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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 221, 25 September 1901, Page 3

A despatch from New York states tha a negro named Pennington has beer burned at the stake at Enterprise, ir Alabama. He was charged with an assaull upon a white woman. The feature of the lynching was that a number of negroes participated in the affair. The well-known Bulgarian writer and poet, M. George Schopow, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for refusing to perform compulsory military service. M. Schopow is an adherent of Tolstoi’s doctrine of non-resistance, and said ho would suffer death rather than take up arms. In the proposed method of tooth extraction of M. Laborde, nitrous oxide is administered, and tho nightmare often caused by this anaesthetic is charmed away by lively music from a phonograph. It is suggested that the same soothing influence may lessen the disagreeable experiences from other anaesthetics, like ether and chloroform. The Lord Mayor of London’s National Memorial to the Queen Victoria Fund has received a cheque for £SOOO from tho delegates of tho New York Chamber of Commerce who recently visitod England, as an evidence of the esteem and reverence with which Her Majesty was regarded by tho peoplo of the United States. For seven successive seasons attempts have been made to conquer Mount Assiniboino, Canada's Matterhorn. This season a height of 11,125 ft has been attained, tho summit remaining uncouqucred, by Henry Bryant, formerly President of tho Philadelphia Geographical Society. He was assisted by Swiss guides. Mr John Morley, talking with a friend about his literary work at Hawarden, said, according to a Scotsman contributor, that his labor was greatly lessened by Mr Gladstone’s personal habits of order and regularity. Through tho last sixty years of his career ho not only preserved every im ■ portant letter or documont that reached him but neatly endorsed it with his own hand, and stowed it away in order of date. Among the papers docketed and stored at Ilawardon in order of date, Mr Morley found notes of a speech delivered by Mr Gladstone at tho Gvfnvd Ttninr. seventy years ago. During one morning lately Mr Andrew Carnegio considered applications and made grants to the following places for free libraries :—Hamilton, ,£15,000; Coatbridge, ,£15,000 ; Dalkeith, £1000; Kelso, £3500 ; and Annan, £3OOO. Mr Carnegio also disposed of a largo number of applioations for organs by churches of various denominations, and gave nineteen of these eongregations grants providing an organ Dither in whole or part. Not a bad morning’s work. Manchester is finding the ship canal, which the corporation was compelled to finance and complete, an unceasing source of expense and anxiety. The managers have r-eported that even small vessels cannot leave the canal for soveral hours after low water, and consequently tho entrance to the canal must bo deepened two feet, and the entire waterway dredged until the largest cargo vessels can pass through it. This costly work will involve excavation of more than two feet all along tho lino. Tho Manchester journals do not like tho report, but face the music bravoly and contend that tho town must deepen the waterway and look after foreign trade, or it will become a helpless inland port, like Ghent, which is incapable of competing with Antwerp and Kotterdam. At the funeral at Vienna of tho son of the Jewish banker Fleischer, tho father, who was grievously stricken, insisted on taking a farewell look at his son, and although it is against tho sacred rites tho coffin was opened in the synagogue in order to pacify the disconsolate parent, When the lid was removed piercing cries were heard from the mourners, and a strange corpse was found lying in the coffin. The service was interrupted, and late in the evening the right body was discovered. It seems that the parents of a poor suicide had exchanged tho corpses in order that their son might get a good funeral. Proceedings aro to be taken against the morgue officials. Cardinal Logue, Dublin, on August 30 proclaimed that all Catholics within his jurisdiction who open or attend dancing saloons on Sunday will be subjected to the dread sentence of “ greater excommunication.” With the increase of English tourists, numerous dancing saloons have been opened in the small Irish seaside places, resulting, the Cardinal says, in dissipation, profanation of Sunday, and the spread of immorality. The

threat has proved effective. Someone has suggested that there is a risk to the whole system of party government on account of Parliamentary golf. Mr Herbert Gladstone, M.P., is of a contrary opinion, and he gave the reasons for his belief while opening a new gold clubhouse at Roundhay, Leeds. According to the conditions under which golf is played, a man must always agree with his adversary. He must do his best to score against an opponent, but must not quarrel or argue with him, because all would be over till the temper left the players. Golf, said* Mr Gladstone, had done much for physical health ; it had done a great deal for moral equanimity and the amenities of life both public aud private. There was a great sensation in Vienna the other day at the solemn funeral of the aged Fraulieu Marie Irrgang, tho sworn “ man-hater ” and championess of the rights of women against their male oppressors. The old lady had ordered in her will that no males should bo allowed to take part in her funeral procession through the streets to the Lichtenthal parish church. Her corpse was followed by a prodigious crowd of women and maidens, and by deputies from various female societies with their banners. Unhappily tbe exclusively feminine character of the "procession was violated in one instance, though only in one. The splendid banner of the Austrian Jungframen-verein proved to be so exceedingly heavy that the society was obliged to hire a man to carry it ! The usual spectacle of regiments of mourning women naturally attracted a large crowd of both sexes and all ages. But although a body of police had been provided to keep order no unseemly disturbance occurred, and the “ man-hater ” was carried to her grave amidst the courteous and respectful silence of the masculine “ enemy.”