MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 September 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The C-itbolic par;y. after carrying mun cipal elections at Home, have now captured' Venice as tvp!U ITenri Koclir Port lias come baclc to des« (mv his friend Gunibetta, who raised the "ho^t lint cannot lay him. Mr P'-rne!! allied 10,000,000 101. as a aifr frnm 'he Trisii Chun-h for rel'.ef pur« pises, linf whs ip used. Now York, inpUidrnrc Brooklyn and the <*o'U'ftinn of c''>'oi around there, luis a population of 2"500,000. A new wpp!;iy p:if<*r, to be cu'led Ip 'Economise, is to be slartt-d sirouHaueou o !}' in Toronto and Rfonmal. Prince Leopold will shortly visit Newport, \{ 1., nnd the ladies nre consequent!} in a fr : }f!iifiil s.fa(e of excitement. The F-ench revc.ne of 600.000 000 dollars is asserted to be the largest ever received from a population of thirty— six millions. -'

A tragedian was in the habit of siring orders to a widow lady. She was once silling in the pit willi her little girl when their friend the performer was about to be scabbed by his s^age rival. Eoused by the supposed imminence of his danger, ihe girl s'arfed up, esclaijiin?, 'Oh. don't kill him. sir— don't kill him ; Tor if you do he won't give us any more pitorders !' It is said that rattlesnakes have no . rattle for tlie fi-st three years of their lives, and that after that time they adJ one raicie yearly. The electors of Tipperary are abnnt presenting a testimonial to Mr P. J. Smythp, M.P. AMibishop Croke has given 50 301. towards iK Miss Ririere, of Chirleston. 5.0., baa a court dress once worn by Marie An* tionefte. It is of purp'e satin, and is still in good condition.' Jonius Edwards, of Ga'esbnrg, 11. saved bn plums by kicking a hoy out of the tree, but has had to pay 3500d01. for causing paralysis in the lad. Philadelphia is to have a thousand coaches, of a pattern sompwhat similar to those nsed in our Oentral Park to carry passengers at ten cents each. A Paris despatch to the Times says tho Chamber of Depnii-s has passed a vote for a credit of 9,0C0,000ft. for the construction of the S.ibara Railway. An Illinois man found his runaway wife woiking, in male attire, in a Peoria tailor shop, where her sex was unsus* pected. A writer in London Truth says that the hotel system of America is perfection, and that the London proprietor who thoroughly adopts it will make a large for! nne. The sunjpct of a bsunfv to French ship-builders is undar discussion in France. It is thought this will have the effect <>f doubling the nnmber of ships built in France. Germany has 3778 periodical publica* linns. England follows wifh 2509, and Fi ance enmes next with 2000. America boasts 9129. It is propose! fto place a tablet in memory of Sir Wal'er ScofS on the faea-le of the house in Rome where he lodged when seeking health in that city. A Berlin despatch to Ihe Morning Post Post savss' — • The Prussian Government officially denips the report that a deficient harvest is apprehended in Germany.' A tableau in a S=m FraDcisco chmi'y exhibition represented the dead Elaine of Tennyson's poem, a pretty but naturally pallid girl p ising for the corpse. Every boy in the Boston House of Refuge may obtain his release by me-ins of a habeas corpus, because there is ro law authorising commitments lo that prison. A Chicago man, not satisfied with whipping his wife unmercifully, »et two savage do^s on her and stood by Until she was nearly killed. A Chicago man, arrested while attempt* ing (o kill himself with a rszor, tore him* self nwny from the pnlirrWan, and jumped from a high bridge, thus accom* plishing suicide. A London firm advertises that it hns for sale one of the identical stamps by which George 111. attempted to impose t.i obnosibna-' tax on teas imporUti into Bri'ish Aroerira, Mr Parnell'rf amendment, taking the distribution of the Grvernment relipf fund out of (he bands of the landlord* and investina it in the Boards of Gi am dianp, has been adopted. An expert swimmer allowed him«elf to be aff"rted by the tann's of j->ker.«, at Atlantic Ciiy, and fo pr va his al>i it y undertook to swim a certain distance under water. He was drowned. A condemned negro murderer in S'Lows declared that he would surely go to e'ernal tormenf if lie could not he Inplizcd by emersion. A h "rshead Ita'f fr-led with water was used for the cere tuonv. Tlitc ore said' Vo- be no less than 170 000 Germ'rs- v\ fjond'on. An immense ■'immigration lia> takert f.lace since the war. The ru'MisS conscriptinn nnd tvrann : cal Govi-i-nraent of ihe Fiither" ■ land- sends thousand of lier sons abroad. Sixteen Waterloo ofGvn ar»> Ywfos. Among them is tlie Earl' of A'bemarle wliose aaiefiible recollections were pubhlished a few years ago. He was then an Twi^n. and one of* the survivors had, in ISJo', as High n r«nk as captain. "Wi'linm Parish was told by tie Poorraaster of S^uth Toledo, Ohio, that he must I;i!.