MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1374, 14 March 1884, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— - — • ■» ' I A Victorian journal ..states, that an j Australian boy has written to a paper \ thus:— 'Sir, — I think the greatest injustice to boys is their farther marrying so early. If a man didn't marry till he was 40 he would die and leave his money to his son just at the time the latter was entering upon life in earnest, and the boy would find it very useful. Instead of this, men marry early, and they live to spend their money 6a themselves. I have a father who is only 19 years older than* myself. When he is 70 I shall be 51. So you see it is no good my waiting for my inheritance, I must work for my own living. This sir, is one of the greatest difficulties we young men have to encounter through the inconsiderate conduct of "our fathers." «« Civis " in the " Otago Witness " says.* — Wondrous are the ways of men 1 We pity ourselves as a people afflicted and oppressed by bad times. Yet the totalisator at last week's races put' through £30,000 in three days? No doubt a good many " investors" put the Bame money through twice, or. oftener. Perhaps £15,000 would be near the total sum shuffled from hand to hand by the totalisator. But then there are sweeps and conßulations to be reckoned, the betting books, the stakes, the expenses of racing stables, not to mention dresses, cigars, champagne, and the other minor vanities proper to race week. Taking a sufficiently coro- ■ prebensive view, the "tottle of the hull," as Joseph Hume would have said, cannot fall much under £50,000. Now isn't that a pretty sum for an impecunious population to spend in ' three days' sport? With £50,000 we might pay off the debts on all the city churches. The? Lyceutn. included,— and finish Bishop Moran's cathedral to boot (Fancy the Jockey Club shutting up Forbury in order to pay off the debts on the churches ! When that happens I shall have my coals in by the sack— like Br Camming. The "end'! won't nefrroflH) For £50,000 we might have a city drainage scheme, or a municipal electric light og scheme, or a scheme for assisting big shipi over the bar by means of air balloons, or a scheme for exporting BritishIsraelites to the Holy Land. In fact it is difficult to say what scheme We might not have for £90,060. Spilt milk now ! We have had onr Isthmian games, and must pinch for the rest ol the year to pay for three day' reckless splendor. It was because "suffering . a recovery," I suppose, from the excesses of last week, that yesterday we refused to vote a paltry £7000 for city baths. In a work entitQd 'The Vicar of Morwenstow,' a life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A., by 8. Baring-Gould, M.A., the following description of an advertisement, issued at Wellcombe, in Devonshire, appears. As it is a curiosity we reproduce it for the edification of our readers. It is as follows :— " Roger Giles, Surgin, Parish Clark and Skulemaster, Groser, and Hundertaker, Respectfully informs ladys and gentlemens that he drors teef without wateihg a rainit, applies laches every hour, blisters on. the lowest tarms, and vissicka for a penny a peace. He sells Godfather's Kordales, Kuts Korns, bunyons, dokters horses, clips donkeys onco a month, and antertakesto look after every bodies nayls by the ear. Joes-harpe, penny wUtete, brass kahelstiekt, frypans, and other moosical instruments at grately redooc^d tigers. Young ladys and genehuens lam their graroraur and languedge in tbe puriest manner, also great care taken off their monreis^ and. .-speilfflg;.. iVi A|Bd*-. .asaifna.-. . zinging, teaching the base vial^and^all other sorts of vanoy-w-6rk, squadrils, pokers, weazils, and all country dances tort at home and abroad at perfekshun. Perfumery and snuff in all its branches. As times is cruel bad, I begs to tell ey that I have just beginned to sell all sorts of stashonary ware, cox, hens, vouls, pigs, and all other kinds of poultry. BlackixjU brishee, tray kel, godly buksand bibles, mise-traps, brickdist, whisker-W^iL morrel pokkerankerchers, and all sorts of swatemaits, including takers, sassages, and other gardin.stunVDaecy, ziggars. lanipoyle, tay-kittles, and other intoxzikatin liters ; a dale dU fruit, hats, zongs, hare oyle, pattins, bjipkkits, grindin stones and other aitfcbt^ korn and bunyoo aarve, and ftllhafaware. las laid in a large azzorttfcent of trype, dog's mate, lolipops, gingerbeer, matches, and other pikkles, such as hepsom salts, boysters, Windzei sope, anzetrar. Old rags bftrt aud

