MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 May 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

When you see a young married nun contemplating baby carnage's with a calm and thoughtful eye, you may reasonably infer that the matrimonial sky is bright, serene, iiM a little sonny." But « yon had danghter '* not to be too sure of that. ' There Were fifteen tra^llerg halted at a publichoQse, and called (ot dinner. It was served up and placed 1 on a threecornered table, five sitting on each side. They invited the landlord to dine witb them. After they had finished their m^al, they proposed to count, commencing at some m& and* count five, and whoever couuted fire was to leave the table, or in other wrods, erery fifth man was to step out. They further agreed that the ftt;p*%feftlM?l<>l>By. iEe ¥fl.: J Tney so counted as to have it fall upon the landlord* } ! (Row? jvjbat seat! didktfcieaan occupy that started the count * New York is the~ most densely-popu-la/ed.ciiy in tl^# worMj the bfilfr>i|pn portion having a fjoplafiSiT of S^OOO'to the square mile. The f jl lowing table shows the average ntlffiher -of people to the square mile in Hew York compared to seven other cities. Now York, population 42,829 to square mile ; Paris, population 30,150 to square mile; Pekin, 2$ 3#Ho square mile; London, 23,163 to gquareiintle 5 309 to square mile; Boston, 9,278 tojtqoare, mile ; San Francisco. 1.661 J fe> squareirifle ; Ohicago, 1,314 to square mile. . Of temporal peers in England the highest in rank is a Date. Tire descends ing sca'e costinwes as' follows i—Marquis, Earl (which embraces the title of Count)* Viscount," Baron, Baronets, and Knights are not included in. the ?peerage. There are numerous Barons in England, but tbey s?e generally bailed lords. £ The title of Lord is als^coßfexred by, courtesy upon the eldest sons of Dukes or Mara guises, but no person beneath- the actual rank of a Baron has any legal right to the title. The title of Baron is* also Wnferredj npon Judges of the Exchequer. Flowers nearly always begin to fade and droop after, teing kept for twenty hours in water ; a few may be revived by ; substit»f JBg fresh, but alt may be restored by the use of hot water. For this pur« i pose, place the flowers in scalding wafer. [ deep enough to cover about onesthtrd o! ■ the length of the stems. By the time this has become cold the Sowers will hare be 5 * come fresh and erect. Then cut off the shrunken ends of the stems and put JjH flowers into cold' water. ; A traveller was lately boasting luxury of arriving at night, after • day's ' joarney, {6 parfate of ment of a welKcut ham and" the le^^^H ' a 00^Sm^ a^' S!r * w^^ is" the P^^^| i tuxur^^p left leg T ' Sir, to coneeivlVj [luxury, you must find that it is the osly* that is left.' ■■'■"■ ■ * Dear me. how fluidly he talks/ said i Mrs recently at a temperance I meeting. *I am always rejoiced when he } mounts the nostrils, for his eloquence ttrarms.e*ery cartridge of my body.' Jf*jfl? a bottte of the oil of pennyroyal is "left uncorked in a room at night, not a mosquito or aay other blood-suefeer will ioe*'fo»n : d there ia the morsiijff. Mix pot. ash, with powdered! me»l and throw into ! the rat«hofes of a cellar, and the rats will [depart. : If a rat or a raoase goes into i your pantry, stuff into his hole a rag satu>* rated With a solution of cayenne pepper, and no rat or mouse will touch the r«g for the purpose of opening comraunica* tio» with the depot of supplies. ! A barrel of flour weighs 19© pounds j a i barrel of pork, 20© pounds ; a barrel r» r I rice, 60f> pounds ? a keg of powder, 25 ! pounds i a Srkin of hotter. 86 pounds ; ' a mh of butter, 84 pounds. The inconsistencies of our orthography are something fearful to contemplate. i T-o-n-g-u»e spells tongue, and the man ! who first spelled it should have been ; hongue. A-e-h-e spells ache, and that's all you can maeke out of it. E-i-g h-t , i spells eight, bo. maM&r how you depre ceiglit the idea • and that i s-le should ; spell aisle, and f-e-i-g-n feign, is eonugb to make anybody stsaisle, if tbe effort were not teft peignful. Whe* tTia last rose of summer Is faded and gone, When the blue«bottle bummer Lies dead as a stone ; When the mud-bugs and stiagers Take umbrage and so > Oh ! tell us why lingers . The wild mus«q«i'to?' ' j

