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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3707, 10 January 1891, Page 3

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Oysters live 15 years. There, are 41,000 newspapers. Central Africa has floating houses. France's Navy contains 400 vessels. The earth contains 1,400,000,000 people. Pope Leo speaks French fluently, but knows no English. • In some parts of Norway corn is still used as a substitute for coin. Madame. Aedlina Pa'tti is going to build at Craig-y-nos a Jewish synagogue. AiJjjA end of last year Belgium had aPpetionof 6,093,798 inhabitants. Lord Randolph Churchill'is reputed to have won L 15.000 on the turf this season. The Marquis of Salisbury is getting towards 300 pounds weight, but won't take exercise. Christine Kileson's husband has been made Under Secretary to the new Spa-nish Cabinet. France will imitate Russia and Germany in the use of carrier pigeons Tor military purposes. Brete Harle has forsworn social pleasures for the present, while finishing his literary engagements. Most of the fine writing paper used on the continent of Europe are made in the United Kingdom. The raising of sisal hemp in the Bahamas promises, it is said, to be one of the chief industries of those islands..

The Pope will donate 1,000,000 lire toward the church to be erected in honour of the jubilee of his priesthood. Young ladies at the Oswegc State Normal School are prohibited from wearing corsets, high-heeled shoes, or garters. The project for an international Exhibition at Vienna in 1895 is well under way. Ten million dollars have been devoted to the purpose. The project of a railway across the desert of Sahara meets with considerable opposition in Algeria. It is not considered practicable. The episcopal Jubilee of the Pope is more than two years off, but the Catholicl Committees at Eome are already discussing its celebration. An Austrian tailor travelled from Vienna to Paris inside a trunk, and repeated the feat by travelling in the game manner from Paris to London. Cardinal Lavigerie has had great success with his, anti-Slavery Congress in Paris. The French will help him to repress the scourge of Africa. Alexander Dumas has been amusing himself by sending a play of his anonymously to the Parisian managers, and having it refused by

them all. The greatest pilgrimages to the Holy Land are made by Russians, thirty and forty thousand of whom . visit the Holy Sepulchre annually. " Oh, George, papa is unchaining the dog." "It's all right. He used to be my dog. I gave him to the dealer to sell to your papa." Fannie: "Papa, Mr Havmucli has asked me to marry him." Papa : "And, my child, do you think you _ love him ?" Fannie (astonished): '• Love him, papa! Why, he's worth a million dollars." Helen Silberstein is the proprietor of a large up-country suspender factory in New York City. For a long time she has been trying to

perfect an everlasting suspender out of finely spun asbestos. Senor Julio, a New York tobacconist, is prepare! to call down blessings on the new tariff bill. Within the last month Senor Julio has imported 200,000,000 cigars, and the advance in pice will make him a millionaire. They have a curious custom at the burial of married women in Brazil . The coffin, hearse, and the livery of the driver must be bright scarlet, the four white horses draw

" ing the hearse must be covered with scarlet nets, and scarlet plumes must deck the horses' heads. Rev. C. 11. Spurgeon, the eminent English Divine, recently remarked that as soon as a man loses his religion he wants to know who Cain's wife was. Two dockyards are about to be constructed in St. Petersburg for the builling of men-of-war, in addition to the five already existing in the capital. > Bismarck is not a good conversationalist, and he is a worse orator. While making a public address he

sways himself backwards and forward and twirls his thumbs. Miss Virginia Knox, the Pittsburg girl, whose matrimonial venture with a bogus Italian count resulted so disastrously, is about to make her debut on the stage. It is said that in the Mesilla Valley in New Mexico apple-trees bear the second year after planting; peache3 the second year from the seed and grapes the third year. The Emperor of Austria has subscribed upward of £IOO,OOO toward the various funds which have been raised for the sufferers by the late floods in his dominions.