News in a Nusthell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 277, 26 October 1883, Page 2

News m a Nusthell.

Female pugilists should wear 'poke' bonnets. "■''■■ . ■. \ ' A flirt's heart is like an omnibus— always room for one more. Miss Sarah L. Martin is called one of the best farmers m Maine. The superintendence of the public schools m Nebraska is held by a woman The women oE the' middle aad upper classes m St. Petersburg are, with rare exceptions, inveterate smokeru. It is stated that 80,000 women m the city of New York support their husbands. A splendid place for lazy men. In her early school-days George Sand was called ' Madcap,' but. when she became a religious enthusiast her. name was changed into ' Sainte Aurore.' Miss Chamberlain, ( tne Prince of Wales' American, beauty,' has had a dress style named after her by one of the Paris milliners. It is white and silver. A Wellington artist painted an orange peel on the pavement so naturally chat six fat men fell down upon it. * Whisky,' said the doctor, 'hardens the . brains.' • Maybe it does,' replied the horj* rible' example, ( but it softens the k&ee? I ncost won'erfully.' Passavante, Who tried to kill 'King Humbert m 1878, is fastened to the wall of a nearly dark cell by a sft. chain ri vetted to his ankle. He has become imbecile. ' . A story comes from Canton, China, of a woman who, to punish a female slave who hak stolen some food, cut a slice from the girl's thigh, and made her cook and eat it. Head so late as last year Dr Proust, m a paper tothe Academy of Medicine, made ■ the statement that there were no fewer than 219,270 houses m France without a win* dow; The total cost of the Moscow coronation is said to be 54 million roubles, or 20 millions more that the, preliminary esti* mate. 100 mongooses have been collected at Calcutta for ,N,ew South Wales. The Sydney Mail thinks we shall have a pretty population by«and-by, A Mauritius .correspondent states that the steamer Flora left Port Louis for Tama* tave with a cargo of all the dogs that could be picked up m St. Denis. The animals are to be used as sentinels at the French outposts, the Hovas only attacking at night. — 'Sydney Mail.' Blotting paper was discovered m 1455 Previous to that, when a man dropped a splotch of ink on the lower left hand corner of his paper, he would give it a lick with his tongue towards the upper right hand corner, and make a better picture of The comet of 1883 than any that has yet appeared m the illustrated papers* ' I have come for my umbrella,' said a lender of it on a rainy day to a friend. < Can't help that,' said the borrower ; ' don't you see lam going out with it V ' Well, yes,' replied the lender, astonished at such outrageous impudence : <yes, but— what am Ito do f 'Do'! said the other, as he opened th 6 umbrella and walked off, ' do as I did—borrow one.*