-p h ; m*f?f rn> of the town lipfore ninli'fail, or lie tvnu'd bo senf to Ihe workhouse. 'I'll do 1 it. 1 ' snid Paris l ! and lie swallbived a hfal dbse of 'an.lrtnnm. Have we I>roui;l!f a new peril into our lioroes in (he sc'rotntrly innocent tele* nhnne ? A ITi»*r-ford person undertook to tn!k thron^h one in -the in'ers'if-ps n' a lively thun'or «to;-m, and wn snm» mirily knocked down.' Fltctri ity din it. In (he bi'l o' a Fieseli lady of quality, now I:. ''ore (lie Piris ccu^^s. ;ne three items for sarl-rs, a« fo'lowr:' — • Garter* fl- un^'d willi prin!; ] ; < l( 709 iViincs ;. gaiters vrith li.^r-o's li--.r»'"-- id;anTprt''s v 70'. H) Trnnes ;: a^ne"' ciiea-f dtuce&lZM fjntios.*' !.!■<? rroTinc 1 r{" Hji^i'.n! Ay res c unf? o4COO.O r 'O >\\.\'p,- -if w\ii.::! 13.000.000 i'f'on.j to li'i-'i s -t tiers \v i t - i:i n invV ride of the ciiy. Thesp fl 'C-s will su!fi<:e if necess'iry, to fe< : d l i e National Go•mrameiiti army for jnanj j.ears,. without

c >un(iug 6,000,000 which belong • mostly ; o natives. It is a curioa* fact that in America, where the system of * free land * cv erj" where prevail^ the average size of farms 13 exactly the same as in Ensland, where so many restrictions are in f orce. Tiiat si«e is in England one hundred and fif y-two acres, aid ia America one hundred and fifty-three. Larrikini'ra is bec^mm? a terri'lft carse in Wellington. Lately they tried to lock up in a church some ladies who had assisted at a tea»meeting. .During the night further rooiplaint was put in the hands of the Police. On another occas* sion a nnmber of them paraded the atreet* with kerosine tins on their heads in imi*A« tion ot Ned Kelly, frightening and annoy* in? passers- by. As tha Post remarks •-• c * If this Bort df thin? is not pat dowii firmly at the outset it is sure U) develop into an intolerable nuisance. Dr. Sleasda'e, formly of Melbourne"* and well-known throughout the colonies, '•as been appointed secretary of the V"iticultaral Ciramission df California. A correspondent signing himself " Chic* ago, wishes to know what kind of BJitaitS (he Cape of Good Hops enj *ys — whether it is very hot in summer or cold in winter. At Cape Town (says the "P. r» to which journal the enquiry was addressed), it is much hotter in summc? than it is bare, tilt the cold in winter is abont the same, ißjng droughts' also prevail, aud the heat in snriifddr is felt th* more on that account, and also dtting td fact tbat the (own is very little shelter A (torn the sun's rays, and the soil is of a very dry and hungry character. Inland* we believe the climate taries very con* siderably, but the emigrant may safely reckon on finding it very hot in summer* There is one curious fact a'tout the* I climate of South Africa, which is worth mentioning. Owing to the peculiar formation of the mountain ranges, the* curious phenomenon of a transposition" of seasons in the same latiiuVle is to be observed. The Cape, as is known, in neaf the region of the trades, and south 6'aat winds prevail during the greater part of the year, except, when the wind is from the north-west. From whichever quarter <he wind enmes, its moisture is usu I'y in'ercepted by tfcte mountain ranges, and r in is fulling on one side while it is p< * ectly dry on the other. As in such latitudes, the harvest depends more on the supply of rain than anything elte, people are reaping on one fide of tbe country whilo they are sowitfg ctfd plftfU ing on the other. The introduction of weeping willow* into Few Zealand, according to the Enngitikei Adrocate, is enveloped wifti a tinge of romance. An early English ship en route io New Zealand had to put into St. Helena. One of tu'e paX sencers landed to visit Napoleon* grave, and took some cuttings of the' willows that drooped over the ilhn« trious tomb. These slips were brought to the colony an 1 planted, and in the' course of nearly half a century have Ween distributed far and wide. The two Empresses of Chios ere (fie* most ex'ravagant women* on toe face of t';e earth. List year they spent 00 dresses 250,000 t*els. The high dig* ni arif3 of the Empire have remonv strated w'tb these Imperial ladies, but without succes*. The younger of the two Empresses, who has \vtst enlerrd! her seventeenth year, ha* declared to the Si ate Treasurer that she has literally 7 nothing to wear except a red velvet garment covered with seed penrls, and' Mint, unless more money is forthcoming,she will decamp into Tartary, and tike" the Emperor with hrr. As the Era. peror is still an infant in arms, he . hir nnlurally no voice in the matter. The' Eniprtss is ai ardent advocate of women's rights, and she will probably hire another seed-pearl dress, «veo if Chin » becomes bankrupt in cons q iencev