Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume XX, Issue 6130, 28 November 1888, Page 2

Brevities.

Banger Band Society's concert on Friday evening. Mr and Mrs J. A. Miller, Mr F. J. Burgess, and Mr J*. Bead returned to the Thames this afternoon from Melbourne.

Accepting the theory of Darwin, some men developed from monkeys, bat others made a complete jump from the donkey stage." .. ... . ; ■..■-■■■ ■ ■••. :. -'■

Talk about " adding insult to injury!" Mr Gladstone has presented to a church in Flintshire the money he received for his reply to Kobert G. Ingersoll. The daily opening of the churches in England is being advocated heartily by Lord Carnarvon and the Bishop of Cambridge.

Even Jerusalem is in the Nineteenthcentury swim, and has a real estate boom. Land near the city has gon<v up 500 per cent, within the last few years. In the city of Vienna, with « population of 1,270,000, there are eleven daily papers, each of which issues two editions, the ona in the morning, and the other directly after the Bourse closes in the afternoon. In the collection and dissemination of news they rival the best American papers; bat unlike the latter, they are studiouily moderate and dignified in the tone of their leading articles, and personalities are altogether unknown.

Thb following are the official number of men who were employed on the principal mines in the Broken Hill district on the 13th in»t.:—Proprietary, abote and underground, men and boys, 1200; Block 14, 300; British, 164; Junction and South, 60 respectively ; Central, 27; North S3 j Victoria Cross IS. The average number of men employed on small mines was 15, and taking the line from the Bound Hill Proprietary to the White Lead, it is estimated that upwards of 3000 m»o Wfft ?Q|a^ed ia eiuiusf.