NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 189, 28 November 1876, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

India has» 3,ot)<)> posfc-olii.:'-,!, iv:rl 'i,oiX> lettur-hoxi'u, A tuof.'ißivi< bo't ou'l.wus r>' vnh'y chro-.viv to an arti-the Ho-.v, v» »,uv hril-l togsther bj' a tw uciuii btwui oi bauk not^s. Tho Statu of South Carolina .• ..a;ri pmctioally in a state of war, ow.n; r.<» the political ai{itatioa within its borders. A little c|ui»;k-limo mixed in water \» said to innuediately assuage the pain cunsod from beeo or wasps. Thirty years ago steel pens were sold at sm. a gross ; now they ea» be had at a gross at Home. A vine, about forty years old, near Santa Barbara, California, covers an acre of ground, and yields annually 10,000 to I'J,OOO lbs. of grapes. The world uses 2.30,000,000tb5. of tea, and 7 W,000,00t)U:)S. of eott'ee every year. ('litna furnishes nearty alt the tea, and Bransil more than half the coffee. England is celebrated for its fogs, France for its fro'fa, Ireland tor its bogs, Canada for its dogs, Maine for its tog*, and Ohio for ita hogs. Pare Lacliaise, the famous Paris cemetery, is now closed. During the seventy years which it was open, it received 1)38,477 b >di«s. The Home for Destitute Dogs, at Battursea, is staled to have received 70i> homeless animals per week sine > the issue of the late order by Cotonet Henderson. The gross income of t!i■> Duchy of Lanc:iasor has increased £3(>,tXK) a year. Thj nett pa/ments to iter Majesty have eon* fc'imporaneously r.sen from £12,000 to £IO,OOO. The gnago of 500 mites of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada wa+ altered iu it day and a half, from oft. Oirt. to oft. OA irt. The engineer marked out the work, tncl hnct men under his charge. London, with its 4,000,000 inhabitants, living in 23,000 streets, is remarkable for having 1,000 churches and 4,000 publichouses. Its aggregate number of deaths by violence every year is on the average of 'J,BOO, of this number 23!) persons being burned alive. Quinine is used by the Dutch in the Indian Archipelago to combat the effects of small-pox. The dose taken is from Kl> to U)0 grains, and the proportion, of cures roturned is something marvellous. The march of civilisation b* progressing in "JApan, there being now tiffcy-two newspapers published in that country. The targ«r part of crime committed by men is perpetrated between the ages of twenty and thirty i and of crime committud by women, the greater proportion |» committed between thirty and forty ; yours of age. Two of the edible dogs of China are on uxhibition at the Zoological Gardens in Paris. It is found very easy to acclimatise tlvm, and it is proposed to introduce this new article of food. The dogs in (~on are small and hairless, arid enormously fat. They are fed sotely on vegetables, a regimen which imparts a rare delicacy to the flesh. tt may interest some ot our readers to ißiirn'that a hot blast is now used iu dentistry,. as in the manufacture of iron. There are some operation.-; in which nothing will dry a cavity of the gum so effectually as-* hot blast, and this is blown iu by means of a syringe.

The oldest paper tn the world is the Mtiit, it is still printed on yellow silk,, as ift was a thousand years ago : but |of coarse it has changed its editor once or twice.

It has been officially announced at Berlin that the indemnity of 300,0001". paid by the Turkish Government to chat of (lonnany on account of tha Saloruca outrage,. has been handed over to Mrs. Abbot:, tihe widow of the German consul who was murdered.

Tie monument to Karl Wtlhelin, the composer of " Die W ajht am Ilhetn, at Sclimalkatden, was unveiled on the 2nd 'September. The name of Schtieekenburjjut,. tile author of the words of the song, is*ttls..> mentioned on tho monument.

The Admiralty Has ordered thruu smatt stmuuor», fei> bu known as *' fcotpodo tuoorintj vessels-,"' to bo baitt by private contact without: ctotay. Their cost wilt be iiuju'ly each, and onj will be appropriated t<> each of the principal naval potty of ftawt Britain to- coaiplutw their syatom of torpedo 4efoncii>. Tit a take Queen Dowager Josephine, of Swuderi,. haa tefc't,. it « «aid, an mo tit teen or twunty millions of crown* (&'B-t(MKK) or n,Ui>,ooo) r and though farg» sums are to charitat>te institutions f'mnded by the late Qrteen herself, tach »f hor heirs wilt receive a considerable logacy. The Princess Koyal of Denmark i»onw of the Queen Dowager's principal Heirs.

A telegram from fpswicfo states that Mrs. Elizabeth Abbot, who- in early life *a» the friend and cooipaaion of Margaret Cutchpole, the heroine of Mr. Cobbold's v «U-known book, has just died at the age "f 105. Her family oE two sons «.nd three ore all alive, and the eldest is is mi aeventy-nine. Mrs. Abbot possessed Ucv facilities tmtil a year ago.

lb is said there are more editors unnuwsiod than any other class of professional men. For this reason, wtj suppose, "id majority of them are men of tine sen[Jiinuuf,, ami do not wish to starve anysister.

The E'aria Figaro has; been informing taruadura that M. Oambetca is going to at the * 4 palace '* of Sir Charles Wlte, who always goes oat la » carriage foul four, and hm thirty footman in white gotd iitcriea—whereas Sir Charles *^ v «a La Sloane-«tr«et, and with almost ttapubliom »impiicity.

Sentimental young ladies no., use i-hlomform when the marriage ceremony is being performed. A whits handkerchief satarated with chl*»r«»for;n »«d applied to the montb tri.ti'!"" tntitn to fsi'l ijtiUo »>.trereotoe natßf»t'.y. 1 fi «\V ful fct» wait till the niarvU/ < t ; - vtr * acid they are sate. A player at whist may hold over three hundred ami thirty-fcve thousand millions of vfwri«w» hands, so that <; l >;if:nu; , .Uv va* ried, at fifty deals per evening fVr 313 days, or l-VIOO hands per annum, he nvght be above forty millions of years before he would have the same hand again. A matt in Illinois committed suicide lately in six inches of water. He could not have done it alone. hot his wife, with that self-sacrificing devotion and helpfulness ao characteristic of her sex, sat upon his head.