News in Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 239, 11 September 1883, Page 2

News m Nutshell.

.A good name for a bulldog ; Agrippa. Governor Cleveland, of New York, sold newspapera when a boy. ! air ?" politely said a barber to a cranky customer m bis chair. « No/ he growled ; « I don't want any oleomarplied the cranium manipulator, «• I never put butter on cabbages. Captain Barry, m a late lecture at -Dnnedittrmd--tnaY^a„-he bSM-ffie •'great .Mm chiefW' and sot hold of her land nvtbe North 4 ; he wbul&take very good care ..tfutt tha/3overnment.wo__ff«V. none . of it from hint. . .. t . . ' . ; , „ , .y yy' j doe hundred young ladies. of ' 'iouimil 1 :town, Ohio, *ith^^as.<&^ jbroke the ground for the new Methodist ohuroh, which is to cost £15,000, aud is to ■be the .finest m the state. : ">* l b y-yj ■ Child desertion has greatly increased of late m Victoria. " : Mr Alexander. Bathgate has beenJectuiSr "?"£ ?« aedin oa:MHog_;;:the Ettriok ; shepherd. ' v • • The SohpolßpardTof Advice Conference < jin Victoria has re-affirmed tne ueeeaMti" jof abolishing night schools. ' / ' ™< v '.Horace Pbussard, the viblidiat oftu^ PoussardtDouay ponibiuation, has returned to Australia, after 18 years absencei s " The cross, of pearl recently^ found; m Western Australia, has met with "an accident. Two of the peariS'Wthe end'of the stem have become detaohedi* The Suva Times aays the |rowth ; of the town seems to hay been 80-„piaTthat it ;_as taken the inhabitants and the autab* rities themselves <by surprise.,. ., «.>\f T.