General News.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5207, 24 September 1885, Page 2

General News.

On the last day of. June, says tbe St. James Gazette, Lord Carnarvon took the oath of office a» her Majesty's J'Lieut.Gejieral and General Governor;of the Kingdom of Ireland/ being the twenty• fourth viceroy appointed since the Act of Union. Six of his predecessors; however, have filled the post a- second time i so that the average deration of alard-Lieateoant's term of office has been somethini^BMrtban three years; AmtagßtthemenoflJfcrajpean reputation ywbo havejpgned at the Castle during the present century, one |msj mention Lord Whitwerth (1813-17), some time Ambassador at the Court of Napoleon, in whose bearing he made the memorable remark that so great a man should be so illbred." Lord Wellesley (1821,28 and M 33. 34) was.-perhaps, ai good a rnler as the countryeTer h|d, and naturally inqnued the bitterest hostility of the disaffected. Nor can it be Heowd that the malcontents adopted^ an ingenious metho<ttar giving expression ..to ? their sentiments. ? His Excellency chancing to be atHthe pliy, somebody called out, Three eheert for the Duke of Wellington!" which were heartily gireo. "Andnowsileaeefor^ie rest of the family!" cried the same person. It is not generally known that in December/ 1851, Lord Jo^n tendered the vice-royalty talid»i*PaJ»ifston," with or without a peerage," by way of compensation for the loss ofhthe Foreign; Oj|ce>v^lpjider the cirovmstancei the proposal cQulchhardJy be entertained; but one is tempted* to regret that Lord Palmerston was not offered the place at an earlier period of his career. A writer in *v Australian paper lays :— I dislike to say anything which might en. courage the indomitable conceit of the male .creature. But truthmustput. At Boston I see that in a lawn-tennis toiftament, women as against men, the latter won decisively. The ladies attributed their defeat to the encdmbratfee and embarrassment of . their . costumes. To settle the point, the'games Were played over again, the men donning pettiebata and other female impedimenta, and $h»j •won still more decisively. --;■ -:•„;; - f s "Full many a M Shaft," .fo^ia American paper, in sn article advocating Good Templary, \ gave some statistiea relative to the town of/whiehjit was an ornament,' and, in conclusion^ »tated that in the M^^gA "been*soDer 'for lwenty"'fi#e* >4yeari^:^[o names were mentioned, but on the next day the editor received.no less than twenty letters from different persons, each. coßpUiniog that the paragraph was a personal IttackMtaiSlf. -'W-t . .

bakers work 14 hours go 5 dars a iretkf and 16 or 17 on -Friday 'ana fiatardaj morning, when a double batch of bread is baked. The German bakws" work?!? hours fire days a»F«ek, and 20 hours to m ke |b^. louMeta^.;; Jbe ,pa*. af a foreman is from 18dols. to 2Odols. * wHk, a second hand from 10dol«. to 12dol«.. and* of a tbtrd hand from Sdols. to lOdoU. The Emperor William was born on. March 23, 1797. He has' therefore entered .upon bis eighty.eighth, Iftr. Oottnt Moltka wa# bin «pon Otrt»b*r 26, 1800, and will thua .be ei<?hty-fi?e yean old six weeks hence. Prin«e Biataarck was born on April 1,1814,' and is therefore in his seventy-first year. The ages of these thrc^Jistipguished persons added together reacli the sum of 244 years. . > • ni, ff ivwt? y