NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7008, 3 May 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Every member of the Utah Legislature iajg Mormon... ■"■; :■■.-'•": V-- >' ■:.; *:~/..?O" ? - • The first census of the United States, W»8 taken'in 1790. ..-'..'.. ,r '■' Last survivor of the Battle of TrafaJgatf just died at Paris. • ' : ■.'";' " '■ Only about 50 per cent, of the pbpulatiott ; of Chicago are Americanborn. .•,';" ■" The Prince of Wales has been re-eleotea Grand Master Mason of England. -'- -- ; A Polish university has been opened' fltf Posen, the capital of Russian Poland. ■:■*■'■ ■ ' . Numerous purchases of cart-horses in Eug^ land for American account are reported.- -■■'•'-* The present population :of the-United States is estimated at nearly 56,000,000. ■ ■■' The Adventists have, in the United States." 1344 churches, with 91,769 communicants.' '■' Jewels worth £300,000 were shown by the Maharajah of Bnrdwan at the Calcutta Ex* hibition.. • : > " ' It appears that the number of drinking establishments in Belgium has more than doubled since 1850. : ' ''■'.''* During the last four years the importation of coffee into England has undergone an almost steady decrease. ■ - - Tokio, Japan, has twelve Presbyterian churches. The Government daily paper ad* vertises the Bible for sale. ' • ■ ': The body of Henri Conscience has been finally laid in the burial plaoe prepared for ifc by tie town of Antwerp. : .;-;■■- In proportion to its population, Italy l , makes more use of the telephone than any other country in the world. The ratepayers of Dover have sanotione3' the expenditure of the necessary money tot opposing the (Jhanatl Tunnel Bills.- --■_-'- ; The Belgian Government has promised a' Bubsidy of SOOO.Cef. towards the expenses c£ the Antwerp Universal Exhibition. '- '' A treaty was signed at Berlin - between*' Germany and Siam as to the taxation oE. spirits imported into the latter country. • It is reported that the • University presses of Oxford, and Cambridge will hare ready for iisue before six months henoe "The Be*; vised Version of the Old Testament." "" An eminent English -physician declares that betting and gambling are equally 12jurious to morals and to health, often leading to drunkeness and ending in suicide. During the last quarter of a century no less a sum than £26,555 has been paid by the: poor of London for copies of the Scriptures. The Mayor of Sandwioh, England, fol« lowed his eloping daughter to Austin, Teia», and persuaded her to return to Europe with him.

'An Egyptian who has arrived from El' Obeid declare! that the Prussian sergeant Klooty is the sole survivor of Hicks Pasha's Army. • . ' - There are in England no fewer than 10,000. flour mills, producingannually over 30,000,000. sacks of flour, worth, about £50,000,000 sterling. The word VSud&n," or, as it is more, commonly printed " Soudan," is a contrac* tion of Bilad-ns-Sudan— " The Land of theBlacks." ; The Bibliotheque Nationale, the grenfr library of France, according to the annual in«. ventory just completed, containea 2,600,00(1 volnmea. The Scottish Bighlanders in the city of Chicago, consisting, it is estimated, of bs--tween 3000 and 4000 families, are trying to organise a ohuroh. ; The .Minerve, a French newspaper pub*' listed at Montreal, states that the number, of French speaking inhabitants in British North America is 1,298,929. ; ' The total value of winea imported inioV France in ISB3 was £14,880,000, while' tko exports fell very low. On the other hand, the export of'butter reaohed £4,000,000. ' John Clayton Mewbnrne, of London, hog. taken out a patent for a machine for peoliag potatoes or other articles. A' number o£ potatoes may bs peeled atthe same time: ■ The New York Herald thinks thatifohuroß; building is any evidence, of prosperity, the Methodist Ohuroh must be prospering, for she 13 erecting churches all over the oouEtryv A large convocation of Buddhist priests has been called at one of their famous temples in Japan, for the purpose of abolishing the ancient rules forbidding the clergy to marry eat flesh. ' ; It is stated that Gye and Mapleaon, two; experienced American'managers, lost nearly £30,000 in one American teaeon, though they' had Mesdames Patti and Albani at the head' of the troupes. '■' ■ .. ■'■'■■ ' l v ! ■ A pair of knitted- soeks, : 2000 yeare old,' has been discovered in an Egyptian'tomb. They are of finest sheep's wool, and the foot is finished in two parts to allow the sandal, strap to pass between. ~;■..-.-.;._.. • The American Consul in Germany reports' that all the marriages between American girls and German nobleman which he has heard of —thirty one'in number—have resulted ill ■ divorce*' abandonment, or separation. \ Mr Henry George told a castle that when Mr. Bright passed his strlo« tures npon the advocates of land nationalisation he had no more idea of what he was talking about than a babe unborn. :: A Hindoo gentleman named Sintha has just carried off the prize offered to the stn-' dents of the Inne of Courts in London, by the Council of Legal Education; for Koman law, for juriaprudence, constitutional law, an 4 legal-history.

