Multum in Parvo.

Otago Witness, Issue 1584, 1 April 1882, Page 6

Multum in Parvo.

A Virginia law prohibits intermarriage between the races, and coloured members of the Legislature are trying to get a bill through making it felony for white men to cohabit with negro women without marriage. The boys who took part in tho anti- Jewish riotß in Warsaw were severely flogged in the presence of the chief of police, their parents, and the representatives of the Press. The older rioters were to be tried by courtmartial. The Journal of Science makes the statement that no beautiful, or useful, or organic species, animal or vegetable, becomes naturalised m any country without human intervention, while the ugly and tho noisome contrive to extend their range, in spite of man's efforts to the contrary. . , . . The El i)ia, of Madrid, reports that at a Christmas Eve service in Uvarre, in Spain, a pack of wolves entered the Church, and did not quit it till they had killed three and seriously wounded five of the congregation. The Golos, St. Petersburg, m an article on the political situation, deprecating war, says :— , Russian society dreads war and those who seek to impel us into it. This dread is all the more salutary for the reason of the necessity of Healing domestic wounds. A well-known publisher in London is said to be meditating a new edition of the leading Scotch poets. It is to contain a selection of all the leading national poets from Buma^ to Motherwell; with notes,' a glossary, and English versions of the more obscure passages printed beside them. It is said that all the mines of South America and Mexico, in the palmy days of Potosi, Oerro de Pasco, Oartorce, El Doctor, and Pachuca, never furnished as furnished so much silver annually as was produced last year by the mines within the United States, Messrs Wells, Eargo, and Co., the Californian bankors and express agents, in their annual report, state that tho production _of gold last year in the United States, British Columbia, and Western Mexico, amounted to £6,373,737, and that of silver to £9,015,5GG. This shows a considerable iucreaso in the output of silver. ' According to an old authority on English heraldry, a man, even if he were not of gentle blood, ,who captured a. prisoner in combat, wan .permitted to wear the shield of that priSoner, and enjoy its' use to him' and his heirs forever. Further discoveries, as to peculation by Buasian officials are bping made,, flays a Berlin dispatch^, and it has been' discovered that enormous districts which formerly 1 belonged to the Russian Crown have passed into' other hands without the knowledge of the Government. ' , The Atlanta, Ga., Constitution sthinks that, under an inexorable pressure that is beyond the reach" of influence or argument, the plantations will' BpUt into small farms, and 'small farmers will'take the place of large planters.' The same' causes that Bliced..nearly 70,000 farms' from; the . <jrparg»iplan l tatio,ns in the tenryears' preceding IBBvwill cutoff" as many' more' between now

