NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 85, 3 August 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Among the papers and sketches which George Cruikshank left, are the original designs for the famous illustrations to " Oliver Twist." Real glass slippers, woven of gossamer threads of crystal, so flexible and brilliant that they emit rays of coloured light when seen under the gas jets, are now made and worn m Vienna. Lately the annual, entertainment to the journeymen butchers of London took place at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. About 1800 assembled at. tea, and they where afterwards addressed. ■',■ .:.'N.V;>'.; ";■. " 'V. :.' / •' .I' / . A paper has been signed by General Valentine Baker's friends at the Army and Navy Club, asking the Committee to reinstate him m the Club ; but, on hearing of it, *he himself with great judgment, begged it might not be forwarded. . The town of Toulon has received jfrom "Mi Paul Rouviere, an inhabitant, a legacy of 200,000fr. to build a boys' school conducted byplay teachers. The Duke of Buckingham' s daughters know how to cook an excellent dinner Professor Henry's daughters are described as walking encyclopedias^ - A labouring man from Liverpool, named Michael Russell, recently attended the Aintree races, made a small bet, and was so- OTerjoyedJat'rwirimng. that he laughed heartily, and at once foil down a corpse. Krapp, the cannon-maker says : "JQej Lordt has been goocLto me. He maizes . lots of war to help my poor vanrily along." Miss Hogarth, the sister-in-law of Dickens, the novelist, is now living with Mrs Dickens, the two having become reconciled. • Prevost-Paradol's daughter took the veil when her father shot himself. Now the suicide of her only brother has so affected her that it is feared she will die. Of tobacco, Massachusets averages a yield per acre of 1640 pounds ; New Hampshire, 1,500 ; Pennsylvania, l,380|; Connecticut, 1,220 ; Wisconsin, 800 ; Kentucky, 680 j Maryland," 690 j and Virginia,;-600 pounds. r • It is a singular, coincidence that the death of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, took place on the same day of 'the same month as that on which Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of the French died at Chiselhurst. : Under the new army regulations every Prussian soldier carries m his left trousers pocket the plaster, lint,jand bandage necessary for a first dressing of a wound. The autograph of David Garrick is worth about 14 dols. ; that of Mrs Siddons brings about 20 dols ; Rachel's, 6 dols ; Handel 210 dols ; and Edmund Kean's, 51 dols. >.'" ( n» Sleeping cars have been' introduced on the Highland Railway. Thirty acres of the Ha warden Castle estate, belonging to Mr Gladstone, have been sold to the London and NorthWestern Railway for £300 per acre. A meeting m favour of the release of j the Ticliborne Claimant was held m Hyde Park on : Easter Monday. Dr Kenealy ■ and Mr Oiislow were among the speakers. ; Jefferson Davis is said to look old and worn and broken down, and is not likely to live long. - ;.' Rhoda Broughton, the authoress, lives mostly m the beautiful valley of Cl wyd, Wales. '■A-:.,- 7 :-'- ; .--:v' ! : ':,\"- ■■ : ■ Victoria Woodbull has married a wealthy English merchant. - The Pope is about to revise and ppurb r lisli his Latin and Italian /poems. • ; Midhat Pacha will, it is stated, contribute to the " Nineteenth Century " an article on "The Present Situation of Ottoman Empire."