One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

Ireland in 1879 had 5,265,625 inhabitants, and the population just made up for 1889 is but 4,777,534. About 150 colours are now obtained from coal tar, which has aim st entirely sup planted vegetable aud animal dyes. The Sultan of Turkey is being treated by a German doctor for obesity. King Humbert has sent a bronze crown to be placed on Garibaldi’s tomb. They talk of a ship canal between Edinburgh and Glascow, to co3t £7,000,000. The French Government has fixed cabinetmakers’ wages at 16 cents per hour. Denmark’s Government agricu'tural schools have made that place the finest bntter-producing country. The Duke of Portland has won nearly £125,000 on horse racing daring the season of GBB9. Burns of the London strike is a total ab. stainer and does not use tobacco. He has induced 1200 men to take the pledge. t A local scientist thinks that in five years all the telegraph wires will be made of aluminum.—Philadelphia Record. A new invention is a transparent umbrella, which will allow the bearer to see directly in front, and to escape being run into. The authorities of Northern Bohemia have decided that Spiritualistic meetings are contrary to law, and that henceforth these gatherings are to be prohibited. Fourteen thousand girls are attending the Loudon School Board cookery ceutres. Still further facilities for increasing this number are now being made. At a meeting of the Royal Commission on Sunday Closing it was stated that the Sunday Closing Act had been the means of greatly decreasing drunkenuess in Wales. Julian Sterling of Bridgeport, Conn., lately had his eyeball removed by a doctor to get a cinder, aud while it lay on his cheek insensate to pain from cocoaine, he could sea his oar with it.

‘Homicide by imprudence’ has been added to the list of crimes in the French Criminal Code. The offence is described as causing the death of a,man by any foolish act not in itself criminal.

Captain McCallaof the United States cor. vette Enterprise was the first man who ever took a foreign war-ship up the waters of Loch Fyue, Scotland. The Duke of Argyll entertained the Captain at Inverary. The erection the other day of a monument to the Danes who fell at .Oversee, in Schleswig, in 1864, is regarded as the firet public admission of complete reconciliation between the Danes and their conquerors.

Last year the English pension-roll oontained the names of 156,492 persons altogether, who drew from the treasury £7,515,575, of which amount the army pensioners (97,004) drew £3,789,252 and the navy pensioners (38,366) drow £2,040,659. A French horticultural paper says that if a solution of common copperas is used to water the soil where heliotrope is growing it has a wonderfuf effect upon the flowers. It has the effect of preserving the cut flowers for a much longer period than when not used.