The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the YoungVarious
Religion
The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the Young
Various
Christian literature for children -- Periodicals
THE QUEEN has presented to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a very
handsome silver gilt altar cross, in commemoration of her Jubilee. The
royal gift, which has, it is said, cost about £300, was displayed upon
the table next the reredos for the first time on April 1st.
THE Brighton Hotel, on Coney Island, has been successfully moved one
hundred and twenty feet further inland, in order to escape the
encroachments of the sea. The building was raised in one mass and rested
on trucks made to run on rails. Six locomotives were then attached to
the cars, and dragged the hotel for the distance named. It is intended
to move it still further.
A SPANISH Protestant clergyman, Senor Vila, has been condemned to
imprisonment for two years four months and one day, and to a fine of two
hundred and fifty francs and the costs, by the Criminal Court at Malaga,
for having discussed and condemned the dogmas of the Roman Catholic
Church in a pamphlet which he published in answer to the attacks of a
Catholic priest from Paris, who came to Malaga, and published a pamphlet
against the Protestant religion.
THE OLDEST AND YOUNGEST.--The oldest Cabinet Minister is Viscount
Cranbrook, Lord President of the Council, aged seventy-three; the
youngest is Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, aged thirty-nine.
The oldest member of the Privy Council is Viscount Eversley, aged
ninety-three, who is also the oldest peer of the realm; the youngest
member is the Duke of Portland, aged thirty. The youngest duke is H.R.H.
the Duke of Albany, aged three. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers (South
Wolverhampton), aged eighty-six, is the oldest member of the House of
Commons; and the youngest is Lord H. Cavendish-Bentinck, aged
twenty-four. Mr. Justice Manisty, aged seventy-eight, is the oldest
English judge; and Mr. Justice Charles, aged forty-nine, is the
youngest. The oldest bishop is Dr. Durnford, of Chichester, aged
eighty-five; and the youngest is Dr. John Wordsworth, of Salisbury, aged
forty-four.
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