GENERAL NEWS.
Cardinal.McClbskey's, elevation is already resulting in great good.' All the young ladies want him to marry them. The locomotive " Johnson," on the Chattanooga Railroad, has painted on it a huge pair of shears with an accompanying inscription, " From Tailor to President." In a Baltimore theatre bill for 1807 appear the names of Mr. Wan-en, the father of William Warren, Boston's favorite comedian ; Mr. Cone, Kate Claxton's grandfather, who left the stage to become a clergyman, and Mr. Jefferson, the grandfather of Joseph Jefferson. It was a lady of Paris who regretted with a broken heart that her husband had been sent to Noumea as an officer of the Government with a good salary. "Why, yes," said her friend, " he might better go as a convict, for they all return immediately." M. Michel, a Frenchman of science, proposes the application of the principle of a bell rung py a change in the thermometer to the discovery of that change in the temperature of the water which indicates the proximity of an iceberg to navigators of the Atlantic. Alas for the peril and possible decay of that stray quaint style of art that is native to Japan. His Majesty the Mikado wants to establish in his dominions a school of Italian art. Then the Japanese will appear in pictures the frights they are, while in their own pictures they arc really interesting. The etartlingly sudden death of a minister occurred one Sunday lately in the city of Glasgow. The Kev. William Robi;, of the Free Church, Poolewe, Ross-shire, was preaching in the Macdonald Free Church, Cowcaddens, in the afternoon, when he became unwell. Ho had conducted the preliminary services, preached the sermon, and was in the act of giving out a psalm, when ho exclaimed, " The hand of the Lord is upon me ; I can proceed no further." Immediately after he swooned away, and fell back into the pulpit seat. Help was at once obtained, and the rev. gentleman was removed to the house of Mr. liwen Mackenzie, Elmgrove-plaee, Hollandstreet, when he expired in the course of Sunday night. The cause of hia death was apoplexy. M. Paul Perny, a former pro-Vicar Apostolic in China, has proposed to found a Europeo-Chinese Academy in the heart of
China, to be composed of missionaries, for the purpose of discovering, translating, and circulating in Europe, Chinese works of every kind bearing on the sciences, arts, and industry. M. Perny states that the Emperor Kien-Lung, who lived upwards of a century ago, drew out the plan of a general encyclopredia of human knowledge, which has not a parallel in the world. The publication of this encyclopredia is still going on. Nearly 100,000 volumes have appeared ; there remain 60,000 volumes to be published in order to complete the scheme of the Emperor. The Chinese have encyclopaedias of more than 300 volumes on agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, &c.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4460, 6 July 1875, Page 3
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481GENERAL NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4460, 6 July 1875, Page 3
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