MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 30 May 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ Newspaper men are evidently rising in public esteem in tlit Home country, tlHr adaptaM ily to circumstanf f s and grasp of general knowledge standding them in good stead when res* ponsible men are wanted- The Lon* don correspondent of the Edinboro* , Standard, under date March 21st. writes : — ' I understand that the Pre« pident of the Board of Trade has offered the po.«t of the chief of the Statistical Department — an office jvorth £1000 a year, and just vacated by Mr Giffen, who becomes city editor of a contemporary — to Mr A. J. Wilson, also a journalist and author of several works upon banking and trade.' Tbe Empress Augusta has received from the Empress of Japen a present which has created quite a sensation amongst naturalists. The noval and interesting sift consisted of a couple of Japanese dogs, the first of their kind ever imported into Germany. They are long-haired and silky, snowy white in colour, witb a few black spots on the boly, and with ooal black heads. The most remarkable feature is their eye?, which are extraordinarily large and lustrou?. and wh ; cb, it seems as they grow older increase in size, untill they attain the dimensions of a two«Bbi!ling piece. They arrived at the palace in charge of a Japanese official, who had conveyed them all the way from Teddo to Berlin, carefully pack?d in a handsome kennel, the interior of which was luxuriously linrd missioned by the Kmpress to take their with silk >n cushions. The Kmpres sent them dojvn kennel and all to the Berlin Canine Club house afterwards, for inspection at; the general meeting of the members specially convoked for fhiit purpose. The late DrGutbrie was once main* taining the proposition that everything in the world had its use and was good in its place. A gentleman present, knowing that the Doctor was a firm teetotaller, asked him how he would apply that to whisky. 'Why,' said he, ' there is nothing like whisky for preserv : ng a man when dead ;on the other band it is one of the wor.it things in the world for preserving a live man. It kills the living and keeps the dead. The only trouble is that many of the living don': understand this distinction, anil u?e whisky at the wrong time. They should wait till they are dead.