General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4481, 16 May 1883, Page 2

General News.

MR BRADLAUGff AND THE SAL-

VATION ARMST

In a letter to Mr Justice North, who presided at the recent trial of blasphemers, Mr Bradlaugh, after denouncing His Lordship as having shown " the spirit of the old inquisitor," says:—Just now English diplomacy has been moved on behalf of some Christians, who, as Lord Shaftesbury says, use a blasphemotti fashion of spreading their views in Geneva. Christians of the same class are now in conflict with the authorities in British India, where, in addition to being blasphemous Christians, they are coarse and insultiug to the religion of the Buddhists and Mahommedans. I ask your Lordship what would be the outcry through the civilised world if, either in Switzerland or Hindostan, these Salvation Army propagandists, who. thrust their blasphemies furiously into all men's faces, were so harshly dealt with as you hare dealt with George William Foote, William James Ramsey, and Henry Kemp ?

The Australasian has a very pertinent criticism of Major Atkinson's panacea for. pauperism. It says:—" But we renture to ask Major Atkinson whether he means to see to the application of the 10s a week that his veterans, after they attain the age of 65, are to receive? We presume that be would make it inalienable. But if any old gentleman should take it out in beer, would not the pauperism and the burthen of its support remain as before? In other words, would not sociejy have to support the drunken old man to the extent to which it now supports him, and have, ia addition, to pay him drink money to the amount of 10s per week?/' j Wild, of Toronto, announces that Adam was seven feet high. His. reason for this conclusion is that the first man was perfect, and seven is a perfect number. " Three is the Trinity number, and stands for the Creator ; four stands for the world; thus seven includes the Creator and the created. Seven makes comple* tion. There are geven virtues that make a perfect man—virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. - Ide H. Homer, three feet high, and Robert H. Huzza, three feet six, were married last Wednesday night in New York. Since it by no means follows that small married couples have small children —indeed the very reverse is gener illy tha case--the domestic complications that may possibly ensue from the union are rather startling to contemplate. The natural order of things is likely to b3 reversed. When the babies get to be a couple of yearg old or so, the boys will be taking the old man out to the woodshed to be disciplined, and the girls will be using Mrs Huzza as a doll. It will be funny to see the old folks sitting at table, in high chairs while the young people use the low ones ; nor will it bo exactly ia order when Master Huzza, son, saves a fare in a street car, by taking his daddy on 'his knee. But our imagination is leading us ahead of facts—the little couple are both deaf mutes—how then, can they raise "Vhussas.* great or small.