NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 201, 12 December 1876, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

New York haa 2,000 newsboys. It is stated that a cartway tunnel can be put under Niagara Falls for £200,000. Acui-fitin?? fci> official statistics there were 5,275 suicides in 6'cancn last year. Of every 1,000 soldiers in the British, army 237 are Irish. Tho Government of Saxony haa forbidden the practice of cremation. The American Government pay annually £5,000 to Chinese interprefc«ta. The debt of New York City amounts to .£l}, 000;, 000. The coat of payment of members in Victoria is £2B, ©oo' a year. The Empress of Austria is said to be one of the handsomest women in Europe. Cremation is prospering in Germany. There are now H2 citiea with cremation societies. The Bible is now printed in no less than two hundred languages ; in lW»>t it was only printed in ufty. In tvliiva when a woman goes out she wears a buy-gar's dress in order to escape notice. Twtdve hundred Icelanders have migrated. by wn.y of Quebec, to a settlement in Manitoba. New York elegants now bary their pet dogs in thair own family lots in the eemetries of tliat city. It waa eaiimr&ted that there _wore, in August, ever 260 actresses in New York alum* waiting to display the'V talents. Th« book 4 in the library belonging to the British Museum, occupy twelve miles of shelving. It is stated that owing to tho alarming increase of brigandage in Sicily, trial by jury is to be susperuled. Maine prides itself upon two apple tre g onv two hundred ytafcM old, both of whi a still bear fruit. There are "t present in Germany some ■ y. engaged in learning the Hi-:- -)F \titwi'"; '• ?e.V. !''r n m ! ' LtaOtvio wibtiotxfc c )ii.,st the Europcau railroad ,:ri ; i , sl.a'..'vi i: !i it 'I.OOO female criminals v: ij'. larg" in England, with ticketa-of-i. ;i•.i:lu: u::'.j.>;\ty of whom live in London. A Parliamentary return of the number of tleath in London from starvation, privation, &c, r in the year tß7r>, states the total uum K er reached 127. The number of persona registered this year its entitled to vote in the election of members of Parliament for the borough of Birmingham,, is in sixteen wards. A Cuicago lady sent an order to Home to a celebrated sculptor for g one marbut finger of Apoltes in uis close, to eorat not more than a thousand dollars." A Noae Show lately was held in a little town in Austria. The largest and ugliest got the prize. There vv«re three prizes. Eighty uoses competed. The lar";i-st lantern ever made will a.»on be ready For lighting at Ualleyhead, coast of Ireland. It will consume 1.000 feet of g;is an hour. It is a ttash, light, of the power of 2,000,000 candles. A bank clerk in Victoria haa thrown up his appointment and disappeared because the manager objected to hia wearing a velvet coat. Grotesque-colored prints find a market in South Africa. Not only unusual colors, of the Haunting kind go down, but unusual ilgurea an wott, such as imps and ilero.ma, are highly appreciated. The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral is no longer t'ie highest in Europe. The steeple of the Church of St. Nicholas at Hamburg is 472 feat high, six feet higher than Strasbourg. Dried oysters are among the imports into San Francisco, from China, are simply taken out of the shell, dried in tho sun, and packed in wooden boxes. The Chinese are the principal consumers. The Paris Mint haa just coined io\),o!\> francs worth of centimes, which have been nut info -•«'nidation. This is. perhaps, the • •.!! i -'it in value used, being, less > !i;' h part of a penny. ! i Ktr'sbu-sp every dog wears a collar • > i i .#i nan;: ami and all . r lissingn!.<':ed are destroyed :.l: • i;ih;w •. are ctaimed on

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