Mid4.890.i- • ■ ' ' • «, ' i •" John Ludwig Krapf, who died ;recently,jwas ojie.of-.fti zealous b,and, of, mis.sionarieß. iwhb undertow to reform the,Cairis|;ianity H of;Abyß'Bimft/V'KraH, -however,, with others, jwas baWsh'ed|' f an;er' which' hb rilade his home in, Etfgland. '1j j> ' ' "-•>' • '' ■'.< ' ''I '. LasUDerby,.ih. opening ;the Liverpool TJmversity,Gollege; of'; which; he,is presiderit, jcon;i gratulated.the citizpns on possessing Bix university chairs,' each endowed' with' f 'slo,oool land upon' iDeginmng'free' from' 'debt. fj' '•'"''' „;«! Wtie'n Richard went td the' Holy Land; one , of the laws he made 1 for"hibtro6ps;was,:thpt if anyone should be[convicfcad of (boiling 1 piteLfihpuld be poured over, ,his, head and a pillbiwful of feathers shaken o^er^it. \ ! . 'TiJe'Dover' Town Cburicil have directed their town' clerk r to'take thene'cesaafjisteps!fo^obtaihing/powers to oppose the Qhannel/Fujmel Ba3f,;wWch. f w|lLbe>rottght,bef9i;ftPa^ament this session. , , „ .» ■ . ., ;, UI . f,. .< „ . f , I, tThe war footing of the ( German army] has • beetf'ystablishdd- 'by" th'e>d'dget' of' 1882 at 600,000' m'enV'* In the event of.-war; the num-ber-could' be 'doubled 'at; twenty-four hours" noticetby. telegraph,, -r r.M,, ( ' 'r rji,; •f;■ . . .^rench agents ,have be,en: in A-^enca with orders for no fewer than 6000 horses for. the French army. They are to' be shipped to Havre in batches of 250 at a' time. Freight and keep across the Atlantic is £9 sterling per . head, and the horses are bought at £18 to £23 each, in St. (Louis. A new use is suggested for ether. A patient recently at the Cork South Infirmary, while under the influence of ether, acknowledged that he had been connected with several moonlight outrages in the districts from which he came. The Revisers' English, being a series of criticisms intended to show that the revisers have in various instances violated the laws of the English language in their version of the New Testament, has just been published byMessrs Jffatchard, , from the yen of Mr (Gr. Washington Mpon, E.R.S.L. It has been calculated that the present aver- • age net profits of the Bank of England amount to £27,000 a Week, which is about £4500 a day, , or £750 an hour, reckoning the money days at six hours. , . . To teach the Spanish language in the American high schools, is a plan proposed by the Memphis Appeal, which argues that at no;distant day Mexico will bec6me a part of the United States, and that that way fortune, lies for young men who can talk Spanish. ' A statement, intended to give an account of the damage done during the recent Warsaw riots, ahows that there were 2011 families ruined, numbering about 10,000 persons. During thejriots there were wrecked 292 liquorshops, 603 ,, eating-houses, warehouses, '.and synagogues, and 393 private houses, all; the jwoperty of Jews. ■ , Mr Moody, at one of his meetings mEdmTbuigh, asked the children who had an abundanoe of toys to bring such as they could spare, tto be given to poor children. The next day two waggon loads of toys were ready for distribution. Spain has neglected agriculture worse than any other country in Christendom. A few Englishmen who nave bought land and introduced improved machinery there are making

money fast. It is expected that the Ameer of Cabul will visit India in the spriag. A grand Durbar for his reception will be held, probably at Umbala or Lahore. In a recent sermon the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher expressed the opinion that; a congregation of 3000 people, should never contribute less than 500dol on any occasion. The grand jury at Sheffield, owing to the great number of serious assaults in the district, recently asked the Recorder to bring before the proper authorities a recpmmeiidation that the judge and chairman of'Quart'er Sessions should be allowed to inflict {iunfsh'ment with the lash upon prisoners in flagrant cases of assault. . The Recorder promised to forward their, recommendation to toe proper quarter „

During the past 20 years .130 new churches have been built in the diocese of London, of which more than 100 have been promoted by the Bishop of London's Fund. There are still 60 churches within the city proper. A writer in Land says that a friend who has recently been travelling in the Crimea writes some interesting notes upon vine culture there. A few years ago land in the Crimea sold for from £7 to £10 the two-and-a-half acres ; but the enterprise of Prince Wornozof and others has been such that this same land now fetches from £110 to £140 the desiatina— two-and-a-half acres. According to official returns just published the total capital invested in railways in India at the close of .the last year was upwards of £129,000,000. The net receipts were £4 lls per cent, upon the capital, as compared with £4 7s in 1879, The guaranteed lines', including the East India, yielded 5 "43, and the State lines 2 per cent. The gross receipts derived from the railways of all kinds amounted to £12,099,593, while the gross expenses were £6,192,171. Consequent on the loss of H. M. ship Dotterel and other explosions, but of a less destructive character, the Admiralty have appointed an important committee to inquire into the subject of gas explosions in the coal bunkers of naval ships, and imperative instructions have been given for their deliberations to be commenced without delay.