NEWS IN BRIEF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1396, 11 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

At the old folks' excursion on June 28, at Ogden City, Hon. Lorin Farr was awarded a set of Church works (donated by President George Q. Carman), as the man present the father of tht> greatest number of children — thirty-nine. It is needless to add that this was in Mormondom. The fortunate inventor of " Zeodone," the new aerated effervescing drink, which is already becoming a favorite in these colonies, has just sold his patent to a company for £12,000, reserving to himself the right; of manufacture. It is probable that this enterprising Welshman wi>l clear at least £20,000 by his invention — no bad return for one of the simplest things ever devised. It is estimated that there are fiftyseven lady editors in the United States. A monster German pilgrimage is expectea to visit Rome shortly, conveying an offeriug of £83,333. The Chicago Times recived on May 20 a telegram from New York contain' ing 90,000 words, being the gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, according to the new edition of the Holy Bible. Benjamin Ouddeford, one of the two survivors of the Eurydice disaster, died at Plymouth on April 16. Cuddeford, who seems never to have really recovered from the shock cf his long immersion, had left the Royal Navy. Tho latest scientific sensation 13 the discovery that ice can bo heated con- 1 siderably above boiling point without being melted. A Nihilist manifesto declaring tjiat efforts for the liberation of the people will be relentlessly continued, has been published in Russia. In Havana, for the week ended May 21, there occurred three deaths from yellow fever, twenty from small-pox, and thirteen from typhoid fever. A crowded meeting was held on 9th June, in St. Jame's Hall, to maintain the right of Mr. Bradlaugh to take his seat in the House of Commons. Mr. Bradlaugh was present, and announced his determination to assert his claim immediately the Irish Land Bill was disposed of. Amons> the other speakers were Mr. Labouchere, M.P., the Marquis of Queensberry, the Rev. Stewart Headlam, Mrs. Besant, ami Dr. E. B. Aveling. Resolutions in favor of Mr. Bradlaugh were passed enthusiastically and without opposition. The Irish Episcopal Church, after paying the last of existing annuit".:t<» 1 j will have the sum of £3, 000, 000 remaining to its credit. A paltry swindle is exposed by a oor- | respondentof the Melbourne Age. An advertisement in that paper was as follows : I — "One shilling an hour earned, home work, either sex ; specimen, Is 2d.— Storer Bros, G. P.0., Adelaide." The correspondent having written received the following reply :— " That by infusing two ounces of tea in a quart of water, and adding half an ounce of borax, this wuuld make a mixture for stimulating growth, which would readily sell at 28 per small bottle." Aftar the Derby there is always a report of a fabulous sum having been given to the winning jockey, and the amount dwindles down rapidly till it comes to a common-sense figure. This yoar it is said that Archer wu offered by the Americans £5000 to a penny to win the Derby for them. Mr, Pierre Lorillard, the owner of Iroquois, the winner of the Derby, is engaged in business as one of the leading tobacco merchants and cigar manufacturers in the States, and at Newport, (Rhode Island), the Brighton of New Yoik, where he wiles away th« hot Bpell in one of the costliest " cottages " of that unapproachably costliest resort of fashionable Americans. Mr. Lorilkrd is credited by his compatriots in the secret of his turf affairs with winning JB20J),000 on the recent Derby.