GLEANINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 5

GLEANINGS.

JENNY LIND’S WILL.

Jenny Lind’s will bequeaths 50,000 Swedish crowns to the University at Upsala, Sweden, for the maintenance of poor students, and 50,000 crowns to the University at Lund, Sweden, for poor theologioal students. Jenny Lind bequeaths to her grandson the cabinet of books presented to her by a New York fire company. The freehold estate, purchased oat of the 100,000dols which an American settled upon her on her marriage, is bequeathed to her husband, and various legacies are left to universities.

AN OLD IDEA DISPELLED. The old idea that sufferers from heart disease should avoid physical exertion has been dispelled by a noted physiologist, who has successfully employed regulated exercise in the treatment of some forms. In a large proportion of cases the nutrition of the cardiac muscle, as of the muscular system generally, is thus, improved.

Queen Olga of Greece is a beautiful woman, with a plump, well developed form, thick, handsome hair and expressive eyes. She has sweet and charming manners. She is a fearful horsewoman, but is very domestic withal, and is often seen at home spinning silk. She is devotedly" loved by the Greek people.

Carolina Escorcbo, 5 aged 109 years, iB living in a dirty street of Madrid. She is in full enjoyment of, all her faculties, and till within the last year she continued to exercise her trade of washerwoman. She has a daughter, aged 60, whom she leads by the hand to take a walk.

.Rosa Bonneur, the artist, has often been commented upon by her biographers for her male attire, and the idea commonly obtains that it is her usual costume. But in the streets of Paris she is a large, elderly lady, rather plainly dressed in black, her gray hair tucked under a" close bonnet. Years ago she dressed as a boy, so as to attract less attention from the hangers-on of the stables, cattle-yards,, and menageries, which were -visited chiefly by men, and she still wears male attire at home when at work.

Mysteries of the Sanctuary—Children are keen observers ; they often take notice, of details that are entirely overlooked .by their elders. Take the remark of a little Back Bay girl, for instance. Coming in from church the other day she ran to her mamma and cried : ‘ Mamma, what a funny place church is !’ 4 Why, my child ?’ asked the mother. ‘Oh, ’cos, when the minister said “Let Us pray,” nobody bat he said a word ; and pretty soon after when he said “ Let us sing,” nobody but four people in a balcony over bis bead sang a note !’

The present German Empress is the fifth English Princess who has held that rank. The others were Edgyth, daughter of Edward the Elder, wife of Otto I; Gunhild, daughter of Knut, wife of Henry 111. of Germany; Matilda, the link between the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties, wife of Henry V. of Germany ; and Isabella, daughter of King John, Wife of Frederick 11., the wonder of the world. This last-named Princess was a direct ancestor of the late Prince Consort of England, and therefore of the present German Empress.

Mr and Mrs Fred. Miller, of Rice Lake, Minn., don’t know-whether to be proud or ashamed of their first baby. It weighs but one pound and a half, its feet are but an inch-long each, and a wine glass will cover its head. It is perfectly fcrmed.and healthy.

The oast of the late Emperor William of Germany’s head, taken after bis death, was intended for the Empress .Augusta alone, and the mould has been broken by command of the family, in order that only one example Bhall exist. The cast shows how curiously small the Emperor’s head was, and wonderfully produces the network of tiny wrinkles on His forehead.

The price of quinine has been so low for the last three or four years that large plantations of the oincho tree have been uprooted in Ceylon, and the tea plant is substituted. Ceylon produces a very large share of all the bark that is marketed.

A giantess, who though only twelve years and five months o.ld; stands 8 feet high and weighs 270 pounds, is ’ on exhibition in Japan.

A clergymen’s meeting has been held in Helmsworth, England, in favor of early interment, in plaiu earth, in the simplest possible coffin, instead of falsely so-called bnrials in vaults and crowded graves, simplicity and economy in place of ostentatious display.

Dr, Elizabeth Beatty of Indore, Bent out by the Presbyterian church in Canada as a medical missionary, -has treated over. six thonsand patients'in the last twelve, months, and thiiiks a hospital and training-school for Hindoo woman would make thousands of ooriverts to Christianity.