NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8020, 6 August 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A son of Gen. Garibaldi has been elected at Deputy of Rome. Some of the Now Bedford, Mass., whalcra have been having splendid lack this season. The Ohio wheat crop is estimated at 40,400,000 bushels, a shortage of 6,270,000 bushels, The Russian duties on tobaccos, snuffs, cigars and cigarettes have been materially in creased. A Dover solicitor roweci from Dover to Calais in a oanoe. He took IV! hours in crossing. Prince Bismarck's great eoheme of German colonization in Africa is no; attracting many emigrants. The redaction effected during May in the American pubilo debt is estimated to exceed 000,000. The Railroad Commissioners of Connect!' cut have decided to permit! the turning of Sunday newspaper trains. The fire waste record for 1887 m the United States and the Dominion o£ Canada promises to be the heaviest ever kuowu. Frequent advertisement)! of the sales o estates, libraries, jewels, etc., lead to a belie, that British landlords are growing poor. The New York Tribune, us the result of its own mathematical comparison of sailing speed, believes the Mayflower will defeat the Thistle. The drivers on a Cleveland, Ohio, street railway threaten to strike because a bright young coloured man has b«en employed aa conductor. The New York Legislative passed an Ace making it a misdemeanour to foed sparrows, and authorising the shooting of robins and blackbirds. It is proposed to raise more revenue inRussia by the taxation of eggs, and it is estimated that 10,000,000 roubles can bo raised from this source. • The latest novelty in India is the appearance at all the big race-meetings of native bookmakers. This is Western civilisatioi with a vengeance. During the last twelve years there have boon imported to England upwards of 200,000 horses, for which we have paid more'than one million pounds sterling Nineteen vessels of 15,91S tons were launched during May on the Clydo, which ie an increase of 242 tons over the output of the corresponding month last year. The " father" of Stockport Town Council, who has filled the post of Mayor, was lately remanded for a week on a charge cf misappro* priating about £4000 of truit funds. Among thone who, on Whit Sunday, par» took of Holy Communion in the pariah church of Koxby, North Lincolnshire, was an old lady who thus kept her 102ud birthday. . Queen Victoria wrote a &ympathetio lettei to the Duke of Cumberland on the occasion of his wife's insanity, the first communication between them since their quarrel six years ago. Thirty- per cent, of the children a. penny board schools are insufficiently fed. Probably 50,000 children in London attending boards schools are too ill-fed to bo laugh; with impunity. It is reported from lowa that prohibition has largely decreased crime in the State. Tho Sac Sun advertises the gaol of that county for reut, saying that it is ompty and likely to remain so as long a* prohibition lasts. An employer in a Rhode Island factory town recently paid his employe's £140 on Saturday in new bills secretly marked. On the following "Monday £FjO of these marked bills were placed in hunk by the saloonkeepers of the place. A mass in memory of the Princa Imperial was performer! in Pang recently, on the anniversary of his deat.h. About fifty of the faithful attended, a!J clad in deep mourning, tbe only bits of colour being bouquets of violets worn by the Indies. The prompt measures which have bean taken in East K.ont have been successful in stamping out ewine fever. One locality, where 200 animals have been destroyed, in now free from tbe disease. It is also dyin/\out in other districts. Two thousand domestic servants have r,re sentod to the Princess Christain a pretty gold brooch.modal, forming the badge of their order, accompanied by a beautifully illuminated address, the whole being the outcome of a ponny subscription. At tho recent sale of ancient Cains at the Hotel Drouot, a gold coin of the Veign of Constantino I. was purchased by the National Library for the enormous s'ain of IO.SOOf, supposed to bo the highest price ever paid at auction for a Homan or Fijzantine ec'n. 'oinco the beginning of t'je year the gain in British railway earnings, estimated from tho uctu»l figures of thirty-'three principal lines, has been about 2| pi 'cent., and the increase in bank clearings in London hsa been abou 102 P er cent for the game period. \iavoyer Levy, tbe great Paris bill discounter, is bankrupt. >. iis son and head clerk hove been arrested. Levy was permitted to give bail. Great interest is shown in the affair, Levy made an 'jnormous fortune by loaning email Bums of money to tradesmen. The daughter of a leading Catholic family of Arkansas about five weeks ago married t wealthy Ho'orew of Chicago against the wishes of bar parents, and they settled clown in a liandßO-iio houao in Chicago. The brid« has since repented and entered a convent. Boston School Board offioia's have posted notices In ail the school buildings of that city forbidding the chewing cf tobacco by tho pupils. They have even posted the notice in the Girls' H'gh Sb'hool building, much to the indignation of the young wotnon.

Professor Jaegar claims that the odour oi camel's hair, which is an distinguishable, h»D a most beneficial cffeot. He assarts that if. produces sleep in "persons suffering from insomnia, and he p.dvlaos them to Bleep on pillows covered wi'tu camel's hair aud stuffed with hair. An unusual nu inber of marriage licensee were taken out by people in Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia who wished to celebrate the first anniversary of President marriage on tnoir own account. A larg« number of the beneficiaries were coloured. The. tax on the passenger receipts of railway corporations now yields £140 000 annually to tho Pennsylvania State Treasury. The Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent decision, holds thia tax to be unconstitutional, end the companies will hereafter refuse to pay it. One of the best known of the French vineyards—the famous Clos-Vougeot— is to be sold by auction one of these days. It is only a plot of a little over a hundred aores. The product which it yields heads the list of the great Bnrguudy vintages. The upset price of this highly-flavoured patch is fixed at £48,000.

An assistant of Professor Virohow, Dr. Grawitz, finda that about one-third of the cases pronounced in life muscular rheumatism, are shown by post-mortem examination to be due to trichinae, or pork worms. In instances observed, it is eaid the parasites must have been present in the musclea for many years. A lady writes that ehe has discovered during the recent heavy rain that a dress improver does not tend to improve the drees. However ample the umbrella, the line of beauty is invariably exposed to the wet, and ehe wants to know whether something in the shape of a pent roof might not be added eo as to cat over the difficulty. The Protestant Eplacopal Church of the United States is preparing to build a cathedral in New York city, to be called St. John the Divine, which will be four tiinea the size of St Patrick's Cathedral, now the largest church in New York. It is to be raised at a spot lying to the west of the Control Park, and will ooat £2,000,000. In some parts of the wine district of Franco church bells are tolled when there is likely to bo a frost severe enough to hurc the vines. The inhabitants at ouoo harry out of their houses and place quantities of tar between tho rows of vines. Then a signal is given to light tho tar, and in a few minutes a dense cloud of smoke arises which completely pro* tects the vines from tho frost. The great Holloway will case is at an end, and the only point In the case appeared to be the largeness of the sum at stake, whioh was said to be between two and three millions. Professor Holloway's capaoity was proved by the solicitor who prepared the will, and there was; in fact, nothing to suggest undue in« fluenoe. The sister, who did not benefit under the will, has not, therefore, gained anything by bringing the matter before the court.

Professor Woodward, of Washington deolares that in about 2200 years the rock' over which the farla flow at Niagara will be all worn away. Tho area of the rook worn away at the Horseshoe Falls between the years 1842 and 1875 was 18.500 square feat, equal to 0 425 acres ; between 1875 and 1886 60,000 square feet, or 1*37 aore. The ms,ia length of the contour of the falls is 2300 feet. The time required to recede one mile, if ♦* ~ rate is 2*4 feet peg year, ia 2200 yearn \ "