SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4164, 26 November 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

Arrangements aro being made to bring out tlio Illustrated London News in London und New York on tho same day. The steamship Black Prince, while passing through the Bay of Biscay, recently found a heucoup with two men quite dead lying across it. Mr Fargus sold his story, " Called Back," outright to its publisher for £80. Afterwards the publisher agreed to pay tho author £8 for every 1000 copies sold, and since then Fargus' income has been about £50 a week. Half the Christian population of India arc Roman Catholics, and the State expenditures for religion amount to £200,000 a year, of which the Church of Eugland gets £154,000 and the Roman Catholic Church only £10,000. A large band of depraved boys, many under 12 years of age, was recently unearthed at Stamford, Conn., U.S., by the police. Tho troop was under tho leadership of one aged 20. They had been guilty of tho most revolting crimes, and were known as "The Shenandoah Gang." Piles 'of vile literature were found at their rendezvous. J was at a temperance meeting lately. A weak-e/ed, unhappy-lookiugold gentleman rose to give bis experience on behalf of the good cause; "Ladies and gentlemen, for thirty years not a drop of strong drink has passed"by lips—yes, indeed," he continued, as if musing aloud, "for thirty long and weary years." , Sir James Paget estimates that m England the whole population between 15 and 65 years old do in each year 20,000 000 weeks' work less than they might do if it were not for sickness. Typhoid lever has of late destroyed in England and Wales, among persons in the work time ot lite, nearly 4000 in a year. Tho French Society of Medicine lately received a box from Toulon containing dried cholera bacilli. It was followed by its scientific owner, who was about to give an explanatory lecture upon cholera. When, however, tliis gentleman arose and began to undo his bundle, the members grew so visibly nervous that the man irpm. Toulon had to postpone his recital. _ Hondon is three times tho size of Now "York and has a firo brigade costing annually. ,only one-third the sum ppent-upon the New York department;.it haft pww W W

New York, but the aggregate loss is less in London. Consequently the London brigade, though not such an imposing organisation as the New York department, is relatively to the fire risks the more efficient of the two. An English newspaper calls attention to the fact that there are very few smokers among tho blind. Soldiers and sailors who arc suddenly deprived of their sight sometimes continue to smoke for a while, but it is said that most of them soon give up tho habit. They say it gives them no pleasure when they cannot see the smoke, and some even declare that they cannot taste tho smoke unless they see it.