NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8082, 24 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

pUs Anubtju confine* the Salvation ArmJ to U»ir barracks. ■ . ■ Th» police force at Sherman, Texas, is tot | be reinforced by & pack of bloodhounds. A small- pox epidemic in Aberdeen is giving thsi authorities aocaion for much anxiety, Twenty-seveiHhwjgwid immigrants landed at Castle Garden dating the month of July. A large and rioh boo of gold quartz has been discovered in the Ktfai Valley, in tho Punjaub. ' • The jasmine has succeeded the orange flower at weddings, according to % Paris newspaper. • It is said that tennis is becoming a popular Sunday amusement among the higher classM in Great Britain. The Shah of Persia is going to mako another European trip. He will make a six months' tour of the industrial centres. A' negro committed suicide in Atalanta, Ga., one day recently because his wife refused to mend his clothes and sew on buttons. Declares the War Cry in its advice to agricultural readers ;— " Salvation in a good deal better than three acres and a sow J In the east of London there is a church where parties wishing to marry may have the ceremony performed for sevenponoe ha'penny. At the annual meeting of the Religious Tract Sooiety tho chairman said that the turnover of the society during the past year amounted to £200,000. A malefaotor has just been released from the galleys in Italy after serving a 57 years' term. He in now 83 yearn old. He was convicted of homicide.

The highest death rate of infanta in the world is lit Liverpool, where 46 of every 100 born die before reaching 12 months. The rate in New York is 31 per cent. The wheat crop of Manitoba and the Nort'i-weut Territories will be from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 bushels, or more than doable last year's yields. Harvesting has begun, A little girl at Barrow, while nursing a nine months' old child, let it fall. Its head struck a piece of wood, and a projecting nail penetrated its forehead, and caused death. The oat crop throughout Scotland has suffered greatly from a drought, and is likely to prove a partial failure. Barley will probably turn out a fair crop, and wheat an excellent one.

Mrs. Florence Nightingale has published an appeal to the women of England to help in providing a central home and adequate organisation for the Women's Protective and Provident League. A hospital for animals will soon be ereofed in London, and at the same time free dls> pensaries will be opened, where the horses, donkeys, oats, dogs, and birds of the poor can be treated when ill.

The prices of beef and mutton in Yorkshire have never, during the past thirty years, been so low as they are at present. Best beef is barely making 7a per stone of 141b, and mutton s£d per lb. A negro woman at Mexico, Mo., left two of her children in a room while she went to spend the day. On her return it was found thai: the eldest had torn off and eaten part of the breast of the youngest child. The Edinburgh, Scotland, Agricultural Show was this year, for the first time, held without exhibits of cattle. It seems that plearo-pnautnonia is so prevalent that it was deemed prudent to keep them all away from the *how. •

According to a St. Petersburg journal, a. Russian ecclesiastical mission, consisting of an archimandrite, three priests, a number of inferior clergy, will proceed early next month for Abyssinia, taking churoh vessels and books.

The premises of Mesirs. Shore, oast nail makers, Birmingham, has been wrecked by a body of men on strike against a reduction of wages. For several minutes the works were subjected to a bombardment of stones and brickbats.

The grain crop report of Knnsaii for July shows a remarkable decrease in wheat and corn. The former has lost 28 per cent, and the latter 50 per cent, since the June report. The deorease is attributed to drought and chinch bugs. The Russian Government is said to be considering plans for arretting the depreciation of Russian paper money, and to contemplate the imposition of a tax upon foreign commercial travellers, a measure that will be aimed principally at 'the Germans. The Scotch members have met to consider tbe Bill providing for the earlier closing of publichounes and liquor shops in Scotland". On the whole, the preponderating view appeared to be in favour of making ten o'olock the universal closing hour, the present hour being eleven. July in Philadelphia waa the hottest that city has known since the establishment of the Signal Service Station in 1872. It had heat death roll of at least 110 persons, to say nothing of prostrations. Its maximum temperature was 100 degrees, minimum 68, and its mean temperature 80. Photographic outfits are to be placed on board all United States men-of-war, for the purpose of illustrating despatches. All points of value in navigation are to be photographed, and the pictures are to be preserved for reference at the Navy Department. The officers are encouraged to qualify themselves as photographers. A Harvard graduate is the author of a book on "Romantic Love," in which he proposes to prove that romantic love (as distinguished from conjugal affection) is a modern sentiment, not over 600 years old. Was Leander engaged in a swimming match when he " swam across the Hellespont, all for bis lady love to see." The Marquis of Bristol called attention In the House of Lords to the subject of international arbitration, and moved, "That the House, in view of the yearly increasing European nations, is of opinion that the formation of an international tribunal for the reference of national disputes in the first instance is highly to be desired." A Hounslow correspondent states that there was a serious disturbance amongst the men of the 10th Prince of Wales' Hussars at Hounslow Barracks. It la stated that as dome of the men were dirty on chnrch parade a special afternoon parade was ordered. The men on hearing this shouted out and hooted their officers, and refused to obey. The French Government are said to have concluded an arrangement with the Edison Company, whereby the latter will have possession of the extensive vaults of the Palais Royal free. The vaults will be turned into a central storehouse for electricity, and the company are to undertake the lighting up of the whole of the Palais Royal and other places. . The now very rare verdiot of felo de sa was returned by a Plymouth jury on Saturday night in the oase of a man namud Thomas Jolly. He had tied his feet and hands together, and then thrown himself into the water, having previously announced his intention of committing suioide in that particular way. The deceased was buried in uaconseorated ground. A colossal bronze casting of a buffalo's head, the largest one piece of bronze casting in the world, was run into a mould at Fischer's Bronze Foundry, New York, on August 9, The head is to be plaoed on the east portal of the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge now building over the Missouri River, between Counoil Bluffs and Omaha, and will weigh 4300 pounds.

Writing in the August Dumber of Tho Young; Mao, Mr. Raskin says:—"No mm should marry until he has nude himself worthy of a good wifa, and able to maintain her and his children in comfort. And he should choose her as he would choose bis destiny—with range of ohoice from earth to heaven. No man should marry under four* acid-twenty ; no girl under eighteen."

The executive oommitteo of the American Exhibition baa generously decided to admit tree during the summer months several hundreds of poor children daily to all parts of the exhibition, the " Wild West" inelusive. This kindly thought emanated from Mr. J. R. Whitley, the directorgeneral, and was immediately taken up by tho president, Colonel Russell, and bis colleagues. Mr. J. D. Dougal!, who wrote the article on "Shooting" in the "Encyolopwdia Britannioa," is of opinion that the reason volun ' tears miss their al.n jo much when at the target, and especially when practising at the device called the "running man," is that they shut one eye when they glance along the sights. Ho advises taking aim with both eyes if anything like certainty la to oome oat of military skill with th« riflo. ; A movement la on foot among a certain class of English Jews, headed by Or. Adler, to prevent men who' aro merely elected - ministers to small Hebrew congregations from assuming the title of reverend without ' undergoing some form of initiation. In * America the " laying oa of hands" is recog* nised as the means of conferring the title, bat is England, it mm, no suoh form of ordination exists, and this state of thing! Dr. Adlcr proposes to mend. *