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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 20, 13 February 1891, Page 15

Jules SimoD, who favours the taxing of celibates in France, believes that only the men should be taxed because, as he ingeniously puts it, the women do not remain single of their own free will. Miss Ehz ibeth Peabody, wno fiist introduced into this counTy from Germany the kindergarten method of teaching the children, la still l.ving in Boston at the age of 87 yearn, and retains muca interestin educational matters.

Count von Moltke is the first anded pioprittor in Germany to adopt the eigh hour rule for the peasants wciking for him upon hi<* estate at Kielsau, and is well satisfied with tue result of the experiment.

The first woman to make the ascent of Mount Tncomi, Wash , is Miss Fuller, of Tacoma. She accomplish* d ler trip in a hurricane, spent the night in a cave at the summit, and never ilinched, a'thougb she suffered greatly from cold md i-^poaure.

The ball on propos d for polar txploia'ions is 'J9 feet in diameter and 500,000 cubic feet in volume. Toe journey is to begin fiom Spitzb^rgen, and with a favourable wind is expected to lasi four or five days. Soundings in the Black Sea show that beyond a depth of 600 feet the water is so impregnated wilh sulphuretted hydrogen gas emanating from decaying animal and vegetable .natter that living organisms are not found ihere.

Three thousand persons attenlel tho CathoLc Congress of I'lna. Amongst other claims put foiward was the demand for the abrogation of the law forbidding the return of the Jesuits.