NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 75, 3 October 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

History makes out, that the height of the great Xapoleon was only five feet two and seven-tenth inches. A year and a dny is a favorite legnl expression, nnd many acts are ruled by it. If a wounded person does not die in this space, the culprit cannot be tried for murder. The Carlists have ordered one republican prisoner to bo shot for every shell iired by the G-overnment fleet of Bilboa. A member of tlie Springfield, Massachusetts, School Committee recently said : " Them teuchers ought to be examined ; they shan't have no vote of mine, unless they be." It coats the American people five raillons of dollars a year to keep their teeth in order. Not over much, considering the hard words and bad cooking that pusses between them. French statistics show that there are cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants in ihab country without a phvsiciun. The same figures ulso indicate that the per centum of mortality is lightest where "there are fewest doctors. A Washington telegram of late date says that the Bill for the construction of a canal from the lo*er Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, free to all nations, has passed the House of .Representatives. A novel wa;ch has been invented by a Swiss watchmaker at Auragan. The motive power is compressed air. Louis, the youngest son of the Duke de Montpensier, lias died at Baudon. He was seven years of ago. The Duke h»a new one son left and three daughter?, the eldest of whom is the Comtesse de Paris. According to American papers, the 29th of June was the hottest dny experienced in ICew York since 1856, and with that exception for fifty yt'ura On that day the thermometer marked in tin; shade 102 degrees. " Karl Russell bids fair to be the oldest author we have ever had. He was eigl>ty-two in Augusr, and ho is about to publish his •• Recollections and Suggestions of Public Life since 1513," the year he became of age and was returned to Parliament for Tavistock. The Queen sent a wreath of flowers, immortelle, to be placed on the coffin of the Alurquis of Dalhousie. It bore the following inscription : — "A tribute of uifectionate regard and friendship froin°Victoriu, K." Princess Beutiice and Prince Leopold ulso sent wieaths. The) c have been convictions in London of persons indicted for selling preserved green peas adulterated with copperas. The green color ot' the peas was entirely due to the copperas introduced in the process of preserving. These peas are manufactured in France for English consumption. A suit of pure silver is to be worn by the King of Burmah on his-ce-coronaiion. A statue of Petrarch was unveiled on the 19th of July, .being the five hundredth anniversary of his birthday. Mi- and Mrs S. 0' Hull, and Mr and Mrs William Howiit, have recently celebrated their golden wedding respectively. Both ladies, were married ut the ago of 19. At Wadhurst a French bullet, w eighing three quarters of an ouncs has been successfully extracted from the hand of James Jeiuier, aged 80, where it was firmly embedded since the battle of Waterloo. According to the ' Journal des eonnai-sance Medical,' the number of inhabitants on our globe is 1,300,000,000. Of these 33,000,000 die anniuilJy, or 90,000 per day, or 60 per minute. The number of births is not much larger tlum that of the deaths. Fomentations from boiled gum leaves is now an established cure for sores vi horses. It is found that these applications effect a verj speedy and sound cure, Auckland papers report that many stores in course of erection at Kunda>au hare been abandoned in consequence of tho ihul.jgenoe having come to hand of the withdrawal of the- mail service. Fifty ruins were recently sold jit Adelaide by auction, averaging £42 each, one fetching us high as £177. •• • °