PIRATES UP THE LAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2451, 13 November 1886, Page 2

PIRATES UP THE LAW.

Mrs Livingston, of %iiit York city, recovered 25,000d0l in ilio Courts' about a yean ago, from a rich man who had done her a wrong. Now she naturally complains because hoi 1 latfyers have taken 23,000d015. of the sum for their services. Three Milwaukee lawyers once put in a bill of 25,000d01s for services in settling an estate vyorth 32,000d015. Judge Druminond at once administered to these cormorants the'.following stern rebuke: —"Gentlemen, you consider yourself good lawyers. How much more are your services worth to your clients than mine to the people 1 You have 25,000d01s for sixty day's service. Could you not be content, each of you to take my j»o rata for the same time. These charges are. infamous. They are such as men who are scoundrels and thieves at heart would make. This charge of 12,000d01s is cut down to 1200doli; those of 5,000 to 600 dols. Repeat such a charge of rapine in this Court, and I will disbar every one of you." . ROUND THE WORLD. i ... Queen Victoria is building a private chapel at Balmoral, whioh is intended for Presbytoriah serviooß only, i Gardinal Newman is now bocoming enfeebled by age, and has loßt the power of using his fingers in writing, Great Britain has more than 12,000 total abstinence societies for young people with a membership of 1,500,000. In New York n careless handler of the whip has been made to pay 40 dollars for bespattering and ruining a lady's dress. In England there is a Bird Society composed of 100,000 children. Its aim is to encourago protection of birds and animals. The chamber in the White House occupied by Proßident Garfield after ho waa wounded lma, it is said, never been opened since he left it. Henry Georgo writes many books to prove that property should bo held in comuion, but he copyrights his books, so as to retain their ownership. It is rumored that President Grevy will retire from French politics on account'- of declining years and failing health. He is now nearly 80 years of age, Queen Yiotoria has denounced tho ";hft",at Buckingham palace as "that hideous thing," ordered its removal, nob withstanding it cost Hor Majesty nearly £2OOO. A rosy-cheeked maiden of 18, Miss Minnie Wilson by name, runs aitajge route between Hamline and Milnor, in Dakota, which is said to be extremely popular. The King of Portugal, who is visiting London, is not a handsome man,, and iB said to offend the taste of the Britishers by woaring unfashjonablo and antiquated garments. A reoent return shows that there are 480 churches, chapelß, and mission's of all ; kindß in tho city of New York, with accommodation for 375,000 persons. The amount annually required for ministers' salaries and tho ordinary current expenses of tho churches is estimated at LOO,OOO. The longest railway tunnel in England is the Stand Edge, whioh is it miles and 60yds Ion?, But the Severn Tunuel, which ha 3 just beou opened, is 4| mileß long, 2J of which aro beneath the rapidly, t flowing Sovern itself, at a depth of from [ 45ft to nearly 100 ft below the bed of the i river. Sinco the Conquest the revenue i of the United Kingdom was at its lowest t in tho reign.of Henry'Vl., being only j £64,951> per annum. It had decreased to , that amount from L4U0,000 a year in the f reign of William the Conqueror. Tho 3 rovenue for the year ending March, 1383, > was L 89,581,301. 1 The first African city lighted by elecf trioity was Kimberley, with 42 Brush j lamps, each of 2000 candlo power. The , current is also used thoro forkilling dogs. Oliver Wendell Holmes' summer resif donco at Boverley Farm is a fine old i place, surrounded by apreadod elms and f orchards. Tho house is filled will old > Colonial furniture, portraits, and souI venir. 6 When the Texas people get ready to 3 build a town they do it in a hurry, Balf linger, a new town in Runnels County, 1 is less than one month old, but it has j 2000 inhabitants and is still growing. 1 The blue fox fura presented by the t Czar to the Sultan aro described as two , magnificent pieces, mado up of the finost f skins and measuring each three meters i square. Their valuo is reckonod at . 