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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 16 February 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

An' unsuccessful attempt has been made fur this second tunu tu blow up a registry office in Paris. ■ Hannah Siiakkey, who claimed to be 111 years old, lias just died at Youngstown, Ohio. She was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1777. It is reported that the Russian war authorities are actively employed in organising a homogeneous plan of defence in case of hostilities breaking out. Tan thermometer was Odeg. below zero at .Montreal on the morning of November '21st. The news is not favourable to annexation. Ar.PKti.MAN WiiiTHKKAn, the new Lord Mayor of London, is descendr-d from George Whitehead, who assisted William Ponn in writing "The Christian Quaker." Tun efforts to create a now Ministry of Agriculture in England is provoking umeh opposition. Lord Randolph Churchill is expected to be in the front. Tiik Italian Government has issued an order forbidding vessels to approach the Island of Madalene, the object being to urevent the inspection of the forts on the island. Tun Austrian Government has established an agency at New York which will guarantee Hungarian wines as coining direct from the wine cellars at Buda Pehth. Tniiinventorof the railway ticket, Robert Savill, has just died. Formerly receipts were given for travelling fares, as in the case of mail coaches. Savill, a clerk in the Ibnningham Railway Company, hit upon the ticket. Ur to date the expense in building the Eifl'uL Tower has been 3,500,000fr., and more than eleven million pounds of iron have been used. A Dunt'Qi'E, lowa, paper asserts that it is quite a common thing for dogs to commit suicide by jumping from the high bridge in that city. Tub company managing J. W. Grayson's inventions has sold to the French Government for 2,500,000 francs the patent for the cannon throwing with ordinary gunpowder shelli.- charged with dynamite. The fashion of w.iariug gloves of different colours »>i the two hands is steadily increasing in Paris, and will doubtless cross the Channel before long. The contrast is often made very strong, as when one hand is white or pale gray and the other black ; but many ladies are satisfied with a less glaring dillerence, and clothe one hand in, bay, light, and the other dark tan,