NEWS IN BRIEF.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1043, 2 March 1882, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A pair of twins are now living in Virginia, who are 93 years old. A Denver newspaper has been sued for calling a deacon “ a fine old rooster. ” Sound travels faster in glass than in any other medium—lB,ooo feet petsecond. The Paris street cars and omnibuses carrv an average each week of about 17,345,000 persons. There are said to be 30,000 out of 40,000 townships of France open to Protestant preaching. During 1881, the value of English and Colonial property- lost at sea bywrecks totalled £18,000,000. At ailor at Sydney committed suicide recently by- tying his goose around his neck and plunging head first into a cask of water. There is less insanity in Turkey, where there is less education and intelligenci, than in any other country. A series of aggravated outrages have been committed on the Irish tanantry of the Earl of Cork by the followers of “ Captian Moonlight.” The Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria has published of Oriental travels in two volumes, didicai ing them to the companions of his journey. The proposed revision of the education code in England provides that sewing shall be compulsory for girls and for boys under seven years of age. A young female recently threw herself into the Thames, and gave as a reason to her rescuer that “ she was tired of her life aud perplexed with its mvsteries.”