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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 19 February 1884, Page 3

Tho French •wholesale druggist who was convicted of substituting cinehonidino for quinine, in supplying the Paris hospitals, has been sentenced to a year'b imprisonment and a fine of 50f, and is also compelled to defray expenses of advertising judgment in a dozen French journals. The returns of 1881 and 1882 show that the annual import and export trade of Okina amounts to vefy nearly 500,000,000 dollars, Of this • the percentage of Great Britain, including Hongkong, is about .60,; not far short of three-fourths of the wholo trade; that of the United States is 20 per cent. Tho Mormon Church now embraces a president, 12 apostles, 58 patriarchs, 3885 sentinels, 3153 high priests, 11,000 choirs, 1500 bishops, and 4400 deacons. In Arizona thero is a membership of 2262; in Idaho, twice as many, and missionaries are at work all over Europo and tho United States, Threo Indian women were struck by : lightning in an open, field on the ■ Albion estate, Mauritius, on Jan. 8. Ono was struck dead on the spot, and remained in a standing position, her face and upper part of the body having turned completely black. Tlio two others wero severely burnt, and had ono sidp of their bodies paralysed, .-At stations on Russian railroads t there is a grievance book, in which the V traveller may inscribe his wrongs in any language, and which is periodically read by, the authorities, A recent Parliamentary return shows, tliat since the year 1850, 16 baronetcies and 34 knighthoods have been conferred upon the physicians and surgeons of-Great Britain and Ireland. At a recent meeting of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chinirgical Society, Mr Margeton, of Dowsberry, exhibited an incandescent electric lamp, designed by himself and used by himself, since October last in examining the mouth and throat. Tho globe was about half the sizo of a walnut. It can be held in the mouth for two minutes without discomfort from heat. Mr E. T. Booth, the founder of the Blue Eibbon movement, states that lie has pervaded 700,000 persons to take tho pledge, and that over 1,000,000 persons wear the blue ribbon. . Mrs Tom Thumb's weekly salary is five hundred and fifty dollars, Prince Napoleon's eldest son is a pupil at Cheltenham College, England. Thero are 394 medical practitioners and 83 dentists registered in New Zealand. Tho late lord Ovorstono is said to have been the last survivor of tlioso who held seats in the House of Commons in the reign of George 111. Captain Robert Dickinson, Irish politician and refugee, and brother-in-law. of Parnell, died in Belgium on Dec, 12. His remains will be taken to Ireland. Active negotiations have been 'opened by Spain with the llnited States Government for reciprocal concessions beneficial to trade between Cuba and tho Udited States, It is estimated that in the two . Garolinas, Georgia, and Louisiann, a ' total population of about 200,000 people, white and colored, are dependant upon the cultivation of rice. Says "'Rambler" in the Sheffield Telegraph Parsons sometimes. get answers they don't expect, oven from children, .One of them was questioning a Sunday-school class about the parable of the good Samaritan who helped tho mail who had fallen among thieves on tho way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Bringing the story to a point, he asked, " Now why did tho Priest and Levito pass by on the other side ?" A scholar held out his hand, '•Well, my boy, why did the Priest and Lovite pass by on the other side f "Iknow,"said tho lad, "because the man was already robbed." The barque Josef has arrived at New York from Capo Town, South Africa, with 23 ostriches for the ostrich farm near San Diego, San Francisco. 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