News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 23, 24 December 1883, Page 2

Ne ws m a Nutshell.

Herrings have appeared ihsaeh mu9ea on the English i{coast As to. desArqj. ths fisherman's nets, _ The first missionary /{ojjSoutlr- Africawas George. Schmidt, whs., was sent but by Moravians m 1737. He preached to the Hottentots, and at the dose of five y«ars had gathered a little church ©f fortywseven members. •• . ■).-/ ; , A correspondent of Ihe Londdn Christian writes that i two women, 090* verts of a native Wesleyan eyanjreliat, are preaching the Gospel to ths Kaffirs with great success. ' r : A recent police return states that' there are no less then 200;000 bonds," strolling through-' Germany and ■ begging for ttlmai They wechieflyoinefl. id their pHme*r;yottng; ; j^»plei^.,fqll.; vigour who are; lazy to work> , / i ., Over 200 British, American, and Aer*^ man missionaries m China have addressed a petition to the British Governmentpraying for the abolition of the opium : trade. ; ' /"■ ': " • \'i:"\-yn- ■' ■; ■The ' treatment of leprosy, » c beoom jog a hard problem m India. In the Bom* bay Presidency 9483 eases are under treatment. • "\ " > I A British oculist, writing for a London medical journal, says that as culture of intellect increases the" human eye grows smaller, and > gazelle-dyed sirens ;' and. oxeyed JuoosVaoiah from society. The British are rapidly extending a network of railways oyer India, About ;£6,0Q0,Q00 will be spent this; yeaiiii th» ; construction of new rondt. J '-'■ ■'■ ' „ Two thousand ; atteride'd' the' Luther celebration at Wittemburg, Germany, on September 13th. ' '■ : John Barnett, the first irailroad can«« ductor employed itt passengea traffic,; died lately m England. He, accompanied the old No. 1 engine m the ttial trip with George Stephenson. { ' / It is a strange fact, but neyerth«t9ss,it is a, fact, that, there is no portrait of Charlotte Brontd 1 . ifl <Bxi*lJstr<jA. That affixed to the first edition of her life bj Mra Gaskell was a mere fancy sketch. Pope Leo has given orders that the priceless teasures' of the' Vatican Library shall hereafter be. accessible to. (Students of every sect and opinion Jfrom all parti of th9 ( wQrld, with no restrictions beyond those that are necessary to ensure the safe ; keeping of tae ; bdoks anqt iJdcamen^s. ; 1 There were fiye^Vioieh^'tdßaths' Isit month m the four New Zealand cities, theMcauses being accidental m three oases, viz., 1 killed by rail way.;; waggon,. -JU drowned, 1 child; overlain by mother. AH these occurred m Punedin, ; Th» other, two irere suicides, lin Wellington by hanging, and 1 m Dunedin by. throatcutting, • • A young woman is now m a Paris hbs* pital whose heart owing to a malformation of her breast-bone, is only covered «fith . skin. Bb pulsations can.be observed and the heart itself handled, 'Sir,' said an old Judge to a. young lawyer, 'you would do well to pluck some feathers from the wings of your imagination and stick them m the tail of your judgment.' Mr Vere Forster shows that bf the contributions to his Irish Female Immigration Fund no fewer than 19,000 girls have been assisted to emigrate. These girls have already sent home to their friend* upwards of £250,000,