Multum in Parvo.

Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 6

Multum in Parvo.

Lord Lome, it is reported, may possibly go to India as Viceroy. The Princess, it is said, wishes to see India, and is ready for the change. An Engllßh writer estimates that there are 40,000 Americana in England at present. The experiment of using an electric lamp in plaoe of the headlight of a locomotive has been made on a railway in Austria, and the results are said to have bean satisfao°L wd Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, declares that perjury is largely on the increase in the courts of that country. The English language Is fast supplanting the more than 500 ditdeots of India. The cenfus of Canada shows a population of 4 350,933, an increase during the decade Of 680,498. The guage of the Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans railway, 550 miles In length, wa9 ohaDged on the 29 cb August over the entire distanoe in 11 hours.

•The wharves at New O leana are to be lighted by electricity, so that vessels may be unloaded at night, when the hot sun is not sh nlng. Tae ohuroh bells at Geneva, Switzerland, were recently rung by a shook of earthquake. The Anglo • Portuguese Oyster Fishery Company propose leasing the oyster-breed-ing ground at Poole for a term of 21 years. Reecher's death would give his heirs 100,000 dollars of life-insurance money. His age is 69 Tha Amerioan Tract Society received in subscriptions curing last year the bum of L 79,398 London has the largest trade of any seaport in the United KiDgdom, and probably In the world.

Twenty years a3O there were but 11 employments open to women, and there are now 287. The world movts. The majority of hair-dressers in London ar« now women, who have orowdea out the male artists.

The Bible is now openly exposed for sale in the finest shops in Madrid. <

Buckinghamshire Is the mother of Prime Ministers. It has given five to England, and three are buried there. { The total ' yield of the American wheat harvest this year is estimated at 450,000,000, as against 485,000,000 bushels last season. The total sum paid to thfe London parochial clergy is, aooording to the Olergy Directory, 1 L 414 1 . 8' 4' per annum . ' Mr D. A. Buck, clookmaker in America, has constructed * a steam engine weighing only about' 15 grains, and' whioh is. entirely • oovered by a thimble. . The death Is announced, at Knaphlll Oonvict'PrUon, of. Patrick L Staimton, one of thfi brothers associated in the notorious Penge murder. oase; J J •''.'''-' \ <-MM*Belin has l been foutd guilty, In the trial at Ohalons-surr-Saone. of the unintentional manslaughter of M. Victor in a duel, and oond. mned tp-pay 1C 0,000 francs to that - • ' j ; The ''actual gold yield of ' California since itsfiisoo Very In 1 1848 is' 'a 1 matter that pan, never fie ascertained j but it Ib of ■ reoqrd that the amount deposited in the mint up to 1880 was ove|> 900,00^000 dollars. The Berliri-OharloWenburg Tramway C mpany intend to introduce eleotrloityas the means of locomotion on a part of their line, about too miles in length. ', a Roman Catholic paper says that had the Church retained all her children in the United States, there should now be in the country from 20,000000 to 25,000,000 members' of that Chorea, whereas there, are now lees than 7,000 000. It attributes the great losses to the influence of public schools. \ 1 Mr Gladstone's oloth'es/like thoßi of the storied young person from Troy, do not fife | Him.' His buterfly suit hangs on him likd a tack. His claw-hammer coat is said to fit around the shoulders like a horse collar. ;

Tne National Sunday-school Teacher says that three children in Chicago took •. it >in their heads to give a concert for the benefit of the Newsboy's Home in that city, wbioh resulted in securing 1000 dollars. The heat in the east of France has been so great that enormous quantities of fish have been killed in the River Meurfche and cast upon the banks, so that measures had to be taken for disposing of them in order to avert a plague. A subscription has been started among the Japanese residents of Paris, now very numerous, ior the purpose of erecting a Japanese temple,' whioh i« to be an exact reproduction of a celebrated pag da in Yokohama. i The number of bushels of malt charged with duty for the year ended September, 1880, in the United Kingdom was 49,897,517, upon which the amount of duty charged came to L 6,766,587, 766,587 19s 7£d. In the same period there was imported 2,377,481 quarters oarley. ' , Mr Elliot Stock Is ' about to Issue in Bng. land a magazine entitled the Bibliographer. It la to be uniform in size and style with the Antiquary, and will be devoted exclusively to book-lore.

The Athenffiutn says that Mr Poynter will Boon begin to paint an Important and impressive picture the subj of whioh is the *' Visit ot the Queen of Sheba to Solomon." The scale adopted will be larger than usual, as the artist has chosen a canvas about Bft long by sft high. The number of Chinese in the United States is very much less than was commonly believed to be the case. In the eastern etfttea the Chinese element Is really very fcmall, and Altogether inappreciable among the foreign admixture of population. New York contains but 942 ; Massachusetts, 256 ; Jlllnois, 214 The German Admiralty has decided upon the construction of a nu>nber of gun- vessels •of an improved type. They will be armourplated and armed with one large gun and «ix naaebine-guns, and will have two ports for discharging fish torpedoes. The tonnage ib to be 956, with Indioated horse-power of 1400 horses, vhloh, if calculated, will give « speed of over 1 .14 knots The Allan mail steamer Parisian, vhloa left Quebeo on Saturday, 2nd July, at halfpa.t 2 p.m. arrived at lAverpool on Sunday, . the 10th ; having made the fastest passage i on freeord. 'Ibis 4s the first instant e in whioh $Mf engera have been landed in ILlverjpOoi 0B 9he «l«hth 4»y interleaving Quebec.