Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-09-05 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  THERE are between 36,000,000 and 37,000,000 born in the world every ye.tr, that is at the rate of about 70 per minute, more than one for every beat of the clock. ANOTHER disastrous fire has occurred in Russia, the town of Kropoish, in the Government of Moliilev, having been completely destroyed. THE Old Sun Wharf, at Ratcliffe, London, took fire on Ffiday. Thousands of tons of coal were burned. A PIANO factory at Raggerston was on Friday totally destroyed by fire. Mn. William Thorley, general manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, died on Friday afternoon in London. TURKEY has refused satisfaction for the murder of the Ser,,ian Consul:General at Pektina. . _  Tug salmon fishing season in the Dee has:been a very disappointing one. Ric]ram) Brown, a Balaclava hero, has died in the With ington Workhonse, Manchester, the cause of death being stated to be inanition, debility, and starvation. It is said there is another Balaclava hero, named Rogers, in the workhouse. GAHREL, the most famous guide in the Alrs, has died from cold.  Muca damage has been caused in St. Peteraburg by the overflowing of the Neva and the can tie connected with it. . _  AT Sleeping, near ,ston, on Monday, a train ran into a harvest waggon, killing the driver and horse and smashing the waggon. Two persons—Mr. David Fraser, of Glasgow, and Miss Alexander, of Patrick—died on Saturday from the effects of a carr;age accident on the previous day. AT Manchester on Saturday night a man named Walsh gave himself up to the police, stating that he had killed a young woman at Liverpool four years ago. He was detained in custody. A FREE pardon has been granted to King Ja Ja, and he will return to Opobo from the island of St. Vincent. AN accident has occurred on the Midland Railway near Leicester, where a goods train broke in two, leaving half standing on the rails. Another train approached and a violent collision occurred, but fortunately no one was injured. By the fall of the cellars of a brewery at Stotteritz, in Saxony, on Saturday, seven workmen were killed and others ilijured. AT Mejoe Kerestze, near Buda Pesth, 15 people, while endeavouring to save their property from destruction by fire, were killed by the fall of the burning roof. HARRY Lesließaldry, a well-knowt portrait painter, who has frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy, has committed suicide by shooting himself through the head while temporarily insane.  NEW INvirslto3s.-11er Majesty's Royal Letters Patent have been granted to the inventor of a wonder. ful as well as useful little appliance. This is a Pocket Microscope and Floriscope combined, about 3 inches in length and 11 inch square. It is constructed Upon an entirely new principle, and has a magnifying power and definement superior to some of the most elaborate and expensive instruments, and yet so simple that any school•boy or girl can use it. Its magnifying power B registered as 150 diameters or 22500 surfaces, and distinctly shows all the the thousands of different kinds of animalculse in water, tkc., or any other microscopic object. This new patent was sealed by the Comptroller General of Patents on the 13th of August last, and is now offered to the public at the nominal price of is. each, and sent free by parcel post upon receipt of postal order value One Shilling stamps taps not taken—with a 12 page pamphlet of instructions for use, and a large double sheet of engraving" in black and gold (with key) free. Thu Inventors and Manufacturers also guarantee that in any case where the instrument is not approved of and returned within reasonable time, that a postal note value is., will be forwarded by return of post. The medical profession, chemists, schoolmasters, teachers, and students, as well as parents and guardians, should send for one on approval. This is no foreign rubbish, hut of good English workmanship tMoughout. Address: CONWAY, RAI & CONWAY, The Premier Patent lifiscroecope Depot, Stafford Street, Birmingham. trsC97e