NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 231, 18 January 1877, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Cardinal' Manning is the first convert from Protestantism who lias received the Pi,ed Hat. The cotton cloth exported by England in 1875, if stretched out, would measure 200,000,000 miles, or more than eighty times the distance round the world. The following advertisement appeared in the Edinburgh Scotsman" A gentleman having too many sons, will gladly exchange one eight months old for a girl. Good Home.—Patjsi;, Post Office, Hawick." One paper-mill in the United States used up (300 tons of paper in one year, in the manufacture of paper collars, A woman has been arrested in Boston, charged with selling some colored people a liquor warranted to make them white. As an illustration of the limited num her of combination which the three primary colors are capable of, it may be interesting to know that in the globelin of' tapestry manufacture, 28.000 distinct shadings of yarn are employed, each one distinguished by the practised eye. The poet Longfellow has so many visitors at his residence, in Cambridge, that the cars stop at his door, and the oonduc- _ tors shout " Longfellow's," as at an ordinary station. In the cantons of Switzerland, all smokers and snuff-takers under eighteen years of age are punished by fine. I The longest uncompounded word is j " Hororificabilituclinity," having twentytwo letters and eleven syllables. A novel watch has been invented by a Swiss watchmaker; the motive power is compressed air. The annual cost of funerals in London is estimated at over a million of money. The Japanese revenue is estimated by yens. The yen is equal to a dollar. A perfect pearl should be spherical and very indescent. Its value depends on its size and color. A ton of ice is used every night in cooling the air pumped into the House of Commons. It is generally conceded that the language which our Lord spoke when on , earth was what we now call Hellenistic / Greek. One of the mo3t successful manufactcries in Constantinople is devoted entirely to the fabrication of spurious coins of the? time of Uonstantine and his mother.

There is no etui of novelties in thes© | Sj-o-head times.. The m ; t-st thmg m j turi» i» saut to be a tniliard-player, a Mr. , Coritier, who wm his nmv as » «'*»» wins for all competitors. |H» evmltwuj ; nam sumethtmc ft?■<the gani... | In the tii»t tit in > yM i" England and , Wales, I 8& persona were st'ar,etK»'> u» death, arnt to penal setv t : > ! • " A method, has been patented by which " dirty " batter an 4 butter "scrapusga are meftect and churned with ni'tlfc, whereby She original finalities are recovered. There ace L2\7«o\ooo Christians tin Tarkey, and 300,000 Jews. The Christians are not allowed to vote in political matters. The first twelve days' sal© of Quizots library realised ££,7WX Of t)t persons over 100 years, who diod in New York during the past ten years, &T were Irish- Americans. M. Thiers fan neither eat nor talk without » rJumffMhs, or foot-stwre. tinder his feet;. and the apparatus fc<> dtssmmlat© its true character is tuadu in the torni ot a little valise, that always goes *ntm hun.