MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, 22 December 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

There i* a coffee palace largely nised in Christchurch, so much so that thoy have foucjl ft necessary to enlarge it, Winter seems to'rbave set >n early at Home this year, A letter received hy tho mail -from 'n Thames side village slates that on the 21st Oclober.^snW lelj, covering the ground- to -tlie 1 depth of "several inches. _, Herr Gerhard Rohlfs, the pxployer, is going to Abyssinia 83 a tfiulom it, He i.s charged by the Emperor William with a mission to King John. Martinez, a lender of the recent revolution in Sonora, has been arrested' liy a deputy Unitcf} f ,.S^ , i e-, Marshall for violating the neutrality laws. M. Gamb,ettJ speaks very fast in public. Most men pronounce but about 180 wor Js a minute, bnt M. Garabetta lalks at the rate of 235 a minute., '. . . i » Gold mining" |nyS_iraiida_- is becoming "important industry. Tho mines ot Erf.__liTglKT-_~ := srpffris^ coantries aro being energetically worked The county of Montgomery is niw developing a promising busiuess in that line. The electric telegraph was invented by I Morse in 15;. 2 -pub'ic'y exhihilei, and recommended by scientific men in 1836 Exhibited before the Franklin Institute and warmly endorsed thereby in 183/. boon alter exhibited before tho President, Cabinet and members of Congress"; appropriation therefor, was recommended by Committee on Commerce in 1838 ; ob* lamed in 1813, and oh the 27th of May, I^4_, the fivst commercial li» tf was. com-* pleted, and the first messige, ' What hath God Wiou»bt ? M transmitted 'from Washington to Baltimore, by Miss Anna Elsworth. •*.'''. i Apples are said never to have been more abundautt int. America, thanr the! present sea-on. 'Ihey can be bought iv many of the orchards Ea^t for ten cents ii bushel. Now, it so happens that Ena land has hitherto been a liberal' purchaser of dried apples, nbjch suggested io.the Yankee commercial mind'lftUL she'nii^lrt" like them ripe ai plucked f' , om«slie t trees, and forthwith the bw.it.e-!. of packing apples and Vending them abroad wa&'en. gaged in. .It -is said that } ovc_- two hundred- thousand barrels have alreadj^ beeu .hipped to England, and Jhe trade .still continues. •'" -■••'i ' • ' ■') It is a fact known to tho philosophical instsument, makers tint if a metal wr . bo drawn through rt glass tube, a few hours af'erwards tho lube will hurst iu'o frigments. This whTnot liappon if -a -piece of* -Jof.. wood— is- employed. In these tmvs. whet; glass lamp 'chimneys aro in surb'wide use, it ls'of no little importance that this fau.t should be knowa. Thousands of peop 1 © who hate been in the habit o. using wires, taole lorks, and a variety ol metallic ai tides in the washing of the.c chimneys, will, in the above stated fact, find the reason of their chimneys so often snapping to pieces on the lamp.