NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 99, 20 March 1875, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sir John Arnott, the proprietor of the ' Irish Times,' sometime •ince purchased the 'Cork Constitution,' and his latest venture has been the Belfast ' Northern Whig.' Germany has fully determined to eliminate everything French from her midst, and has now ordered that certain words derived from the French shall no longer be officially used. Archbishop Manning granted an indulgence of forty days for emch day to all in his diocese who abstained from drinking in a publichouse on Christmas, Christmas-eve, or St. Stephen's day. Many persons will be surprised to learn that Liverpool, England, is not an incorporated city. It is merely a town, and a movement is proposed in the direction of obtaining a city charter. A petrified fragment of what was once a redwood tree was lately found in Napa county, Cal. It is eleven feet in diameter and sixty■even feet long, and is supposed to have been originally 200 feet in The revolution in Peru is not yet ended, and an effort was being made at last accounts to prevent the union of the insurgents with the Montoneroi or Bandits. The leading Ultramontane papers favor the revolution. r r The theory has been started that since the usefulness of whales hM largely diminished through the discovery of mineral oils for illuminating purposes, the animals might be domesticated and employed for towing ships. . ~ln~ In En S lan d, there is one lawyer to every 1,240 of the population j in France, one for every 1,970 ; in Belgium, one for every 2,700, and m Prussia, one for every 12,000 only. Another curious fact is that in England the number of persons belonging to each of the professions v nearly the same. Thus there are 34,970 lawyers, 25,483 clergymen, •nd 85.995 physicians. In Prussia, on the other hand, there are 4,809 physicians to only 1,862. The Bolognese have decided to erect a monument to Galvani, the discoverer of animal electricity. n. ' Taamanian Tribune' speaking of the Governor's levee, says mat tnere was a great variety in form and fashion of the cards that were used, but the most striking instance of an impromptu in that direction was the half of a bottle label on which the name of the worthy citizen who presented it was printed. ~ ,, F f nnyn y Ellsler, once a famous danseuse, is now a most devout (Jatnouc. Two hundred and thirty members of the British Parliament are now in favor of woman's suffrage. Dr. Ball has been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland. w ir *L .^ v ® terau > uame <* Dennis Tooney, who fought with Wellington at Waterloo, died a short time since, at the respectable age of 108. r Madame Nilsson, the opera singer, refuses tossing in German because she has a Frenchman for a husband. * A California farmer claims to have grown 90 bushels of wheat to the acre from 60 pounds of clean white Australian seed. A large archipelago of islands has been discovered in the neichUOWfeethTT ' aUd tW ° mouufcainß on t]xem > each about •™ . A Cfl J-Ki Ul i g ?? dasfcic sprin & s b r eh aU siting is made nearly rapereeptible to the passengers, is being tried on one of the French • SI IFOfi CIS • There are 189 journals published in the Republic of France. Adecree has been issued in Spain suspending the jury system , J**° B^at hotels, the United States at Saratoga and the Pacific at Chicago, have gone into bankruptcy. Both have done a profitable business, but complications arising out of debts contracted in their oonrtructum have proved disastrous. A little canal of twenty-three miles was wanted in China in 1825 Time must be precious there though life is so cheap. Only six weeks werejgiven m which to dig it, though it went through great forests and over extensive marshes; twenty thousand men worked upon it night and day, and over seven thousand died of fatigue It is not generally known that among many trades in Europe no work is done on Mondays. Dr. Boyd, preaching on behalf of the *X ?\ °rt Denshire, m Exeter, England, lately, calculated that *StW?tZ?* W °J lrt c - V] ea $ cd m the woollen manufactures, the TZt^^^^Z trade **» h ? "™° *«**• 01 ' 1111111701 ' 8 * Mand present year xi_ •? X ., M^? bal Bazaine intends writing a book ou « The Second - Empire." The result must be bad for himself as well as the Empire .c^LX^ll^LZ^Z reP ° I<tCd tLat Mr -^-aeU intends An American Senator on his road to Congress travelled 1529 miles in a buggy drawn by one horse. The time being 59 day? An Irish pnma donna is charming the Italians with her vocalisni. By a late decree the Japanese Government undertake to provide for all aged and incapacitated paupers. piovuie It is stated that Bishop Ricarcls will visit Europe on matters connected with his diocese— the South African. "'^leis con ' ,* Q pariß bas P} periodicals, of which 113 are political, 99 scientific 78 religious 58 devoted to fashion, 42 legal, 39 financial 14 Sary 9 naval, and eight architectural. } mmiar) , There arc at present 50 cardinals of whom 42 were created by the present Pontiff, and eight by Gregory XVf J tuc The great-grandson of Daniel Borne, the pioneer, bas been elected •peaker ot the Missouri House of Representatives elected Mrs. Yelverton is living in Edinburgh and is engaged in writing a 6econd volume of her travels. in wilting James. Gordon Bennett is one of the committee from the National s£it lIOCI arrauge for - lLe comi " s a^-^-wfcS rKft