MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 8 July 1887, Page 6

MULTUM IN PARVO.

.|- which, t the Jate^o^d Hind-J ;i.; i. £ig r ;was head is indefotecj^tojjtihe Jple 'jhntifing energy and fen.terji^"s| for \Milclijigf I up"the present mammoth^ concern, which is" identified with the name of Allsopp all over . the^wprld. The;brjSwery ha^jbe6n;esta,blished 4 ;• 150-years, pttt th| trade was solimitjjd about*? IJtQjsS&xh ago, thai the barrels? t of ,bg|j caried away on hand trucksj whereas now it is-ioundoiecjessary; to ha^e^ina-jnfles .^railway Viidlun|md r abputo;he^bre]w^^ loc'omotiv^to eipe^it&^hl trftffioi f ue ¥ — It is said ! that the Rev. Mr Springer, assistant plstsf $f Chibago, wasqnven to ins|i^ty by;the perseicution of his 'Creditors, Vector of the .■ parish, yfiqp .s "now;- in. Earppe, receives 'a salary of" 6,000d0l "a : year,"lmt ll Mr 'Springer got only 300dol. • _^The London police cost £97 a year, the JParis .£L^O 13 per .man. .^The , London man {, arrests^ feeven persons, tile Paris 29pers6ns - per annum. For each offender (including 1 > drunkenness and misdemeanlours), the police : expenditure is £13 in London, and £5 in » , Parish • j'j,7 :\ \ <'; \ „> •' • .•- » — A baby found in Chicago the other day 3 Tvas brought- to a police court and there christened Endymion. ) " ; *•■ -, !— German papers call to mind that Kaiser • Wilhelin in his. 90 years has survived no- » fewer than 72 reigning sovereigns who were • his, contemporaries/. ■ • - ' ' — Centenarians are not so scarce as is com- | monly supposed. .On the occasion of the [ Emperor William's birthday,'. the s Berlin \ papers ' published a detailed list, extracted . from the last census returns, of 160 persons aged from 100 to 130 years.j — The library of , the British Museum has , 32 miles of shelves filled 1 with- books, and is ? visited by 91,000 readers yearly. The Bibliotheque Imperiale of Paris has 18 miles of ■ books and 37,000 readers yearly. : —Oleomargarine dealers paid fines aggregating 4700d0l the other day in New York. The law there does not permit the sale of the product in any guise. — A philosopher versed in human nature says: "No fat, oily man was ever hanged, and one , of that, kind is seldom found in prison." — The Jews are rapidly acquiring land in Eussia. They do not cultivate it themselves, i but sublet at a great profit. ' I — The Queen was much interested during i her visit at the Grande Chartreuse to find no fewer than four English fathers (hermits) there, all of whom had been well known in London society as " fast of the fastest." - \ — Gounod is now engaged on a mass which ; is to beproduced at Rheims Cathedral . , ' — It is stated that the Pope and* Czar are negotiating through a noble monk with a • view to the reunion of the Greek and Latin • Churches. 1 — The exportation of silver coin to India is very large. .In 1885 it amounted to J -32,943,8530zj worth £7,108,635. * r — Mr Rosenberg, who is employed in the Treasury department, Washington, at a , salary of 1800dol a year, is said to be one of '• the most skilful detecters of counterfeits in ' the world. — Out of the 34,000 newspapers published i in the world, the English language claims • 16,500, the German 7800, the French (3850, and the Spanish 1000. «^- ' — Experiments made by the German War Office have proved that melinite decomposes , if kept long, and it is therefore useless for , war purposes. — The Queen's jubilee gifts 'would fill a storehouse as large as Windsor Castle. It is , said that she has given many of them away for want of a proper place to put them. —Ten languages— English, German, Nor- ! wegian. Swedish, French, Bohemian, Finn, , Polish, Italian and Chinese — are spoken in Minnesota, The Governor's Message was i printed in each of these languages. — There are 40,000 Italian immigrants in New York, among whom are many orphan girls. These have now awakened the sympathy of a charitable woman, Madame de Cesnola, who is founding a home where they wilj be received and cared for whilst being trained t° become really