Late English News.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5025, 7 October 1887, Page 4

Late English News.

Canada has just sent another £20,000 to England for the Imperial Institute* An old man named Eugene Denizot died at Paris the other in a wretched condition. Although Denizot appeared to ba extremely poverty-stricken in his house was found more than one million francs. Lord Poechestbb, the eldest son of the Earl of Carnarvon, has just come of age, and into the possession of estates which bring in upwards of seventy thousand pounds per year. At Syraeuee, Kentucky, they have elected a City Council entirely of ladies. The sidewalks of that city are always kept in repair, and the streets swept clean. A Cunious Bouqubt recently presented to a German by hit admiring friends at Berlin was formed wholly of vegetables trimmed to represent flowers of various kinds. Buffalo Bill says that his show has taken an average of two thousand pounds per day in London. He talks of taking his show to Borne. Joaquin Miller is writing ' the Life of Christ' in verse. The Queen of Portugal hai taken leasoes at a pottery factory, and is now a first class workwoman. Mrss Mollie Garfield, the daughter of the late President, will shortly be married to Mr Stanley Brown, who wag private secretary to her father. Mercie, sculptor, of Paris, has been commissioned to execute a large equeßtrian statue of General Lee for the town of Richmond, Virginia. It is to cost £13,200, and the foundation and the pedestal are to be of Virginia granite. The total sum subscribed for the sufferers by the burning of the Opera Comicjae at Paris, has reached no less than £26,920. The foundation Eton© of the twenty second Protestant place of worship in Borne, has just been laid. Anotheb case of premature burial has occurred in France. An elderly woman, who lived at an old world place called St. Onen La Bouerie, recently fell ill, and, as her friends thought, died. The funeral took pi .oe and as the gravedigger was preparing to lower the coffin iato the earth he heard moans issuing from inside the lugubrious four boards enclosing the presumed corpae. The gravedigger left the coffin in the care of the moarners, and went off with his sombie story to M. le Maire, That rural dignitary, having duly donned his scarf of office and summoned the village doctor, proceeded to the local ' God's acre.' The coffin was then opened, and it was discovered that the woman had just died from fright, having awakened from a trance to find herself hemmed in between the terrible deal pUnks.