NEWS IN BRIEF.

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1969, 24 January 1882, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Carlyle was not a good speller. Hundreds of Chicago women speculate in grain. Alderman Ellis, the Lord Mayor of London, is an auctioneer. Queen Victoria's maids of honor average about fifty years of age. France has within five months despatched 36,000 soldiers to Algeria. Dean Stanley used to say that until his marriage he had never really lived. In consequence of the desire of the Emperor, Bismarck will remain in office. The (Shall has sent to the Princess Stephanie the Order of the Sua set in diamonds. The British Museum has now an ancient manuscript of the complete Hebrew Bible. A waterspout which passed over the the district of Milan, Algeria, kiiled 65 persons. predicts for Great Britain a very severe winter preceded by a cold wet autumn. President Garfield's portrait is to be placed upon the live-cent international postage letter stamps Although considerably past seventy. Mr Gladstone has just now, for the first time, put on spectacles. The leaves from the trees in Paris boulevards and gardens are dried and used for stuffing mattrasses. The Duke of Norfolk's child being incurably blind, his father has taken it to Lourdes to try supernatural means. Two lowa children who have pink eyes can hardly see in the daylight, but can pick up a pin in the darkest night. The French Council of State is con sidering the project of a decree for asspring religious liberty in the army. One hundred thousand drummers, otherwise known as " commercial tavel lers," call the United States their homo. The Irish clergy generally approve of Archbishop Croke's letter protesting against the manifesto of the Land League. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have before them a scheme for improving the acoustic qualities of the cathedral. The Minister of Justice of Austria has introduced in the Lower House a Bill legalizing the marriages of Jews and Christians. British India now takes a larger quantity of English produce than any other country. In ISGJ) it occupied only the third place. A court-martial at St. retersburgh has sentenced two leaders of the antiJewish rioters, in June last, to ten years' exile in Siberia. The officers commanding the garrison at St. Petersburgh have been minutely instructed as to their action in case of a revolutionary outbreak. The Jewish Messenger proposes that the Jews expelled from Russia go to Palestine and begin the rebuilding of the ancient kingdom. The English Old Testament Company have finished their seventy first session. The second revision of Isaiah was carried as far asxlv. II j The ex-Empress Eugenie is writing'

her memoirs, in what they call seclusion, at the Schloss Arenenberg, assisted by ti half-dpzen journalists. Diptheriaj scarlet feier and small* pox are devastating the centre and south of Eusaia. The severity of the diseases exceeds anything heretofore known. Near Cauibrdge, England, the portion of the wall letter boxes surrounding the apertures has been treated tvith luminous paint to enable the people to see where to post their letters after di>rk. The result has been satisfactoryA mysterious box sent from America to Kalph Creyke, a member of Parliament, was opened with great precautions at Woolwich Arsenal, under the idea that it was an infernal machine, but was found to contain samples of guano. Poor Miss Braddon ! All the critics are at her for her treatmeut of Sir Walter Scott; and the Echo goes so far as to show that her abridgement of "Hob Roy.'! is taken, not from the novel, but from an operatic drama of that name. G-ouud seems to have astonished everybody at St. Etienue a few Sundays since> when he went up to the choir, and sang with the choir boys during mass, and afterwards sat at the organ and began the Seventh Symphony, with chorus by himself. The present French Minister of War has abolished the drum, and the existence of the currassiers is now threatened- He has just ordered that the familiar white cotton gloves of the line regiments bo replaced by gloves of buff leather as being more serviceable. A Glasgow constable of the Southern Division has fallen heir to £30,010 being share of a 'arge fortune amassed by a Scotch gentleman in South Carolina, which, in terms of his will, reverts to bis next-of-kin because his daughters failed to marry Highland men. Chinese authorities complain that their works are not only printed in Japan, but that cheap editions of them are imported into China and to their detriment It is thought that the Monument of London will have to be takeu down until the Tower Hill underground station is completed, and then it will be rebuilt, on the old site. Jt is estimated that there are at present over 200 farms on which cattle pleague exists in North and North east Lancashire. All cattle affected with pleuro pneumonia are at once killed. It is reported in London legal circles that if Lord Selborne is not soon able to assume the performance of his duties a3 Lord High Chancellor, the Great Seal will be placed in com mission. Major Griffiths, who compiled the " Memorials of Millbank," is preparing for publication chronicles of Newgiite. He proposes to give its history from the earliest times to the present day. A company for workiug the telephone in the principal countries of Europe has been registered at Loudon under the title of the Edison-Grower Bell Telephone Company of Europe, capital £500,000. It is stated that the French have grown so enthusiastic over the scheme for tunnelling the Channel that the founders' shares in the small French company have risen in value from £loot o £2OO, An unsuccessful attempt was made in the southern districts of London, on a tiunday, to imitate the American crusade against liquor selling by prayer meetings held opposite the public houses. At the elections in Germany, Bismarck's son William was defeated by the Liberals in Mulhausen by 5000 votes, "he Opposition may prove strong enough to make necessary the dissolution of Parliament. The World understands that the entire liiectric Light Exhibition, as now shown in Paris, is to be brought over to the Crystal 1 alace for exhibition there under the auspices of Mr Applegarth, C.E. The grotesque Guiteau has written letters to President Arthur and James Gordon Bennett, asking them to subscribe towards paying the expeuses of his trial. Ho asks Mr Beunett for a chequo of £2OOO A correspondent writes to the London Time.-- that there is some likeli hood the British Goveimmcut will cooperate in an international expedition in search of the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannetie. The Colonel, which burlesqued the {esthetes before Patience, aud for which Du Maurier himself designated the costumes, wis the first theatrical performance witnessed by Queen Victoria for more than twenty years. It is said that .Mr Vanderbilt's physician has told him that he should be prepared for the l< last moment" at all times ; that apoplexy promises to terminate his days, and comparative rest is absolutely necessary. All the Napoleonic factions have agreed to make Prince Napoleon Victor, son of Prince Jerome iNapoleon, the heir of that dynasty. The Empress Eugenie has made a will in his favor. Ho is a well-traiued youth of nineteen. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says : The assassination statements arc monstrous, absurd, and wicked, and its fiercest enemy, it says, would r.ot believe that any Irishman would stoop to the crime of assassinating Giadstouo or Forster. The Irish Times considers the revelations insane.