NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6823, 29 September 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

3 New Yojik i» nßmericaJly t&e grcatea i Catholic city in the world. '. j Tha revised edition of the Old Testament . will be'published next ye&r, » -'- f It costs Turkiy ovtr £3,000,000 ananalli , 5 i;o support the Sultan and Ms harem. ; : ' A fiousseau exhibition was held lately io i for the benefit of the projected statue* A C-.autap.qnii Jseturer says America Las a rnillio'i voters veho cannot reai their balloto. I Ti.3 monument coinaemoTating the do"ence of Paris has been unveiled lit- Courbevoie. Joseph Jefferson, the 3ctor, is said to bava leased an entire island from the Canadian , Government. Bags of all sorts are collected, sorted, an 3 shipped, to London from nearly every country in the world. The landed properties *in England in tho "fo 000.000. y l amounted t0 the valuo of EiigUeh railroads have paid, since 1876 over £1,000,000 damages lor personal injuries to passengers. An eminent oculist declares that leaded brevier type, well printed, is the beat for general reading purposes. It is estimated that the loss of farmsro 1 capital in Great Britain in six pears has fcaan about £100,000,000 stealing. Moritz Soharf, the chief witness ia tho great trial of Hungarian Jews, -?->as confessed' that his tt-stimony was false. iToro " champigne" is drunk in EDglana alone eveiy year than is mannfaatured in tho whole of the champagne district. Lewis Lawrence Conrad, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, was shot and killed in bed by his insane and invalid wife. The malt tax and license duty paid to the Government by Messrs. Bass and Co. is estimated at over £250,000 per annum. The expenses, of the French mission to Moscow amount to £16,000, the German'to £12,000, and the Austrian to £SOOO. George Francis Train is growing crazier than ever. He hasn't Sfjoken a word for months, and will not see his own son. The richest gold mine in the world is said to be in the Transvaal, Africa, a ton of ore in some cases yielding 1000 ounces of metal. Mr. Ralph Modjeska, son of Mme. Mor3jeska. has been made a naturalised citizen, of the United ijtate3 by a California court _ Che-Mab, the imported midget in Barnuro'fl circus, is only 28 inches high, weighs 22 pounds, and is paid a salary of £30 a week. John Barnett, the oldest railway porter who accompanied the "No. 1" engine in ita trial trip with George Stephenson, is dead The 400 th anniversary of the birth of Ulric Swingli is to be celebrated by the reformed churches of Switzerland on January 1, 18S4. Al Barnsley, England,, recently, five chill dren who had taken refuse under a culvert were suddenly swept to death by an inraeh of water. " : ' The son of General Booth, of the Salvattoo Army, is about to marry Mia3 Charles worth, the heiress, whose fortune in her own riphi is estimated at £10,000. The Sulva>ion Army is marching on the v - Mormon forces at Salt Lake City, and 'the sympathies of the Gentilf s are about divided between the contestants. The sister diamond to the K.oh-i-aoor," called the Dayrich-i-noor, or "sea of light " the other being the "mountain of light,'" belongs to tho Shall of Persia. Lord Robert brother of the Duke of Manchester, has gone back to the Anglican Church, from which he went over to.the Roman Catholics in 1579. A New York judge hai decided that milkmen must not rattle their cans so as to disturb tbe people who wish to sleep while the milkman is on bis early rounds. It is stated, in connection with the ]ate Russian festivities that the telegrams sent daily to th« English Pre3s exceeded in length the aggregate sent to the rest of Europe. Dr. Brown-Sequard, of New York, has discovered a new anaesthetic which destroys sensibility, but not conscientioasneas or phvsical activity, for an entire day or more. The " Albani Miosal" was bought by an Englishraaa in Rome in 183S for £20; and sold not long afterwards for £700, while its present value is supposed to be over £10,000. Mr. Parnell, Bpeafeing in London with reference to the shooting of Carey, said that the Irish should rejoice that the justice deniei by the Government had at last been accomplished. *■ "■•■! George Augudtus Sala, who witnessed the coronation of the Czar, declares that it was a distressing sham, and that -all repofta of it were shamefully " doctored" by the au- ' thoritiea. In order to further the progres of electric lighting in Germany, the Government have