The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-05-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THIRTY-THREE thousand four hundred and seventyfour persons under a year old died in England and Wales last quarter. 80,972 persons between one and 80 years old, and 51,333 persons over 80 years old. ST. LOUIS his a palace made of coal Needier 70,000 elephants are killed annually in Africa. IN Japan there is one Christian to 1800 of the population. Lear year 1358 persons died of delirium tremens in England. Tits skeleton of an average whale weighs 25 tons. Tres gold beater will by preference use a rough kind of mallet, with which, however, he is able to beat out gold into layers of such exceeding thinness that 250,000 only OMOUT t to a single inch. Novasur, a Lorraine village, has been the scene of a singular suicide. A traveller, evidently a foreigner, who had not provided himself with a passport, was told by the police be must retrace his steps. At once he shot himself. Poen William efewatt, an Aberdeenshire farm lad, living at Needling, was driving home a cow, when the rope by which the animal was held in check got entangled about his person, and he was dragged about 150 yards along the road. The boy never reWised consciousness.  }Wrenn news, the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of St. James, has made reports to the Porte upon his interviews with Lord Salisbury relative to the occupation of Egypt, wh,ch are considered satisfactory in Constantinople. The British Prime Minister is said to stipulate that England shall reoccupy tbe province in the event of any disturbance occurring there; and that Turkey shall not disturb the arrangements already made by England for the government of Egypt. Tim Jubilee present from the Army to the Queen has been given over to ber Majesty at Buckingham Palace by a deputation, headed by the Duke of Cam. bridge, and representing all ranks in the service. IT has been definitely fixed that the marriage of the Austrian Emperor's younger daughter, the accomplished Archduchess Mane Valerie, shall be solemnised at Ischl on the last day of July. Among the guests who will sit down to the wedding break. fast will be the leading membtn of the various branches of the Hapsburg family, including 32 Archdukes and Archduchesses, the cousins, uncles, and aunts of the Imperial bride. KiNo MILAN is announced to arrive in Vienna in the course of the present week, and after a few days' stay. to go on to Gleichenberg, in Styria, for some  shooting. MR. CHAMBERLAIN presided at the annual dinner of the Artists' Benevolent Institution in London. He made an earnest appeal for those artists whose intention to achieve fame was greater than their skill; for those who failed from any other cause, and for the families of those who died before they could provide for their wives and children. Be spoke of the value of the institution, and said it was managed with great economy. Tea new first-class armour-plated battle-ship Rodney ha been completed for active service, and has been placed in the First Division of the Medway Steam Reserve. The Admiralty have sent an order to Sheerness for the Rodney to be commissioned on the 14th inst. for service in the Channel Squadron, in the place of the Monarch, which is to be paid out of commission. MARY Rename., an elderly woman, was so severely burned during a fire at a house in West Smithfield that she died next day hi the hospital. A girl, 14 years of age, has been burned to death in a fire at Denmark bill. At Old Hill, Stsffordehire, two children were found dead, having been suffocated by the smoke occasioned by an adjoining room having been accidentally set on fire. Dora Harms, the wife of a Jewish shoemaker in Leeds, has died in the infirmary of that town. Her husband had on the previous evening murderously attacked her and their child, and the woman shortly afterwards succumbed to her injuries. The man, who also set fire to the house, was apprehended. Me. Jerrien WILLS, has heard an application to postpone until the next sittings the trial of an action which the Solicitor-General stated involved one of the most serious accusations of seduction that he remembered, It was alleged that the defendant, Dr. Louis Engel, of Wellington-road, St. John's-wood, had admitted that be had been intimate with a young lady named Knight, who was his musical pupil, and whose father has lately died. The application was refused.