SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4149, 8 November 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

Mr G-. Froude will, sail for Australia in November. The discovery that King Alfonso of Spain U a Freemason has profoundly affected theVatican. American colored nuns are known by the name of Oblate Sisters of Providence. Their numbers arc gradually increasing. By a new process of making "i-olled gold " ware, 150 pairs of bracelets can be plated with loz of gold. Nine of the members of the British House of Commons are octogenarians, the oldest of whom is 83 years of age. The general use of dynamite by Spanish sea fisherman is creating alarm in Spain and the adjacent islands. In 1882 there were 1346 co-operative socioties in Great Britain, with a share capital of £7,432,000 and 001,000 members. American milk and cream have been successfully shipped from New York to London by steamers, arriving in a perfectly fresh and palatable condition. An eminent Continental statistician has recently calculated that tho probable population of England will in the year 2000 amount to 129,176,145.' Hanlan, Laycock, R. Edwards, S. Edwards, and Mattherson have entered for tho professional sculling race at the Albert Park Aquatic Carnival, Melbourne. It has been discovered that the whole of the dynamite employed in tho recent outrages in England was made at tho Rcpaun Factory, Philadolpha. Dr. Barnardo is travelling in Manitoba with a view to selecting a piece of land for a farm on which to place some of his London "arabs."

Over twenty designs by British and foreign sculptors have been sent in for the collosal statue of Wallace, to be erected in DnthiePark, Aberdeen, Scotland. Popocatepetl the towering volcano of Mexico, that rises to a point 5000 feet higher than Mount Blanc, has recently been scaled by two American women. Payment of members is practically agreed to in South Australia. They have carried it by 2-1 to 11, and £200 a year is suggested as a fair thing. The Premier among the Ministry alone objected to the idea.

The Russian Government has issued an index of some 150 books which are forbidden to bo given out in all public libraries. Among them are works by Herbert Spencer, Emilo Zola and Prof. Huxley. It has been figured out by Dr. Wood, the eminent studenfof nature, that if a man could eat as much in proportion as a bird he would consume a whole round of beef for his dinner.'

Madame Sara Bernhardt did tho sleepwalking soane as Lady Macbeth in her bare feet, -without a suggestion of sandal or other foot gear. The effect was realistic, but Bcarcelv pleasant to look upon. Tho "French Government has granted a constitution to the Evangelical Church of Tahiti, which means that the church will be allowed to manage its own internal affairs without the interference of local magistrates. A relic of the olden time has just died in Paris, in the person of a wonderfully attractive old lady, the actress Amalio Hainzinger. Sho was 87 years old, and had acted in thepresence of Napoleon 1., and of Goethe, who mentions her in his writings.

Father de la Croix, a Jesuit, has discovered valuable Roman ruins in some excavations at Sanxay, in the department of Vicnne, France. A sum of £400 has been voted by the Archfeological Society of Paris for carrying on the work.

Emigration statistics continue to show that the tide of emigration is running less furiously this year than last. During the past eight months 222.356 persoas have sailed from the United Kingdom for places outside of Europe. During the corresponding period of 1883 ,248,290 persons sailed. ' In New York the highest salary paid to any female Principal of a Grammar School is £380 per aunnm. She must have hold this position for 14 years in order to obtain that sum. The Principal of the Primary Department of a Grammar School is paid £350 per annum.

-Mozart, who, while he lived, wanted bread, now gets a stone. Vienna is building him.a monument to cost £10,000, which is much more than he received for the whole -work of his Mo. He died in want, and his uncoffined corpse was thrust into a trench in the potter's field. Intelligence received from Macedonia announces the murder of tho Bulgarian Bishop Fadue Theoffile, near L azaropola, in tho valley of Monastir. The crime is alleged to havo been committed at tho instigation of Bishop Anthyos, tho Greek metropolitan. Madame Adelina Patti has consented to accept a portrait of herself, painted _by an eminent artist, from Sir Hussey Vivian and other members of the Swansea Hospital Committee,-in recognition of her kindness in raising £1400 towards tho funds of the hospital by two concerts. The emigration to the United States during the last eight months amounts to 151,103 ; to.British North America, 31,553 ; and to Australasia, 31.375. During the month of August only 3504 sailed for Australasia, whereas in the same month in 18S3 8303 left the United Kingdom for that part of the world.

Mr. Dion Boucicault, who is at present in America, is said to bo engaged upon a collected edition, in 10 volumes, of his dramatic works. Each play, from his first attempt, "London Assurance," which was produced in 1841, is to be prefaced with reminiscences of the period at which it was written. . ■'-" The Pall Mall Gazette thus described tho Chinese band at the Health Exhibition in London:—"ln a gallery arc a number of Chinese musicians. Their -music is'f<o excruciating that they play only for two minutes at a time, being limited by a sandglass. When they begin it is as if all tho dishes and saucers in the establishment wore being smashed at once. When they end with a great flourish tho.sensation is as of a terrific railway accident. Tho most skilful ear can detect no tune except in the case of the 'God Save the Queen,' with which they conclude tho entertainment. This tune they havo learned ouh of compliment to England, being instructed in it b} r Mrs Campbell) the wife of tho Secretary to the Chinese Castoins, in whose houSo they have Been taking lessons. Considering that they have only five notes to work with instead of our octave, their proficiency in the one English tune with Which'they arc acquainted is verycreditable to their industry and to the ability of-their instructress. It is said that hey like England very much."