MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 9 June 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Clara Belle writes : — " Barefooted bells are seriously promised for next summer at seaside resorts. The Princess Beatrice slipper of beaded satin, dainty and delicate, and shaped like a sandal, is intended to be worn without stockings. But the idea will fail in practice, and I'll tell you why. Not one woman in ten has feet that will bear baring. They may be small and shapely, and look line in stockings, but without a covering they would reveal a corn here and a bunion there, toes over-topping each other, scars of ingrowing nails and other blemishes, No ; the promise of barefooted belles will not be fulfilled."

Theodore Mill has taken a mould of the head of the assam of General Garfield. It yvsm not easy, says the " Medical Press and Circular," to obtain the consent of Guiteau to the operation as it involved the shavinc oft' of his beard. The sculptor, however, persuaded him to asquiesce by mentioning the names of the illustrious men, casts of whose heads he had taken. Guiteau smiled with complacency at the thought of the fame in store for him. Guiteau's head measures 231 inches in circumference; phrenologically, the bump of esteen measured 6£ inches, that of fi rmness 6 \ inches. The left side of the head is well developed, and apparently normal ; the right is almost flat. The sculptor declared he had never examired a head so peculiary formed.

The " European Mail ' states that the orginal programme of the Australians at Home has been altered and added to. Owing to a difficulty as to date, the return match with Sussex has fallen through, and the match at Huddersiield has seen some alterations of dates. Fifteen new matches have beeu made, eleven definitely and four in September, subject, to confirmation by the Australians when they arrived. The eleven new fixtures are against the Orleans Club at Twickenham, Mr W. G. Gilbert's United Eleven (late the United South) at Chichester, Portsraouth, and Tunbridge, the United North at Dewsbury, Somersetshire at Taunton, Northamptonshire at Northampton, Northumberland at Newcastle, the Gentlemen of Scotland at Edinburgh, and the Liverpool. The four September matches are at Leeds, Scarborough, Harrogate, and Glasgow Thus the programme consists of thirtysix matches, all of them, we believe, ele\en a side. The new engagements are of course not so important as those made in December, but several of them may result in good matches, especially if the United Eleven are strong teams.