BRIEF ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3570, 25 July 1890, Page 2

BRIEF ITEMS.

Dion Bouoicault is quite ill at New : York..' : \ ;"/:. ■ The Russian empire has an area of 8,644,100 square "miles.; ' The gunboat Vesuvius on atrial Q; "ran at the rate of 21-75 knots iu'^Thour."; ; : ;'' ■"•■ ' v; . l' ; The French Government has re« ; : cognised Fyjplite as President of tliQ : ,>"■ iflaytiau Republic, p *. ■'

j. V ' The zebra of South Africa is said .■-•.■' to-be rapidly boooniingoxtinot. Tlio animal is untamable. Crops throughout Guatemala givo fine promise but tlio Government is the prinoipal land holder. Tlioro arc, according to the last , report, 62,028 schools and colleges in L Bengal, and 1,182,15G scholars, Over 17C0 studonts nro registered ' ' at tlio University of Michigan, of whom thirty-sevon aro Japanese, Tliere are 110' different varieties of strawborries growing in tho experimental gardens at tho Kansas State Agricultural College. The measurement of 2,000 students at Cambridge, llngland, shows that success in litem;' examinations is in no way conneoted with staiure, strength, or breathing capacity, v Panama Canal shares at Paris - . have fallen 17f. owing to the publication of tho report of tho Commission /™k, of Engineers sent to oxamme tho /%>" works, Tho quotation is Ml below '-** tliepar valuo of SOOfr. At the new crematorium at Pcro a Chaise, since cremation was begun .raoro than 1200 unolaimod bodies of 'persons who havo died in the hospitals have been burned, Tlio bodies of 800 persons belonging to tho upper classes have also been oromatod in compliance with their own request or at the request of their families, W AnnaC. Brackett, who seems'to ~. know, said the sidosaddlo. was introduced in England by Anna of Bohemia, who was deformed and married Richard 11, Tlio divided skirt, then, must not be tho novelty which its inventors claim it to be. Baron liirsch 'of St, Petersburg , proposes giving an American com- i mitteo an annual sum of £IOO,OOO for the purpose of establishing and , sustaining an agricultural school for the benefit of Bussian Hebrews in the United States,

j r Tliß La Buraum, which Bailed jom Halifax for Porto Rio last anuary, and which has long been missing, was found recently bottom iip.' All the crow are lost, and it is supposed are in the hold of the vessel.