NEWSY NOTES.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1088, 19 September 1883, Page 3

NEWSY NOTES.

It is stated that 90 per cent of the Russian people are illiterate. It is said that either Lord Dufft-rin or Mr Goschen will succeed Lord Ripon as Viceroy of India. Ex-Empress Eugenie is building a 840,000d0l church at Flam borough, England, in memory of her son.' Sennig, the American, who killed a fellow student in a duel near Wurzburg, has been arrested in Switzerland. The King and Queen of Portugal are known only as the Duke and Duchess of Yillaviosa when they travel in Europe. Brigandage has vanished, it is said, from Spain, save in remote districts, and a traveller can go where he will in perfect safety. The Princess of Wales is to appear at n bazaar as a tea merchant, and the idea scandalizes the more sober section of society. Clarence King, the geologist, is said to be the present lion of aristocratic English Society. He has been dining with the Queen and the Prince of W ales.

W— There are 300,000 families in Lon- ■ doh who are in the habit of pawning T /small articles, and more than 6,000,000 r unclaimed pledges are sold every year in that city. ; It is sail! that this will be the last fashionable season for lawn tennis, bets mee its devotees are becoming so expert that inexperienced players are shamed oat of the field. The Yicetegal carriage, with its „ cavalry escort, the officer riding by the door with his drawn sword, and the car of detectives following, is a familiar sight in Dublin. t In Gircat Britain the loss to the Government by worn silver money withdrawn from circulation because of deficiency of weight caused by wear and tear, amounted last year to 140,000d01. A railroad projected into the interior of British Honduras is expected to do r great things in developing the marvellous wealth of that country in mahogany, cedar, "ebony, india rubber, etc. Over the stall of a public writer in la rue dn Bac, in Paris, is the following inscription : M. Kenard, public writer, Wf advising compiler, translates the tongues, the language of flowers, and fried potatoes.” I It is proposed to reduce by three or I four pounds the knapsack of the German ■ soldier on march. But the decrease I trill, it is thought, be partly made up by ■ the addition of ten or twelve cartridges ■ to the slock of eighty now carried. I The committee appointed by the I French Chambers to consider the pen- ■ sion to M. Pasteur, the scientist, who, I it wos recently announced, will invest iI Rate the origin of cholera, have agreed I to recommend its increase from 12,000 ■ francs to 25,000, with a reversion to H the widow and children. ■ Parisian beanties now wear their hair combed back from their foreheads. V The Sultan has conferred on the of Germany the Grand Cordon I of the Order of Chefcat.