New in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 75, 27 February 1884, Page 2

New m a Nutshell.

— :oo:-r-Great .Britain is the greatest Protestant and the 'greatest Mohammedan Power, and yet outside the United Kingdom, thtsre are only 15,000 British soldiers. \ A new Thames tunnel, to cost abdufc £1,40p,000 has been sanctioned by theltfetr&olitan\ Board of Works. It wilt be situated one mil© eait of Loodoa BridgeV 1 '• '.■- .- ' ; '.' r ala Weat Virginia they hare unearthed! :a human akull having a circumference of . forty inches above the eyes. Physicians say its owner must have been fifteen feet .:bigh; 4 •,.'.-: - ■'. ' a I&'sl year John Wannamaker, of Phita* delphia, gave up £40,000 for advertising purposes, but it made : £200, 000 for bin m trade, and ho still think* -well of the • newspapers. . ; . The long lost .African pigmies seem' to . hare been found at last. It appears that there is trite ia the Soudan named th» Fikitik, the men and women of which art seldom, taller than three feet. - At a public dinner at Nairn, Lord Tburlow said that m a LorcUin* Writing he had opportunities for nearly three years. b£ judging of ' the real hard labor* the Queen had to perform m the discharge of; public business; and 'it was no ex»gjjeration to say that Her Majesty was tht iiardestr worked person m her dominioni,* A gentleman at Waroambool, wnilst bathing m a pool.of «alt water on Middle Island, entered a cavernous aperture m the reck,' and was immediately seized by the spreading arms of a large octopa*, which fastened on both his lags. After % long time-the horrified bather managed to .wrench himself .'free and lost no timeia .escaping: from the pool. ' . .' 'The: Bishop ,;of Liverpool stated that "there, was no likelihood o£ the different schooisjn thVchurch giving way td Q%ch otHer, anfl 'ih'at" 1 unless the God of "Mercy . interposed, the clfurch. could not long 'subsist; but ''must ko to pieces and-pemh. He coiilii notr see the' approaobing death of such a grand old churoh as the lUformed Church of England without deep sorrow, 1 - ■ i" ■ ■. -. • ; ..;■. The Courts of Jostice Central Hotel Company, of London are building aa hotel of seven storeys opposite the new Law Courts. The total share capital U - £250,000;; btftj they expect ;to »«ed only -^ £10^,000— that is to say, an average ot £400' for each-bed: and sitting room. - ; For the first time since the invention of printing, a Gferman book has reached its 1000 th edition, each of them numbering 3000xopies, thus making m all 3,000,009 cdpies. It is a primer by fiaetter^. which appeared m 1863, and reached its 100 th edition m 1883., 'Thelfollowinjr anecdote was told by to Americrtu preacher, for a fact. He wu piayiog, and m his prayer he said, f I pray that the power of the devil may be curtailed.' Just then an old darkey m the congregation called out, 'Yea; amen ( Bless roe ! Cut him tail right smack amove off!' " • ; . - . . , ; It is said that sharks wiUn.pt. bite a pwimmer who keeps his legs m motion. If you can keep kicking longer than a shark can keep waiting you are all right. 'The idea that lightning is not , so-des-tructive ias it used to be m the United Stftt«Bj because the network of and . telegraph wires lessens the number of is met by the record of the summer. Fatal thunderbolts h*ye fttttr beed mbre'cQmmon. " - ■■> ■■..'•■\. .1.-1. I .i: „. . .