NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 6, 13 November 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The late Lord Russell's successor Is a boy only ten years old. fie re» Bembles bis grandfather. It is rather a singular coincidence that Queen Merdedes died m the same room as King Alphonso was born. By permission of the Queen, a son of the Cndive is about to enter the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet. : There is a rumour that Princess Beatrice wiil be married to the new Puke of Cumberland. Lord Granville says that education Snakes women less pedantic and more lovable.,^, t , - i , I^nj^Bujtington, the Britisn libera |cadT^^V*)ad is 6ft lOin high. f.- Prof. Ivare swam two miles m the Thames ojindfolded, with hands and feet tied. Lord Beaconsfleld wants to retire and Mr Gladstone says he will offer no opposition to his doing so. The Empress of Austria is only 32 years of age, and yet she is a grandmother. . Palmer, the convicted detective, is, it is said, m failing health, and appears to be dying of a broken heart. Gortßhaff 's teacher was M. de Ba.udry , a renowned Professor of his time. And M. de Baudry was the brother of Marat, " the friend of the people." The great bulk of the cotton crop m the Southern States of Amerioa is now grown by white labbut and upon small farms. . Mr John Macgregor says that '* hundreds of girls m London are learning to swim, but many hundreds more would gladly learn if teachers could be J»d." - There are 1000 artesian wells m California. Of these 300 are m Santa Clara Valley. Most of them overflow the surface, and the tube averages seven inches m diameter, the depth of the bore runs from 160 to 200 feet. Mary L. Gulick, of New Brunwick, N. J., an unsophisticated spinster af 39 years, has just recovered £400 from her uncle, Peter Gulick, an old man of 8 years, for breach oi promise of majr riage. „ . A one-armed negro- boy at Augusta, Ga., has saved four persons from drowning, and Mary McNamara, of Clinton Mass., has just saved the third ohild that fell into the Lancashire mill ponds this year. . Mary Benton of Elton, Durham Country, England,, is supposed: to be the oldest woman m the world. She was born m Febi .l2, 1731, and is of course m her 168 th year. She is m possession of all her faculties, perfect memory, hearing and eyesight. She cooks, washes, and irons, threads her own needle, and sow's without spectacles.