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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1395, 1 November 1886, Page 2

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In future Germany will only allow 3£ ppr cent interest on its loans. A brother of Mr Parnell, who lives In Alabama, ownea a peach orchard of 4CO acres. Japan is slid to have less than ten thousand paupers among her 37,000,009 inhabitants. Gladstone dresses shabbily, but Lord Salisbury is couaiderel the worst dre'sed man in London. The Annual production of sewing machines allowes ono fcr every 300 people on the plobe, A procession c£ butterflies, which took hours to pais, is reported to have been seen in Salzburg recently. Tne Arabic Bible, for which the United Presbyterian Board of Publication made the grant of £4OO, is completed, and is selling in Alexandria, Egypt, at a good rate. The Rev. Nicholas Rigby, probably the oldest Roman Catholic Priest in England, being 93 years of age, died at the Presbytery at Ugthorbe, near Whitby, a few davs ago An annoymoas vernacular proclamation i« circulated in the Pan jab, calling on the natives to “ combine to throw off the ha ed yoke ef the Feringh l e,” and declaring »hat the Maharajah Dhnleep -ingb has joined the Russians who are uow advancing upon lnd>a The oldest person in France, of in the world, is a widow who has been twice married. She was borne March 16, 1761 and Ja therefore 124 years old. The authentic record of her birth is to be found in the pariah regi-ttr of ?>t Just de Claix, in the department of the laere. In t'oiland lad.es are gradually usurping the occupations of the pharmaceutical assistants. The periodical Stale examination have just bean held, and the result is highly favorable to the fair sex, and startling to mankind generally. f Out of a total »f fifty-five candidates, nineteen out of thirty-one female candidates, and only eight out of twenty-four male were successful .One of the banners displaayed at Mr Gladstone’s reception at Edinburgh bore the following c tuple* : Great is thy power and great thy fame; . Far kenn’d and noted is tby name. The motto had beeu slyly famished by a Tory, and it had bem hanging up all day before it was found th.it it was the opening codplet of Burns’ “Address to the Devil." The Madrid papers report that the cturt shoemaker has been ordered to make bis first pair of shoes for the iuf >nc King of Spain. They are to bo of white lea - her embroidered with gold ; and, accoiding to ancient usage, there will be a special ceremonial on the orcaiit n of the King putting on shoes for the first time The Q teen Regent has ordered 300 pairs of shoes to be distributed among the poor children in Madrid. A woman in Pittsburg made a ttrrlbla mistake the other fcdty (says an English j mmai) Shs became grea'ly frightened when a terrible broke over the town, and ran up to her bedo vatnber for a vase of holy water with which to sprinkle herself. In the excitement of the moment she ee zsd "a bottle filled with sulphuric acid, and dashed the contents ia her face and over her bead. The physicians who attended her eay that she will in all probability lose her eyesight, and t at her face may be di-figured The acid had eaten into the flesh before its cjutse was stayed