The number of language* spdkji is 2094, The average of humio life is about thwty«tffiie years. One quarter, die be* fore the age of seven. Of every one thousand persons,, one "rarely reaches the age of one hundred years and Dot more than one in one hundred will reach the age of eighty. There are on the earth 1,0U0,000,000 inhabitants. Of these about 33.333,333 die every year, 91 824 die e»ery day, 3826 every hoar, and 65 ev ery minute. The married are longer lived than the single. Tall meiHrre iongw than short ones. Women have more chances of life previous to the age of fifty j years, bat fewer after, than men. The oamber of marriages is in proportion-©! seventy to one hundred. Bnsiness Law.— lt is not legally neees* sary to say on a nore v for valtt3 received." A note drawn on Sanday i» *ord. A note obtained by frae I, or from an intoxicated person, cannot be collected. If a note be lost or stolen, it does not w lease the maker; he must pay it. An en* dorser of a note is exempt from liability if not served with notice oi its dishonor , within twenty»fonr hour* of its noa-pay-ment. A note given by a minor is void. Note* bear interest only when so stated Principals are responsible for the sets of their agents. Each individual in a jiart* nership . is responsible for the whole amount of the debts of a 6rm. Ignorance of the taw excuses no one: It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. The law compels no one to do impossibilities. An agreement without consideration is void- Signatures made with lead pencil are good in law. A receipt for money paid is not* legally conclusive. The acts.of one part* ncr binds »1! the others. The daily express mail train from London to Holy head , makes the distance, 268 miles, in four anl a*balf hour?, being at the speed of a little over fiftf* nine miles aa hour, stoppages included. The distance between New York and Washington is 22$ miles, and the fastest train makes it in sit hours and 20min., or thirfy»six miles an hour, stops included/ But most of the trains occupy from eight to nine hours. la this wide country, where rafltfav engineering exhibits s»cb great triumph, it would seem a* if we onght to be able to ran trains between^ our important cities as fast as the Britishers do. If we had a Holyhead express between New York and Waslk-^ ington, the time of transit would Jbete*^ dueed nearly one half, to wit, three hours and 4oifn. This would enable pas^eofceerj (o le >Te New York in the mornlnjkfcifJß^ ' an entire official d«y for business, before the departments in Washington, or* attend a session of Congress, and still be home asm in time for the eveaing tea.---Scientific American. I A droll mistake was made by a» imagi* native old dame who* having permitted) _* " > telegraph pole to be placed ob the top oC_ J her house* waited upon the chief of th* telegraph Company concerned to eon*plain that she could get no sleep of • night, being kept awake by the noise made by (he messages passing over head. I* I don't think, sir," said she,* you ten be. ■ aware of all that's said along them wires, i There's a deal that hadn't ought to be, I [cm assure you, sir, that very much that'i said there, that I have to lie and listen to* is such as no decent woman ovght to I hear ; and 1 hope yon will pat a stop to> fit.' The amused] gentleman was hardly [able to meet the accusation with due* ''■ gravity j ba^^^mtrive to keep hit 'coiroteiji^H^^^^^^kinformed the olJ; jflflJl^^^^^^^H *&° B^ hitherto j^^^^^^^^^^^K under aotiee of only *eung| would be no danger of any longer. considering the is strkngelf of a well-knowo city that, after fl^BPflnJ^ftF and leaving a large' I property to a trustee for his son, he called)" 1 the railed the young man in, and, after reading the will to. his*, asked if therewas aay alteration op improvement Be could suggest. " Well father,*' said, the young gentleman, lighting a cigaratte. ■ *' I think as things go. nowaday, it would) be better-.for n»e if yotkfeis the property to. the other fellow and made me the trustee." The old gentleman raa.de uo his mind then and there that the young man was quite* competent to take charge of his own inheritance, and? scßatched the trusted eJauseoni. ' The Sing of the. Belgians has. built at' ' Laken the largest winter garden in Europp. The Cupola of wo* and glass is sixty metres in diameter and thirty metres, in height in the centre^ It is supported by 36 colanwis. of white* s*onev T i Mr Sta&tey, according to inJorma&fotk • received by the Lisbon Geographical ] Society, has reached the last fall of the- : Congo at Yallala, and is preparing the> i ins'allatipn of the first Belgian eoramer* cial station, on the right bank of that river.