BRIEF ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3591, 19 August 1890, Page 2

BRIEF ITEMS.

Tlie-pjiinpjnal pjpinfe galjpries of Europe', anil (rtnaenuenlly qf t|p :world, are ranked' acoording. to tliß, number of pictures which thoy. contain :— l, Versailles; 2, Dresden; 8, Madrid; i, Louvre; 6, London; 6,Bfc Petersburg; 7, Berlin; 8, Vienna; 9, MnnwbilOrFletpncei 12 ( K»pleBj-

-r ■; 12, Venice; 18, Antwerp; 11, Turin. . Tho book, publishing business is • still prosperous in Germany. Seven- ! teen thousand nine hundred nnd oighty-six books woro published in 1889, nearly 1,000 inoro than in , 1888. Tho largest class woro textbooks and works of instruction. V .J Sonifl interesting Flemish tapestry 1 ' has been discovered in the stores of • the London Foreign ollice, and is now being hung upon the walls of tho ' large building in Downing street. The tapestry is of great value, and is exceedingly well preserved. The Rev J. W, Sharpo, vicar of "North Leach, Gloucestershire, recently dropped down dead in tho crickelfiold,- The deceased, who was an flinty gentleman, had been asked to play to make up a side, and consented do so on condition that • he did not run, but as ho was batting • he fell and expired. The four cars of the Electric j Traotion Company running on the \fr Barking road, London, carried on i Whit Monday 8,689 passengers' at a : Id each, an average of 2,172 per car. • This is far in advance of the possi- ' bilitiea of horao cars, and the highest record of the Tramway Company for the section was attainod by these , cars, viz,, 20,104 passengers on three days. t r »—«—— ' _•_ i