News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 285, 5 November 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

* :^&fcHfflslmm who took part m the, battle of W>terloo. , > lif^on'hltt'n ) ; 3^^ reß j n pa rks. Paris prqper ! has^9|)o6 aore« *o '^T^reafiSiaffajSf^gNeir York and Brooklyn is lighted by sixty-four electric > *Ap&»w <Hampsffi»igfcveyard contains t« £tombst6neierSetedj.SoJathe memory of I'thr^tpns.to fJfki f ■ a^S* m , o fcilfMtakmsf a fly oat iof the^battoj:, hftle Dai^asked, « Is thai «:fc|^H^®»^ are used m the mad service/ anoVfhere are at least 250,000 Eug^whe&ifen. . During Jlieiwi^'decade 13 men hare died in' G-reatSßntain, each of whom left a fortune of £1,000,000 or more. ' ' '' The city < rotf&mbv& intends to i^m : the'Curwnt\oMhejfthqne-, for lightin^Be whole of the city. A report on the quS-tioniis-Qbeing drawn mp, which will ba submitted to the Ooanoil of State. O >Next year ythe^ T Austrian Government contemplates sending an exploring expedition J»Pentra£ Asia, with the object espeoiaH^'o^colleoting^formation of all B kinds concerning thdlJugh plateau of Thibefe/^ suihtt&vnaa /« Thi»/ saidil a«^r«r|B|on dealer, as he ' weighed; bufc fa<:corne&ißJnKue for a cus- • tomer/^tbis n;ejejr,#Djjl,Uj}B.' * Humph !» growled the customer, 'then it is never ! engaged f jnj th* provision business.' . 7vQan^fltt ; p|;meiowthe word saloon is jEeltF wM^a&ea^of a cocknsy. r' Certainly.' said the.LQodoner, with a> lhok'of f fri'u^Hr t; lKe'ie% a hesl, and & hay^andta helK and two hoes, and a hen/ f * "Ttip piiiymW Genera correspondent says ani ascent of Mont Blanc was made by acgirlmameA-^UfSunessen, aged 16, the ypungeßt : .of,her sex, it is said, who has jet reached the summit of the mountain. Ai Foreigner* are warned against any fortifications m Germany withontraavmg first obtained special permission to do so, Several instances -have_baefl.R»portediately whioh hare led to disagreeable consegjuAQoes. '' Pauperism w^on^tStAJe^line m England. ijh 4^BL jthe.^xpenditure for the relief of the poor wa'i £700,000 less than ia 1871, and ithe. number of paupeis had fallen from 46 per 1000 of population to 30 per „ Captain, Cqnollljr hat been sent ont to tha.Grimea to su^ei intend the putting into a decent" state tfae^meriibrials to the £ngiish'bfficew J and soldiertfwho fell m that war. The-BritishoConiul at Sebastopol . wiU awisthim., ; . iCf '"'' QultS y sMcie^V'Befton.-~The threa.reasons wMwft a'g^ad jroman presented 'fbrobjeotinltocapre^oher were strildnir ones, Slies'aia that, m the first place, he f "read his sermon f^nd^^ second, he did ; not readi it well^ahd, m the third place,, itwaa not worth reading, ?'. IHobaonJiiaidv^luggjns, * they tell me y.pa'ye. taken your boy away from the graded school. What's that forP' 'Cause,* v said.HobaonJ the master ain't fit to teach Tm^'OhPr Sml^luggißß, ' I've heard he'a a yery good master.' ( Well,' replied l ; Hobßob,iapologetically, Ml I know is ha wanted to teach my boy to spell 'talera witna^^-i K >