SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4141, 30 October 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

The Queen of Hanover has only 13 Christian names. Gladstone favors the disestablishing of the church in Scotland. The betrothal of the Bonanza King's adopted daughter is a canard. Hay fever is the fashionable ailment in London.

The; Corate de Pfiris and family have sent £2000 to the cholera sufferers. The cholera. has driven thousands of Americans from Erench soil to London.

At least twenty food-reform societies are now in a flourishing condition in England. For the past thirty years Denmark has contributed a yearly average of 1500 people to Mormondom.

According to an official publication Cuba has 1,521,681 inhabitants, 851,520 of whom are males. Ninety pounds a year is all that the wife and daughter of the late English statesman, Mr Roebuck, have to live on. United Ireland, ParnelFs paper, ridicules the English Liberal agitation against the British House of Lords.

"Madame Zenobio C , third story, lets out teeth for evening parties and balls." Street sign in Paris. Since the war the colored Baptists in Texas have, grown from nothing to over 600 churches.

Queen Victoria was instrumental in causing women to be employed in telegraph offices.

The Engineer says iii England most of the companies' engaged in electric light enterprises have gone into liquidation. A jump of 6ft 6in has been done in New York by a horse belonging to the gentleman known as "Teddy" Gebhardt—Lungtry's

There are, it is Bnid, sixteen districts of Austria-Hungary where less than 5 per cent, of the inhabitants can read and write.

A Mormon missionary named Smoot has been working so successfully in Bavaria that tho Government have ordered him away.

Swindlers at Cincinnatti made about £40 recently in one day, by delivering bogus telegraph messages and collecting therefore. Dr. James Collis Browne, the inventor of chlorodyne, died in August last, at his residence, Mount Albion, St. Lawrence-on-Sea. The Maori King , , while in Parliament the other day, became warm, and took off most of his clothes and went to sleep. So says the JBallarat Courier of tho 1 lth October.

A new history of Mahommed, by Dr. Krehl, has appeared in Leipzig. The book, it is said, fills a very importunt place in Mahommedan literature.

London is about to put a society for the protection of children from cruelty into practical operation. Liverpool already has one.

Princo Edward, the son of the Prince of Wales, has gone to Heidelberg to pursue a course of studies, the chief of which will be German.

Tho new organ in Westminster Abbey will be blown by a gas engine. The pipes of the old instrument are used in it, but it is rebuilt throughout, and is much higher. There are 330 colleges and universities in the United States, of which only twentyfour have more than 250 students, aud only seventeen have more than twenty teachers.

In Brooklyn, John Ambrose sought divorce and gained it, because Mrs. Ambrose took delight in disobeying him, and getting'veal'for'dinner when he had told her to get beef. A Scotchman proclaims himself as the champion post-hole digger of the world. He exhibits a well-substantiated record of seventy-nine post-holes, 3 feet deep, dug in one day. The tallest flat house in New York has ten full attic stories in front, fifteen stories in the rear. It is 170 feet high. There are as many as twelve stories, from 140 to 150 feet high. . In Montreal latterly the sexton of a church was mulcted in damages to the extent of 5 dols., with costs, in a suit of one Mr Turcotte for having passed that gentleman by while taking up a collection, and neglecting , to give him an o].»portunity to contribute. ■

ThePalgrave, the largest sailing ship in the world, has been launched from a shipyard of Port Glasgow, in Scotland. She is a handsomely modelled iron four-masted full-rigged ship, with a length of 340 ft., a breadth.of 40ft., and registering 3,173 tons.

The amount of gold actually in circulation 1 in Great Britain is estimated to be £100,000,000, but the coinage returns show that tho amount of sovereigns and halfsovereigus issued since 1816, when the!coinago was. begun, is £247,521,429, leaving £147,000,000, not accounted for.

How very nearly (writes Tho Globe) the sublime approaches the ridiculous at times is well shown by the most heroic action recorded of the Crimean'veteran who died on the 15th August at Canterbury. In the bloody battle of the Alma, Michael Kcesham had an arm taken off by a cannon ball close to the shoulder. He stooped down, picked up his arm, aud marched off the field with it. As.a pantomime effect in a sham fight on the stage, Michael's heroism would have been greeted with roars of laughter.

A Methodist minister once started a church in a young town, but for want of pecuniary support was soon obliged to abandon it. His farewell sermon to the lukewarm brethren was characterised by more heat than elegance. He ended thus: vAt the last day the Lord will say to St. Peter, '.Where is your flock ?.'■ and St. Peter ■will answer,.' Here, Lord.' He will say to Calvin, ' And whero are your sheep ?' and Calvin will reply, 'Here, Lord'; and so all of the shepherds can answer. But when He asks me, ' Where are your sheep ?' how will you feel when I am compelled to reply, «Lord, I haven't any ; mine were all hogs."

The new Duke of "Wellington is the great grandson of the rustic beauty who, as readers of Tennyson are aware, being bom a "village maiden" of Shropshire,.was suddenly elevated to the painful dignity of a peerage by her marriage with " the Lord of Burlcigh,". whom she and her parents had taken to be only a landscape painter." From being plain "Sarah Hoggins, of Bolas Mngna, in the county of Shropshire," she found horself Countess of Exeter, and " the burden of an honor unto which she was not-born," threw her into a consumption and caused her_ early death only six years after her marriage. "Once I was a real good boy, went to church and Sunday-school, and believed everything that was told me. I had heard a great dear about the answer to prayer. Now, I wanted a Billy goat, above all things. I was twelve years old, and I thought what fine fuu I could have riding Mm. Father would not buy mo ono, so I prayed day and night, for six weeks, for that Billy goat, and at the end of that time ■was as far off getting him as ever. So I. said : Hereafter I believe in nothing. I'm a good boy, and deserve the goat, and, since my prayers are useless, I will never try ao-ain, and I never did." He was an awful man, you see, and this is a true story.

Captain M'Lean, of the iron, barque Firth of Lorn, of Glasgow, which sailed from Lyttelton, New Zealand, on April 26th last, passed Cape Horn, on May 23rd, and arrived in London on the 21st August, reports the following singular occurrence :— On July 22nd, when in lat.-29.01 N., long. 39.48 W., a floating spar was seen, and it being calm, a boat was lowered and the gpar°towed alongside. On examination it was found to bo valueless, being wormeaten throughout, but a large shoal of fish -which liad accompanied tho spar abandoned it and commenced eating the barnacles from the ship's' bottom. This continued until Jhly 27th, when in hit. 38.12 N., long. 34.30 W., tho iish loft, after having cleared the ship's bottom, byVwhich, tho speedof the.vessel was increased about two knots per hour, enabling her to hold her own from that date until her arrival with any. vessel she fell in with. .

A blue-eyed girl with fair hair may."bo seen frequently cantering on. a blood-horse near Louisville. She in dressed, in :i groy liatlit, with big brass buttons, and manages her steed boldly, with gr.ico and the skill of a Supple wrist; Aβ she careers by, gentle and simple salute her with an affectionate interest. No wonder. They arc southern people ; and that is Julia, the only child of the onco famous southern leader, " Stonewall Jackson.'' Mrs Jackson is still li ving, arid.is 'demure and petite, .with soft voice and courtly manners.