NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 81, 14 November 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

" Carniral " is derived from the Latin words caro, flesh, and vvatU t farewell, memiing " Farewell to butohors' meat." A Mrs Van Henrigh is 1868 bequeathed all her property to her husband, adding :—": — " It is also my earnest wish that my darling husj band should marry, ere long, a nice, pretty girl, who is a good house* I wife ; aud, above all, to be careful that she is of a good temper." A volcawic eruption on a range near Lamho, in Queensland, is reported ; but the truth of the report is very much questioned. The pjpulation of New South Wales has increased 10,C09 during the last half-year. The colossal statue o£ the Dulco of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner weighs 40 tons, and is nearly 30 feet high. To promote sleep, put sixpenny-worth of cloan and fresh hops in your pillow-case. There are more than 500 noblemen and gentlemen in the United Kingdom worth the capitalized sum of £1,000,000 sterling at 3 per cent, interest. The luxury of a glass of pure water is denied to the wealthiest community tho world has ever known. There is no " constant supply " in any part of London, and tho moving organisms and the sediment from sewage are retained in all cisterns for weeks and months. The German empire contains 530,000 square miles, and a population of 38,000,000 ; France, without Alsace and Lorraine, 520,000 square miles, and a population of 36,000,000. A locomotive consumes, on tlie average, forty-five gallons of water for every mile that it runs. The first European decoration conferred upon H.M. the Mikado of Japan, has been presented by the Duke of Saxe Cobm-g-Gotha. Tho Mikado has been enrolled in the Order of the Ernestine House, because of tho welcome lie accorded Prince Philip of Cobuxg. The Government intend publishing during the recess an official history of their land purchases in the North Island. j A Paisley manufacturer got by some accident a severe out across j the nose, and having no court plaster at hand, stuck on his unfortunate organ one of his gum tickets, on. which was the usual intimation [ — " Warranted 350 yards long." There are at present 9101 Jesuits in tho world. The largest number — 2303 — is in France ; the Missionary service occupies 1588 ; 1527 are in Italy ; 1080 arc in Great Britain and her Colonies, and the rest distributed in the various countries. • Mr Gr. M. O'Eorkehas joined the Auckland Provincial Executive, taking tho office of Provincial Solicitor, vacant by the death of Mr j Beveridge. Mr O'Eorko has not taken the title, but it is understood j that he will do so. Mr John Glecson, solicitor, Limerick, has just died at the ripe age of 82 years. He was tho " Father " of the legal profession in Limerick — indeed, in Minister, having begun practice as a solicitor at so remote it dato as the year 1815. Tho Visitation Convent, Georgetown, D.C., received last year Bertha Gorolt, the daughter of tho late Prussian Minister to tho United States, as a' so one of tho Emperor Iturbide, and a daughter of General Scott. A few weeks since, the daughter of Admiral Sands took the white veil in the same convent. Thero are forty-seven public libraries in Rome, and they are to be consolidated into throe. The clostors of Naples have discovered a liquid preparation which instantly stops the flow of blood from wounds of every description. ' Twelve thousand of the inhabitants of Fez, Morocco, have rissn in rebellion in consequence of the reimposition of gxte-tax. Commodore Eyan. U.S.N., is the chief astronomer at Keryue?ea Island, Pacific Ocean, for tho obscuration of the transit of Venus.

Dr. Kutfcner, a German scliolar and writer, lectured on " Ireland — Tts never-dyirg Faith," in Liverpool, England, recently. William North, the English -writer, said "he would rather see the whole world drunk from choice, than one man sober from compulsion." Lincoln's tomb afc Springfield, Illinois, was opened on the 6fch July, to allow his remains to be viewed by a number of prominent gentlemen. The body, according to the report, is as it was the day it was interred, with the exception that the upper lip is somewhat swollen.

The right of engraving Miss Thomson's new hafctlo piece has been sold for £200.

The fortune of the late Baron Anselm de Rothschild is estimated (according to ' Galignani,' at more than a thousand millions of francs, equal to £40,000,000 sterling. ' In the parish of Termon, near Letterkenny, there is afc present living the oldest woman in Ireland. She was born in the year 1763, and is, consequently, now in the 111 th year of her age. Her sight is yet good, and she rises and dresses every morning -without assistance. She has got her third set of teeth, and can eat the hardest description of food.

The King of Denmark recently paid a visit to Thorshaven (Faroe islands). During his stay the following melancholy incident occurred : While the president of the municipality was reading an address of ■welcome to His Majesty, the mayor dropped dead afc his feet/ The Kingwas greatly affected, and has endowed the widow with a pension. We hear of the death of Mr E. A Moriarfcy, who translated 1 Pickwick ' and some other of Dickens' novels into German. He was for some time teacher of English at a Government College afc Berlin. It is alleged, with respect to a railroad in Arkansas, that, in order to realise the State aid, the company built a- section of 10 miles, drew the bonds thereon, took up the rails and relaid them on the next section, and drew another instalments of bonds, and so on, till its whole quota of bonds had been drawn, and no road built. The negroes at Trenton, Tennessee, having come to the determination to exterminate the white population, Iwe organised an armed force for thafc purpose. A number of them lave, however, been arrested by the whites, and 16 of fclie ringleaders have been " Lynched."

A drug store at Fort Wayne, Ind., recently sold 1900 dols. worth ox quinine in a week.

About 17,000 poor children have been taken out on free excursions in New York.

# The Marquis of Londonderry is, it is understood, to be the new Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, and will probably be installed by the Lord Lieutenant. J

John G. Whittier, who received one vote in the Senatorial election m Massachusetts, congratulates himself thafc his party did not split, but voted like one man to the last. According to a rumor current in political circles in London, the real purpose of Mr Disraeli's promised visit to Ireland is to satisfy himself on the long pending question of a royal residence in that country. The Prime Minister is said to have set his heart upon giving to Ireland a royal residence and a real court, presided over by a son and a daughter of the Queen, and the Duke of Connaught and lus bride are designated as the victims.—' Cork Examiner '