MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1327, 23 November 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— « At. the meeting of the Irish National Convention, Melbourne, a telegram was received from MrParnell wishing success. Dr O'Dogherty was elected president A long series of resolutions were passed deploring the present condition of Ireland, and pledging the Convention to assist in . trying to ameliorate it ; adopting a petition to the Imperial Government in favor of local government in Ireland ; deploring the crimes which stained the recent history of Ireland, and declaring the coercive policy to be a fruitful source of disorder and crime. The next Convention is fixed to be held in Sydney next year. A clergyman, now of New York, married not long ago a couple that at once started for Europe. The bridegroom was a man of wealth ; and, before he presented himself before the bridal altar, he placed a one hundred dollar greenback in his vest pocket to give the parson for the marriage fee, and did pay it t'6 hiiti, as he supposed. While crossing the ocean, he discovered, greatly to his . astcnishment, the bill iv the pocket iv which he had placed it. On getting back to his country, he determined' to solve the mystery, and waited upon the rev,. gentleman, % and inquired if, on a certain date, he did not rnavvy a certain couple. The clergyman remembered the occasion perfectly. " I know I am about to ask an impertinent questioii," said the visitor ; " i.ut I should like to 'be informed what fee you received for the ceremony V The clergyman recognised the man as the one he. had married, and said that'll c would, of course, gratify him, since, he was so very ■ anxious to know. " I received," he went on say, " a very small quantity of small chewing tobacco, folded in a very small piece of paper." That was enough. The only thing remaining to be done was to apologise for the curious blunder, laugh heartily and make the one-hundred dollar deposit i good. In England an agitation is going on for real self-government, on which the Lyttelion Times remarks: — In no country in the 'world, probably, is political education for Parliamentary work more sadly lacking just now than in New Zealand. The value of the old Provincial Councils in this respect was repeatedly urged by those who protested against their abolition. Bnt it was urged in vain ; and the unquestioned degeneracy of the General Assembly, which the most rabid Centralists now admit, was. the result. And, if the House of Commons is troubled with parish politics, the House of Eepresentatives passes its time almost wholly in their discussion. I;s members, most of them, have grown so used to this condition that they- begin to believe that it' is right and necessary. In the course of last session a veteran speaker in the House apologised to his audience for dwelling on a large question of constitutional importance, as he knew that many members thought nothing worthy of being called business except roads and bridges. As our wants, therefore, are similar, though more aggravated in degree, to those of the English counties, we may hope that the agitation now commencing in England may attract the .attention of the apathetic here, and furnish the energetic with advance and encourag«ment. It is a mistake to labor when you arc not in a n't condition to do so. To think that the more a person eats the healthier and stronger he will become. To go to bed at midnight and rise at daybreak and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To imagine that if a little work or exercise is good, violent or prolonged exercise is better. To conclude that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep iv. To eat as if you only had a minute to finish the meal in, or to eat without an appetite, or continue after it has been satisfied merely to satisfy the taste. To believe that children can do as much work as grown people, and that the more hours they study the more they learn. To imagine' that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better (as alcholic stimulants) is good for the system, without regard to the after effects. To take off proper clothing out of season simply because you have become heated. To sleep exposed to a direct draught in any

season. To think that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all j the diseases flesh is heir to. — • Index.' One of the roughest things about the colonial practice of shouting, says aeontemporary, is experienced when you, with only small change enough to carry you through a " shout" for self and a friend, find that friend in the openness of his heart and generosity of Ins nature invite three or four other friends of his to partake in the shout at your expense. This very often occurs, and you cannot gracefully retire, but must submit to spending half-a-crown where you only meant to be liberal to the extent of one " bob." It is one of the many evils under the sun, and the man who can propose a remedy, verily, is deserving of his reward, Mr Alfred de Eothschild recently gave a splendid entertainment at his residence in London. Vanity Fair says of it : — " Alfred de Eothschild gave a splendid entertainment. Patti sang three songs at the rate of £200 a song. Nicolini did not acquit himself as usual. The rooms were full of beauty, good dresses, and lovely jewela There was an excellent supper, and a dance graced by most of the prettiest and smartest ladies in London. It certainly appears an easy way of earning £600 to sing three songs in a room before an easily pleased audience. A few nights ago the wife of a financier proposed £400 as being a reasonable honorarium ; but the goddess of song refused it. " In the beginning of last season," says the World of September 12, u a lady was seen in drawing-rooms, the reputed wealth of whom made not a few mouths water, and chained to her side a young nobleman who had previously met with a marked absence of good fortune in his swoop upon the heiresses of the Pacific Slope. The lady was .intelligent, no longer in her first youth, and of mixed parentage, her mother having been a New Zealand Maori, married by her father when he gave up whaling and took to beach-combing and the acquisition of land in the islands. So well did Barney Khodes prosper that this daughter of his has £40,000 a year. She got through her short experience of London in safe by, went back to New Zealand, and has just given her hand to a local young man — the son of a late Bishop of Napier." Mr Edward Bolton, a very old colonist, died of heart disease at Blenheim at the age of 76 years. The deceased, who was for many years a settler in the Waimea, came out to New JZealand in 1842 in the ship George Fife, in company with the Hon. Mr Dillon Bell, Sir W. Fox, Sir Charles Clifford, Mr Joseph Ward, and the Redwood family, with whom he was connected by marriage. Wells' "bough on corns." — Ask for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, coin pie. c, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss Co., Sydney, General Agents.