MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1082, 3 May 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ Cardinal Howard, who has just been raised by the Pope to the dignity of Archpriest of the Basilica of St, Peter, was in his youth a soldier. It was as officer in the Life Guards that he led the procession at the funeral ofthe Duke of Wellington. There are 224 boot and shoe factories in San Francisco, 187 of which are owned and worked exclusively by Chinamen, also 410 laundries that employ 5,107 Chinamen. Thore are 167 white cigar makers to 8,500 Chinese cigar-makers ; 1,000 white tailors — wages £3 per week — to 7,570 Chinese employed for the manufacture of clothing, who receive £5 to £6 per month. The shipping companies of San Francisco employ 350 Chinese as waiters, tfec and there are 573 vegetable vendors, besides over 600 employed in the fisheiy business ; and all of these are outside the busy hive of Chinatown. A London postman recently confessed to have stolen from a letter, a sovereign and a five-pound note so long ago as December, 1872. He had been a carrier for nearly twenty-five years, and bore an excellent character. It appears that he kept the five-pound note by him until just before Christmas last, when being very much pressed for money he changed it Bnt notwithstanding that it had been missing for a period of nine years, payment of it was ponce being communicated with, it was tracked to the prisoner. Had he not confessed to the theft, however, it would have been clfficult to convict him. The person to whom the letter was addressed had been dead for some time. The Judge, taking into consideration the man's previous good record, con. sidered that the interests of justice would be fully satisfied by his ordering the prisoner to enter into recognisances, and to fine one surety in the sum of £50 to come up for judgement when called upon, It is stated that there is a church in Glasgow which haj3 appointed " a handshaking committea " The duties of the members are to watch for and welcome strangers and invite them to come again to the church. The Melbourne Telegraph has been given to understand that the late tour of the English Eleven throughout the Australian Colonies and New Zealand has proved a financial as well as a. cricketing success, the gross amount taken from all sources being in close proximity to £13,000, The promoters (Messrs Shaw, Shrewsbury, and Lillywhite) pay the remaining nine professionals £200 each, and allowing £5,000 for expenses of the trip this would leave the very handsome sum, in round numbers, of £6,000 to be divided between the three abovenamed. On Feb. 2nd, Queen, one of tho twenty of Mr Barmmvs elephants now in winter quarters at Bridgeport, Conn, gave birth to the second baby elephant ever born in captivity. It weighed at its birth 1451b5, was 30in. high, 36in. long, trunk 7 iin., and was covered with thick flossy hair. It was first as blue as indigo, bnt soon changed to a mouse color. It has been christened "America." Mr Baraum has secured an insurance of 300,000d015. on his baby. He pays 52,000d01. premium or lOOOdol. per week for one year. He proposes to exhibit father, mother, and baby as the elephant family. A Paris correspondent draws attention to the non-recognition of the English marriage law in Fra-n-o. which leads to the desertion of many Englishwomen and children on tlieir arrival in that country. A Frenchman may marry an English girl in England according to our lavs, and as long as they remain in England tliey aro lawfully married ; but" lot a trip to Paris or French soil be taken, and the wife is no longer a wife, and tho children become illegitimate. Young women who contemplate marriage with Frenchmen should make themselves acquainted with all the French formalities. It is true that there are Frenchmen who do I not know the laws of their own country. A short time ago a Frenchman came to Farts, and. finding that the Englishwoman he had espoused IS \ears was not legally his wife, honorably re-married her according to tlio Frenoh law. Cut unfortunately,