MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 December 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

; + A rich man wb >S3 great desire W3S to have a perfect carriage dog not : simply docile, atid a good steady fol« lower of his carriage, but perfect as regarded its color, perfect as regarded its symmetry nud the regularity of its black spots* He bad a splended team, and he wanted a splendid dog to run behind. One d\y he came upon tbe very animal at a dogstore down town, and on the first fine day for trotting on the public track he went out with a fine dog. The sun shone gloriously, and so did the dog Everybody aumired if, the spots were so back pod regular On hi« return homewards the sun disappeared, and the gathering clouds sent out; a down pour of rain. The dog began to change under the influence of tbe wet. Tbe black spots began to run into each other. The deg, for a while, looked tike a burlesque zebra. Presently it became a thing of stripes and patches ; nnd wheo it arrived home it was a suo-brown, a miserable-looking bear-eyed cur. Ie was then that my friend "understood the meaning of tbe remnrk of a person who stood chewing the end of a rank cigar oa tbe side- walk as my friend sallied forth from the store with bis new dog. ' I say, mister,' the stranger had said, puffing a cloud in tbe direction of my friend ; * I say, misler, there's generally an umbrella goes with that dawg.' Alticus, of the Leader thus comments upon the arbi^ary action of the Bishop of Melbourne in summarily dismissing Mr. Shorthose, reader at. Lillydale, for tbe oft'ence of having at tended the ceremony of laying tbe foundation stone of tbe Baptist Church at that place — ' It is very dUen chanting to find that our ek.qupnt Bishop, who preached tolerance to tbe presbytery and advocated the union of all Christain sects in sucb an edifying way two or three weeks rgo, was only eloquent and not in earnest. He could not have me^nr what be said, for he was at that v; j ry time dismissing at a momenta's notice the reader of his church wiiO officiates at Lillydale for practically carrying out his precepts. Tbe offence committed was that of attending with other clergyman a public meeting held in connection wirb the laying of tbe foundation-stone of a new Baptist church — sectarian discords. For thus striving to carry out Dr. Moorebouse's desires when be said that ' it ia tbe part, then, of every Cbristain man to endeavour, to draw nearej^to those who acknowledge tbe jame^Kaster, endeavour to build bridges over the gu'fa which separate him from them, and to be ready to make all lawful sacrifices to re-unite the distracted body of Christ,' the an« fortunate reader has been BlackWednesdayed out of band j and all for believing in bis Bishop) Many boys don't know how marbles are made, and there is something strange in tbe manufacture. Tbe greater part of them are all of bard stone found near Coburg, in Saxony. Tbe stone is, first broken with a hammer into small pieces, and about 109 to 150 of these are ground at; one time in a mill somewhat like a flour* mil. Tbe lower grinding-stone which remains at rest, has several circular grioves or furrows, into which very small streams of water are directed The upper stone is tbs same size as the lower and is made to turn round upon it by vrater or other power. This rolls the piece of stone about in all fl : rectinn«, and in about a quarter of an hour the whole are made ioto nice round marbles. A carious sffiir in an Auckland sub urban church is reported by the Stnr. Just before the close of the morning ser* vice Mr Haselden. lay reader, gove out that he had a nofe received Ili a I morni»«r t which he would like to read to fhe coc* gregation after service. When the moment arrived, lie read a notice from n ~'»ri r TJr>Tdt'ro ■warhTna~tTiß'"piiWtc, upi J.V* in particular, ae^iast any further fre=. pass on his lands on the Orunwharo nr elsewhere Mr Haseldon admiited in penitential 'ones tliat lie hnd trespass?,-* on the lan: for npn.r'v 'u-pn'y years, and he claimed the sympathy of that snv»M mn-rc^hon, in^nuifh -'s he tvas n< t j n'loTred 'o "fimmi 1 'In 1 ■ F P<' ' ttiv rnnip. «nr> ii • iiUr»wi«.i ihiv;'^'i« ! Mr Po'derf nit'i prosecution, iVr anything, and everything, real or im^inary, that it was possible to lay h'H <f.