BRIEF ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 18 August 1890, Page 3

BRIEF ITEMS.

Tho opera of " Paul Jones'' was recently performed in London for the 852 nd time.

A lady violoncello player lately gavo a recital on that instrument at 'tho Steimvay hall, London. Dr Chambeland, Pasteur's chief assistant, has discovered that cinnamon is fatal to tho typhoid microbe. According to the host estimate, tho entiro gold coiuago in circulation in Great Britain is £102,500,000 made up of 80,000,000 sovereigns and of 15,000,000 half-sovereigns,' It is stated, wires the Leeds Mercury London correspondent, that Mr Stanloj has received £I,OOO for the solo right of taking and publishing his photograph. A famous artist once painted an angel with six toes, " Who ever saw an angol with six toes?" people enquired. " Who over saw ono with less ?" was tho counter answer, One of tho freaks of fashion in Paris is to give dinners' in the Eiffel towor, A lift i 3 hired for the evening for the exclusivo use of tho party and adorned inside with flowers and elegant draperies.

A remarkablo case of death from self-imposed fasting lias just taken place at Ramsden Grays, a village in Essex. The victim was Miss Mead, a middle aged person, and it is reported that sho took nothing but water for six or soven weeks, due could not be induced to tako food, and died of starvation. Some few years ago the Paris picture dealer Ferret bought a. picture for lOf in a rag and bono shop" He soon discovered that it was a portrait by Jordaen, and he got rid of it for ISOOf to tho Into Mr Botlian, the diplomatist. The picture—which is of Jordaen's best manner—has just fetched 68,000f.