NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 90, 16 January 1875, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Paris mint has just coined 100,000 francs' worth of centimes, which were immediately put into circulation. This is, perhaps the smallest coin in value used, being less than the tenth part of a penny. The Parisians are very extravagant again, notwithstanding the lesson of war. The particular direction it takes is in the matter of antique furniture, to supply the demand for which eleven manufactories have been established. The Marquis of Bipon has given .£s,ooo.towards the English Catholic University at Kensington. It may not be generally known that Ireland's Liberator, Daniel O'Connell, was not only a Queen's Counsel, but had a patent of precedence over all Queen's Counsel, except the Attorney and Solici-tor-Generals. In Khiva when a woman goes out, she always wears a beggar's ». dress, in order to escape notice. The debt of New York city amounts to .£3,000,000. Excluding Paris, France possesses 15,623 public libraries, furnishing 1,474,637 works. In Strasburg every dog wears a collar with its owner's name and address, and all stray dogs not thus distinguished are destroyed by the police., unless they are claimed on the third day. According to French law the property of a family should be nearly equally divided between all the children. One of the consequences of such a course is that it is possible in some par! s of Franca to see small cultivated plots of ground, measuring not more than Bixty feet square, which are in the hands of several owners. The Government of Saxony has forbidden the practice of cremation. The Russian Empire, according to a]recent survey, includes 400,000 geographical square miles. It is estimated that there avo" 57 .lady editors in the United States. Women," 'in'' San Francisco, are by law deprived of the right to stand up at a bar and drink like men. It would not be amiss were the sterner sex restricted in like manner. The Catholic Union of England is, it is announced, about to publish a newspaper called the Catholic Journal. The American G-overnment pay £5000 annually to Chinese interpreters. Another telegraphic cable is to be laid across the Atlantic, which will make the sixth. A policeman in San Francisco, who had been living at the ratepf $10,000 a-year, -was found to be in receipt of §400 per week, for ■winking at a Chinese gambling-house. Mdlle. Goergery, daughter of the famous Austrian General of that name, has been received into the Catholic Church. The Bible is now printed in no less than two hundred languages : in 1854 it was only printed in fifty.