News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

"7 ■ ii'"' : •'«■.-' ' .'.,.7;:. „!*.„ „','. V,: ' - • y Clerical Errprs.^lidngj >erihoM,' ° v. WomrawhohadYust beeiftooinriff over bjankets ma MMnißtreet'storp^«'We , 11, I didn't mean- to buy^Aht »jußt' ; loekin* for _f^iend. , • ;^ , Clerks politely^* ©on't think, youttl nnd your friend .afrtong; the .blankets,, through;* 1 May I have the honor to ?j conduot your daughter to the supper table f asked a .society gentleman qf/a lady from the 'Country. 'May yoir^ikei-er to supper V was the response ;' why, of course, and yon ■• cah tek'e^mfttoq.,' , That's Vwhat we came here for.i_wr.-^^^.« l .. r « -- ..„^ tI-ui^ The Indian Government intend to erec» a large , temporary hotel a f or visitors to the OalcuttrEihibitionP 1 ■ > Bulgaria, is her army from 12,500 to 29,000 men, aud ex'^endin? two. thirds of tbe budget for military purposes. - The las*, of the 100-ton -guns ordered to be mounted for they defence^ iof the Mediterranean Jor.tre^s / has.,been ; em« barked. 7 r .' -, . - ! <*„n ^ Zn • --. . m. t *?r.ly.. i ,. J l70 J - Oils OfftOWO 7 The garrisonfiof.Meti tndDantaig^ave recently v been jcpnsi^erahly Strengthened by order ofthe Emperor TOl&am. "" < The Amerj^%Bpl j r Te!ephone.opmpany has/, it ia i; said, eroded." 2|dmooo mile* of overhead wire durmg't_ep_st^ year. ..-, Is is estimated tbas tha^Puget Sound ,in r the Unitedl&afos wilt yield . 160^,^,00011;.^ Valuable timber. General Booth, addressing a meeting at Henley, said Ke had aoted hoqestly, under T6g4l advice,- regard^ the*__agle Tavern. The number^ suicided m Berlin has. reached jthe abnormal average of nearly fifty-three' 'per month, ;or well on to two> per day. -"Aj i.dl &Jito,t^.i ' 'A number of trained carrier pigeons* .which are kept m a state of efficiency by continual exercise," are - maintained'by tha '< German Wa_ofSee,U . > J -ftff % c l-l M Waiter, , to cook—* George, gent ia nbmber' 'tbree c sa^ya^a'. u his'-potatoes ara*fc good— says as ; t^ey've allgot black ayes ia 'em,' GebrgV'(rearn«me Tawiok) — ' Be* .dad,, thin, it's no faultfof mine ; the spalpeen's musthave'beeh <ffg_ti_Vafter I put ''em in' the 'pot If <*.» ;<s a^j (X A Queensland. aboriginalr has' effected two insarances!oP: bit difeyin Adelaide. In ten years New Zaaland,has spent on its liquor bile twenty«f our millions and a« half/ • ; — • v>it%:iivjJ Up. uhAi A telegram from Aockhampton saya an alligator over 18 fe«o long has ibeepr shot at Raglan Creek. AA - < , ky:i > Aq English touris^sked a'JScp^.lasiie. whether. : it was custom ( aiT, JfoE people m ber part of the countrv To*go barefoot VPairtiy they do," . and nairtly tihey mind their own business/ ahaweried t_e girl. Ordinary people (says a Christohuroh contemporary) - have never understood -'why it ia.neees.sftry toj havoj aro Attorney* General as well as a Minister of ' Justice.