Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5656, 14 March 1887, Page 2

Brevities.

A meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-night.

Sharemarket quiet to-day! Sales in Cambria at 5s 3d, and Saxon Is.

No Police Court to-day. One case was set down for hearing, but was withdrawn.

The American papers say that marriages among the English nobility should be announced by cards bearing the inscription, " Lord and Lady so-and-so, Limited."

A woman can sharpen a pencil, bnt she requires leisure—and plenty of pencils. A Papal Consistory waa to hare been held on the 7th of this month, at which the doctrine of the temporal power of the Church was to have been reasserted.

The British warship Scout will steam seventeen knots au hour in smooth water, but in making this speed vibrates so much that even old sailors are made sick.

Telephone communication has been established between Brussels and Paris. It is the longest line yet formed on the Continent, and is said to work with great success..

The Liverpool Post says Lady Colin Cnmpbell ceat a New Year's card to every juryman who was engaged in her case, accompanied by an appropriate motto. Out of 969,841 business firms in the United States during 1886, there were during that year 9,834 failures in business, the total liabilities aggregating 114.644,119 dollars, equivalent to the sum of £22,928,824 sterling. There are 10,000 polica and 500,000 tenant farmers in Ireland. '

John Bright, in a letter, characterizes the United States claims in the fisheries question as reasonable.

The Baroness Kotbschild in Paris has announced a coming series of Sunday afternoon dances for young people. Travellers from Hawarden declare thafc Gladstone's countenance has grown more smiling than ever of.late, and that he evidently believes that his period of seclu« sion is drawing to a close.