NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 4

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

There are 5104 public-houses in London. The death is annonuced of Professor Luigi Palmieri, the eminent Italian scientist, in his 89th year. French law requires that a body shall be buried within 48 hours after death, unless it be embalmed. M. Gervex is to paint a picture of the coronation of the Czar Nicholas for the city of Paris on a canvas 3S x 24 feet. Lord Roberts declares that the shooting standard attained by the Indian troops is unequalled by any troops in the world, Mrs Martha Leonard, of Dighton, Mass., 5s 100 years old. Her father, Benjamin Spinney, was one of the early settlers of Marblehead. Until Prince Charles of Denmark put the engagement ring on her finger, Prm--1 cess Maud of Wales is said never to have worn a ring of any kind. DTiting the most peaceful years the world has 3.700.000 soldiers. The pay, equipment, food and clothing of those meTi cost nearly 7.500.000 a day. In consequence of a personal dispute, a-duel with swords was fought between Count Xiquema and Senor Gasset, director of the "Imparcial." The count was slightly wourded. Cholera again raging in Egypt. It is computed that no fewer than 2000 Egyptian soldiers have fallen under the ! disease in .ho Soudan. British doctors summoned to Cairo. Miss Etaa Webster, of Delaware. 0., Is the owner of a cat that is in the prime of health and life, and is supplied with double feet all round, having eight to handle instead of four. Sir Hercules Robinson has decided to take the title, on his elevation to the peerage, of Baron Rosmead. of Rosmead. in the county of Westmeath, and of Taielberg, in South Africa Venezuela has 200,000,000 acres of forest, in which grow all the varieties of ebony, as well as rosewood, satin wood and mahogany. Mount Vesuvius ror.fiimes in a state of eruption. One of the streams descending along the Piano delle Ginestre has attained a length of 1000 metres. but no real danger is apprehended. Three-tenths of the earnings of a Belgian convict are given to hini on the expiration of his term of imprisonment. Some of them thus save more money in gaol than they have ever saved before. Marshall Field, the millionaire merchant of Chicago, it is said, intends to make Washington his winter home. He is to build a palace of such proportions as to give his entree a profound impression. The State of Arkansas lias returned, by a majority of PiOOO votes, the democratic candidate for the State Governorship. It is alleged that gross frauds were perpetrated in connection with the election. It is stated that the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater are now pensioning off all the colliers at Walkden and Worsley. near Manchester, who have been in the service for upwards of 50 years. Happy ITampstead indeed ! Dr Gwynn's monthly report shows the extraordinarily low death-rate for the parish i.f S.ii pel- 1000 of die population. The previous month it was only 11.3. as compared with Id for the whole of London. 1;-, ?!' ■ Louvre, at Pari-, thorp is an i'i;>:-' -t::m- old vase • •:' Etruscan manufacture whose age is e..niputej at about ITiOO years. It is inb-rt sting as hearing a crronp of chi'dr n in relief who are enraged in blowing soap bubbles from pipes. Tie- Home Secretary has directed that Bedford prison is to bo set apart as a special centre for juvenile offenders sentenced to more than a month's imprisonment, and lias ordered that on their release from prison they shall be escorted to their homes. The ruby in the centre of the Maltese cross on the top of the I'.ritish crown is the stone that was given to the Black Prince by King Pedro of Castille after the battle of Nejara. Henry V. of England wore it in his helmet at Agincourt. Parisians who weiii to the Czar's coronation were astounded at the unpaved condition of Moscow. They found that il would cost 1."2.000.000 francs to pave the town, and thai the work would practically have to be done over every year on aceounl of \!ie effects of the frost. Russian hens are progressive. They laid ll.oiiiMioo eggs for oxpori in IS7O. 2:;."».o(id.Pdd in ISSTt. L2."m.o(M.i.ikio last year. The are sold in Russia at from .';d to ."d per dozen. They are exported to Hungary, then sold tn Germany as Hungarian • ■irgs. and dually to England as German <\-g>. A funny compliment was once paid to the legal profession by the "crier" at Ballinasloe, who. when ordered by the judge to clear the court on one occasion, did so in tiiis frank manner: "Now. then, nil ye blackguards that isnt lawyers, out ye go!" The Xe\v York correspondent of the "Chronicle" states that Mrs Booth-Tuc-ker is the victim of a bicycling accident at Orange, New Jersey. "While watchins' a Salvation lassie riding, she was knocked dotvn by the wheel an 1 rendered unconscious. Her wrist was broken. and internal injuries will necessitate rest for four weeks. Some very unique and successful cathode ray experiments have recently been made in Oregon city, U.S.A., by a I well-known physician, and the superintendent of an electric company. Experiments were made with gold hearing rock, in which the rays defined free gold as plainly as if it lay on the surface of the quartz. According to a Belgium paper, all, from countess to btltelier joy, cycle now, and there is nodoiibl that the bicycle lias had a mosi beneficial efl'ecl on the Belgium youth of the present day, who, instead of spending tin* best part of their existence in the eal'es. betake themselves to 'he road and explore some distant part of the country. Presidi nt Kruger gets up at r> o'clock in the morning, according to the Rev. M G. i'earse in the "Methodist Times.'' There is family prayer for the household ai half past live. ' I believe," says Mr I'earse, "he is a man who seeks thoroughly to do hi~ duly in I he fear of God, ai.d came away feeling flint his wife was a grand old mother in Israel." Uussia was precluded by the Treaty of Paris from sending warships Ihroicm the Dardanelles. The provisions of the treaty were modified by thai of Berlin, which gave Uussia 11n* right lo vch sols of her volunteer Heel lln<nigh the Straits. Now she seehs the r'.glil of ' passages for all warships and choos-n a period which sir- lliinks. opportune for urging the claim. A rave phenomenon Ik aniiouiieed !n the Parisian medical journuln. Madame Leger, the wife of a resident of Ulauzy, near Autin, is the mother of a female child with two perfect heads and one 1 body. The infant has excellent health, and every chance of living. A strange feature of the case is that the parish 1 priest has been ordered by ecclesiastical ' authority to perform a double ceremony of baptim. '. Improved hygiene and sanitation 1 have reduced the death-rate in the

