NEWS IN BRIEF.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1042, 30 January 1882, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Carlyle was not a good speller. Hundreds of Chicago women speculate in grain. Alderman Ellis, the Lord Mayor of London, is an auctioneer. Queen Victoria's maids of honor average about fifty years of age. France has within five mbnths despatched 36,000 soldiers to Algeria. Dean Stanley used to say that until his marriage he had never really lived. In consequence of the desire of the Emperor, Bismark will remain in office. The Shah has sent to the Princess Stephanie the Order of the Sun set in diamonds. The British Museum has now an ancient manuscript of the complete Hebrew Bible. A waterspout which passed over the district of Milan, Algeria, killed 65 persons. Vennor predicts for Great Britain a very severe winter preceded by a cold, wet autumn. President Garfield's portrait is to be placed upon the five cent international postage letter stamps. Although considerably past seventy, Mr Gladstone has just now, for the first time, put on spectacles. The leaves from the trees in Paris boulevards and gardens are dried and used for stuffiing mattrasses. The Duke of Norfolk's child being incurably blind, his father has taken it to Lourdes to try supernatural means. Two lowa cliildren who have pink eyes can hardly see in the daylight, but can pick up a pin in the darkest night. The French Council of State is considering the project of a decree for asspring religious liberty in the army. One hundred thousand drummers, otherwise known as "commercial tavellers," call the United States their home. The Irish clergy generally approve of Archbishop Croke's letter protesting against the manifesto of the Land League. The Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls have before them a scheme for improving the accoustic qualities|of the cathedral. The Minister of Justice of Austria has introduced in the Lower House a Bill legalizing the marriages of Jews and Christians. British India now takes a larger quantity of English produce than any other country. In ISG9 it occupied only the third place. A court-martial at St. Petersburgh sentenced two leaders of the antiJewish rioters, in June last, to ten years' exile iv Siberia, The officers commanding the garrison at St. Pek'isburgh have been minutely instruct xl a 5 to their action in ea~e of a revoaitu i ;v.i y outbreak.