SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4111, 24 September 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

Woodvcar's circus showing in Sydney. There arc in London close upon 3000 pawn " S iKdancVs population last year decreased 112,328. The Garmoyle-Fortescue case comes on in November. .-.--, The conductors of horse cars m Valparaiso aro women. Brazil's navy consists of 3000 men anel fifty vessels. . The Moody converts m London are estimated at 34,000. Tho wife of O'Donovan Ros_a is travelling incog in Ireland. Lady Colin Campbell is a daughter ot Blood the brewer. Affairs in Ireland are calmer, and the special police is being withdrawn. The late Charles Reade's "copy was only surpassed by Horace Greeley's. Hod-carriers aro unknown in Ccrmany. There the mortar and bricks arc hoisted. Tho production of steel rails in France was 44,911) tons larger last year than in ISK2. A Roman villa has been discovered at Woolstone, on the Earl of Craven's estate. Duriii" the last ten years £0,000,00 have been invested in Sydney suburban property. New York has now 107,300 buildings, anel is increasing the number at the rate of 2GOO a year. ~.-,. i Hallam Tennyson's bride is poor and portionless, but so beautiful that her face is a fortune. The Canadian military system, the best of all the colonial armies, is to be copied by Queensland. Tho man who invented the polka dance, Franz Hilman, has just died in Prague at the ago of eighty. The widow of Barry Cornwall, and mother of Adelaide Proctor, is witty, handsome, and agreeable at eighty. The smallest man m the United States Congress, as well as the most clorpient, is Senator Ycst, of Missouri. Tho first American to have the Albert medal from the Society of Arts, in England, is Captain James 13. Ends. Tho Marquis of Normanby has been warmly welcomed at Mulgravo Castle, Whitby, Yorkshire, his family scat. The Midland Railway Company has decided to otter premiums for the best kept station gardens throughout their system. Sir Frederick Brighton's house is famous for the beauty of its" Persian tiles ; be himself is one of thehandsomostmen in London. Tho Earl of Rusebery has again remitted to the tenants of his Buckinghamshire estate 15 per cent, of tho rents due last Ladyday. The succession and legacy duty paid in respect to the Scotch properties of the late Duke of Bucclcuch alone amounts to £220,000. ... Tho excitement over the recent discovery of a £2000 diamond at Eagle, Wisconsin, has been revived by the discovery of three more gems, making seven found thus far. ThiT brothers Henry and Frank Herb, who havo been confined in cells in an asylum at Reading, Pennsylvania, for six years, havo been released. They were sane from tho first. At Howrab, on the lGth tilt,, a Hindoo woman died of hydrophobia. She was lately bitten by a jackal while on her way to a tank near her bouse, where she was iv the habit of bathing. The Princess of Wales wants to put down pigeon shooting because the Prince is so "promiscuous" with the gun. In a recent handicap he missed his first ten birds, though using both barrels. The St. Petersburg correspondent ot the Times states that the tea plant has lately been introduced near Soukgoum Ivaleh, on the Black Sea, and the Russians arc confident, it seems, that they will soon be able to do without either Chinese or Indian teas. . The highest railway in the world is now being constructed on Pike's Peak, Colorado, U.S. The line will run to an altitude of 14,220 ft above the sea level, and will be a marvellous feat of engineering skill, the 30 miles of road being a succession of complicated curves, with no straight track longer than 300 ft. The maximum gradient will be SlGft. in the mile, and the average about 270 ft. The cost is estimated at from £2,200 to £3,000 per mile, anel tho speed is to be 15 miles an hour. The results of Dr. Schliemann's excavations at 'iiryns turns out to be very important. The buildings be has discovered consist' of a palace "and two Tho arrangement, size, and position of these rioTco in the most remarkable manner with those of the temples and palace of thusecond •prehistoric city of Hissarlik, and thus help to settle the date of the latter. In spite of the wall-paintings, tho remains at liryns j_Ußt bo Older than those at Mycanic, since,

besides the archaic pottery found among them, large numbers of obsidian implements have been disinterred. Lord AVolseley has lately received an interesting memento of his visit to the Canadian North-AVest some 15 years ago. In 1870, at the head of an expedition, he, unelor the title of Lieutenant-colonel AVolseley, put down the Red River rebellion, in which the old Fort Garry of the Hudson's Bay Company played so prominent a part. In acknowledging the receipt of a lithograph of the interior of the fort, Lord AVolseley says: —" It will always serve to remind me of a country that I am attached to by many ties, and in whose prosperity I shall always take the deepest interest." A very old newspaper will this week bo published for the last time. I refer to the St. James's Chronicle and Press. It has an eventful history. Started in 17G0, there was a period when the St. James's Chronicle was in such demand that the newsboys had to be kept in order by the police on the day of publication. The present sale is under a thousand copies. Oliver Goldsmith was a contributor to, anel Dr Johnson once edited, the Chronicle. It is also alluded to by Dickens in "Baniaby Riulgc." The first editor Avas fined £100 for reporting debates in Parliament. Mr Newdcgato, M.P., has for many years been the proprietor.—London Correspondent.