THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1879.
Thk attention of officers of T. 5.13. and Naval Brigade is called to an advertisement in another column. An Australian exchange says :—" A pigeon flew the other day 208 miles in 275 minutes in .New South Wales." It may interest our readers to state that the greatest speed ever attained by our pigeons was 30 miles in 35 minutes. This was at the time of the Ngatihako outrage. There was a clean sheet at the 11.M. Court to-day. Sweeps and '• Art Unions " arc all the go now. Here is the latest phase of the popular craze :—" A young man in Louisiana, possessed of a good appearance and amiable disposition, being anxious to marry, and unable to do so without the preliminary trouble of amassing a fortune, proposes the following expedient for enabling himself to arrive at matrimonial bliss : he offers himself as the prize of a lottery, to bo drawn for by widows and virgins under 32 years of age; the number of tickets to be not less than 600, and the price of each ticket 50 dollars; the fortunate winner to be entitled to himself and the 30,000 dollars, or upwards, in tho pool. That young man must hare made certain of there being a great number of widows in Louisiana."
The latest German invention is for dealing cards. The pack is placed in a sort of box, from which can bo turned by the thumb with considerable rapidity. If the apparatus possesses the merit claimed for it, of prcrenting all kinds of cheating, it will proro Terj useful in some circles.
The noted Bleak House of Charles Dickens' novel, situated in St. Peter's street, Islington, has been totally destroyed by fire. A policeman on duty Baw dense volumes of smoke issuing from tho first floor window. An alarm of fire was raised, and the fire-engines were quickly on the spot, but the flames had obtained such a hold that the/ roof fell in within half-an-hour after the flames were observed. The loss amounts to about £2000.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3409, 25 November 1879, Page 2
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352THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3409, 25 November 1879, Page 2
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