One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 859, 17 August 1888, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

Lady Dudley, says a current item, sleeps in black silk sheets. By the latest census, just published, the population of Paris is 2,344,450. It is reported that ‘Ouida’ has become extremely religious, and will give up literature. During 18S7 Coroners’ juries in London returned -thirty-two verdicts of death from starvation. Trinity College, Cambridge, England, recently bought an autograph letter of Sir Isaac Newton for £63. At tho Free Masons’ gathering in London the other day, where the Prince of Wales presided, nearly 300,000d01s was raised for Masonic charities. Princess Beatrioe Battenburg is taking a variety of internal and outward methods for the reduction of her obesity, which to become abnormal. A recently'published ‘ Dictionary of niture and Decorations ’ shqvyq the grander dames 'of tb eleventeenth and Eigh tteen tli Cen'ti\riq3 received while iu bed. Max b’Reil, on getting back to England, declared that' *in the ' higher classes of American society there is more culture and amiability than in any other country in the world.’ ' The death-rate in St. Re,te3}sb t urg. ffaq unusually high this spring. As compared witff Retersiiqrg, c Paris, 23.8.; Berlin, i'B.7 ; London, 17.5, Writing to a prominent Belfast;. ‘* John Bright says 1 The out-jand-out. attaqh.-. rqeat of aomfi momb.qra. of our saciety to Mr Gladsfpua i 3! the result of emotion, and not qf reason or of knowledge.’ Divorce in Switzerland is theoretically easy, but the couple seeking it must go before a Magistrate every four months for two years and insUt that they continue to desire it. This makes it rather uncommon. According to a Parliamentary return just published, the Austrian public debt now amounts to 4,004,465,00011. [A florin is about 45J cents] The annual interest on the whole public debt amounts to 153,000,000f1. The number of dogs returned to the authorities last year in Great Britain as liable to duty was 925,815. The duty on these comes to £374, ISO 12s Gd, and of this sum nr less than £317,105 13s 6d was actually collected and paid" into tho national exchequer. '