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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1582, 15 March 1879, Page 4

Messrs Ward and Lock are about to publish “Facts about Champagne and other Sparkling Wines,” very fully illustrated, and comprising historical, topographical, anecdotal, and technical notes upon all the known sparkling wines of Europe and America, by Mr Henry Vizetelly, British wine juror at the recent Pans Exhibition. Mr Fairclough, the tragedian, well known, I believe, in the Australian colonies, is now in Shanghai. Theatrical business is so dull in New York that Mrs Scott-Siddons has taken to lecturing with great success. One of the New York papers says, “She is booked for nearly three months at from 200 to 300 dols. a night. Theodore Tilton gets from 150 to 200 dols. a night ; Ur. Talmage, 150 dols. ; and Dr. Chaplain, 130 dols. Still lecturing is a bad game in the States, and is as common as defaulting.” In the aarrent “Theatre” Henry Irving naively remarks that “ the Jleur-de-lys was a favorite emblem of the Plantageuets. ” This is rather better than the “Times’ ” reporter’s statement at the (Ecumenical Council, that the Bishops seemed to affect violent cassocks. Why, Mr Irving, where is your history ? A new rifle on the Werndl system has been invented by Lieutenant von Schurda, of the Austrian engineers, the firing of which involves only three movements. In this novel arm the percussion action is dispensed with, the mechanism for firing being placed in the breech piece. The new action is described as extremely simple, and of such a construction as to permit of all Werndl rifles, with which the Austrian army is provided, being converted into the new arm.