NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6966, 15 March 1884, Page 9 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A .revival of~Socialism in England is re« ported. Calcutta has one of the finest zoological gardens in tbe world. The average cost of railroads in the United Kingdom is £41,728 a mile. A Texas man has been sentenced to ninety' - nine years in the penitentiary. Texas is saia to produce about one-half tho cattle raised in the United States. , The German Empire has twenty-two state* supported laboratories of pathology. . Steps.are.being taken in Canada to prevent '- further assisted immigration from the old country. Arabs are determined to erect a monument to Hicks Pasha on account of hin great' bravery. 1" America the ritio of railway travellers ; killed per mile is 1 to 2800 ; in Europe it is 1 to 900. .-.'--There is a.fjjut.of printers in Germany, no--' less than ■ 1500 typos, being out of work during ■ the past year. The new Alhambra Theatre, in London, ia described by the English press as tho finest . theatre in the world/ - Over '130,000,000 cans of tomatoes have .been consumed.in., the United .States ..within the last three years. -It -is estimated, that there -is. now upwards ptthr.ee -millions of- women . in' the UnitedKingdom.earning wages;-' Carl Rosa has been giving operatic per* formances, by aid oE.a telephone,' in two towns, on the same eveninc; , - The -best..-shot -in the Brit'sh army Is a: Scotchman—Sergeant E. Andrews, 2nd battalion -Duke .of Cornwall's Light Infantry.. ' -■ ■ Buttermilk-.has becomo a--favourite- tern*' perance, drink inA m t-rica. In Philadelphia it.,has superseded gingerbeer and lemonade. . ■Extensive preparations are being made in Danzig, Western .Prussia,- for an exhibition of . beer,-.apparatus, for tapping beer,- beer glasses, &c. The New Orleans Companies turned off the gas inthe streets and all' public.buildings in that city lately -because of 1 the non-payment of bills. Hicks Pasha, on September-2-t; ; wrote that he.had noticed. straDgeblack--and.green spots' on the sun, and ho asked, '' What does this portend ?" ■ More than a: million pounds changed hands in the Bales .and purchases of Christmas beef . ?t. the Metropolitan Cattle Market, London, in one day. ■ Guiteau's skeleton, which is hidden/In a private room of the Army-Medical Muieum, has been polished-and. bleached until-it looka like an ivory figure. The French "Foreign- Legion"- ,Is. beinglargely filled just.now with " deserters" from the.German army, who: subsequently return to their own country. " "' , .Dr. B. W, Richardson, at a meeting at St.. Pancras; said:tho temperance cause would' never win its way till the. women of the : world embarked'in it. Mr, Jenkinson, chief of the-Crime Depart* ment a,t Dublin Castle; has'been appointed head of the four Irish divisional magistrates, at a salary of £2500 a year. A. whplesale system of;misappropriation of Parcels in the:post during the late Christmas holidays been, discovered at Berlin* Fifteen officials-have' been' arrf'3ted. Qpstly immigration :. The French ' Government have f pent, 59,000,000 francs id settling 2000 French families in Algeria, Average cost 29,500 francs, or £120S 6s Sdi ■ At Acrington Sir. Ught-red K. Shuttle* i worth paid a. high tribute to the . excellence Qf the English newspapers; to which, he said,the nation j>wed.a deep debt of. gratitude, i . Froml 572 to ISB2 the total amount ex* pended. in prpmotingirailway.companies' bills in the United Kingdom was £2 502 557; and: in opposing such measures was £507,065. - y I The general -agent :of: the Allan Lino of ' steamers reports that Montreal, during the' past twelve years, has been steadily losing the ■ ■shipping trade, of the.-American continent.--- ■ About. £40Q-has been collected in England for. the benefit of the family of the late Captain. VFeb.h. Mrs. .Webb intends: settling in some businesß and remaining in Amerioa. j. ■ It is computed that 6SO persons perished through-.the. foundering .of- fiehing . vessels in' i. the gales .on.,the coast of New Kngland, Nova* Scotja, and Newfoundland during-November last. i. ■ ■ ...Last month. Dr. .. Annie. Clark; of Birming*' I ham, was elected an acting physician of tho Children s .Hospital, there; ..-in. preference to i eight of the. most eminent physicians in tho I 'tosvn.. ' " -.••■.-.■■■ A country newspaper, ;fn describing a funeral, ,say 3." The,words of. the officiating, minister were, as it were, wafted-:: heavenward, the wind blowing very strong at the time." ■ ■A young, giant is .Jack Shields,, of Hun County, Texas. .He is.-21 yeais-old;-seven-feet eight inches, High weighs'29l pounds. He. has six brothers -over..seven : feet ; in l height. . The German exports.to the Unjted States in ISS3 were .£1,000,000 less than in 18821 the same.time they amounted bo £10,000,000 ■ more than ISSI, and had more than- doubled since 1873; ; , .Brigadier-General M liver; whose proposed Guinea expedition has Vjeen abandoned,; 13 a "°ut to come to Queensland,../with: tha ■ P^PP 3 ? of. lecturing oil his adventures as B soldier of fortune. i' An ordinarily trustworthy Belgian journal announces that the King of. the' Belgians has purenaaed large, tracts .of land, in . Morocco I. ??d Tunis, with the, intention of causing them to be cultivated. A tree standing, perpendicularly: has been, discovered at a depth of 2SO feet-iu boring an artesian well at- -&a*n. -Bernardino; California; ! Great, pieces of vrood, which appeared to bo i sycamore, were: brought up; Prince of. Wales, speaking ■ at' tha | Grand Lodge pf ; Mark Masons, said as long i r reemasonry remained an -order-" and an , institution of. c harity and usefulness, it would , nourish as, lpr.g as the;world existed; I . The New Tt'ork Independent publishes reli- | gious statistics of the United States, which are |. p- spl en ci tribute .to .the power of Voluntary- | is.m. A Protestant population supports 82.000 c"ierqymen and-115,610 churohes. Italian.; papers. announce two fresh Buicidfjs as having occurred at or near Monte ,C»rlo. One pf.the victims of that notorious gambling establishment was: a Pole. The othor was not identified, but was- believed to be a German.

