Facts Without Comment.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 398, 26 November 1880, Page 5

Facts Without Comment.

Some boys at Obcrlin, Ohio, had heird that sausage was made of cats and dogs. Getting into a sausage factory, they _ started a chopping machine, and threw a puppy and seven kittens into the chopper. Cardinal Manning, who has upwards of 2000 orphans under his care, is making arrangements with the Canadian bishops to obtain situations for such as are able to fill them in Roman Catholio families. Unbarvested crop? in various districts in England have been greatly damaged by heavy rain, gales and Hoods. The Lancet calls attention to an insidious and frightfully fatal disease called " pellagra," of which no less than 97,000 Italians are said to be dying at the present time. Five arrests hare been made atLoughrea, in Ireland, for attempt at reinstating a tenant. Mount Te Aroha has been ascended by Mrs. Donald Potts, of Canterbury, the first lady to accomplish the feat. The ship Araby Maid, bound from London to Port Chalmers, has run ashore at Kingsdown. An elephant, travelling in a car next the locomotive on an Indiana railroad, opened the tank, drank all the water, atd so compelled the train to stop. The latest news from Cabul is to the effect that everything is

Excitement has been caused throughout the government of Archangel by the discovery of extensive new goldfields within a short distance of the town of Shenkoorsk.

A resident in Wellington forwarded to Mr. Bradlangh and his colleague in the representation of Northampton, a pamphlet letting forth the views of those who are opposed to the action of the Government in reference to the Waimate Plains. A goat society is the last English fcobby. An Earl is the President, ami every poor man, according to the programme, is to have a goat.

Mr. ChildfTB 1 visit to Ireland has b<*en undertaken with the view of preparing the right hon. gentleman for th« task of awistinf* the Premier and Mr. Forster in their conduct of the Irish legislation of next session.

In manufactures England at present stands pre-eminent. Its operatives number 2,930,000. ngaiiist 2,781,000 of Germany, and 1,936.000 of France, and 1 150,000 of Russia. The smuggling of tobacco is being largely engaged in in Tagmania.

The Manganese mines at Oronga, rear Russell, are to be further developed. A lad was recently fent to the workhouse in Cambridge, England, for picking a rose and a spray of geranium. A meeting of 500 Orangemen in Gifford, County Down, passed a resolution calling on the Government to suspend trial by jury. The barracks at Athlone, Carlow, and Sligo, and other places in the West of Ireland, are to be prepared for the full complement of troops'the buildings are capable of , accommodating. Two or three vestas are sufficient to cause the death of an infant if no remedies are applied at once. The proper remedies are ipecacuanha wine to cause vomiting, followed by successive doses of magnesia.

Ostrich Farming Companies are becoming quite the rage. One has lately been started at Port Elizabeth, with a capital of £8,000, in £1 shares.

As an inducement to the Bay men to- volunteer for Basutoland, Major Deare said there would be plenty of cattle as loot. One of Mr. Richard Amm's large ostriches died lately, and, on opening it, a piece of fire stick was found in the stomach. The bird, it is alleged, must have swallowed it while the wood was burning, ai tne lighted end had burned a hole inside 1 According to a return respecting the Victorian Mint, the export of uncoined gold from 1872 to 1879 amounted to 9,123,400 ounces ; the specie export during the same period was close on 13,000,000. - The band of St Augustine's Orphanage, Geelong, have won the prize offered by the Mayor of that city for the best band composed of boys in that district. Several cases of garoting are reported recently in Victoria. A gentleman was riding lately to an appointment at Pokeno,asd on striking his horse with a cane, the stick, which was rotten, broke in his hand, the jerk dislocating his shoulder.

In a letter to the editor of an Italian Catholic journal his Holiness the Pope makes reference to the importance of the Catholic Press, and says :—": — " What lay editors are accomplishing at th« present day, which the sanction of ecclesiastical authority, is the more opportune, firstly, because sacred ministers are obstructed in the discharge of their duties ; and, secondly, because the laity can with greater freedom claim their legitimate rights."

London, September 30. — Commander Cheyne, in an interview regarding the reported discovery of relics of Sir John Franklin and his crew, says :— " It was not the Arctic region that sent Franklin's men to the next world. They were murdered by the contractor, who supplied the expedition with poisoned meats. The same contractor supplied Sir James Ross's expedition to which I belonged, and the timlabelled ' beef * and ' mutton ' contained nothing but offal. Some of the tins when opened contained nothing but big knuckles of bone. Everything belonging to the animals was put into the tins, except horns, hoofs, and hides. The very entrails were there, and when they ate them, having nothing else, they had to hold their noses, so offensive was the stench. If Sir James Ross and his party bad been out aootber winter they would have starved. I have repeatedly, in my lectures throughout England, denounced tbis contractor as a murderer, and dared him to bring an action for libel, and should be glad to have him do so, for X could establish the truth of wljat I say."