MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1128, 11 September 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Quite Enough Said — ' My wife lost her purse with £'S in it to-day.' said a sad-looking man. ' Whengoing into town, or coming home V. asked somebody. ' A lu-n 1 Didnt J tell you .she had some money in it?' demanded the sad-looking man, and everybody knetv when she lost it. Among the last Yankee novelties is a toy pistol for boys — a breechloader about 4-iti. to Gin. long — bearing a blank shell of 22 ca'i rv. The effect of this toy on July 4 '(Independence Day) has been terribly fatal, 78 deaths having been caused by it withinv a radius of 500 miles of Chicago. The slightest wound or-scratwh of the skin produces lockjnvaml death in 66 cases out of 100. If this toy.sJgmldvjKii in an appearance in New Zealand, if; is the duty of the authorities to conlist ate and utterly destroy the .entire stock. Your boysand the whole mankind ( would be safer it' supplied witliGatliug - guns. Look out for the "toy" pistols 1 — American correspondent Duuddiii "Star." _ .V „ The German authorities liaVo^ust suppressed an Alsatian paper, -f the ' Volkblatt,' for a strange prefes ofience, It published every week an article giving a summary of thn accidents of the week in which working-men were killed or injured. The authorities held that this was calculated to propagate Socialist ideas, and have suppressed thepaper accordingly.