MISCELLANEOUS.
+ Speaking of the necessity of treeplanting the Lake correspondent of the Otago Daily Times mentions the example of Mr Georgo White, of Lake Hayes. Mr White, who some 16 or 17 years ago sowed some bluegum seed, and recently erected a stone woolshed, with loft, the beams for which were culled for the gums sown on his farm the trees cut down measuring from 18 inches in diameter upwards. This little episode teaches a lesson in timbergrowing. A young lady was married in Louisville the other day, and a newspaper account of the event was headed, Mated in May.' The New York Graphic supposed that "Joined in, June" and "Attached in August" will be the fate of those who come latter in the season. Likewise some we be "Spliced in September," Orange-flowered in October." "Nuptialised in November,'' and " EUnibled in December."
The register of the ancient parish church of Oxford, Kent, contains an entry of the marriage of Henry Clarke to Sara Thorp, with a note to the effect that the former was 99 on his wedding day. So no bachelor need despair. A backwoodsman promised to send the minister fifty pounds of maple sugar for marrying him. Time passed on, and no maple sugar arrived to sweeten the minister's house-hold. Some months later he saw the newly married husband in the town, and ventured to remind him, My friend, you did not send the maple sugar you promised. With a saddened countenance the man looked up and replied. *To tell you the truth, go vernor, «he aint worth it' Mr Denton recently paid a high compliment to^the Canterbury Museum. He said it was one of which any country might be proud, and for its age was one of the best he had seen in the world ; it also reflected a great deal of credit on those gentlemen who had devoted a great deal of their lives and a good deal of labor to furnishing it A museum was one of the greatest educational institutions extant. , Electric power is now used in Germany to deliver coal at the entrance of mines,
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1073, 12 April 1882, Page 2
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352MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1073, 12 April 1882, Page 2
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