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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 283, 24 July 1886, Page 3

There are 4296 paper mills in the world, of which 1150 are in the United States. Brigham Young left over $1,000,000 and his children are fast going through with it. Uncle Sam welcomes into his domain 8200 babies a day, not counting those who come by sea. Thousands on thousands of men in London live the yedr round at the rate of ten or twelve pence a day inclusive of food with shelter. On a card in a Philadelphia street car is this legend : " Advertising is a great deal Hke making love to a widow; be overdone." A boy at Gillingham, England, in trying to draw the air from a bit of a balloon, /sucked the toy down his throat was choked to death. The position of a woman in the CWan social economy is a strange "tffie. From her birth to her seventh year she enjoys her freedom; at seven years of age she is shut up—a seclusion to last her life. While she lives in her father's house no man save he and her brothers may look upon her; after she has gone to her husband's only he and her father-in-law ever see her. Three incandescent lamps of thirtytwo candle-power, inclosed in a glass tube one above the other, were inserted through a bunghole into a barrel of whiskey. The light and heat thus introduced had the same effect on the whiskey as age had formerly, and the improved article is ready for the market in a much shorter space of time. Instead of the spirits being injured by the application, good judges say that its quality is greatly improved. JJuontirwation of News, see 4th Page.)

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Five hundred and forty-nine emigrants recently left Calcutta for Fiji. A man named Charles 11. Holmes, of Topfield, who is seven feet high, is the biggest man in Massachusetts. Sir William Jenner has been elected for the sixth time President of the ] loyal College of Physicians of London. Arabi Pasha is now devoting himself to peaceful pursuits, and is engaged in teaching the young idea how to shoot in Colombo, Ceylon. Mr Gladstone has received many presents of axes lately. He says he does not like the American axe because the end of the helve is bevelled, but in other respects it is the best axe made. The French Minister of Education is so far in sympathy with the French Anti-Tobac. o League that he allows it to supply all the public schools with tracts 011 the evils of juvenile smoking. For the first time in over 25 years the Rothchilds of London have allowed their name to bo connected with American railroad loans. They have loaned the most of the $0,000,000 recently borrowed by the St Paul Road. A boy who was recently sent to St Paul's school, Concord, U. S., under the influence of a bad attack of homesickness wrote thus to his father — " Dear Father: Life is very short. Let us spend it together. Your affectionate son." The Edinburgh Town Council is as truly an economical body as other Corporations nearer home. It recently at a cost of ten guineas engaged an expert to examine a paving account, the item to be "experted" being, according to a member of the Council, 2s Bd. The Tilbury Docks, London, were j formally opened the other day, after having been three years in course of construction. During that time the loss of life among those who have been employed is truly astounding. No less than 900 men have been killed, and 2000 have been seriously injured. A Frenchman has been giving a lecture in Paris on London. Here is one of his facts :—The London police- j man acts as refree in all cases of street fights between husband and wife. These fights, he added, are officially winked at, as no Magistrate would dare to punish either of the combatants in these marital encounters. The Church of England Funeral and Mourning Reform Association, at the suggestion of the Earl of Essex, one of its patrons, has issued an appeal to all the solicitors in Great Britain, urging them to advise their clients to insert a clause in their wills giving clear and positive orders as to ( the manner in which they desire to be buried. By the will of an eccentric well-to-do resident of Port Jervis, New York, • who died lately, a little waif whom he picked up on the streets and since cared for at his home, comes into possession of $30,000. General Sherman owes his middle name, Tecumseh, to the admiration which his father had for the old Sawnee chief. He wanted to name his son after him, but had to wait until each of his wife's brothers had been honoured with a namesake. Then she ran out of names and Judge Sherman had his way. The Empress Haru, of Japan, is a slight little woman not sft in height. She has the pale, yellow skin, the finely cut features, and the long oval face of the higli-caste Japanese. Although a friend to all progressive movements, and a woman of surprisingly modern views, the Empress still blackens her teeth in the old style. Stuck fast in a chimney was the fate of a half-drunken fellow at St. Helena, Lancashire, who espied a low building, and, anxious for shelter, as lie could not get in at the door, lie tried to descend the chimney, where lie stuck fast, and bawled out for assistance. Release was impossible until about three feet of the chimney was taken down. An extraordinary fatal accident occurred near the Midland station, Appleby, Cumberland, on April 19th. A farmer named Ellvvood had been to the Midland railway station for coals, when his horse was startled by a passing train. It rushed off at full gallop down a steep road, and dashed through a heavy wall, killing itself and its owner. Two hairy children are being exhibited at a London aquarium, and are arousing scientific curiosity. They are natives of Paraguay, of light complexion, intelligent, and members of a family with skins as smooth as ordinary. Their backs are completely covered with fine, dark-coloured hair or fur, short, soft, and unlike the black hair of the lie ad,