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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 74, 1 December 1887, Page 2

The Hospital Conosrt last night was very successful, though some of the principal performers did not attend, The proceeds were £24. The sports reaped £B7. The King of Spain grows span. He ■'( now able to suck his royal toe. There are about 850,000 business women in London. Madame Petti intends retiring from th* stage in 1889. David Mapisstone, the defaulting secretary of the South Brisbane Building Society, bee been sentenced to seven years' penal servi, tude. Don Psdro, Emperor of Brasil, will nswr be able to resume the throne. He has disease of ths brain. A new kind of repeating rifle Is being Intro, duced in the Garman Army, A prominent physiologist says that th* coming mao will bs hairless and toothless. If this is so, we advise the coming man to stay where he is. Anarchy and smallpox both hang out a red flag. Petroleum has been discovered in an old well outside the east gate of Canton. John Bright opposes compulsory vaocira. tion, but favors compulsory loyalty in Ireland. A teaspoonfu! of heated camphor is said to be a curative application for a sty on th* eyelid.

Future Governors of South Australia will be liable to local taxation, income tax, and Custom duties. A monk who resided in Moscow in the fifteenth century could repeat the whole of tha New Testament.

A newspaper poet demands to know “ Where are the girls of the pact ? Bringing up the girls of the future, don't you think 7— Lowell Citizen.

Tne Canadian Government have undertaken to conduct surveys for laying a cable between Vancouver’s Island and Australia, asking only a small subsidy from the Australian Governments.

The whole of the Russian press is said to have received an official intimation to abstain from attacks upon Germany and Prince Bismark.

The French anarchists are letting Louise Michel starve to death, after provoking her into life-long violence of speech and effort in their behalf. Anarchy it is said has no n 0 e soul then the beasts that parish. ■ The young man who has a Beat in the horsecar between two pretty girls always smiles complacently when the conductor calls, “ Move up, please ; room for one more on this side.”

Owing to the drought, the American maize crops are deficient of estimate by 43,000,0(0 quarters.

A poet asks : Where are the boys of the p.st They are darning socks of thegirlr of rhe present. An anonymous donation of £4OO has been received by the governors of Guys Hospital. The London correspondent of the Man* cheater Guardian hears that Nir Charles Dilke having made up his mind that a public careea in England is no longer open to him, is about to take up residence in the south ol France.