MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 March 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

' ■rml r - r»' < < ■ . In a leetare deliverd at p flr ii ft few weeks ago Pere tfyaeintne, the eu .priest* reviewed, the condition of affairs' in his' native land. He declared that civil war, if not in the ,«treets,*was in men's minds, noted the lack of dignity shown to tbe orders expelled under the decrees, *nd stated as this belief 'danger for the Repub'ic proceeds less from the tfltramontane* tfcai from theMaterrialists.' The Turk* are much misrepresented when it is eaid that they cannot and never will acknowledge their oblige , ations. The London Morning Post j has good authority for asserting that daring the past year the Porte has not only paid off £1,000,000 of its floating debt in hard cash, but that by the end of that year the Otto* nan Bank will have m its possession £500,000 at the disposal of the bondholders. In an obituary notice of the father of the Archbishop of Sydney, recently deceased, it is stated that of eight living sons and four daughters, seven lions entered the priesthood, and four daughters became nans, Amongst his brothers and sister*, two brothers, entered the priesthood and two of his sisters became nuns, only one of them being marridd Mr T. D. Sullivan; 6n« of the indicted Irish Land Leaguers edfa the Dublin Nation, a paper which Las teen each of its editors since its birth under arrest for some political offence. Sir Charles Gavsn Dnffv John Mitchell, and A. M Sullivan, all suffered for their journal, and now the younger Sullivan 14 about to stand bis trial], Two magnificent comets are prog" nosticated for next year by an Indian writer who, according to the Times of India announces that these heavenly bodies will be visible from April Ist to June the 1 2th and will stretch across one-fourth of the heavens ; that they occupy 2,025! years in their revolution and that they- eclipse the brilliancy of the mid-day son and form the original Light of Creation the light with which tbe Genesis of the world opened; thus fulfilling all prophecy and settling biblical chronology beyond dispute. A very- large Ourang Outang has bean consigned to Mr Jamrach from Malacca. Mr Frank Buckland takes tbe opportunity to compare it with mankind. He says:— l have had monkeys of various species living at ' my fireside in my sitting-room for the pub twenty yean and to me they

have been more intimate than my most intimate human friends. From knowing them so well by means of a language only understood by myself and them and conversing with them I am more and more, convinced that the fallacy which Darwin has most unfortunately pat into peoples heads is wrong, and that in his descent, man has nothing whatever to do with the monkeys. He was made perfect at the very beginning of all things and perfect and uumonkeylifce he still remains, Even although ithe very lowest of the human rape be placed alive alongside the very highest of the monkey family, the vast gulf between them is easily discernible. ■fiie fiank of England was incorporated in 1616. It covers five acres of ground, and employs . 900 clerks. There are no windows* on the street Light is admitted through open court*; no mob could take the bank, therefore, without cannon to batter the immense wall. The clock in the centre of the bank has fifty dials attached fie ft. Large cisterns are sunk in the court, and the engines, in perfect order* are always in readiness in case of fire. A German bad a horse stolen from bis barn the other night, whereupon he advertised' as follows ; 'Ton nite, de oder day, I vas ben awake in my shleep, I heare somedings vat I links res not yust right in my barn an I out Isbutnps to bed an runs mit the bartf out ; and yen I vas dere eoom I sees dat my pig gray iron mare he vas ben tide loose and ran mid the staple off; and who efer will him back pring, I ynst so much pay him as vas bia iushtomary.'