MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 4 November 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

An American paper mys :—Leonardo Aretino, an Italian prophet f ,f the fourteenth century, is authority for this amazing statement : The dis. solution of the world is to begin on November 15. 1881, and will |ji<?i fifteen days. According to Aretino, the programme will be arranged as follows: — Ist day — The sea will overflow, 2nd day— The water will pene trate imo the soil. 3rd day — Deaih of all fresh- water fi;<h. 4'h day. Heath of all sea animals, o'hdjiy — Death of the birds. Btli day— Fall 0 * all houses and buildings. 7«h day — Fall of the rocks. 8 h day—Earthquake. 9th day — Fall of the mom?' tains. 10 h day — Men Will become dumb, li'h day — The Knives vrill open. 12'.h day— Rim of .stars. 13 r h day—Death of al! mankind.— l 4: h dav — Destruction of heaven and earth hy fire, 15 day— Geuerai resurroclion and latest judgement. Signor Matteucci, the Italian traveller, who for several yr-ars his been enuagt-d in explorng (he i;>ferior •» Africa, aud who irawlled (rum tiw Ken S.'U u\ (liy Oui -M>i\ Guf m c.«p.u jtany of i^ieu'i-iuvat jhu^afo, el Uh-

Royal Italian Navy, died recently He was on his way l-ome after an absence of several rears. It is reported tint a mirmsje has been arranged between the In r ;»Dta Ku!.->l»e, sister of Dm Alfonso, ami tin King's brolher-iii"hiw, tlie Archduke Ch»rlcs of Austria. Iti tiio meantime the royal household of llm Palais de Castille is making prepun* tions fiT retnov'ns: t > Dieppe, wherj a villa has been taken for the Queen. Tile Frenchman employed at the Panama Cmai are dying rapk'lr from yellow fever. Accuuuis are deplorable. The story of 3 dynamite scare, or something like it, comes from tho head of Like Wakatipu. A China* man, who \v,\<\ probu'i'y been reading of the Nibilist and Fenian explo.«iv<» machines, came into G'eorchy with a story that he went into bed aa u*ual the previous evening, and was awoks during the night by a fizzing ooiao under hi's book. Oq looking below? ho espied fuse in a rerjr lively state of enmbustion. when be made a burried exit, but was hardly oat of the place when an expiosbn blew up bis hut. He declared that he suspected another Mongolian to whom he had so!d a • shieer ' claim far £6, md who, failing to get his moQcy back, had made t-h* diabolical attempt. The • Wakatipu Mail,' however, adds:— 'The latear, news ia that the owner of the hut whose name is Sin? Chuey, did tlm mischief himself. He w^s celebrating a feast with his mate.*, when som« Chinese crackers, let off near th» hut, accidentally ignited the gunpowder. So many fearful accident* iv house* ! building bave followed each other in ! rapid succession during ibe last few weeks in <^ome, that it has almoafc seemed to superstitious persona an if a malign fate attended erery effort to make the Klernal City a modern metropolis. A t last accounts the attention of the Prime Minister had been publicly called in Parliament to the urgent ueceseitjr of adopting some means to protect the lives of workmen. S.atistvs show that in France thew are now 100.000 lunatics, or one for every 400 iababitant3. Two-fifth.* of them are in public, and three- fifths in private asylums. Ten madmen came from the liberal professions to one from the agriculiural population. Further, it is shown that one irtiat; in every 100 is mad. one lawyer in evtry 120, and onr professor or man of letters in every 250. j An occurr-nce of a most singular character took place in oue of tho swimmiog poujs in connection with tho Duudee public biths. The water i* let off into the river atlovr tide and the p-»nd is refi led from a tank on tho premises. While the pond was being emptied on Saturday a lad named Johncfcon contnry to tbe rules of tho establishment, sprung in feet foremost; to have a bathe. To the cr.nsternntioa of those present he did not return to the surface and his next appe.tranea was at the door of the baths nakeJ and his head bleeding. The suction of he water hid drawn him through th* pipe a d stance o" between 20't, and 30 teet, and had shot him, aa if from a calnpu'fc, into the river Tay. Tho pipe is only 12iu in diameter. J >hn* says tome one had sitzed him firmly by 100 feet; tbe nett moment all w:\» d-«rk, and be w.il propelled into diyligbt iv the river. He has since that time been confined to Ms bed. but hi* medical attendant is of opinion th.it he will recover. — Times August 30ih. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Laramie Boomerang' gives m tin daij pr.^rame cirried out by the Czir. In the morning he has fnooity prayers in the cast-iron champel in fho back yard. after whioh be retire* to hit* owrr fi e and-burglar-proof bank vault, an is locked in by a domestic. At noon the head cook squirts a qu*rt of oi-'ail sou!) through tbe key hide into tho midst »f the imperial presence. Th on lhe Cz»r assays it, and if there b» anything i-X'ep" the essence of ox he squirts it back into the head cook 1 * ear and orders by telephone that tho headconk he worked into pie. A farmer, who had ensoul the services of a son of the Emerald I-Oe, <ent him out one morning; to harrow ft piece of eround. He had not worfced long before nearly all the teeth came nut o? the hirnuv. Presently the fur* inpr w.eiit out i i the fi«ld to take note* ni' Pi'V ''rp'irp**^ ,inrl rwke.d him how he liked Inrpiwinuj* ' (); r,p ied VnU •ir goes a hit smoother now since the peso Bre out.' With regard to tip rp;n irknl>K» dismr« cry of a pitch Qf 83! l> wpiirht <>fgold, tbe B ; tlisrat. C<"iripr ssy* : — • We haro rpconlen from 'ime to timpihi* unc»rt!iinjt nf some pvraord nary pook#'«i of gold on the Indicator line of re^ft Wlnte Hor«f JfanarSi hnt tbo find of Messrs Tircworth an i pirtv on WeJn^sday night is the lienvipst chronicloil for inanv" y^nr^ in that locality. Thix nnr'y hnvo «n nrrt nf urouDd tonn'Tly k'iDW as IVnrcp'S claim and while driv ; nj -ilnni the cnnrsc of the lodo on the a'lore dap broke do«vn abnti! \cw\ of sold ;»nri q-iariZi wiiicli wiien poun I*»d up yiollol i»> ■» han»is*>me result nt 83 ! b weiyhf. of goU. It, nny be inent'oned \\v\t Tmworth nnd PMrfr liavi* not (io:'u dvrr desirous of uisikinc tu'.lin their ao^d f.ntunp, an-l we ar-> inJormfd that only a short timo >jinre they .iropcpd u]v>n n F^inllor pitch n-hic'i mabled thoni t" d rile something likp £2000 Mm >nist tlmni.' L-'t»df.n Trutli complains bociusfi mini; l=i lies hive takr.i to dritinj ii.js in Kydo P.rk whilf si* r ia\i ('t'si io a It \vot,^>"> w\\'\\ \\ ||„s ; V i,;^ s ,, v if v Min<* ■'. ■••• • • '■•■■•*{ •» l y«. -..;.. -i -o.»i. : ; ; s >!.^ l.ros 1^::}".