ordered , that the Edison and' Swan lamps shall be admitted on. payment of nominal import duties. ■The Irish Land Leaguers are discussing the purchase of large tractsof land in the West by English "aristocrats," who, they say, are ' not American citizens, and never intend ij become citizens. Swimming soirees are all the rage at Washington, where. the rink baa been converted into a nafcatorium. A fine band is in attendance, aud the interior is brilliantly lighted with electric jots, . Some idea of the great size of Philadelphia's new ciiy hall, and of the army of men to.be employed in it, may bs inferred from the fict that it will take ab::ut I,ooo,ooo'gallone of water daily to supply it. There are 12,00.0,000 copies of infldal pnhlications and 29,000,000 copies of immoral books, papers and pamphlets published annually' in' London and distributed principally among the working classes. Profc£?or Huxley says that the presence of a rat in the house always indicates the connection with a sewer. This will surprise ■ many persons who don't live v?ith ten miles . of a sewer:and are'troubled with'rats. Two hundred feet is about the greatest depth that-a diver ever worked at. That -was at the ship Cape Horn, where a man named Hooper.'went down -twsnty-seven t.mes to this depth, staying one time forty.two'.'mintites.; ,;,, "';. ,;■, ':;% ■ .■■ ' " - Bartholdi'S; statue of Liberty. stands just 160 ft. in height, being oft. or Sft. higher than the' Vendome Column. . The nose is nsarly sft.*>in length, and forty persons can stand without" inconvenience in tha interior of tbe head;.::,,.: v . .. The Emperor, of Russia, in hie manifesto, granted a; free, pardon to 20,000 or 30,000 p-'litical offenders, mostly Poles, who had taUen part in the insurrection of 1563, and , 10,000 or 12,000 thieves-and cut-throats,, mostly Russians.--';?..' :'■;■.•■,-' ■ . '■'. ■: ,'~.V A church in Bavaria, accommodating 1000 . people, has been almost entirely built of : , papier maehe, which can be supplied at a cost little above. that of plaster. It can be made to imitate the finest marble, as it takes a polish superior to slate; ■■■:"' . V: / •' "D." writes to .", London pap?r with reference to the marrii.ge.with a deceased wife's sister in France :—''Tbe French Heme Office , almost invariably grants permission fo*- theae .■[■ marriages in France. It is never, indeed, rtfuseo, except for 'misconduct. ,, ' •■/, ■ j Moscow covers a larger extent, of ground I than any European capital, London and . Constantinople, excepted. "...The length of. Moscow from ebnth-wt'st to noi - th-east is ten miles. Its width from eaet to west is about seven miles.'■■.'■ ! .'.The ,, poiiulation.. in ISS2 was 748,000.■5-r-.-,-;.■.■•■■_:■■• .■■.■■." . ;, ■'?- Sergeant Mackay, the winner of the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon this yeai-j is a , ' lawyer's clerk in the far north of Scotland, and had-not been previously heard of as a marksman." He- is only 25 years of age. The next two beat shots of the year also hail from the " land O , cakes." .. !: Dr. Max Sering, who was sent to the United States by the German Government to ■;;. : inquire into the possibilities of wheat cnlture, having spent eome months in investigation, 1 has concluded that the Americans have ; nearly reached the limit of their ability to flood Europe with cheap grain. As a convenient application of the sixpenny telegram, it is proposed in England that in every, railway carriage a book of telegram forms shall be hung with a ihairi, so that passengers; may write their messages in transit, which will be collected at every carriage window as the train stops, ''■'■ ■■ A curious lawsuit will shortly be heard at Hamburg. The late Baron Schiff, the wellknown Jewish banker, left directions in his ..will that bis body should be burned. This waa done, but when hia relatives tried to 'remove bis ashes to place them in the family vault, the authorities of tbe Jewish cemetery objected to it, as cremation is contrary to their religion. In order to provide in some way for ihe spiritual needs of the Cbristians among the Indian tribes along the banks of the Amazon, in South America, the Brazilian Bishop of Para bas thought of having a large steamboat, of light draught, built and fitted up in the etyle of a small church, with high altar, and nil the fittings > usual in Roman Catholic - churches. It will be called the OhristOphsr, as bearing the light of Christ's Gospel among „;, , '. those benighted people. \ ; ;