Gorman army from 6.9 per 1000 in 18 iO to 2.4 in 1894. During the FrancoGerman war the French lost 23,400 men from smallpox, while the Germans, who had strictly enforced vaccination for 30 vears, lost only 300 men from this disease. Since 1573 only two soldiers have died from smallpox in the German army.

It is rather a curious fact in connection with the loss of the Drummond Castle (says the "Daily News") that at the time Mr Marquardt, the sole surviving passenger, was struggling ror his life off TJshant his sister was making preparations at Johannesburg for her then imminent marriage. The wedding came off as arranged, Miss Marquardt receiving news of her brother's safety a couple of days before. A bicycling party, recently given by Princess Loetitia, Dowager Duchess of Aosta. in the gardens of the Royal palace at Turin, appears to have been a; very lively affair. At seven o'clock the Princess, with twenty ladies attired sportive costumes, sallied from the pal- 1 ace tc meet, some forty guests, who :vr-1 rived on wheels. A paper-chase followed, rn the glades of the park, illuminated by Chinese lanterns, and a processior./a cotillon, and a super wound up th? proceedings. The death of Prince Lobanoff, the Char's Foreign Minister, was dwe to heart disease. This distinguished statesman, a worthy successor of the astute M. de Glers, was one of the most brilliant men of our time. His career ! as Foreign Minister has been marked I by the greatest triumphs that Uussia I has ever achieved in the realm of diplomacy—more particularly in the completion and consolidation of the entente with France, and in the dramatic strengthening 'of Russian influence in both the Near and Far East. The Czar has lost a great Minister. Indeed, it may well be questioned whether Czar ever had a greater. Some of the Drummond Castle stories must be apocryphal, because the number of persons who were providentially prevented from sailing by that particular vessel, is past all count; but here is one which a correspondent of the Cape Argus is assured is genuine enough. A young man in England whom foftune had not treated very kindly, and who was, perhaps, a little of his own enemy, too, had at last resolved to make a fresh start in life by coming to South Africa. At Madeira on his way out he had a cable to say that a long-expected bequest of L4OOO load at last fallen to him. He determined to return to England forthwith, and booked by the Drummond Castle, -which happened to be calling at the island on her way homeward. He perished in the unfortunate vessel.