Miscellaneous News

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5463, 1 May 1889, Page 4

Miscellaneous News

v.di old delighted Mrs Malaprop it icema still raoves, walks, and has her being. Aud she is just as delicious concerning her il paite uf tj^uech." "It m.-iy he right," remarked thi> pleasant old lady within my august ; present!, .v* olher day, " t>- bury the I de.id v. ;-i>.!it pomp or circumstance, I but I d."i'fc see the harm "f 1 wreati 'of lilli s ..r a bunch <-f climates i Oniy last Sunday the minia'er himself said ho rather liked to see " immoralliea" jin tho churchyard. At which, of course, 1 I brightened up, and thought, that, after : a'l, there was a good deal more sense in i old women than in young ones.

. ■♦ I Malietoa, the Sauioan sovereign, received j only £4 a month salary. ! More than two hundred people have > been killed in the United States within j the last twelve months by electric light wires. While Vermont is almost stationary, Nevada is the only State in the Union that is actually declining in population. Four negatives was recently taken of a cannon ball that only occupied one fortieth of a second in passing a given space. Prince Albert Victor of Wales, better known as " Collars and Cuffs, "is the sprig of royalty likely to be sent to Canada. Between 1,000 degrees and 2,000 degree Centigrade was found to be the temperatzre of a molten mass of lava in the Island of Hawaii. A plebiscite as to whether children shall receive religious instructions in theschnols of Milan, Italy, was taken in that city and 25,000 out of 27,000 voted yes. The overseers of the poor in Boatonhave in their hands trust and other funds to the amount of £130,000. The city of Boston is said to own about £4,000,000 worth of buildings on which there is no insurance. Nearly five million persons in theUuited Skates depend for their living on tho sale of liquor and tobacco. In Texas during the past year seventy churches adopted the use of uufermented wine for communion. Five great Powers in Europe maintain armies that aggregate 12,000,00 men. In the naval estimates for the coming year the British Admiralty proposes to increase the marine force by 3,500 men. The only female alderman in the world is said to be Miss Cons, a member of the London Board. She is said to be a remarkable woman, very philanthropic and intelligent. Six Brunswick young ladies have organ ised themselves into an "Old Maid Club." The young ladies, it is said, have pledged each other never to marry unless the consent of every member of the club is first obtained, in which case the consenting members are to act as bridesmaids, and each of them present the bride with a handsome present. One of the members is already nonplussed. Having had the question popped, and being unuHo to get unanimous consent fur the ceremony, she is now waiting for the dissenting members to meet their "fates," whon aha feela that they will relent. Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, mentioned by the Fenian spy Le Caron, is one in whose adventurous life politics have played a , secondary part. When a niero boy he joined the cavalry regiment of which Valentine Baker was the colonel, and John Devoy, another of LeCaron's figures swore him in as v Fenian as he was doing sentry duty in the Royal Barracks, Dublin. Soon after he was sentenced to death, then to penal servitude for life. He spent what he calls a happy year and a half in Millbank, and was then sent to Western Australia. Eventually he got away in an open boat, was picked up and landed, and ultimately made a name in the States by his poetry and his work for the Boston Pilot. Said a woman the other day ; I would rather have a man's opinion about my gowns any time than a woman's. He dues not know once in a hundred times what the material is <>r what it ig worth. He does know, however, whether or not it is becoming. Now a woman will ait up in your room and tell you what a beautiful gown it is. Ail the while she ia looking you over from head to foot, saying t-> herself that the gown co3t so much, the trimming so much, and the buttons so much. You can auo that she thinks she could have bought the gown for 20dol leas and have it made up in a much prettier way. If the gown pleases a man he shows it in his looks, and perhaps saya something pleasant about it. Whether ho says any thing or not, if he likes it, hia looks of approbation is more than Batiefactory while if the gown is not pretty or becoming he simply doea not notice it. That ia the way of a man : he never sets a thing that is not attractive, and is quick to appreciate one that is. According to an English authority there are this year 0799 Btudeuls in the four universities of Scotland, which ia just twice tho number recorded in 1802 There are no fewer than 34G0 Btudentß at Edinburgh, and Glasgow comes next with 22C0 ; then Aberdeen with 918, and St. Andrew's with 221. Of all the Professorships those of tho Edinburgh Medical Faculty are considered the most valuable, some of th'm buing worth nearly £3000 a year. The Chairs of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics are each worth about £1800' a year at Glasgow, and average £1400 at Edinburgh. — London^Truth.