LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 96, 26 March 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In years they have reigned, Queen Victoria stands ninth amongst the sovereigns of the world. An enterprising picture-dealer m London has imported from Berlin/ 10,000 photographs of Prince Henry 6f Batten, who is about to marry Princess Beatrice of England. The Republic of Mexico maintains an agricultural college at its capital, the appropriations for which last year were £339,248. There are 2,380 co-operative societies mi Germany, with a membership of over 1,000(000, and last year they purchased over .£75,000,000 of goods. „ The Pillsbury Mills of ' Minneapolis, Minn., have a capacity of 7500 barrels pe!r day, or over 2,000,000 barrels per year, . requiring 10,000,000 bushels of wheat annually. ' ' |The latest philanthropic institution m England— the giving penny dinners toi poor school children — is a great success. i There are over 50,000 Jews m Jerusalem alone, and the number of arrivals is increasing. The Ajax and Agamemnon, of the British Navy were eight years being built and cost j>1,000,000, and are pronounced failures. i Louis Kossuth, though not dead, as was recently reported, is very seriously ill. and his recovery is doubtful. '. Business partnerships between husband and wife are pronounced legal by the New York Supreme Court. . . The young women carry off nearly all the first honours m this year's examinations at McGili University m Montreal. '*■•■•■■' The first Congregational Church m Newbury, Mass., which was established : nearly two hundred aiuLfifty years ago, has Recently installed its twelfth pastor.--' :.:■■■•;:■■ .-• •■ ■■• :. ', A sect has been formed m Paris for the purpose of suppressing the name of the Deity m all languages.* They call themselves '' Anti- Deists." For school purposes m the Southern States, there is being spent twice as much as there- was five years ago, it is estimated, and four times as much as fifteen years ago. In a recent sermon at St. Paul's, London, Canon Lindon told a story of the late Sir Kobert Peel with quiet dignity ordering a carriage, when at a dinner party Christianity was denied. He said he was sorry to retire, but he was still a Christian. The Strasbourg line of railway has introduced a new carriage. It is, m fact, a three-storey carriage. The ground floor is the first-class. The second class is on the second floor and the, third class above. It is a great saving of space, and on that line the bridges, etc., are high enough to allow these hew carriages to pass. , The depression of the shipbuilding interest m <Great Britain is exemplified by the fact-that there was a decrease of 45,000 tons m the new tonnage last year compared with 1883. St Petersburg, has 1,075,00$ inhabitants, having gained 213,000* m fifteen years. Only 253,000 of the people are natives of the city, and the proportion of females is 122 to*loo males. Fifteen hundred school teachers of the Northwestern States took advantage of the Christmas holidays to attend the New Orleans Exhibition. By going m a body they secured excursion rates on the railroads and at hotels. George Augustus Sala is the son of an Italian - gentleman ; who married a favorite English singer. He was born m London m 1828, and was the founder kadi, first editor of the Temple Bar magazine. • The King of Sweden is said to be trying to marry his second son, Prince Oscar, to Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, .-his recent visit to England having that object m View. • : , . ' Husband, reading from Scot — " Not one woman m twenty marries her first iove. How was it m your case my dear?" y^ife — ''How was. it m your case?" Husband— " You must make the first confession,— sdon'fc answer like a parrot by asking me the sauae question." Wife — " Well' here's the honest truth. If you married your first love, I married my first. If you didn't, I didn't." The Sydney War correspondent tele 1 grape from Adelaide :— " By the way,, two stow-aways have been discovered. The first was a deserter from the Permanent Artillery, who could not get taken on m Sydney, and who, determined not to bo left behtnd, hid himself, and who has now attained the object of his wish, as perforce he has been enrolled. The other stow-away was a London guttersnipe, who came out as n. stow r away to see the colonies, did not like them, and is now returning to his native land via Suakim." •More than forty railroads have passed into the hands of receivers during (he ij year. j A correspondent of the Taranaki , Herald »Ktiinntes the amount of ooalc within tho Mokau eonfieM -to Mic 400 millions of tone, " Fnfilc-u-nt, nvaardinß to th.o present output of 400,000 Inns, I*, Hast a thousand, yonrp." Tho correspoii•di'iit does not mean that the output of I Mnknti i« 400,000 tons n year. Hecauee i tfo<' first y<;nr of fho 1000 haH not wm{wmuced yet, and will not for ft few j week*.

Melbourne, Arkansas, with a population oil 250 has four churches, any one of which will hold the entire population. An inventive genius m the Napier railway' workshops has aoplied for n. patent for an improvement m cooking stoves. The invention m brief is this, that by the use of tubes, instead kettle, boiling water may be seemed m two minutes at any time. Mrs Dudley, the nurse «vho shot O'Donovan Rossa, is a Roman Catholic, and was most attentive to her religious duties. Sheis said to be the illegiti- I mate daughter of an officer of the Scots Greys, who is now m a 'land ami commission business m New Zealand. We have been anxiously waiting for this, writes the Napier Telegraph. Will some one say if Wauganui is the head quartersof the land and commission agent? The Patea Mail makes a similar inquiry. A lady on reading tha graphic accounts of the enthosiastic volunteering for Egypt m the different colonies, and also the alarming telegrams regarding Russian complications, asked the very important question : " What are we to do if our Volunteers leave us? Wo shall be eaten up by the Russians or French or Germans. Surely they ought to stayhero to defend vs — there are not too many Volunteers for that purpose now. Tln;y had little need to leave us defenceless. The following little bit of plain speaking is clipped from the Mataura Ensign : — "The amount of prevarication, lying, unil fraud noticeable m the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday at Gore by those who gave evidence was most disgusting, and ought to have been ' promptly and decisively checked by the Bench. Nearly hall the plaintiffs, dofendants, and witnesses ought to have been committed to the lock-up, and we trust that the next time there is any such exhibition, the presidiug Magistrate will make examples of some of those who thus make a mockery of their oaths. ' '