BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Back page—” Mark's ” notes. Mr Marcroft’a new advertisement appears this morning. “ Trip to Turakina ” by “ Quiz ’’ held over.

Twelve million children in the United States attend the public schools. The Auckland City Council officers are said to be “ seething with insubordination.” Suggestive—J. Bailey “ gone bung;” Smith and Son’s temperance drinks “ popping off.” The Ngawapurua tollgate, between Woodville and Pahuatia, has been done away with There are nine cables connecting Europe and America, which utilize 113,000 miles of cable.

Santa Barbara farmers claim to have cleared $50,000 last year from the aales of pampas grass.

An American millionaire has given two and a half millions for the foundation of a home and industrial school in Philadelphia. A gold worker in Vienna poisoned his family of five children and then committed suicide by taking poison himself.

A Washington paper says that not a dollar of conscience money has been received at the Treasury for two years. President Carnot of France received upwards of a thousand Christmas presents from his admiring fellow-citizens of the republic. A feeling is sotting in in English football circles that the free kick or “ dropped " goal should not count as highly as one kicked from a try. The man who sits down and waits to ba appreciated will find himself among the uncalled for luggage after the limited express had gone by. A domestic servant at Torquay has been sent to a reformatory tor sanding disgusting letters to ministers and others, purporting to come from the Whitechapel murderer. The Legislature of Ohio will be asked to pass a law prohibiting any minister of the Gospel from being present at an execution Mthe spiritual adviser of ths condemned. Searle, ths champion sculler, when on a visit to his home at Grafton, entertained about 80 of his friends at a ball, and promised them a grander one on a future occasion. * On an average each Englishman writes forty letters a year, each Scotchman thirty, and each Irishman sixteen. The average Italian only posts six, and the American twenty-one. At the opening of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Auckland the Moderator (Rev J. Beattie, of Ashburton) remarked that they could not fail to be shocked and grieved at the language need by some of our legislators in Parliament regarding the Bible in respect to the education sys* tern.

Here ia the “ latest ’’ from Paris A monkey is creating a sensation and earning fame by giving billiant performances a quatre mains on the pianoforte, making graceful and becoming use of his long tail io turning over the leaves of the sheet music from which he draws his inspiration,

A lady does not take any stock in tbe statement Edison's new phonograph will transmit kisses. She asks, ” How doea he put ’em in ? And after he puts them ia the old machine and kept them tor a century or two they will be spoiled when they are taken out. I don't believe the yarn."