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New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 19

Since July 1 a Washington correspondent estimates that Mrs Cleveland has shaken fully 100,000 hands, and tbe President twice as many. After a hard day’s work, says a New Orleans paper, the President stood in an hotel parlor at Jacksonville for three hours and shook hands with 8000 people. A papier-mUchfe dome has been erected at Greenwich Observatory. The dome is said to be as strong as though constructed of wood and iron, and so light that it can be turned without machinery. In a commune near Mons, Belgium, when a person is found drunk he is conducted home by a policeman. Next morning tho constable calls upon the man or woman he had seen home, hands him or her a broom, and says : “ Come forth and join the scavengers for two hours, or be proaecuted for drunkenness. ” A “ cable anchor ” for stopping boats has been successfully tried in the Seine. The, apparatus consists of a cable having on It a series of canvas cones which opens by tho action of the water, and close when drawn the usual way. A steamer running thirteen knots was stopped in thirteen seconds, and in a space of from twenty to thirty feet this arrangement,