qualified houseservants. , , , ,-,,„, —A native c^o nel has airlvod at Cairo from Suakim who *2* formerly under Gordon at Khartoum. He g^ an account of the fall of Khartoum not differing from the majority of such narratives, except that he states that there was no treachery. The 1 town was carried by assault, owing to the exhaustion of the soldiers from want of food. He asserts that General Gordon was buried inside the palace, and that the Mahdi was angry at his death. The officer will be tried by court-martial. —It is said that there is not over Gib of waste to. the largest ox jaow killed at a Chicago packinghouse. — The "Pullman vestibuled train," whjch will run between Chicago and New York, is i gqrgeous and beyond question the finest in the world. The "vestibuHng" .consists in joining the sides .a&d roofs of the cars at the platforms in such ,a va,y as to enable the passengers to walk from'one .end of ,the train to the other without being exposed t;o ,the weather or being in danger of f ailing os. — A new and most wonderf ul musical mr strumenifc is anaounced. It is a harp played by pianoforte keys.. — Many expressive Scotch adjectives, chiefly monosyllables, such as "dour," "douce," "fey" (if "fey" is crjginally Scotch), "snell," " howfif," "feckless/ " drumly," " wimplin'," and- " hirplinV; haye either been or are being' in England through sheer dint oi use. — Spectator. ' —A recent work by M. A. Neyaareh shows that since the year 1870 Europe has in^ creased its debts to the amount of over 40 milliards, so that the total debt of the European States amounts to 117 milliards, implying an annual burden of almost 6,000,000,000fr. — It is reported that a depth of over 5200 ft has been reached in boring at Schladerbach, near Halle, by some Prnssian mining en- | gineers. — Russia has proposed to remit the Turkish war indemnity in return for the cessation of ( territory in Asia Minor. — When the Prince of Wales opened the : College of Preceptors the other day Mrs [ Bryant, who has attained the degree of r Doctor of Science, was gorgeously attired »n

I a scarlet robe with gold ' sleeves. * Other ladies were elegantly gowned also. The "PrincesS"(sf "Wales wore a" simple* black "toilette, {relieved only by the white .feathers in fherhat| A | \ :,, ' ; I -'; ': •i —^Njiinb'ers of ! Chinese 'coplies emigrate to, Cuba and Peru, where they are ill-treated. Cuba imported 116,000 in the years 1866-73, iand refused to let fthem return "to China on -the^ Expiration of their contracts; 67,000 Bied.^Tlie number '■imported into Peru in the year 1871 was 38,650, of whom many were put^o death. 1 ; In 188Orin one-province apOjD^were'massacrecL *'.*"/■ '-^The-British belted cruiser Orlando at her .trial r.egently exceeded 19 knots over the, 'njelsure'd inUe, which is the' highest speed ever atiainedjiby an English man-of-war. The" hsjndiness of the ship is^as satisfactory as her sp'eed;;fo ; r she made a "circuit^ of 480 yds in three minutes, which for a vessel 300 ft in length is also a best on record. —Ballooning in Warfare.— The Government have purchased from Lord Rodney 80 acres 1 of'landiaVLidsing^.Kent, for the purpose of training soldiers in ballooning operations. '.' - ' - • ' ' , — Although Victor Hugo appears to have had r but little sympathy with England or English people, and although he outrageously distorted v our history and caricatured our manners in his preposterous novel, " L'Homme gui 'Bit," *he evidently had , a wholesome belief in the stability of British securities; for the value of his personal estatp in England has/ been declared as exceeding £92,000 sterling. , ■ , < .