General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4453, 13 April 1883, Page 2

General News.

Not long ago, a certain brewer being out of luck, made application for employment to a Melbourne brewing firm of decayed fortune. He was accepted, and proved to be a diamond of the first water. The beer of this firm rapidly became famous, and now its net annual profits amount to the nice little sum of £80,030. Having given his employers a taste of bis quality, be arranged his terms, viz.. £1000 a year, fixed salary, and balf-acrown on^every hogshead turned out of the establishment. The week !y output neverfalls below 850 hogsheads in the worst wioter^months, and during^%6''tnmmer'\i--T^Ao^i i"tS^i.--This is every .weefc, mind fspcif you add ; about 1000 half crowns weekly to a salary of £1000 a year, ; you- will. fidd^, thai^he " scrkw"' of a!Bucceßifol'weWeris\i^ so far behind that of a'Colonial Governor. A short time 1 ago va; handsome young woman called at a Vienna hospital, stating that she hail become suddenly deaf in one '. ear, and wished to be treated,fjb(it?the ; cau3e of her deafness she refused to reveal to anybody but PfbfesMor^GffttW^ the specialist. 'This > gentleman was in attendance, and after a good deal of coaxing,- managed to extract the following information from, the ; hesitating^;'jind, : blushing maid :—Her intended had just i returned ■ from; a Idng>]ourir6y. > Shf had 1 gone to the station to meet him, he put his arms around her, pressed his lips to her right ear, : and gare ;her areßoundrp^ kiss. At the same moment she felt-% •sharp twinge, BBd" has- been;, deaf ever since. Professor^ Gruber at once made a local examination, and annoußced a rupture of/thetympanumv re^lt^g fr*m too hearty'a kiss.' Let this be a warping to all-young ladies about to marry,-: i&d IfiJß to those who' wander unwittingly under the sacred mistletoe; at chrismastide. Do not struggle when a kiss is impending, but ? allow it Ito fall in tthe proper plaojg, otherwise an ear .may come within the line of fire, and deafness ensue.

Some idea of the enormous expense of the Belt trial, recently concluded at Home can be .formed from~the fees j>ajd to the defendant's* three cpunseT afond/ Mi[ C. Russet's brief was markeji 200 guineas. Mr Webster's 150 guineas; and Mr Lewis Coward's 100'guineSi, exclusive of ''refreshers," which were 50 guineas a day for the leader, 49 guineas for Mr Webster and 20 guineas for the junior, to whom Mr Webster paid "such a flattering compliment.^ The trial' lasted forty-three days, and the aggregate fees amounted to s,lßoguineas.1 tThejury by arrangement received a guinea^ per, day. ; i s -r ;■ B '»f "( | A "Water Drinker" writes to mil Etffr 1 ish faewspapef to say that he would • like to lie ' called " a hydro^oti" ■ There igaof course, no I accounting'for tat tin, but the would-be hydropot-explains that he thinks the; name]?:' teetojrljer" aba^^'f^rc^ Templar," unmeaning;" total abstainer/ long, clumsy, and vague." Hence nothing will satisfy his ''great gr'dwing-?need for some suggestive- term than a modification of the-rScriptural.: ?4 adropotos"; (ittejFi* mothyr v. 23) describe' fiiniielplnd friends. The name;" Kydro^ot" is cer" tainly V suggesfire"; for, to say nethi|g of waterpot," there are -\* teapot," " nife yer pot,"?*"?half a potV'- *.' trapot,'' ''dap trap," ■ and " humbug," all suggested- by this useless ;Gr»3!sm; ~/']Un,dropotes" means '* water idriuker'!;/;jthy not call Wmse.lfj. ; ", t water drinker" .in plain .English P Why veil his ,jweafcjn?£S.behind, an unknown tongue P " ,' ' J' •. , v The Salvation Army in England acquired more property in 18S2 than in afl'ihe previous years ol it s history "pntttfg'ettreK The sum total was £36,000; but this by no meang represehls all the)receipts',]M the offerings of the "common people" at their meetings are now Bkid: to be at the rate of £88,870 a year, besides which there is a large profit from publications. The army now uses 505 buildings, and has 442 coips or permanent station!^ wjth 1067 officers entirely engaged in the work.la.ln the balance she«t of the lagtanntial repiprt by General William Booth there ii £13;€J79 uofler the head of " general ipirittal funU," £12:451 ■^Siid^od^ipttiidSa." aocl^ £27,778 ft#buildmf.: !; v^ said" of what goes into' pocket quietly.' '. -. ■^•v'i^'^^W •"'■ •';■•• The Melbourne jPat»lic library is noir lighted by electricity. At Kilburn dear London, a few weeks ago, two novel censuses were taken and with curiously similar, results.f f w.tt a census of the number of persons at-' tending twenty-five.churches on a certain evening between the,hours of six and eight, the other a census, of ;<hf",,^.u|aber ftttendinpHhe thiriy-five pablic-nbdsMoa the same evening between the same hoars. In one case tUe number was 5570, in the other 559 L:- *"- '": " '-;* V'* 1 x : "'*> «-*V Russia is beginning:, to Bad out her mis* take. The Jews within her borders have been oppressed ao4 persecuted., and the remonstrancesldf' their bretbl-feniiS other lands have availed them little or nothing. Now Russia wants to raise'a'couple of logins for fourteen mill.io.ii.^.ir fcUarjeiJjoa^ijir and applies to the : iiof iischilJs £ wl' it. Israel's torn/Ik" cbine,'..«*!*thii "great financiers decline ':-tt find the money. They intend to devote themselves?entir^y^, to Indi*—-thati.B to s?y, Id the EasteriiMijorfcion of the "Empire that has steadfastly befriended their race., Th^.pr^babUity is the.t wherever Russia turns for Millie will ' find a Hebrew coalition agaiust her; ■and richly she'deserves such reprisals. The membership of London clubs* aggregates nearly 100,000, and their property is worth about £5,000,000. tijifcere are clubs exclusively for olergymeajuid others exclusively devoted to gambling. Draw poker is the favorite game, j■> r.r