GENERAL NEWS.

Inangahua Times, 14 January 1880, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

The city of Manchester makes gas for the use of its people, and for the past ypar it haa derived a profit there* from of £50,000, which is turned into an improvement funi. There are forty females in practice as physicians in Philadelphia, ten artists and one sculptor— Miss Blanche Nevin, whom the State has lately selected to execute ia marble the statue of Muhienberg. The Grolos states that in the central prison of Moscow during the summer just elapsed, no fewer than 11,854 persons were incarcerated, of whom 10,477, including both sexes, were eondemred to be sent to Siberia, The Great Council of Geneva has refused to discuss, tha re-establish-ment of capital punishment, not one voice being raised in its favor. The' law- will therefore remain as ife is. The largest collection of postage stamps in the world has just been sold at PraEkfort*on4hS^Mam fop '2000 dollars. It took ten years to collect them, and the total number of single stamps contained in it is about 12,000. The wholesale business of California is almost exclusively in Jewish hands. Americans predominate among speculators proper. Profes« sions are also American, but the most lucrative pursuits are in the hands of Irishmen and Germans. At a late trial at the Agricultural Hall, London, pedestrians acconm plished in six days 542 miles, bicylists 1175 miles. A granite cross to the memory of the Princess Alice is about finished at Balmoral Castle. It ia about ten feet high, and was ordered by Her Ma» jesty. Among the speakers at the nest Yale Commencement will be Cbuml Lung, a Chinese member of the cl<jfl of 1879, who will deliver an ojatioo^H " The Chinese in America." During the past three years American railroads, covering ne^^H 17,000 miles, and representing an^^J vested capital of 728,463,Q00d^M have been sold under foreclosure. Many a woman dusts billiard cha^H off her husband's coat, and a big j^^| stands in her eye as she thioks^^H late he works nights at his desk b^^H white-washed wail. -^^H Flirting, sayV a French pbilosop^^H might be described as attenj^^H without intentions. J^^H