General News.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5142, 10 July 1885, Page 3

General News.

The report that one hundred Mormon families bad passed over into the State of Sonora for the purpose of founding a settlement has created much excitement in the Mexican capital. The Mexicans are willing that the Chinaman should come, bat they are down on a Mormon, and object to taking these moral outcasts off the hands of the United States. # The King of the Belgians, who has just celebrated the completion of his fiftieth year, may be said to enjoy one almost unique distinction among the reigning princes of Christendom. Born heir apparent to the crown, he succeeded a father who died a natural death at a good old age and in secure possession of his iceptre. The King of Italy-was seVenteen * years old before t a kingdom pt Italy

existed. The King of the Greeks is the founder of a dynasty. The Czar ascended the throne of a murdered predecessor. The Emperors of Austria and Brazil derived their titles, in the first instance, from " acts of abdication " in their favor consequent upon revolutions. The Kings of Prussia, Sweden, and Porlugal all started in life as younger sons, the King of Denmark as a distant cousin. Queen Victoria at the date of her birth stood but fifth iv the succession to the crown.

Those who had the pleasure of knowing the late Dr B- ,of Hawthorn, will appreciate the following anecdote: The doctor was attending at the Kevision Court in his official capacity, and he objected to the name of one man on (he grounds that he was dead. One of the magistrates asked him how be knew. Without moving a muscle of his jolly red face, but with a twinkle in his eyes that could be seen through his spectacles, he replied, " I out him up." The JP. was satisfied. — JSglos.