ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 259, 6 February 1886, Page 4

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The French budget shows a deficit c»t 1,000,000 frarcs.

A Toron o clergyman recently married his inotbtr to her peeond h 11-band

A contrivance by means of which the blind can p!»y whist, is a new invention.

There will be no regular through per vice on the Canadian Pacific road

until next pj ring

The secret pi lice force founded in London eaHy in ihe dynamite ware, a few years ago, is to be disbanded. A Florida man is whortly to have one of his limbs amputated because of a wound received djringthe war. Imp'overrents of the harbour of Huei os Ayres are progressing, which wil' involve an outlay of £12,000,000.

Three hundred tenant tanners at Toungball, County fork, have demanded a reduction of 25 per cent in their rents.

Cholera has swept away 3000 French soldiers in Tonquio this summer, and reinforcements sent thit *er are only sufficient to make good the losses by disease.

Charles Miller, a Cincinnati youth, is in gaol for having painted with acid the names of a number ot boys upon their arms, ,l }ust tor fun." Viscount Ha warden lias been appointed lord • Lieutenant of the county ot Tipperary, in place of Viscount Lisuiore, who has resigned.

In the space ot thirty years the Lumber ot lo eign bishoprics established by the Anglican Church has in creased from seven to seventy-five.

Nine million acres of land in Geru-iany are devoted to the cultivation of the potato. Ihe product last year amounted to 23,000,000 tons. L. K Myers, the champion ehortdistar.ee runner ot America, has forfeited his amateur status by accepting the proceeds of a meeting tendered to him in New York the other day.

The retirement of Mr Gh B Rer* ferd, Att rn*y-General of Victoria, from the Ministry, will be officially announced in a few days, as he will be appointed to a vacaut Supreme Court Judgeship M. Meiflsonier's minature water* color full-length portrait ot himself, in which tne face is no bigger than a man's fingernail, is priced by the proprietor ot the Hanover Gallery at 500gs. A paper is manufactured from seaweed in Japan that has the transparency of glass—not exactly clear flint glass, but a good sort of stained glass—and can be used satisfactorily in windows.

'J he St Petersburg medical papers state that io a conversion at Lebedin, in the Kharkov Government, .Russia, there are now hvitg two nuns, whose respective ages are krown, on reliable authoiity, to be 100 and 112.

In St. Louis on a recent Sunday, 40,000 people witnessed a cowboy exhibition, 20,000 attended baseball games, and another 20,000 spent the day in beer gardens. The aggregate attendance in the cbunh is only 10,000. Lobsters are found in immense numbers at a place in Newfoundland bearing the curious name of " SeldomCome by," and there is a large canning establishment. As many as 4000 of these Crustacea may be taken in one morning.

Ihe substitution of natural pas for coal is proceeding rapidly at Pittsburg, Pa. At pit sect over 1500 dwelling-houses, 66 glass factories, 34 rolling mills, and 45 other industrial establishments are being supplied, and from 8000 to 10,000 tons of coal are daily displaced. In the Melbourne Criminal Court last wetk, Frelland Moirell, a sailor on the ship Don Nicholas, was sentenced to death for the murder of John Anderson, second mate. They had a dispute, and Morrell, meeting Anderson ashore, stabbed him, and he dier 1 .

In the Philippine Islands and Manilh, luminous \ uint is> said to be used to paint the inside of houses, so that when there is. an earthquake alarm at night the inhabitants may readily find the doors and other exits so as to escape into the open air. Here is a pleasant amenity at a recent political moeting in the Eastern Counties, England. The candidate having concluded his address, the chairman called upon anyone who wished to move a resolution. Up jumped a yokel, who sa<d, " I begs to move that that there red headed bloke who spoke last be chucked into the Wee-pond !" A. London cablegram announces that a large shipment of salmon ova may be expected by the louic, due in New Zealand about 19ch March. The celebrated Hobart Pasha, head of the Turkish navy is now Kail of liu. kinghainshiie.