SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4139, 28 October 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

Ward Bcccher has an income of £20,000. G-. A. Sala is a capital after dinner orator.

A New York physician says a red nose is a. sign of insanity.

Smooth-shaved faces arc in fashion in London.

German}' is said to bo considering tho purchase of Cuba. Truth gives Labcuchero an income of £20,000. Of tho English cricket team for Australia six belong to Notts and four to Yorkshire. Tho Illustrated London News was started by Marriott, now of the Frisco News Letter. In London thermometer 120 degrees in tho sun recently, and OS in the shade.

Chicago now compels shopkeepers to maintain soats for their feminine clerks and attendants.

A Pittsburg man has to an insane asylum because bor-h of his babies were girls. He wanted a boy. One hundred and thirteen foundlings were picked up in ~New York during the last six months.

A New York printing , press maker promises to produce a press that will turn out 960,000 copies per hour. Two million pounds of glucose made in tho States every clay, three-fourths of which is used in adulterating food. Of tho -171 laundries doing business in Chicago, ISO arc owned by Chinese, 51 by married women, and 29 by widows. It is stated that a new Polar Expedition will start next autumn, with a view to reach the Pole by Franz Josef Land. Tho study of the Irish language is becoming popular in the United States. A Philadelphia class numbers fifty pupils. . The son of .Tom Mace, tho pugilist, is taking a leading part in evangelistic meetings at Montreal. Philadelphia is the second largest city in the United. States, and yet not one of its theatres was open last July. In 1876 France imported 2,000,000 head of cattle; in 1882, 2,500,000; in 1883, 3,000,000. A fish-polo which regulates the number of fish caught is the latest novelty. Thirdrate anglers who have caught luthing can't buy fish on tho road home now. iSix months after the Sunday Closing Act had been in force in Wales, the number of convictions for drunkenness showed an increase of GO per cent on corresponding six months previous to the act. The Crown Match Works, Aberdeen, were recently destroyed by fire. The flames originated in the ignition of some matches by a stone thrown by a girl in tho work at a companion. Several years ago a couple -were divorced in New London, Conn., and both married a< r ain. llcccnt death made them widower and widow, and now they have been married a second time to each other. One of the recent achievements of the British and Foreign Bible Society is the publication of a penny New Testament. It is excellent in paper and printing, and neatly and sorviceably bound. An American woman has applied for a situation as car driver. When she was asked if she could manage mules she replied, "Of course I can, I've had two hjisbands." Who wrote the most—Dickens, Warron, or Bulwcr? Warren wrote "Now and Then;" Bulwer wrote "Night and Morning;" and Dickens wrote "All the Year Bound." There are sixty Catholic churches in Montreal. The French Cathedral situated there is tho largest church building on the continent. It is built of limestone, and 15,000 people have often been assembled under its roof. AtDunfennline on a recent Saturday night, a y"ung man while walking beside the railway with his sweetheart heard his name pronounced on the other side of the fence, and springing over to capture tho eavesdropper, alighted in front of a train, which cut him in two, killing him instantly. The famous ghetto of Kome, in which so many millions of Jews have lived and died in filth and squalor, is being demolished to make room for a great embankment on the Tiber. Tho diugy house in which St. Paul is said to have ''lodged, goes with, tho rest.

A young , widow, in erecting a monument to the "dear departed," cleverly availed herself of the opportunity to inscribe upon the tomb: "Sacred to the memory of Mathusin Bexuchot, who departed this life aged sixty - eight years, regretting , the necessity of parting , from the most charming and best of women."

The erection of a statue of Burns on the

Thames Embankment affords a correspondent iv Notes and Queries the opportunity for enquiring when tiwj metropolis means (o honour its own pools with memorials in bronze and marble. Chaucer, Milton, I'opu, and Gray wore born in London, yet tlieru iri no public .statue 1.0 any of them. A eorrespondfnt of the World draws attention to an application "from ' William Booth, Goner il of the Salvation Army and Minister of the Gospel,' to bo registered as the jn-oprietov of a trade mark, in which the design of a cross and crown and the

words ' Blood and fire' form the priiicip.il part. The iipp)ication is for classes 12, <;utlury and edge tools; 41, furniture and upholstery ; -18, perfumery (including toilet, nrliclos, preparations for tho teeth and hair, and perfumed soap)." tiir Edward Reed proposes to fit a ship villi an armor-plated shield to lie within the ordinary hull of tho vessel up to the lino at which it is armor-plated on the outside He contends that within this protection tho torpedo will be checkmated. It may, if it has good luck, pierce the bottom of the ship, but it will get no further than tho internal armor shield, which is so constructed that tho ship being struck by a torpedo will iloat, and may be fought if nothing particular had happened. A good-looking story is told of a political candidate who after affectionately kissing and praising an assortment of eleven children, and marvelling much at the resemblance they bore to a matronly lady, who blushed the while, then requested, with a by-the-way air, that she should mention to her husband that Mr So-and-So had called. "Alas, good sir," quoth the lady, "J have no busband !" "But these children, madam ; you surely are not a widow?" " I feared you were mistaken, 3tr, when you first came up. These arc not jiiy children ; this is an orphan asylum !" A recent, exposure of fraudulent honey made in Maine, where the ilovvers bloom but a short time in the year, shows it to be manufactured in this wise: The cone is made of paraffine, which is skilfully inserted in the hive by means of machinery ; "•Incose is left at convenient distaiices from the hive, and tho poor bee is induced to pack this stuff into the cone cells, which, when full she covers with her natural wax. Thus an article which has all the appearance of the natural thing is produced. The bee has the power to convert cane sugar or cane sugar molasses into real honey, hut glucose can not be really so converted. A narrow escape and a herioc rescuu occurred recently on the Northern Ituilroad bridge near Montville, Conn. Ak a train jvept around the curve, the engineer naw a ,

man and woman on the bridge directly in his track. There was no chance to use the brakes, and he expected to have a frightful accident to report. Just as he was about to close his eyes to shut out the. dreadful tragedy, tho man caught up the woman, threw her "over the rail into the water below, .and vaulted over himself and rescued the woman from drowning , . Those who witnessed the episode say they never saw a braver or cooler act in their lives. A young woman from the country was suing her ex-sweethoart for breach of promise, and the lawyers were, as usual, making all sorts of inquisitive interrogatories. "You say," remarked one, "that the defendant frequently, sat .very close to you." "Yes, sir," was the reply, with a hectic flush. "How closeP" "Close enough, so's one cheer was all the sittin' room we needed." " And you say ho put his arm around yon." "No, I didn't." "What did you say, then ?" " I said he put both arms around mo. " Tlicn what?" "He hugged me." "Very hard?" "Yes, he did. So hard that I Come purty near hollerin' right out." "Why didn't you holler ?" " 'Cause." "That's no reason. .Be explicit, please. Because what." " 'Cause I was afeerd he'd stop." The Court fell off the Bench and had to be carried out and put under tho hydrant for purpose of resuscitation.