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permit me to^give you the names of a few of my friends. I will write them down. First is Lieut-Gen. John McCombe, Alexander Badlam, General Lander, and Col. W. H. L. Barries. They will all lie for me just as I would for them under like circumstances." This conclusion broke the old man ; up, and he never asked more reference', nor wrote to those gentlemen. Those who know this quartett irill appreciate the joke. NEWS IN BRIEF. The War Office "are .maturing: a scheme by which they will have the call of some 10,000 horses, whose owners will have a retaining fee per annum, ori signing a contract, to sell their horses to the Government at a fixed price. This is on the same lines that the Admiralty have adopted with merchant steamers. A diabolical sect is causing some trouble in China. The members murder children, and abstract their brains to use as medicine. - A gold cross pendant, inlaid with pearls arid rubies, stated to have been worn by Mary Queen of Scots, was sold at an auction in Edinburgh for £55. . .. Iron and steel materials of all kinds are. hardening in price in Great Britain. A movement is on foot to 'substitute a license law for prohibition in Maine. Coal-tar has already given us the most brilliant dyes, the rarest scents, the most powerful disinfectants, andsaccharine, which is the sweetest of known substances, yet its usefulness seems to be far from exhausted; and -a Berlin professor the other day assured his class that from coal-tar he could brew as good a cup of tea as from tea leaves. In the month of January, 15,453 tons of fish were sent to Billingsgate market, 5156 tons of that quantity having been sent by water. The officers of the Fishmongers' Company, who inspect the fish, condemned 48f tons as "unfit for food, including 16 tons of Norway herrings. Cardinal Manning has made an urgent appeal in a London pastoral on behalf of the poor; children under his core. '■-.-•■ Inhalation of irritant, gases or vapours, and snuff too much indulged in, can iritate and inflame the mucous membrane, and bring on frequerir sneezing and its sure consa«itte^'^n*^trlWtmnat w^lcliar^Sr Exposure to hot sun without a hat brings it on, as in hay fever, which and lips. "LAnnee Scandaleuse," is the pleasant title given to the year 1887 in France. Scandals of all kinds, and among all classes and professions, simply abounded last year, crowned at the close by the Presidential scandal. According to Mr. IL Turnbull, ;tlie'butcher pays the farmer, of- the: ■United Kingdom £82,000,000 anriu~tsZ for cattijß, sheep, and pigs,, and gets; j£96;00Q, 000 from his customers. r J?ie..tptaJ.iprofit of £14,000,000 sper annum, haas-.to be divided between thousand persons.' " : '" ' ' York apple crop this [year; is enormous. The crop la-^jti-fn^Jß,t^\oo,OOOto 3,000,000 bar- ( relß, jexislusiye ofthe quantity used ju cid^r.irijlls and canning factories., .Oye^ one, million barrels will 'be to. Europe. , . .Ajmanjiiftined Edwards was re;centlyr,. sentenced to death for > the s^th.time. ! He had escaped the punishment on the previous joccasions. „ He now received his ,sixth;;iiQath-3entence with th^'same^ defiance thatjhe had the five previous ones, and launched into an excited tirade; .against courts, lawyers, and : jurorsl ; ; ..,,/; ' -••-'i-'- ; „ The Ken^cky Legislature is consid.eppg a Bijil to punish wife-beaters .with forty lashes on the bore back. - ': About a million of steel pens are , wow put, every year in the United States, What becomes of them? ■One,,; factory is in Connecticut janpflier, in Pennsylvania, and a large one in Camden. The valley of the Seine is to be fertilised by the sewageiofiParis.!*.!/ . The French vintage of 1887 was even worse than that of 1 886. .-■ Pjince^s Beatrice is so offended -with the treatment of her husband,' ijrince Henry of Battenburg,. that ajie . hardly , speaks to any of her brothers or sisters. She has; petitioned :the Queen to make her husbtmd a Duke, and is desirous of ab-/ dieating her, royal rank: "" '-' ! : ' ; , A couple, of Pittsburg inventors .have -found -a '.way' to purify water by means, otelectrioity.'.. ■ '<- ■ • The Lord, Mayor of London has written to each of the Provincial 1 Mayors, asking their assistance and co-operation among their felldwitownsmen in raising a sum of £3000, -which is still required for the erection of a memorial m the new cemetery at Brussels, to the British officers and men who fell in the Waterloo; campaign, and were buried there. Great efforts are being mode at New York. by the advocates of unrestricted international copyright to get a- law passed by Congress this session. For the first time all the advocates of .copyright are united iri ; favour ,of the measure. Out of;, 1000 British soldiers , sta,tioned.,in: ; Geylori^ M fully 4 200 arestaunch; total! abstainers. Her Majesty has conferred upon tho- Scottish Society of Watercolor the.titlelof.Mjtoyal." , Omaha,: with a population of 100(000 5 people, has 250 saloons, '.paying; a ucepse of £200 each. : - . . iThs.oOmmon house fly is computed to produce in one season^ bo prolific; is: itsi>, progeny, no' -less- thari' 20,0DQ,900.Mf ; Last 'yeari the snakes, tigers, parithjßrar alligators, and poisonous insectSiOf 'India got away with 38,492 people; about 100 of whom were white..,! These figures are below ,the average, and. the Indian Government is greatly «neouraged. , , ( vAnothernew industry, js ahpjit.tp, be starred: in Kent— that of buttermakingiOa a large scale. The first (factoryttsitdbe erected atTenterden, iri-.the Wiealfl, where a company has been formed among the leading agrioulturiats to carry on the manuJ§fi|e"^?^itter fo^a|JGpna^r markets.