LATE MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 594, 14 April 1891, Page 3

LATE MAIL NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS FROM THE PAPERS. — Aman fell.into a vat of boiling beer at Camberwell, and waa scalded to death. Mr Charles Keene, the we l ! known con tributor-to.Punch, died worth £34 174. The London General Omnibus Company last year carried 112,000,000 passengers, The late Mr Nathaniel Cl»y’ n n, of ihe wellknown engineering flrm of Lincoln, leaves • £1 364.490.. At Buxton a mother was sent to gaol fir i a month for burning her little girl in the mouth with a red-hot poker. St Valentine’s Day has nearly died a natural death. The postman’s work was comparatively light thia .year. Lord Hersche’l h>s introduced a bill into the House of Lords to render penal the inciting of youths or boys to betting. A Parisian banker has absconded, leaving liabilities estimated at nearly a million sterling, 6000 priests being among his victims. At Blackburn a baby brother heated a piece of wire in the fire, and burned the baby on the arm as it lay in the cradle, which resulted in death. Tb * Empress of Australia has determined to wear no’hing but mourning in future, and will present the dress which j*he wore at her daughter’s marriage to a ohurch, to be used for altar cloths and hangings, King Oscar and other Norwegians have subscribed the necessary funds for Dr Nansen’s contemplated North Pole expedition. He will travel over tbe ice on snow-shoes, and wilTuse a cap'ive balloon for reconoitring. A sensation has been canned in Jerusalem hy tbe introduction of the electric light into a flour mill near the supposed site of Calvary. The, Arabs and Jews are much puzz'ed to account for a light in a lamp in which there is no oil. The Lord Mayor of London has just received two threepenny bits, enclosed in a letter from Sydney, for the distress in the Old Home. The donors ea ; d they were Scotsmen long.out nf work, and asked that a receipt might he forwarded. The Queen has used her prerogative to create ab hy baronet. Mr Coleridge Kennard having died just before the baronetcy had been conferred upon him, the Queen made the widow a lady, and has decreed that the title shall be borne by her grandson. A ypung married couple sent a pair of parrots from Marseilles as a present to their aunt. The birds, which had come from one of the Aufltralasian island", had no sooner arrived at the aunt’s house tflan one after another of the inmates were stricken down with yellow fever, four person* dying. The parrots are said to have conveyed the germs of the fever in their feathers.

Victor Hugo’s granddaughter wan married in Paris amid almost royal magnificence. Such was the crush to witness the ceremony that the bridal pirty were decayed three* Quarters of an hour. The bonnets of some of tne guests were adorned wi’h gems. Catholic pipers angrily comment on the absence of any religions ceremony. A lady in America brought electricity into domestic use. Being without a servant, and cot caring to go downstairs on a December morning and light her own fire, she fitted up a wire communication between her own bedhead and the kitchen grate. She was thus able to light her own fire by electricity without stirring out of bed; Mr Jacob Astor, the American millionaire, was married ini Philadelphia to Miss Willing. The wedding took place at the br de’a residence. Upwards of 2000 invitations were issued for the reception, The flowers with which the house wa« decorated cost £4OOO. A wha’e nearly 50ft in length was captured in the river Crouch near Burnham, Essex. The river is a mile wide, and ihe whale had bfrcome stranded on the bank. Special trains conveyed thousands of people to inspect the monster. It was seized by the Customs’ officer, and sold for £l7 for exhibition purposes. It is intended to preserve the skeleton intact.