NEWS IN BRIEF.
Chicago has three lady lawyers m successful practice. I Scales that will weigh a grain of dust '• are used In the Philadelphia mint. Brigham Young's widows are gradually remarrying. Queen' Victoria has reigned fcrty-one years, only three years less than Queeu Elizabeth. In the British section of the Paris Exhibition is a glass chair made by the London firm of Osier and Co. for an Indian prince. In and about Lyons, France, 200,000 women and girls' Work from 11 to 13 hoors a daj for an average . bf 40 ti»t» z.
Between 20 and 30 persons have been arrested m various German towns for expressing regret at the failure of Nobeling to kill the Emperor. The will of late Mr George Stone of London, provides for the distribution of oyer £200,000 between four of the leading hospitals of that city. The articles m the " Fortnightly j Review " which are entitled " The Political Adventures of Lord Beaconsfield, " are reported to be from the pen of Professor Hndgson, of the Unirersity of Edinburgh. A In Catholic charity tbe United" States spends £120,000 a year among the negroes of the South, and 109,000 coloured pupils are taught m Catholic schools. Abovt 700 assegais were shipped to Cape Town from East. London to his Excellency the a few days ago.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 104, 9 October 1878, Page 3
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