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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 290, 11 September 1886, Page 4

Several restaurants liave been established in paris, at which each dish costs only one penny. " There are plenty of openings for poets of real genius," said a writer. That is true. This office, for instance, has several windows and doors. In 18G0 there were 857,883 public houses in France. Now there are 886,185, or one establishment where drink is sold for every ninety-seven inhabitants. The largest pearl in the world was sold in London recently for £630. It was two inches long and four inches in circumference, and weighed three ounces. In America, as dividends greatly depend upon durability of telegraph poles, great attention is paid to the subject. Cedar is preferred, and will last for 16 years, The great monument to tho late King Victor Emmanuel, at Turin, costing £40,000, has been erected by his successor, King Humbert, entirely at his own private expense. When the Chicago rioters looted a drug store they carried off and drank a bottle of carbolic acid, thinking it was whiskey. Two of the drinkers died and three others are dying. Charles Waring, one of the best known railrOad contractors in England, has prepared a powerful paper advocating the purchase of the English railways by the Government. William K. Vanderbuilt will, the Anglo American Times says, pay £IOO per week, for the use of a London residence for ten weeks this spring and summer for himself and wife. Mr Vanderbuilt is having a yacht built which will be the largest ever constructed. The cabin accommodation will include dining-room, drawingroom, nursery, and fifteen state rooms. The public debt of Canada amounts to £56,323,200. In proportion to population and resources this is a heavier burden than when the war .debt of the United States was at its maximum.