-Belgium ehows what can be done in farmV B S' l.hat little ..country, has 480 persons to t/he square mile, and.;every four acres support three persons. It shows that ; highs farming, and. excellent cultivation .of the soil' are profitable.

Paris lias sixty Roman Catholio churches, 1 ■and. .some. thirty chapels for other 'denomina-' 1 tionSi It is estimated that them is ;i place of worship for every 20,000 of the inhabitants,' and eyen this is. more than sufficient for tha number who go. r The. Morning Post says that the Milan omnibus, and brougham companies have made experiments in lighting their vehiclea by electricity. These, it'is said,'were most ..successful, aDd .it is considered likely 1 that' the system will be adopted. An actor j n I'aris has committed in real life the, old olunder .of.'putting two .letters in. the wrong: envelopes.' The one .was for his wife and the other for hia mistress.;... The result is that-M. Berton, the partner- .of Madame. Sarah .Bernhardt in Feodora, ie.the. subject of a suit for judicial separation. ■ -v

, Thirty-four years ; ago, a poor young man; named " Pat" Milmo left Ireland to Beek hia, fortune:in ; America. To-day this same indir* vidua!, who now rejoices in the name of Don; Patricio. Milrao, is one of tho nabobs of Mexico,, and computes his wealth at £3,000,000.. The once poor Irish lad ia now making a tour of the United States. AYhile.i delvine in the courtyard' o£ ' the Cloister of , the .Cordeliers in Paris to prepare for tho foundations of the; Ecole Pratique, some workmen, under the direction of MM. Gmain, architect, and Dupr6, Inspector of; .Works; some cinerary urns pierced with rough; holes. containing human; ashes. They were found to date back to the. Roman.'.period: : 1 In an article on the French Naval Estimates,.. the - Avenir ; Militairev observes thab .there are 10,000 more workmen in the than ,in the English arsenals,.having to share; about the same .sum .iii .the" way of salary ; that the climate enables the French to make a greater number •. of. houra . and that, consequently, they should get through a larger amount of work. " jj; . ■ In London lately, a domestic servant who; attempted to sooth a wild cat, was bitten oa the right wrist. A few months afterwards she became poorly, and was removed to tha hospital, where she died from hydrophobia in a few days. .Another case is reported where a man was bitten on the arm by a woman, whom he bad assisted while in n fit. The limb became much swollen, and three days afterwards he had to be removed to the hospital, where he died the lama evening. ,