—lpdian.papers'to. — Ipdian.papers'to hand contain accounts of a singular occurrence at Dehra, when the Viceroy of India, with Lady Duflterin, was besieged in the church by a swarm of bees from the belfry. The red coats of the Viceroy's bodyguard greatly excited the insects, and as the, escort waited outside the- edifice they were attacked , and put to flight. \ One horse was so badly stung that it, lay down' and a fire had to be lighted before the bees would leave it. Ladies and children were shrieking! horses plunging and bolting and the soldiers and people were chased a quarter of a mile. — The sum of £6545 has been subscribed for a jubilee Victoria hospital for chest . diseases near Dublin." — Recently, a messenger from Windsor Castle arrived at Tyninghame House, with a beautiful black and tan collie, as a present from tKe Queen to the Earl of Haddington. This collie is a grand-daughter of her Majesiy's favourite old dog Noble, which she receiyed from the Duchess-Dowager of Roxburgh 16 years ago, and which is still alive. — A significant incident occurred recently at the sitting of the House of Commons Select Committee on Fraudulent Merchandise Marks. A practical watchcase maker having stated in evidence that foreign watches were frequently stamped with the English hall mark, fitted- abroad with foreign works, and then sold in this country as' English-made watches, Baron Henry de Worms, the chairman, produced his own gold watch, which he understood was of English manufacture, and asked witness to explain the difference between an English and a foreign watch. Considerable merriment was caused when the witness declared that the watch was not an English one, and ,the Baron said the mci; dent showed the necessity for the bills which were now under^the consideration of the committee. ■*' ''< • ' ' ' — Franz Liszt composed a requiem mass in 1867 for the Emperor Maximilian, but it; was not then performed as it was deemed inadvisable at that time to add to the'pa'ihful impression already made by his fate. Liszt's executrix, the Princess Sayn-Wittgen-stein, however, desired that it shonld ba performed at her own funeral which was 'duly done — a few months ago — and since th'en it has, again been rendered in memory of the composer, his friend; Cardinal Prince Hbhenlohe giving the absolution, — An old miner who has had 15 years' experience underground says that he 'has observed as a peculiar fact, that between 12 and 2 o'clock at night, if there be a loose stone or a bit of earth in the mine it is sure to fall. About this time it seems that everything begins tp stir ; and immediately after 12, although the mine has been still as a tomb before, you wjll hear particles of rock and earth come tumbling down and if there be a caving piece of ground in .the mine it is certain to give way, — A coroner's jury in London lately had the courage to return this verdict in the case of a poor man who had, drowned himself in the Thames: — "We are of opinion- that deceased was driven to the act through the sentence passed upon him at the Brentford Police Court." The unfortunate man had been fined £5, a sum which he was totally unable to pay, for breaking a window. — In 1580 a baker in Frankfort had been found guilty of mixing sand with his flour. He was taken to prison, where he was condemned to eat the whole of his stock of flour mad© f£to bread. He ate very heartily of the loaves «?fcich he baked himself in order to otjtain his igajiy rejease. But the diet did not agree with h,W, lor, he died in the third month of his "imprisonment, — There are nearly a million more women than men in ,the United Kingdom, but the i disproportion between what is called ladies ' and. gentlemen, is much greater. If we took - tthe familiar phrase, the" "upper 'ten thousand in fts literal ' signification) we should find on analysis ,£bft jjt included 6GOO of the softer sex to 4000 males. —When Russia chooses we shaJl haye to #ght or else give up first Afghanistan arid then , Jndia. We have chosen— very unwisely, ' no doubt, but s.tj.ll we' have . chosen— to put! matters in .that posture, to give the ' enemy a : prompt and easy initiative, and to content ourselves with returning; instead of "prevent- ■ }ng or anticipating, the' blow. We have, in short, determined, rath.er, it is tq be feared, out of sluggishness and stupidity than out of chivalry that Russia shall fire first.— Saturday Review, WELLS' HAIR BAPSAM. 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