One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

Imitations of mineral waters have been receiving the attacks of the Government of Switzerland. The fabricators have been fined and compelled to close their shops for a month. The compounds will not hereafter be marked genuine and gajn high prices. Eight theatres were destroyed by fire last year. They were in Derby, England, by gas explosion behind the scenes; at Bochum, Germany, unused ; at Ravenna, Italy ; Madrid ; Orleansville, Algiers ; White’s Theatre in Detroit; in Lenberg, and in Tinnevally, India. . . A municipal notice in a little town m the south of France reads as follows : 4 Boardinghouse, hotel and inn-keepers are expressly forbidden to give liquor during the Carnival to turbulent people who are going to make a disturbance afterward.’—From the French. In many parts of France heavy machinery is run by artesian well power. The deeper the well the greater the pressure. A well at Grenelle has a pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch, and the water is so hot that it is used for heating the hospitals in the vicinity. . , , A deaf and dumb printing office has been opened at Berlin for the purpose of instructing intelligent boys in the art preservative. It has taken the form of a private institution, where the boys will also be eared for in case of sickness, and their general education looked after. An experienced journalist in London has started a school for newspaper men. Pupils will be instructed in ‘the writing of paragraphs, reviewing, shorthand, special correspondence, leaders, sub-leaders, art. and dramatic criticism, sub-editing, editing, etc.’ ' The report of the Board of Trade on emigration for ISB6 shows that the number of persons who left the Unitea Kingdom for places out of Europe was 330,801, an increase of 66,416 over the previous year. More than 70 per cent of the emigrants went to the United States, Australia coming next. In the antimony mine at Proutkovitz, in Bohemia, a vein carrying gold has been discovered which in character is said to resemble some of the gold-bearing strata in California. Some of the gold extracted has been taken to the mint at Prague. In Transylvanian mines gold has also been discovered. Reports come from Russia that the best qualities of tobacco grown in Europe are those produced in the south of Russia, and that only the choicest Turkish tobacco is superior to that grown in the southern parts of the Crimea. Ureat efforts will therefore be made to push the Russian tobacco into foreign markets. Sir Charles L'ilke retains much of his popularity in Chelsea. He has adopted extreme radical views and puts them into practice, fraternizing with the humblest people and being ever ready to help them with his plethoric purse. It is confidently expected that he will be returned to Parliament at the first opportunity.