News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 92, 13 March 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

— :oo>— ' A Jesuit missionary in "Vienna, who recently denounced the immorality ot working%men, was assailed with stones m - the pujpitl '/ ' '" ; - T.he Gazette of December 28 appeared without any list of bankrupts. It is many j;ears since a week passed without - any bankrupts. '" : ;--"i A necklace containing 28 large gems" the Property of a French noblewoman! brought £24d0 recently at an auction^ held m London.- •'■ '•'' '■ • J -^t ' So many comets Bfrteported to have been seen during the last few days^tbafc. the crop this < season is expected by astronomers to ;bd bountiful. < t ... -f It is thought that Sir John Hall, on his return to flew Zealand, will reenter political life, but what his course will be. is a matter of coojepfure,^ J; \ . , . : fj ■ Three hundred and seventy recruhi have applied, to join the -militia at Balla*: rat. It is stated : the battalion wRY be raised to a strength 'of 400. A recent return gives -the number of sheep now m NowZaaland as *.' 12,1*38,152, ;as against 12,408; 186 for' last, year showing an. increase of 88O;Q46 sheep. T Xady Aberdeen jjias caused proVtsionHt* ' be made for supplyin* with warm dinaera daily all the poor scholars attending public schools on ithe Haddo House states** The latest' piece-df fashionable ,glang m London is ' slumming^- To ' slum' is to visit £<>or people; in pop&parts of a.cUy o on' missions of mercj and charity, "' **'*"" Slaves m the Soudaft are taken down to the ( coast, put on board, a vessel ahipned by night to Arabia, whence' they -ate ¥f«* , tubuted to all parts of the Turkish:"Empire, Five thousand new sixpences were among the^contribHtflons received last year for Ofi^tnlas;distributtoaßtnoncr the children m the Lond9n. hospitalsT.and. workhdusres.^ :vi ' ■ ■' -; ' •'"■ s, 'TgVat 'ought 7 16 he for oleomargarine. There is buttertyaa the goat. . 'mb <>vv . Marfiage is 1 paying -for h'^dreises araf&ff ;the other fixings, • ;: .' uK!2! .^andi^sportkmen-^oyi'jQu^a&eU at this, whiskey V Boy who^hSs" bronvtS the luncheon- basket— < JNV !' '.the cooaSc wadna come got!',. , ,'; : f A "' '""* A fen >*le oarangiiout&9gi|i has learned to love'a little i dog and re^ l^T' >&£&' "»PVAt«» km; it,' feomo, tashionabl?, ladies are the same way,.. ..',.• , <j .Wi read of a cijiidi only 3 years, ofeH .who can sp«ak the Qhinese language dis^j tinctly k : Thore||are many, persons' in this CAUptry,~Co years old^ who. don»t unde»^ !i^twAiiifc VwordLJolxthst languaije,. Tha> child, by the way, has.Giuaeae parentsit and hveaia China-. aH'f . : . r> ,?{ ;j^ <Ereddieidld you gb -to'eoWol fo>'da> r Yes m.' 'Did you learn any^hin^neivY* 'Yes'm, 1 'What was it, my boy F «f got qnrto a sure, Way { of: getting lout, for an hour by sauffiog. ted ink up my nose.* i Loofc^loolr, .Diroi&yd therms B'.qhard.MaryeKM; i Who's he^' ;Sthel£-> t^^Ht<p.eyer o heard. i of diehard Mar^lf Why, he s tha. actor, ypu .know, at tha ; Parthenon !' TJorothy-- Oh! an actor, is he 1 He s somethinjflike Mr Osbaldistona Smith. Ethbl-' WWajfilrp^aldktona ;Sm:th?' Dorothy-' What • never heard of Mr OaTjaldiatonjß :Smith?LWhy, he*<~ c greatest breedgr-pf .ahftrthorna m all • OncpherlaudS' , _ 7i j /...,.- .; . : \[{\ & l_\ i V/ The day/amr.the wedding^ liopMu* ! reuxiind^his, blushing ; bride engaged *ja pl *" n S ,ft» wrea(h of aiti6cial flqwera uWera'giasagliobe. T., < Why, my^iiearU* , what' is tlialt-forP B.B.: 'To kebpit clean, of oour.se,' T;r«iJut what— why B, B. ; « Who k^bwa, my dea>?i.p mipht want; to moi it again/ i 'I*..'' Letters posted m -Wellington to«dajp per ss WakKtipuy. *ill reachnLondon. oi* the 29th,prpx<imo,, ) eleve».,navB befair© the. next mail, via, San- Frßiicisco, . arWQs m London. '" '■■'"' '■ '*