Volume XXXV..-NO 7798

Maria Dom, the renowned circus rider, baa been killed by falling from a horae at Burcch'u oircua at Ham burg. A grant of LlOO from the Royal Bounty Fund has been made to Mr O'Byrno, the Nottingham poet. The great Russian steppes are to be irri gated by a company formed by authority of the Government. There ia a scarcity of lieutenants in the British Navy, and every officer on the hut is in active employment. It is stated that in London, last year, 50') children under ten yearß of age wero ar> rented for drunkenness. There are in use nearly 50,000 gas stoves which are let on hire by the gas companies who supply the metropolis. Every one has a mission ; the mission of the crying baby is to make old bachelors and maids contented. An Irishman told his doctor that ha stuffed him so much with drugs, that he was sick a long while after he got well. George— "Won't you be mine, dear? I Cara— "l think I should hare to be hard i pressed indeed to take you." George (equal i to the emergency) — " Oh, if that's aD, here goes." Very interesting news has been received in Pans from Prince Henry of Orleans and M. Bouvalot, who have been making a jour ney across the Aaiatic continent. They have traversed the whole of Siberia, the plateaux , of Thibet, aud regions of China have reached ' Hanoi by way of the Yang-Tae-Kiang and the "Sun-Nan. Source of Knowledge. — Teacher . Tommy may tell ua what shape the world is. Tommy :It is round. Teacher : How do you know it is round ? Tommy : 'Cause you told me yourself. Teaoher : Yes ; but my telling you the world is round doesn't make it round. How do I know it* round 1 Tommy : I s'pose somebody told you. a new method of treating sympathetic ophthalmia has been discovered in Paris, When an operation has been performed upon one eye, it has been found that by injecting into it a drop of a solution of sublimate, in the proportion of 1 to 1000, and by vigor ously cau erising the edges of the wound by meatis of galvano cautery, any untoward symptoms are prevented from sympa thetica'ly manifesting themselves in the other organ.
