MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 April 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— , — » , . His Honor Judge Johnston and Colonel Scrateljley must haye been mightily pleased when they saw a paragraph in a late issue of a Wellington paper, that ' The 3.5. Rotomahana brought to Wei* lington recently a great number of per* sons of distinction and fame, amongst whom we may mention His Honor Judge Johnston, Colonel Scratehley, Hon. 'liady Money' Robinson, Captain Johnson (Marine Department), yonng Scott, the pedestrian and bis trainer, Mr Austain. and last-^but in many person's estimation, not least — Abe Hiekpn, the renowed pu»i'ist. ' A goodly company, truly." First lad (spitefully)— ' Your mother's got red hair.' Second lad (argurnenta* tivelj) — ■' WeU ray mother's hair is her own, and your mother buys hers.' Fone but a woman could hare done it— and with such perfect sang froid too, al though the coolest place in the 'bus wasn't a degree under 85 at the time. She stopped the 'bus loaded as it was inside and out with passengers, near a publichouse, and, putting her two hundred-buttoned-glored band out, she gave the conductor a sovereign, and said, iv a voice ibat told plainly its owner was

aecustoraed to the best horse in tie domestic team, "Boy, get down and go to that public house and get change for that sovereign." The boy hesitated, and was about; to remonstrate, but a lo< k ipto those determined eyes of the 200---bnttoo-holer was enough, and he sofkiiy ran off; and, though the 'bus wasn't detained more than five or six minutes and the unreasonable males began to wax furious, she wasn't a bit angry, bat counted her change calmly t^nd handed the fare to the conductor with a smiling face. Ob, decidedly they are • all that is lotely— bewitching to man.' A singular accident happened lately to Sir Mylles Gave, Bart., while staying with a friend on a shooting visit at Blackwell, Derbyshire: The baronet was dressing, when his artificial teeth slipped into the windpipe, wh^re they still remain, despite medical efforts. Last winter intense cold was felt io Siberia. A letter from Munich gives details of a ghastly tragedy in the Eabine Forest — the death of some gipies. They were found (11 men, women, and children) sitting round the embers of a fire, all frozen stiff and stark. Two English lords recently staying at Corfu sailed to the opposite shore of Epirus for the purpose of hunting, accompanied by a Greek. The party were surprised by a band of robbers who knocked down the Greek with a yataghan, and made the two lords prisoners. The robbers demanded a ransom of £4000. The welcome news comes from New York that one of the Bornssia's boats, containing five of the passengers and six of the crew has been picked up near the Az res and the people carried to New York. They had suffered terrible hardships. A project is reported of a railway to be carried across Paris, partly underground and partly on the elevated principle, connecting all the railway termini, PiUssic acid had been occasionally used by Mr As E. Hughes, a Derby chemist, in a mixture which he took to relieve him from pain. Beturning home from a party one morning Mr Hughes took too much of the poison, and the result was his death.