150,000 roubles. ] Two ex-Speakers of tho House of Commons—Viscounts Eversley and Hampden, I the former now ninety-two yeara of age—- ] recoive each £4OOO. Fivo Euglish ex- [ Judges receive each £3500, tho qualifica--3 tion boing ton years' aorvico on the bench; 3 and fourteen County Court Judges receive . from £IOOO to £I2OO each. . • I " Tommy Atkins" lias bocorne the com- [ mon sobriquet of the British private 3 soldier from the tact that the printed forms used in the army for different purposes have, for the guidance of those who use them, the name "Thomas Atkins" printed to indicate where the user should write his name, j Itisreportod that Bishop Field Flowers Y Goo, of Melbourne, has a brother named I Wild Flowers Goe. [ A well-known Nonconformist minister, £ lately resident at Bangor, has lost a ! legacy of £IOOO through omitting to make j a call upon a rather eccentric tradesman, n who died lately, and who for some years t sat under his ministry. His will conu tained a legacy of £IOOO for the minister, • t but it had been cancelled the day following that upon which he omitted to make ] his customary oall. 3 'ltis interesting to note how largely a electrical appliances are being used in the ■ medical profession. Constant readers of I tho Lancet will not fail to seo week by s week discussions as to the best method of B using electricity in surgical and raodical cases. There exists a widespread beliof . amongst the profession that a grand I future exists for electricity in the aJlavi--3 ation of suffering. 3 It has been proved by practical experi* r ment that there is no difficulty in holding telephonic communication between tho West of England and London. As an experiment, half an hour's conversation has been held between Bristol and London. a distance of 118 miles. The speakinp was heard most distinctly, and tho speakers could be recognised by their voices, i Her Majesty has been presented with e a specially made umbrella from Glasgow. • The handle of the umbrella is a round 3 globe of fine gold representing the world, i studded over with precious stones to res present Her Majesty's dominions. Her 1 Majesty waa highly pleased with the i umbrella, and has caused Sir Henry i Ponßonby to return her warmest thanka I for the handsome gift, i Since the end of May the German . Emperor's physicians have insisted on his , swallowing nutritious food every two l hours, instead of waiting for his fixed i meals. Rich jellies, both sweet and v savoury, •%. strongest beef tea, and i" coffee and isinglass are tho " pick-me-I ups" with which His Majesty recruits I himself. 1 On the night of Friday, August 6, two i persons, a Sister of Mercy and a young

. woman named Bassett, throw themselves' [ out of iv railway carriage' in rilotion oh i the lino between Nice and Marseilles, in .'. , order to escape from' tho. companyof.i . fellow passenger who. appeared to , They were not seriously injured;. It is stated that the Panama Canal Will be completed in 1889. From .16,000 to • 20,000 workmen are now engaged jn it*' • construction.- • ' 1 V'. w '4 . An English clergyman officiating at { Chantilly has been expelled from Francs , for presenting an address of sympathy ..to. . the Due d'Aumale when the latter was t exiled, Stepniak, tho Russian novelist and Nihilist, is described by a French journal* , ist as a man ot about thirty years of age, Jfc ,of Herculean build, with a massive head, v j and the strength of an. athlete. 1 . Mr 0. E. Howard Vincent haa thrown f out the suggestion that one way of f recovering and developing British trade , abroad will be found in the establishment f of a Sohool of Commerco, where a sound j commercial education could bo received. , i Stepniak, the Nihilist and writer, is , said to have a prodigious memory and, 'tyik , vivid, imagination. Ho. speaks all the™ I European languages with moro or less t fluenoy, and his knowledge-of history, I politics and national economics is max> [ VellOUB; . \ President Gravy's health is.again tho " topic of much considerationin the French press. His admirers are trying to make lura out a " Grand Old Man," while his: enemies gracefully and considerately refer 5 to him as a " galvanised cadaver." r Tho first negrp to be ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in this country: i# I AugußtUß Tolken, who was born a slaye . in Missouri iu 1854. .He has .spent six years at Rome studying, and is to, have /, i ohartre of a colored congregation in wL 5 Quinoy,lllinois. . ... . . Sr In 1884 only 240,000 eallons of Irish j whiskey were exported direct to foreign r counties, while 2,200,000 gallons passed over to England. 'Of linens tho export r direot to foreign countries was valued; at a £400,000; to England there was Bent j eqroaa moro than £3,000,000 worth, It is slated that a score 'of Irish "eggs, . seieoted at random, from a crate containj ing over 1000, woighed a little under 21b. j Tho eggs of good Dorkings weight 602 more. The eggs of Leghorns weigh a 3 trifle over 31b por score; while the same , number of tho eggs of Spanish' turn tho j scale at 21b The country in Europe where there aw; ( most Jews iB Russia, where there ate fuH f 4,000,000) the country which contain t the noxt largest uunibor is Austro-Hun- '• gary (about 1,700,000); in Great Britain 3 there are about 65,000, and in tho whole j of Europe 7,000,000. i Captain Shaw,- Chief of tho- Loudon j Firo Brigade, haa arrived in