News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 114, 9 April 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Queeensland planters grumble over the cost of itnpof tin's their mdni .In iFrii the cost may mean anything . 'jFroW'f^'S to £54 With prospects of unlimited fines^rom the authorities. ■ • ; V^" *'-. * No, Joseph , the . steam-heating : com« pany was not formed for .the" purpose of heating steam. Steam is heated before it is made— that is to jay, wh eu you heat the steam— no, when^ you make the steam • — no- well, confound you, donV you know thnt steam is bot< anyway,, and doesn't have to be heated,, by a ,com« pany.' „ / . Something 1ika.15., per cent of oar present members of Parliament are editors or proprietors of newspapers. Every man has 24') bones. Except the minstrel corner»men, who hay« 244. Barnum and his partners, Bailey and Hutchison, have divided £200,0U0 among them as the results of the -season. On the State Railways m Sweeden^ . there is generally a doctor for every *f* thirty«two miles of line, and m this way forty»four doctors are employed by the Government; ' The' private raUwaj-s have a similar system, , The medic*l men ex-* amine all applicants for employment^ and reject those phisically disqua{iffed ; , es» pecia'lly by defects- ft of sighf and Rearing. They also erive their serricSs to a)l irijnred by accidents on thelw^-lo regular^em* ployers and their- families m sickness, to occasional; employers while, v engaged m service, "to labourers m shopp who have paid the same contribution as those engaged m the lihe^and also to their families. *No "exception is made m the cases of those who suffer from injury ■ or disease caused by theirown fault. The Archbishop of OSntefbtirV, preachy at the consecration ofr .a church at Oroy» den, said that it. was the. .want_oJLsj"n" pathy betwepn „ ther . ,u pper, and lower classes Which 1 triakes ' vs l trbntlMe'to think of the mines of ill-will which lay buried i for' the r pre«enti' " r v ■ - •,-,-. ;- : a\ I ■'. .< l ' : , ~\ • A.- temperance lecttirerj; ihojding iup a glass of water, said j, ' ?. SViih «- micwwcope ■it -.would be fpond, to}cont|uuijjainj insects [but if a little , whwkey .m t)ie in- ?- aectß iiistJvntly die.' An oW ".'wpm^n'res« poned; ''Then:'.thitaJc-.Gf6b ll fbr the whu*» 1 ---1 " 1 - w\-U'^ ■■■■■<■■- .