General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4857, 4 August 1884, Page 2

General News.

The earning power of the Australian community isgreater than that of any other population in the world. According to Mr G. Mulhall, F.5.8., the annual earnings per head in Australia are over £43, as against £35 in the United Kingdbmj £27 in the United States, £26 in Canada and . Holland, and £25 in France! The rate of wages is highest in .New South where it! exceeds £50 per head per annum. This causes the saviDg power of Australia to largely exceed "that of: other countries,. the annual savings per head being ia j Australia £6 15s, while in the United Kingdom ifc is £445, in the United Bt4tei £3 17s, in France £3 13s, in Canada £3 3s, and in Holland £2 2s, •■..;...'',- ;; ■;.;£ ivyf;^ The death is announced of a pedlar who sold nick-nacks on a tray on-ijodddn Bridge, and pretended to. ,be deaf and -dumb. Though clothedin.Tags;.'he wasr it is! said, a Swiss gentleman*bffortuiuv^ who, stung by remorse, had taken i tow that he would not open his lips for tea years, and that he would go bare-headed and bare-footed, and forego for twenty years all the advantages which fortune had bestowed upon him. He stuck to his vow, and was in his fourteenth yearof. voluntary servitude when he died. The Sanitary Record is responsible for the statement that in 1770 the following edict was solemnly passed and duly regia. tered in; France under Louis XV;:—'^Whosoerer, by means of red or white 5: paint, perfumes, essences,: artificial teetfi, false hair, cotton wool, iron corsets, hoops* shoes with high heels, or false: hips, shall seek to entice into the bonds of marriage any male subject of His Majesty, shall ba prosecuted for witchcraft, arid declared incapable of matrimony*" : * >:■" r T The account of the success^ that has attended Mr petrie's exeavafjpns at Bau (Tanis Zdan) ismost interestingi Among; the valuable relics in the proheaied - Pompeii the remains of a new temple of Ptolemaic date have been; identifiedi < Antiquities of various descriptions hara^ I been turned up in considerable, numbered and last, not least, Mr Petrie'siabonous examination of the Building materials employed by successive king«"insthe con- 1 struction of the great wallrthe'second wall and' the pylon has brought to light an >-* unsuspected mass of reworkea)"stones of all periods, "each stone a fragment torn fr?*» a pagej of history^ ■& But of?all sthe A '-' discoveries the most startling, tbu« far, if not archsßplogicar the most valuable, is «»at of the cut up colossus of Eameges llw This profes to(have^ been the most stubendi ouscplossuf known to have;been sculp- ' tared .by^the.hand^iofrman.- 1 This status enougnof wjiich lias,jaow- been found to - measure the whole correctly, gtood erect^ and crowned, and measured 100 feet and With. pedeatainS feet; "This is iußtM 2in. higher than the obelisk of. Karnak. The minimum weight is estimated at 1200 [ tons. .:The statue was sculptured." in 'the hard red granite of Assouan; ■ v i ssia about 200 ? littlelted mtinir ; " Hoods are annually devoured by wblres 1' v 5 Thei migration of the: British ariste«cracy io America and thef (Colonies is re«; markable. ; Lord"Tankemjie'^sson^^toß^^l-'-1--given up ; law andtakeii to >' ranbhine?' mQ - Texas; Lord Dansane's son has ju«t rob* toAmwjc* for theNanie^purpose $^1 S Lord Huntingdon and his son ings are now-inspecting view, to jettUment. r ßritish Capital 5 r" more^and more^flwring out of Bogltnjf'^