News in a Nutshell

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 21, 22 December 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell

The \forld consumes 2,000,000 toas of tobacco, a year. ; ! . Ne^ :^,k ha ! B 244! miles 6« street paved with f^tanite blocks. ; , - ,- ■,:•; ■ A vocalist say* that eating raw oysters is an effective cure for Sore throat. -: Carlisle hasbeen; selected >ag the meeting place for next year'g , Church" Con. gxess. ; .Two hundred and fourteen more nagis* iratea have been « relieved " ; of taeir func Upusin FrancQ- . . ; : Connecticut hag been the ' -scene of ninety-seven/ rauVders and only seven hangings, m tire last twenty years. T^The latest m bicycles has a musioal box placed so that it is set m metion by the revolution of the wiieek. / At Mattoon, Illinoi?, David Woods and hw team wece attacked by k swarm of ; a<)ney bees and stung to .death. i The. Mo;rmbhs,:acflor4iag ta a atatement m>de at the B,alt-liak;e;.Qp.nfejence, claim to. number 127,296 members. k-14.1l Germans employed m the hrcte I P^*"? , Wtablishment of Messrs Cheix and Uo., Pati?| haVe beeir dischargid. # The individual wealth if ' Great .Britain 18 the highest m the world,' prince com« 4 ; next, and the United State* ; tfivtd. ■"' Manchester- is enablSd tb^nia^ i'ity imt provemerits costing nearly jBoOJOOO per year out oE the profit* of its; gftßworks. Oa Satarday, tha 25th Augost, 296 -vessels were lying m the London 'Docks. . the tonnage represented exceeding 148.00U tons. . . r . Cotton to, the. value of £100,000 is reportedto have been; destroyed, by a fire which has, occurred at/Dallas'/ m Texas. An appeal is to ' be maife'to^ Bugliih an« dienceaih «hS large towns, 'before Christ* mas, to.supiport'Uome;'Hule for Irefond, A cbmpaoy igibsihg! forfljed J td undertakethe cutting of b. ehip> oio»l through the Islaqd pi Ratoesseram^ between India and.Cevlpn, ..... ..-.r :f . , , v „. -. „,... , Mr Sberidaftthf^enajtQ'wage/an,' ag« gressive an<J scientific . warefare '• against Enaland with 'dynamite and. flyt'rq gly« cerine. ' '» .'.'■' . ' ' L The fishinj? populatiqn QfGre'aJ-Britafa patober^ U2.000 ip.au and boy's;, and the Uves of about SSO fishermea ;^re last afc sea every y©ar. : ■ ::: . ■ A wealthy Chineae society at Singa> pore has d epatched^ large pargo af rice to the" surviving Chinese Vntabitß,nt» of t,fte tova of 4njerV. , • ■ -•> -- .-j " . . . . ij ■ i / ilt i- j