News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7033, 9 June 1891, Page 4

News Items.

A Vienna correspondent of a Home paper tells a shopping story of the results "of a cruel piece of April fooling. An anxious mother, whose eldest boy began to serve his three years as soldier last October, received a letter from Buda Pesth, where he is garrisoned. This letter told her that her sou had been shot dead, because, in his capacity as cobbler to the regiment, he had fastened the heels oh to the soldiers' boots the wrong way ; that he had been buried with all military honors, and that even.theGeneralhad been present at the funeral. The letter was not signed, and was cteted the Ist of April. The poor mother! dropped the letter from her hands and fell dead. . Her daughter, aged 13, who was alone with her, was paralysed' with fright, had a fit, and .died the next day. The police are doing all in their power ,to trace the author : of the brutal hoax. : 'V :' ; Here is a- wrinkle in fruit growing which I pidked up recently, :and,/as it niay prova of yalce, I- give it gratis. I was visiting a friend's orchard, admiring his homer bus and well selected trees, when he suddenly pointed to a peaoh trae close to where I wag standing, and- said, . "You will thick that what I am going to tell you about that tree is a fairy tale, but it's not, its the real truth. Some years; .ago I had a tin of .Ameripau peaohee, which, as you' know* are boiled or parrboiled before tinned. Well, these peaches were boiled a second time in a pudding, and. the stonss were, thrown oiitside. A few weeks afterwarda Isaw them beginning to open out, aod I immediately planted a few tp see if they wonld : £rot*;. : Xhat troeis ohii Jot:|he |hre© now mihe orpKaria that-grew from the atones :> % -; : Remabkably good / -results 1 continue to 'be' obtained b j the ' tributbrs working oh;Crajg|'s freehold, . South Hoki"tika.;: .From 4pril 10 to May^ 29 the proceeds were 1960zs Sdwts - llgrs, value #761 3s. Last week ; was the higliestjon record, the proceeds being SSoziior five;' days' work.: In; all seven men- j and •threes boys are em^ ■pbye.d^Exeha^ey; ;^; ; -\: ;: ; ! ;. : _'■; ; ;";;:. '-;■ ; ; ;

■ IDbjP- first : Mahommedan ever oelebrated in England took place at the Moslem Institute, Liverpool^ where the followers of Mahomet in that oity regularly assemble. The bride was Miss Charlotte Fitob, eldest daughter of Mr Charles Fitoh, J.P,, of London ; and the bridegroom was a Mahommedan barrister, practising in Lonaon, whose father is Revenue; Secretary to the Nizam of Hyderabad.' Lady. Florence Dixie's last word on the .women's franchise question is : Let woman try her hand at ruling. If she does no better than man, at least she cannot posßibly do worse. A gentleman in Ohristohuroh generously plaoed at the disposal of his Worship the Mayor, 50 tons of coal, to ; be distributed to deserving oases during the course of the ensuing winter xuonthßt Mr Whibtleb'b notable portrait of Oarlyle is to go to Glasgow. The Oity Council has decided to pay one thousand guineas for the work. There was some preliminary objection to the price, but when it was explained that this was one of the four pictures for which Oarlyle sat, and the likenesß that pleased him beet, and when, further, one speaker added that twenty years benee it would be worth doable the money, the City Fathers voted the purchase money unanimously; A flower has been discovered in South Australia which is only visible when the wind blows. If some of our rail-riding poliicians wore one of these in their button holes we might get an idea which way the wind was blowing 1 . GOOD MOBNING Have yon need PEARS' SOAP ? " One of the greatest blots in our Christianity is," according to Canon Scott, of Woolwich, the fact that in England we have 70,000 girla engaged in publio houses and drinking bars. This is another proof cf the theory that all the evil women do to men comes from men. Mr Hill, the Single Taxer, writing from Wellington to the • Beef ton Guardian,' looks upon a dissolution on the question of the taxation of -land values as inevitable, but is confident the Ballance Government will be returned. He states that the land .question is fast becoming the greatest question of the day, and until that question is dealt with he anticipates no remedy for the exodus from our shores. ' Civis,' in the ' Otago Witness/ recently se« himself a task. He desired to find out any person in the community, either high or low, who had been benefited by unionism. It had injured employers, and half-ruinea workers, But at last he succeeded in hitting upon a few individuals who had absolutely derived a substantial advantage from it, and these were the new M.H.E 's who had climbed into the House on its shoulders and drawn a big honorarium. These, men, aud these alone, have reason to bs thankful to trades unionism. A man living in Dnnedin, though really to be pitiied, is at present the laughing stock of all his friends. He became tired of life, and decided to commit suicide. Wishing to have as painless a death as possible, he thought the matter over for a long time, and finally concluded that the end was accomplished if he shot himself through the foot. This he acordingly did, and was very much astonished when he found that the waund was not at all dangerous. He is said to have been a leading dude, and mixed with tbe culchawed class. This explains the matter — he thought his brains were in his boo ! s. The main railway line in Tasmania was built by an English Company on conditions amongst which was one .that if the traffic did riot produce a certain sum, the Government of the Colony were to make up the deficiency. Under that agreement the Colony was for many years called on to contribute .£32,000 per annum to the Company. Recently the Colony acquired the line, and strange to say, remarks the ' Daily Times,' the result of the six months' traffic under Mr Back, formerly of the New Zealand railways, has been the production of a clear profit of £16,000, or exactly the sum which the Company for years asserted that they lost by their investment in a similar period. The purchase has, therefore, been decidedly advantageous to the country. Russia deals very despotically with labor agitators. Forty-six members of the Polish working men's party have just been condemned at Warsaw —and condemned without any sort ol trial. An accusation wag prepared, submitted to three high officials, and being strong enough in its wording, they pronounced judgment. According to law, anyone condemned on this sort of trial can be . santenosd to "not more than "five years in Siberia or two and-a-half years imprisonment. Even Kussians complain of this working men's case, because seven of the men were sentenced to more than two and a half year's imprisonment. CADBURY'S UOCOA. . "A perfect FooS. '—Health. It has just been ascertained that the 'first idea of a savings bank was conceived by Hugh Deleetre, councillor to the King 6f France, in thb year 1511, snd that a plan for its eatablishtnent was submitted to and approved ot by Marie de Medeois ; but political tronbleS " prevented its befog carried: into effect. The scheme was adopteclby the city- of Berne in 1787; by that of Hamburg in 1788, by England in 1810, and by France iv 1818. At! the present time there are, in the whole world, 29 millions of depositors in these institutions, with 760 milliona at erli eg: J standing .to their oreditAnj ixiraordinary crime has taken place at Pittsburgh The other evening a young man named John Goneawlis paid' a visit to his : fiancee,. Miss Maggie, Smith, 'leaving a little befoj-e.midnight. Early onlthe followiog morning Goneawliss?s: body' -was found : with a bullet;' through the head,- ;It was ibuna that his pockets had been rifled of £240, which it was the intention of the murdered man to have paH in the pnrc^age of a home fpr his bride. ' ..An arrest has bean made on suspicion, fout the prime is : involved in some mystery. " (LoßD^BtaoN 6n Na*tube and Art. ~ When the poet penned the Unes- in " Don Juaß" '• 'In; virtues ■ nothing earthly obuld surpass her, Save thine incomparable oU.Maoassar,' he wrote as a philoßdpher, no,les3 than as a poet, and showed an appfeoiationoi the arts by whioh even lovelinesßmßy be made 'move lovely. Thonianda oi Bub-lishwomen owe

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