America, on a tour of observation, bent upon giving s the London Department the benefit of e any results of American ingenuity ha 1 may find in the lystom in the chief cities y in that country. The histo'rio car, " Abraliam Lincoln," g whioh was used by tho war President. - s during his travels, and' in whioh his..k-. j mains wore conveyed to Springfield after j his assassination, is now usod bb a sootion hands' boarding-oar on tho Central Paqj,a fio Railroad. [1 They have an hotel for domestic pnti j. in New York, where these oreaturos aro e cared for while their owners are out ot : town in the holidays, Tho hotel is now.' .3 full to overflowing. Canaries are ohargod 25c a week, parrotß 50c, monkeys 75c, ,j cats2dol 500, from 2dola,to {fait . 1 50c. m ' ' A Madrid paper estimates at 4000 tfS' , 8 number of political adventurors, gamblers ~ deserters, and retugeoß who have, during j the past few months especially,- worked;;:0 their way to tho Franco-Spanish border. q In tho first six months following .the introduction of 'the sixpenny telegram y system in England, tho number of inland. ft messages Bent rose from 11,314,423 to e 16,787,540, but the recoipte fell from . 0 £604,438 to £564,203. I( Prior to the night of Mr Gladstone's memorable Homo Rule speech in tho; i. House of Commons, the greatest number •' of words evor transmitted by wire from e London on one day was 860,000, On :' , - i_ that day the number rose to ho less than a million and a half, .• The Commission appointed in the J United States to roport on underground (1 wire systems examined in Now York [. nearly 150 different plans for underground wires. A o-0 examined about 600 different plans and ; [. patets relating to the subject. , t "Tho women appear to do all the 15 work," writes Colones Watt ergon, an American, of the Swiss. It is not uucoin; 10 mon to see a girl and a dog hitched t(A cart and trotting along together it pair of ponies. The mon, great strapping ■a fellows, idle and lazy, loaf about the basseries. Their wivos, daughters and ' sistors till tho fields and supply the [. markets, , Three Russian peasants who insulted a _ priest at a funeral and scoffed at Church .. images at Kieff wore first sentenced .to twelvo and fifteen years' bard labour, but , that has been commuted to the losb of all k e oivil rights and deportation to tho farthest h. confines of Siberia, i. A gross case of cruelty was porpetratod ;e in a town in Tasmania, called Jerusalem, d recently, A woman named Sermon f . pleaded guilty to a chargo preferred 0 against her by the Sub-Inspector of hav- » ing plucked a fowl alive, and subsequently exhibited it. She was fined £6 and costs. ■ a An English Society, whose members . d are ef that way of thinking, is about to ißsue a weekly jourpal to be devoted to proving that this planet is not a revolving a globe, Tho Sooiaty's appeal for BUpport , 0 for the journalißtio onterpriso iB made to " all those who' profess to love their Bible ra and are zoalous for the truth it contains," j. Tho Ziou Hebrew congregation of fit Paul, United States, haa adopted a henß. f . method for testing the sermonising .. :e ties of a candidate for ite pulpit. Ho is not permitted to preach his very best, ly uermon to the congregation, but a Com--10 mifcteo meets him on tho way to church, 3 f gives him a text, and he is expected to , y preaoh from it without further notice. ,f The latest devolopementa of tho .Salj vation Army work in England have boea ' if the despatch to rural districts of a nnmj ber of tricvole corps, and of four '' " j. "squadrons" of female cadets from London to the principal, towns of tho ~ east, west, and south of ..England; and ' g another corps was to ombark for India/ l 0 clad in Native costumo. : . a The British ships in the : Homo and n Foreign trade wero manned by!'over !■ 157,000 Englishmen and by about '*14,000 foreigners in 1860, and by 171,000 and 0 27,000 respectively in 1885. The proiy portion of foreigners to Englishmen was only 4 per cent in 1851, it was 9 per cent )i in i860; and it had risen to 15 per cent io r. (j The United States Congress has appro* [ ( priated tho Bum of 350,000d0f for the construction of a dynamite gunboat, Tho lr company, of which Lieutenant Zalinski, 1 16 of the United States Artillery, is y inventive genius, have received the ordeF ;a for its construction-; but the money will only be paid to it should certain defined n results be accomplished. , is A statistical historian figures out that o of the 2549 monarchs who have ruled 74 d different nations, 300 were overthrown, d /"rood to abdicate, 28 committed d suicide, 23 went mad, 100 were slain in 3 . battlo, 120 wero taken captives by their t 8 foes, 25 wore tortured to death, 150 wore assassinated, and 108 were executed, jft o "Uneasy lies tho head that.we»ra a g orown."