MAIL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume 73, Issue 73, 23 August 1878, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

Brigham Young** widow* aro gradnnlly 4 remarrying, 1 Widows »bor« flftj c«onofc marry id ' Portugal. Cbioago hat threo lad/ Uwyon in lotw cflsuful praotiee A brothor of Mirk Twain is a lawyor in lowa. Cardinal Manning Jn'nks only okrofc and water and ten Priouco Leopold is setting his own words to his own music, and sinking both. Tho DnUo of Buckingham's daughfoM ■ know how to o >ok an oxcollcnt diunor. They cat it. Tho Shah of Porsia Uu talcoa a vilU at Vionnn, and will settle down ihoro for some months, j7rovost.PnradoV.-i dr.ujhfcer took tho veil when her father shot himself. Now tho suioido of her only brother has ,v> affected her thai it is feared sho will die. Dv Challiu say* tlio 0.-umlVih prefer to onfc parsons from 10 to 23 yours of *g>', and 'heso aru roasted, but that women ovrc 50 aro generally boiled. Tho polico have discovorod extensive illicit match factorios, carried on by tho Chinese, in San Francisco, lhcy work at night, and novor uso nny stamps. Tho first of tho soason's drawing-rooms was a brilliant affair. Though in black, tho Queen's toilot wns illuminated by n complcto tiara of diamonds of tho most extraordinary magniilconcc. Tod Alnunto, ono of tho oloveresk circus clowns in tho profession, died suddenly in Now York, agod 35, Ho was born in England, nnd joined tho circus as n clown at tho ago of 20. Tbo Canadian Siamese twins, girls aro now ovor two months old, nnd thus fur in perfect hoalth. Thoy aro united by their baoks, abovo tho hips, and Invo but ono log each. An Imperial c<lict appoarod in tho Polcin Gazjtto, of tho Sfcli April, roitorating tho luw ngiinst the cultivation of tho poppy in tho Empire It states that tho severity of tho present famine in Shanghai is duo in somo moisuro to tho cultivation of tho deadly dru.c, >n tho place of coroils ; an 1 it threatens nil thoso officials wh > shall connivo at its planting with condign punishment. Tho ' St Petersburg Journnl ' slitos that as tho Shah of Persia was proceeds iii 4to tho M)sqia in Teheran to obtain a blessing on his .European journoy, a crowd of soldiers suvronnh-d his carriage, nnd prosontod petitions for loavo of ab« senco. As an immodiato answer was not vouohsafod, thoy throw stonos at tho Shah, smashing tho carriage and knock-" •ngan ai.h do-o<tm» oflf his horse Tho gunrd inbscq'iontly arrived, when six mutineers ucro oaptur«d and scntonood to death.