NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3682, 9 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The height of the atmosphere is almost forty miles, , The Pope has forbidden Catholics, to oremate their dead, There are 22,357 artists domiciled in France at present, Within the Arctic oirclo 7fi2 kinds of flowers have been founid. The site of Hie Academy of Plato, A. near Athens, is in tho market, Since 1871 Germany has apenfc '' ' £15,000,000 upon new firearms alone. It is said that Count von Moltke will be created the Dnke of Sedan!'' - tU A Delaware railroad has betm^^, ■ bankrupted by tho failure of tho peach 1 * crop. An Expert says Irishmen, Hebrew ; ■ ■' ■; and negroes seldom commit suicide. There are over one hundred miles' of streets paved with wood in London, Of this world's population it is . estimated that 250 million go entirely ■ ! naked. When the man who wants tha earth igoea into politics he begins by takinsr v■' ' the field. ' b • London has a new religious organ-, isation of women. It is called" The Society of Soak." r More than five hundred thousand houses have been built iu London during the past ten years, ' The Supreme Court has decided that only tho children of first wi »es of Mormons aro legal heirs, ' \ Canada claims to be larger by 500,000 square miles than the United States, including Alaska, The total home consumption of opium in China was lately reckoned to bo about 41,800,000 pounds. The highest railroad bridgo in : the .idl United States is the Kinzua viaduct, j*T on tho Erio road, 305 feet high. It takes more religion to hold a man level in a horse fiado than it dots to make him shout ut camp meeting, The first public performance on a 1 pianoforte was in the Conent Garden Theatre, London, May 16,17G7. It is calculated that .there aro ' 156,000 tailors in tho Unitod States, ' ■ In New York city alono there aro 50,000. ' ' It is becoming the fashion for nen ■, to wear wedding rings, and it is said ■; ttat the fashion is increasing in favor ■ rapidly, Gormany is determined to Chris- ' tianise the. Africans. Two new Maxim ' • guns hare been bought for service in thointeiior. , It is estimated that the. potato crop of the Unitod States will bo short 100,000,000 biißhols, and tho European crop 280,000,000 bushels. The wedding present which the Empress Eagenio sent to Mils, Oanvobert, daughter of tho celebrated i Marshal, mis a inuasivo silver tea ; servico, As soon as tho telephone between London and Paris is completed, arrangements will be made to extend the system to Brussels, Bordeaux and Marseilles, Contracts have boen. signed for the ' construction of a tunnel a mile and a half ut length at Niagara Palls in* furtherance of a big scheme to develops / water.powei\ It is estimated that the amount of gold in tho world is about 613 cubic yards, and it would fit in a room twenty-four feet each way, if in asolid cube.

The saloou-kcepers of St Petersburg have been warned not. to fell liquor to factory operatives on credit or to entice them to drink in any other way. . The entiro forest area of Germany, ! according io a work, recently pub lishod by one of thesy» Forester oi Prussia, uow'Jnimounts to 34,596,000 acres, Hary Majjedsob, husband of Maria Roze, claioits Lis marriage was illegal,, that it was merely a ceremony of convenience, The case is. in the London Goiu-ts. , A boycott is being established by Atlantic steamers against cow-boys wliq are returning after taking oret consignments of cattle. The anions ' of the menace declared to be out- ' rageouß. Lord Tennyson entertained the young Duchess of Albany at luncheon • on his eighty-first birthday, ani confided to her that, despite bis old) • age, he hoped soon to give the wl<y|jf' one more poeta, ' . • ■.

proportion of infinno ,to sunn i per jotis iii ttio United States is ono in ' epory 261; in Scotland it is ono in crery 5Gi; in tlio ngncultnrnl (lis- : Iticts of England ono in 820; iu london the proportion is ono in 400. i:Tbo northern boundary of tho I nitcd States is marked by stone dims, iron pillars,, earth mounds, aid timberposls. Tliorouro 385 of tleso murks between the Lako of tl o Woodsand tbo Rocky mountains, A passenger elevator to the sum- : n it of Mount Dlano is proposed by ' an American mining engineer. Tlio shaft is to bo of ei°ht compartments, , each six feet square, intended te carry "ft! triplo-dccked elevator for twenty, . soven passengers. I In' Brazil, under tbo Empire, the . wiiS founded on an income qiuilificatiou. Tho new system (Irescribes only an educational qualification, 'l'bo voter must bo alio to and write. About 60 per cent ft the population is illiterate. ' W{ Some one advertises in tbo Chicago Tribune that he wants "to exchnngo IMacres of good farm land for IGO biSfts of potutoes." ( I Ttfo census of 6t Petersburg taken in July last shows a population of ' 868,882, In December, 1889, the ' Ippuliuion was given at 1,003,815,