NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8270, 31 May 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Shah of Persia is going totetwfaea thirty boate. A.Japanese2*£ ! g£ fttarß J apßn * tensive coal mines haye Seven into Africa. ga |ne Austria^"SoverCnt is putting a ? *h„ we emigration of young men. **% f fc lEl2s out nearly haif^-million men*t the annual «» ym( , can ports. , Queen has placed It s stated that me vj S*\. £77^ Aberseldie Castle at tf» disposal OS tM Tne Chinese are tag* fa «*»(«• selves on the nortneni " Hon of an attack from B"• Baib AcJj sriotS£,.r?^L&future fighting ships has become absolutely ne The a lverage pulse in infancy is 120 per minute manhood, 80 ;at 60 jjj*JJ The pulse of females is more frequent-than •SlftSt. ordered that all£., clothes made for himself and his family shall be manufactured of Russian material and by Russian hands. , j „-■,-/» *,*- The royal yacht Osborne when docked a* Portsmouth was found to be tfaowjigbfr rotten. She was only built in 1870 at-a cost of £134,000. Trnn tUn General Sir Drury Lowe, K.C.8., ™ newly-appointed inspector-genral Ot cavalry on the headquarter staff, has taken over the duties of his post. The number of men employed at tB Krupp works was three years ago 20,000,; at the present time the number reaches about 25,000 or over. A bundle of spider webs nob larger than a buckshot and weighing less than a drachin would, if straightened out and untangled, reach a distance of 350 miles. __ Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness; and laughter is one df the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.—Leigh Hunt. # Eight varieties of leprosy are recograsati in China, and the disease is regarded as contagious, infectious, and hereditary, bait is said to disappear in four generations. The Chinese Emperor, accompanied ay Li Hung Chang, Grand Chancellor, and .a retinue numbering 10,000 persons, has started on a visit to Eastern Manchoona. According to custom in Holy Wee!:, Bach's " Passion Music " was given at Si;. Paul's Cathedral to an enormous congregation. The Princess of Wales was present. Have you learned the lesson of yesterday or the infinite meaning of to-day It •ha a duties of its own; they cannot be left imtiil to-morrow. To-morrow will bring its-own work. A woman named Brown was fined £17 by the Dover magistrates for sending in- ■ decent postcards to different people in the town, amongst whom were two justices-of

the peace. Her Majesty's ship Trafalgar has been commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain Alan Thomas, with a complement) of 550, as flagship of Lord Walter Kerr in the Mediterranean. Seventy-one Catholic pilgrims, including the Duke of Norfolk, the Lord Bishop c>£ Clifton, and other leading members of the Catholic clergy and aristocracy, are nowfiu route for Jaffa. Changes are to be made in the uniform ol the German Army, owing to the introduction of smokeless powder, the object being to make the outline of the soldier very indistinct to the enemy. Four officers of high rank in the German Army have resigned, owing to reflections which they believe the Emperor intended for them in his recent lesson on extravagance and exclusiveness. The exports from Cape Colony last year were of the value of £9,405,955, or an increase of £673,354 on the previous year. Transvaal gold represented £860,495 and diamonds £4,325,137.

It may be remarked for the com-forb of honest poverty that avarice reigns most in those who have bat few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow only in a barren soil. A gentleman walked into the Mansion House, and, without stating his name, handed to- the Lord Mayor's secretary £400 towards the Llanerch colliery fund, and £300 to the Morfa colliery fund. At a recent ball in London the electric light was arranged to vary in colour, being alternately red, blue, green, and yellow. The ladies didn't like it, as it rained-in alteration the effect of all their costumes. It is not given to every minister to be in the happy position of Mr. Gould, the Unitarian minister of Manistee, Michigan, who, when summoned away from home, is able to get his pulpit supplied by his wife.

A high Court official will be sent by the King of Sweden to Persia next month (says a Reuter's telegram from Stockholm) as the bearer of the Order of the Seraphim, the highest Swedish decoration, to the Shah of Persia. A beautiful silver-gilt'flagon has just been placed in Truro Cathedral, which bears the inscription, "To the glory ol God, and to the service jf His sanctuary; the gift of Alexandra, Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Conwall."

It is reported that French Government has ordered a census of the Germans residing in the subtrbs of Paris. It is understood that the rtep has been taken so that German residents without means of subsistence may be sent to Germany. German subjects are vaccinated in the early months of life, again on attaining- the age of twelve, and all males a third time-on entering upon bteir term of compulsory service in the army. Vaccination is always done with calfiymph : never from arm -to arm. < The rush to the goldfields in the Transvaal region has been unprecedented in history. In three years £150,000,000 of English money have been invested there. Cities have sprung up where in 1886 only grass could be found and no habitation. The United States Consul at Leipsic claims to have unearthed a gigautic smuggling fraud, in which immense quantities of gloves are sent from Germany, and New York merchants manage to get the importations through without payment of duties. There has been an appeal made by the high churches and Catholic priests to their respective congregations to boycott Mme. Sarah Bernhardt while in London as a punishment for what they consider hei blasphemy in reading the part of the Virgin Mary. in addition to the winter garden, which has cost about £4000, Madame Patti has built a private theatre at the side of Craig, y-nos Castle. lb was designed by a Swansea architect, has cost just three times sa much as the winter garden, and will-be inaugurated by Mr. Irving in October. At Ebingen, in Wurtemberg, Maria Doerthing, the daughter of a farmer, has laiiwm continuous slumber since March 6th. Respiration is noticed only by means of the mirror. There is no difficulty in giving hei nourishment, consisting of eggs and milk, which is forced down her throat. An American named Matthews attempted to drop from a balloon by the aid of a parachute at Croydon, Sunday, and came near losing his life. He became entangled in the cording of the air-ship and dangled helplessly underneath. He was carried several miles in this way, and finally lodged on the peak of a roof and was extricated. Dr. Moon, the inventor of the system of reading for the blind bearing his name, was presented at Brighton the other evening with a clock and purse containing £250 in recognition of his services on behalf of his fellow sufferers. The Scriptures, and other works Printed from his type, have been translated into 500 different dialects. -8«««>«iuu

It has all along been evident thai the low rates for steerage passengers between Liverpool and New York hive notS much room for profit. At the conference. of the^ntmentalTransatlauticsteam^ companies, which has j UBb jg £3 10s to £4s Ws up to £ 6 , and, if the BerTageblaco i 8 wqU informed, the great