on the ground, and the result of er.-eh shot as it wjs fired, was cabled to tlve States.

A company has been formed in Vienna to undertake the general buniness of washing windows. It is likewise prepared to execute orders, for the scrubbing of house fronts and vestibules, and tha cleansing of: niirr.or3 and show cases,, and doubtless for all kindred, associations.

Oae of the exhibits at the, London Fisheries Exhibition is a mother-of-pearl suite of bed room furniture—wardrobe, table, washstaud, and. chairs—valued.by the exhibitors, Messrs. M. Samuel, at the high rate of 1500 guineas, and containing 47,000 pieces of pearl laid on a wood backing.