News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7225, 22 January 1892, Page 4

News Items.

Dubing a recent tornado, the steamer Enterprise was wrecked in the harbor of Port Blair, which is reputed to be one of the safest in the Indian Seas. There were 83 souls on board, 13 officers and petty officers, and 70 men. Out of this total only six Lascar seamen were saved, and these were rescued by an admirable aot of oourage. Close to the spot whera the steamer was driven on the rocks is a small settlement tor female conviots, and as the cyclone threatened to destroy the buildings, these women were allowed to go down to the shore. When the Enterprise broke np, and the crew were discerned struggling in the waves, the brave women formed themselves into a line, holding one another by the hand, and co, while the one end of this living chain remained on shore, the other reached out far into the surf, ready to seize and help the exhausted swimmers. It was solely to the gallant conduct of these female prisoners tbat the six survivors owe their lives. The bodies of the captain and three of the engineers, all of whom were Englishmen, have been since washed ashore. Who will be the next Pops is already being discussed. In a recent article R. de Cesare selects three names for the possible honors of the Papacy : Cardinals Monaco, Parrochi, and Battaglini. Monaco is deacon of the Sacred College, bishop of Ostia and Velletri, secretary to the Holy Office, senior penitentiary and archpriest of St. John Lateran. Parrcchi is Vicar-General to His Holiness and bishop of Albano. Battaglini is archbishop of Bologna. The first is a native of the Abruzzi, the second of Mantua, the third of the diocese of Bologna. Battaglini is eixty-eight years of age, Monaco sixty-four, Parocohi fifty-eight —all three of suitable age. As regards health, Monaco has the advantage. The growing embonpoint of Parocohi is alarming, and the delicate health of Batfcagiini reduces his chances. The candidates respond to the spirit of the electors. Mouaco wonld be the candidate of the Uitramontanes, who expect everything from time; Parocchi of the Irredentists ; and Battaglini of the moze moderate. The Royal Family of England have apparently very feeble constitutions. The Prince of Wales, it will be remembered, hovered between death and life for a long time at Sandringham. The Duke of Albany died from an accident which to any healthy man would have been a trifle. Prince George of Wales, now the heir to the Throne from the death of his elder brother, has just recovered from an attack during which his life was in great danger* The Duke of Clarence has died from what to a man of good conßtifcution; wonld have beec merely a trifling cold. '; /

The British Medical Temperance Association has a membership of 397 abstaining medical practitioners, and i 118 medical students. Two corps of British soldiers are preparing for embarkation to India, in consequence of. Russia's aggressive movements in the Pamirs, Central Asia. Stone forests are found in various parts of the world. In many cases they are hardened by some peculiarity of the atmosphere and are found standing just as they were when clothed with green foliage thousands of years ago. "One who was presents" tells the following amusing incident concerning the German Emperor's recent craze for going up and down the Spree on board a torpedo boat : — The Emperor had been dining with the Life Guards at Berlin, and after dinner the officers began to call each other by their niolmames. The Emperor, who was sitting among the older officers, suddenly atked, " And pray what is my nickname among the corps ?" There was a moments consternation; then a colonel got up, and with a polite, bow, replied, " I can answer for the fact that among the older officers your Majesty has no niokname." This diplomats reply did not satisfy the Emperor, who forthwith sent for & sprightly yonng lieutenant and said, "I oommand you to tell me what nickaame hao been given me by you and your brother officers." "Ig it a command, your Majesty?" asked l the officer with twinkling eye ; " Very' well, then, your niokname is Gondola Willie." A chukch in lower Austria has just received a legacy of 300 florins. It was bequeathed by a merchant of Vienna to atone for his having broken a window during a lesson in catechism when a boy eleven years old. A wall in Tunis, which became undermined owing to the heavy rains, suddenly collapsed, burying 30 people who formed a wedding party at a neighboring house. Eighteen were taken out dead. ! GOOD MORNING ! Have you used PEAR'S SOAP A Manchester firm sued a lady for the cose of a jacket. She maintained that the jacket did not fit, and tried it on in the County Court. There was a general agreement that the garment did not fit, and the judge decided in favour of the lady with costs. A duel of an original character was fought in front of the Antwerp Railway Station recently. Two gentlemen from Liege, after a hard day's sightseeing, refreshed themselves so effectually at a cafe that from beer to brandy and from arguments to insults they came to blows. B'ood alone could wash away the stain of their mutual insults, but as deadly weapons were not kept on the premises for the use of customers the proprietor of the ntj'r suggested that as the street was deserted the adversaries should annihilate each other with " douchos," and he handed to each a portable water pipe. Oold water being anything but an exciting medium, the combatants, after a thorough drenching, shook hands and hurried to change their garments. No more fitting memorial of the original little " Lord Fauntleroy," young Lionel Hodgson Burnett, could have been conceived than the Home for Newsboys which Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett is establishing in Drury-lane. The institution is to be called " Lionel's Home," and the mother of the little dead boy, whose charming nature suggested to her the story which has delighted thousands cf grown-up folk as well as children in all parts of the world, is devoting to it a proportion of the income she derives from her pen. " Lionel's Home •' will surely have a pathetic interest (says an English contemporary) for all who love " Little Lord Fauntleroy," and the work it will undertake is sorely needed in the poor district in which it will be carried on. It is just the kind of charity children will delight to aid. Parnell, if one may believe the ' Boston Globe's ' correspondent, loved and 3ought in marriage" a Providence girl twenty years ago, but her stern father, a millionaire by the way, said nay. It is asserted in a Victorian newspaper that the person who drew Malvolio in Tattersall's big sweep had to part £9000 to the owner of the Cup winner. An Albion Park (New Sonth Wales) man, married four times, has thirtytwo children living. A ladies' regatta took place the other day in Stockholm. There were nine boats all rowed by young ladies in pretty and suitable dresses. The Corporation of Manchester, England, proposes to borrow the sum of £150,000 to erect an electric lighting plant, the machinery for which will also operate the hydraulic-power supply of the city. The attorney of the Great Northern Railway stated recently, in court, that 27,000 persons were actually detected in attempts to defraud the Company last year. Lobd Wolsbley is said! to be the British soldier who has been present j at most engagements. Since his nineteenth year he has served in nearly every important military expedition. "CADBURY'3 COCOA, A perfect food. —-Health,