BREVITES.
Miss Bird, a recent traveller in the Japan islands, fell in with an aboriginal race with hair so abundant over their bodies as to render clothing superfluous. During the last few weeks of her life, George Eliot had completed the plan of a ncjw novel, which she had resolved sho’nm be her last. It was to be a work dealing, like “ Adam Bede,” with country scenes and people.
Dancing pays in Naples. The well known ballerina, Amina Boschetti, who has just died, has loft a will disposing of £125,000. The principal heir is a youth barely of,age. Professor Swan described his electric lamp for domestic use at a semi seientic meeting in Liverpool, recently. They could light from 150 to 250 candles by an engine of horse power, and make as many divisions of the light as jhey wanted. The lamps were so simple, that if broken a servant could replace them.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2521, 20 April 1881, Page 3
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153BREVITES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2521, 20 April 1881, Page 3
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