NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8062, 1 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A ' r f r<J JL JLW JL! JL*X J.J A' • Chicago has now a population of over 800,000. The Italians intend sending 10,000 troop# 0 Massowah, in autumn. The right pursuit of beauty is the pursuit; of health.—Baltimore American. Kingston, Now York, has no nolioe force, although it has a population of 25,000. There was an increased area of 983 aores under cultivation in Ireland last year. The largest gorilla ever landed in America arrived in Boston on August 5, from tha coast of Africa, A twelve-year-old girl at Fayetteville, Tenn,, was married a year ago and became ft mother recently. According to the latest news from Teheran, the Shah of Persia will mak<i his tour ia Europe next spring. The local authorities in New York are closing down on " Sunday concerts"' of jaunty and rollicking music. The Dunkard College for the West has been located at McPherson, Kan. The citizens donated £20,000. The Earl of Lou«dale has made a reduction of 15 per cent, in the rent of hie agricultural tenants, the abatement to continue in force for three years.

General Boulanger's daughter is about to become a nun, and his enemies say it is a shrewd device of his to curry favour with the clerical party.

The underwriters of Baltimore have advanced insurance rates in that city 25 per cent, owing to the demoralisation prevailing in the fire depaitment. Major Hewitt, of New York, has an order instructing the city police to see thai; all music in concert halls aud the like is stopped promptly at, midnight. In Sy r*cuse, Km,, where they have elected a City Council entirely of women, the sidewalks are always kept in repair and the streets are swept clean. ( A curious bouquet recently presented to a German by bis admiring friends was formed wholly of vegetables trimmed to represent flowers of various kinds.

The grateful congregation of £ev. W. W. Dale, at Ed in bora, Penn., has increased his salary btctuse be gave an insolent tavernkeeper a thorough drubbing. " Cream is sent by post in tin cans in England with perfect success, even in hot weather, ft has been known to keep fresh and nice for lour days in very hot weather.

'I'he enormous consumption of intoxicating liquors in Belgium— per head than any other nation—has led the Government to adopt measures for checking the evil. It is estimated that the cotton crop this year will be 500 000 bales larger than ever before, and 4,000,0n0 halts more, than the largest crop ever produced by slave" labour*' Buffalo 8.1 l til la the editor of the London Court and Socia y Journal that his show will appear in the Collitfeum at Home after Christmas. " Fancy lied Indians in the Coliseum.' The Pope ban conferred upon the Duke of Norfolk the Grand Cross of the Order of Const. The Duke ia about to buy a largo palace at Rome in which to establish a university.

A crystal of alum twelve feet high and six feet in diameter was shown at the Royal • luhilee Exhibition in Manchester. It is of the fluent quality, and is the largest crystal ever made.

The Mormous seem to be afraid that ail effort will be made by Geptiles to resurrect the dead body of their lately deceased president, John Taylor, and send it East for exhibition purposes. At Lancaster, two brutes, a farmer's son named Dargue and a labourer named Woof, were sentenced each to a month's hard labour for pouring turpentine over a dog and netting tire to it. The artesian well at Pesth, the deepest one in the world, supplies hot water for public baths and other purpoues. It i* 3120 feet deep, and supplies daily 176,000 gallons of water heated to 150deg Fanr.

Toe Lancet of July 23 states that it is now two months since a single death from small pox was registered in the metropolitan district, and that this is probably to some extent due to the dry weather. The modern Greeks are philosophers, like their ancestors. The heat, says an Athens telegram, is intense ; and tne Athenians perspire duly. But then it is likely to have » good effect upon the currents." There were five composers to the opera of "Guy vlarmering": Biahcip, Whitaker, Att* ■rood, Davy, i,nd Thomas Cooke. The introduction, " There's nae luck about the house," was an after-thought of Faw.cett's.

At a fashionable garden party given the other day, one of the leading features of the entertainment was a mill between two lightweights. The show was. a great success, the " ladies" and "gentlemen" being delighted with it.

The original Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca F«dls in 1848 will be commemorated by an "international council of women" it Washington, March 25 t> April 1, next year, under call of the National Woman Suffrage Convention. The death is announced from Paris of the famous French pianist and teacher, Madame Louise M assart. She never played out of her native land, but in Paris, until her retirement from public life, she enjoyed enormous celebrity. ' . A Pennsylvania judge has decided that fruit hanging over a fence belongs to the nun on whuse ground it is suspended, and that lie can cut off the limb if he chooses. The same principle has been established in California and elsewhere.

During the he ght of the Jubilee splendours an editor was met hurrying along the Strand- •' Hullo !" said his friend, "aren't you going to see the show J'' .No man can do two things at once," was the sententious reply ; "I have to write an account of it."

" It is not unlikely," says Father McGlynn, "that I may end by preaching in Italian from the tail of a cart in the Pope's own dominions, for 1 can speak in Italian quite as fluently as in English. I have all the freedom now that any private citizen enjoy*. Detroit Tribune : — " Look at the economy of nature. When whales failed to supply! the world with oil for light petroleum was discovered; and when the Standard Oil Company gobbled up the petroleum business, Providence began to turn on the natural gas." On the last anniversary of the taking of the Bastile, the French Government reooguised. the importance of art by nominations in the order of the Legion of Honour, as follows : — Pointers, 202; sculptors, 83 engravers. 29 j musicians, 60 ; architects, 100 : Total, 479.

The English Labour Bureau shows that in many trades workingtnen "lay by" in the form of contributions to their unions about three or four per cent, of their wages. . They actually save much more than many men whc. are constantly preaching " thrift" to the labouring clans.

A mau named Hay, who was sued in London, interposed the peculiar plea that he was dead. He had been convicted of larceny and sentenced to transportation. His innocence having been shown, he was pardoned, but he was still regarded as legally dead Decision was reserved.

Carelessness takes the lead in causing fires m Mew York city. Out of 706 fires which are recorded in the last; quarterly report of the Fire Department, three hundred and eighty-five are put down an tb*> result of carelessness. Smokers were responsible for fifty-nine, and fireworks for nine* teen.

A loyal gentleman, who thinks that dates can best be fired in the.mind by poetry, thus proposes to alter the National Anthem in sucti a way as to render it both instructive and pleasing—God save our gracious Q leen, Born in eighteen nineteen, Long may sue reign. Sure we were blessed by Heaven, When, eighteen thirty-seven, To her tht Crown was given, God save the Queen."

In a divorce case tried in London it transpired that the wife, who was the respondent, had property in her own right and unrestricted by a marriage settlement. In pronouncing a decree for the dissolution of the marriage, Sir J Haunen said he was glad to be able to condemn the wife in the payment of costs. He wished wives always had the money to pay costs.

The Bladewood (Monmouthshire) magis» trates have committed a collier named Kvau Morgan for trial for bigamy. He first married in ISSI a young woman named Williams. Two years afterwards he sold her for half a crown and a pot of beer to a man named John Lake. The wife immediately cohabited with her purchaser. Morgan then courted another woman named Williams, and in 1383 married her.

A French newspaper reports that in Subiaco, n«ar Rome, all the inhabitants are undei the influence of epilepsy or hypnotism. The curate spends his time in exorcising the evil spirits, and Cardinal Biauchi has sent the Pope's special benediction—all without avail. A troop of soldiers who were sent to the" village have shown symptoms of giving way to the disease, and there is supposed to ba something in the air affecting the nerves,