ALL THE WORLD ITEMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 58

ALL THE WORLD ITEMS.

From the latest British files to hand are taken the following interesting items: The anxiously expected Italian Royal baby, a daughter was born cn the eve of the National Fete Day. The infant has been named Yolanda Margherita. The queen has offered a cradle and 1000 francs to every child born on the same day as her own throughout Italy. All the baby girls will be christened Yolanda.. The King and Queen have been married five years, and this is their first child. An exhibition of Roman antiquities unearthed last year at Silchester throws light on the industrial occupations of the inhabitants of the buried city. There are complete sets of tools used by the Roman smiths, oarpenters, and shoemakers, and an agriculturist’s outfit. Kylemore Castle, built by Henry on the shores of the Atlantic m county Galway at a cost of <£250,000, was offered for sale by auction. Only <£33,000 being bid the property was withdrawn. The Duchess of Fife was waited upon at her London residence and presented with a souvenir of her visit to the West Australian court in the Glasgow Exliioition. It consists of a sandalwood cabinet, inlaid with, other West Australian woods. Inside the casket was a necklace composed of gold nuggets. . ■ A Sunderland woman has ]ust attained her 100th year. She is hearty and cheerful. Her descendants extend to four generations. An Addington man who has ]ust completed his 100th year has never been more than 20 miles from li.s -native village. A bag containing about 1000 sovereigns was discovered during the demolition or a house in Linlithgow, which had not beeu tenanted for years. A pair of wag-tails built their nest and hatched their young in a railway waggon loaded with bricks. When the truck leu Wellingborough attached to a train the parent birds flew and kept up with it. Upon a tunnel being reached, to preveut the birds losing sight os, their young, the nest was carefully removed and placed <m the railway embankment, and the parent birds proceeded to feed their brood as though nothing had happened.

'me wile of a working gardener at icking Hall, Suffolk, who lias a triplet ol hea,tliy baoy girls, has received the iving's bounty of ’me children have been christened Victoria, .Louise, and Maud, after tne King's daughters. A valuable cscovery of jasper has been rnaue in Wales. Blocks many tons in weight can be obtained. A lady in New dork, in imitation of Diogenes, otfeis .£2OO to the iiist business or professional man,who can conclusively p,ove that he has carried on his work for a montii honestly and without lying. The census returns show that the population of-Paris is 2,714,t>58, an inciease.of 177,254 since 189 G.

A live masted steel sailing ship, France, was found at sea derelict. No trace cou-cl be discovered of the crew oi 60, who are suppuseu. to have taken to the boats thinking the vessel was sinking. Tlie France was a Scotch vessel, and her launch 11 years ago created much interest, owing to the fact that she had five masts. The police uncovered the bodies of 31 infants packed in soap boxes, in the cedar of a woman who canned on the bmines., of an uudeitaker at Sue

was remanded by the magistrate. It was said that the bodies were for the most part those of stillborn children, and had been entrusted to the accused for burial, for which a fee was charged. A man aged 60, sentenced in London to three months’ imprisonment as a mendicant, had been a well known beggar for 23 years. When shamming fits in the streets he had been taken to nearly all the hospitals and infirmaries in London, but he suddenly recovered whenever an electric battery was produced. A novel point in flat law has been decided. A Judge held that a landlord could not be held liable for a burglary which occurred at a flat in the absence of the tenant, even although the landlord kept a hall-porter on the premises. \ At the Crystal Faiace a gymnast fell 80ft. through the snapping of his apparatus and died the following day. In the Law Courts, durng the hearing of a libel action, the Judge told one of the jurymen to stand up, and sharply rebuked him for the discourtesy with which he had taken pains to let it be seen that he was not attending to the evidence. He ordered him to leave the box, but bade him remain in attendance until the case was concluded. , The Turkish authorities have prohibited the entry of typewriters into that country on the ground that the authorship of typed writing cannot be recognised. In Spain a goods train was derailed by grasshoppersIn the church of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex, a halt had to be made in the sermon until a number of wild ducks, which had flown through the open door, screaming loudly, could be ejected. The prison statistics of Scotland show that there were 69,503 committals during 1900—39,795 males and 20,708 females —the largest number of persons imprisoned in a single year. Allowing for recommittals, it is estimated that the convictions represented the offences and crimes of only about 41,000 persons some of whom had been sent to prison 50 times and upwards. The commissioners .state that many convictions must be the case “where the prisons are so full of drunkards.’’ A bricked-up cave has been discovered on the sea coast near Penriiyn Castle. Archaeologists declare it to be one used by Sir Pyrs Griffiths, who had tiie reputation of being a pirate, and who served with the English fleet against the Spanish Armada. There is a‘ strong desire that the members of the recently-created Westminster City Council should all appear in the dig. nity of robes and cocked hats. Hitherto, for one reason or another, some of the councillors have not been dispo:ed to expend £8 or £lO on such vanities. However, the Mayor (the Duke of Norfolk) now j suggests that a robes fund shall be es- ! tafelishecl, for providing with the garb of j office such councillors as have any reasons for objecting to the personal expense. The Mayor will be treasurer of the fund, and he alone will know whose robes are provide . ed out of it. Councillors or alderman who prefer to supply themselves with tlieir civic uniform will still do so. In the case of aldermen the cost is from <£3o to £4O.

A woman of good birth has been discovered in a filthy den attached to a private residence in Poitiers. She was naked and lying on straw, and so emaciated that. she only weighed 44ib. It is stated that she had been kept iso ated by her mother and brother for 25 years because she wished to many an impecunious lover.

It is stated that Mrs MGvinley wa3 restored by the salt cure. When she appeared at death’s door, it was decided to try a saline injection. The result is said to have been sudden and efficacious. The Chicago theory is that it is muscular, and not nervous, stimulus which causes the heart’s action, and that sa t is the greatest stimulant of the muscle fibres. The first issue of the coinage of Edward VLL. is likely to be maue in about a month’s time. The first to be minted will be silver coins.

Tlie Duke of Newcastle has leased 30,000 acre 3 of some of the most cliarming portions of Sherwood Forest to a coal-mining company. Fears are entertained that it will mean tlie felling or some of the famous trees in tii© ai.eged haunts af .Robin Hood.