The young trees lately planted in Paria streets are each, numbered with, a label, and when the inspector rides along and sees anything needing attention, he notes what is to be done, adds the "number, and directs a workman accordingly. » ■ Only twelve persons were hanged in England and Wales in-1832. This is a wonder-, fnl contrast to ths days of bnr ancestors'. According to Stow,- there were hanged in England during Henry VIII;'e reign no fewer than 72,000 pei'ions. Of every 100,000 inhabitants of Scotland,' 395 are engaged in the production of boeka (as printers, publishers; bookbinders, &o.), 41 in the production of prints and map 3 (inclndiDg lithographer* and and 335 in the manufacture of paper. Bartholomew Binns, tie new English hangman, does not give satisfaction. At a recent bungled execution it was found that he had been drinking spirits before breakfast, and he has been fined at the police court for travelling in a train without a tioket. . !

News has arrived from the Caspian region that recently an immense mass of ice, on which some fifty fishermen were at work', broke loose from the shore and was carried ont to sea by the force of a high wind. Nothing has since been heard of the men. An organisation in New York, knows aa the " Coming of the People," has for its ol>« jeot the election of a President b> the direct vote of the people, free postage, Governments telegraph, a tax on all incomes exceeding £2000,' unlimited coinage, and several other radical reforms. .■-■.- •.-.-■■ ' It has been decided at Sheffield to erect a building in Western Park • at the cost of no. less than £15,000, to accomodate the collection of paintings, value £80,000, recently left to the town by the late Mr. Mappin, of Birchlands. The bniiding will be erected so as to admit of extension, with, a view to other bequests. ' - ■"- New' York has set an example which other • cities will do well to follow. A; committee of the State Senate has unanimously reported in'favour of a bill making overhead telegraph, wires illegal, and providing for the removal of all posts and overhead wires from the streets of New York within the next'.two. years and six months; " ' " '', A special war train, composed'of iron carriages painted red as a caution to other traffic to it a wide berth, left Woolwich for Liverpool on 13th February, with two and a half million rounds of MartiniHenry ammnnition and a large quantity off Gat ling ammnnition from Woolwioii and' Upnor, for embarkation on board the steamship Sesostrisfor Egypt. " !' ~ : . The London Medical Eecord '.says:—A showman who has been letting, out some of the secrets of his trade says that in the case of fat women who'are exhibited, a hollow needle is made to penetrate the adipose to the areolar tiseue, and through this air ie forced 'until the subject is .distended tt> her full limit. What is, therefore, commonly Held as fat, ie largely made upof wind. .-, V' '*;\ ' "The China papers comment on the circnm« .stance that; "owing to' the. deplorable cbni dition, of the" money", market," consequent upon the unsettled "slate of political affaire and the probability' of yrax,. several Chinese bankers haye committed snicide; by taking large doses of opium'. Their, despair is stated tdhave been due in part to severity of the laws'towards defaulting debtors in a country where bankruptcy, acts are.unkhpwn. . ; , I It is recorded by' a wnter in. an ;Engllsh paper-that at Sonthport a "staff-captain.,;o£ the Salvation v Army^observed—"Those Twhb have gold will, I trust, ..be.helped by iSod to give it;.those who have'no/gold, can give silver; those wbq have np.ailver cati give copper; and those who have hothing giye, can rise and 50.'! Thie is a;sihgular v :way: 4q putting the 1 avowed mission';, 1 which is understood to be " to gave Binnera.V