zold here and nowhere else-, new ladeLeggß by me Rogor Giles- stinging burdes rkeeped, sich as howles, donkies, pay cox, lobßt<*iV;. ydrickets, also tbffi stock of ac - . celebifcttdf braydef: ; Agent-for selling * gutty-;purk«r • souW £.s.—- 1 -tachei g'grafy ritm«*tic, oow^4oka,jimnastics^ and other ChyneeS trtckK' Rbs-jßaymond, Who died recently s in London, was a young journalist' and '.. drana^t of considerable ability,, but ..as pnprincipled as he was olever. Heheld a good position on the New York Herald some years ago, but forfeited it fornegotiath^.unai^oriß»»dd»f^tipoti the office. He after wards visitedEjypt as special correspondent of ft leading London paper during th* late War,: News from the Mauritius States that criminal informations have been filed in the District Court of- Seychelles against tbe chief civil commissioner, Mr Arthur Barkley, a. son bf Sir Henry Barkley, and Dr Lepper,tyhe Govenment medical -officer, for alleged negligence in permitting the introduction of small-pox. The pupulation^. : is in a state of; intense excitement. Every member of the Seychelles bar has refused to appear for the accuted. Writing about tiie WairarapftH ' Adelaide collision the Age says :— •' A horrible catastrophe was averted rather by good luck t&aa Hy matragement, and it is for the pubiic interest that such -dangerous practices should be strictly prohibited for the future. For we have . reason to believe tb*ey are more common than is generally sub;- * peoted. A correspondent in yesterday's issue tells us that this iK the second race in which the steamer Adelaide has taken part, followed by serious results. A fortnight ago Uiat vesseir: raced down the bay againgt the- Pateens r and on getting outside,' it" Was then discovered-thai the latter wae on fire, the woodwork round the funnel being burnt, and the vessel Herself forced' to put back to Queenacliff to extinguish it. What may occur on the open sea we do not know and perhaps we cannot prevent, bat we certainly can put a stop to such raadcwp competition within sight of the lanid." The' Australian papers |rhieh come to us (writes the European Mail)" indicate that journalism has made - • rapid progress in Australia. - Asa rule they are larger than any of the journals published either in this country or, iv America, and the editoral wort is done in an accomplished, and consistent manner, Even our *' morning papers cannot claim, |o equal' . v them in workmanship or matter* for while the Colonial papers contain, news suitable to all palates, they aw byno means sparing of telegraphic news, both Imperial and Colon nil, and it is in their favonr that in this Utter there-. y i are no sloven'y repetitions, as is the , case with the English morning papers. An ancient canoe, that was apparently hollowed out from a single massive *:.' 1 oak trunk by the atone axe or fire, was * > recently unearthed near Pulborough,- *« ' England. It was found under th-ariver y • bank. ■-.■•:' ' The extraurdinary confidence which*,-; > American managers appear to, feel in ' English artists is instanced by the fact b that -Mr E. D* Albert, •)*' comparative r musical novice, Aged only 19, it to* | receive a sum of £6250 and expense ' for appearing at *75<oonoerts in th* ' States. ' In the rVH Mall <>set^ appeare* a peculiar notice of Mist Mwy Ander- ' son's Galata*. The crifcK^^o appears ' to have spent most of hit tiffio dodging" ' behind the soenes, reported that after ! the first act an artist'-yisited the green** room, saw Miss Anderson, and *' pulled 1 . the drapery more fully round the. upper arm." Later be discovered the allimportant fact that somebody had ; again been to Miss Anderson ami , pinned up the dress in front " The second appearance of Mrs Siddons at Drury Lane on I(Jth October, . 1712, is powerfully described by ft contemporary writet: — "When the actress first faced that crowded house the old nervousness smaed her, but* • little. by little she forgot herself and her audience— she became Isabella. Atthe wot ful story unfolded itself, the overwhelming anguish she expressed gained her auditors' sympathy, ajmJ an immense excitement si-fed -them. Qbewho witnessed the scene describes the . enthusiasm sis passing every boundWomen Were carried off in hysterics, men fobbed aloud, the bOoie shook with acclamations. The next morning a, p»an of praise burst from the Press, ' thftnaxtnightfashionableladieSDesieged thelobdies of Drury Lans, and fought , to gain admittance into the pit From that time Mrs Siddons, fame was eatab*lished. No comedy or afterpiece was ' possible when she acted. The over-* ' wrought publio oouldiiot stand the jsyr [or another amotion. "'**'.* Wills' "bouoh oh oomvs."— .AA for Wells' "Rough on Corns." Quick relief, oomp!ete t permanent/ .'oures* ' Corns, warto, bunipns. The New Zea-' land Drug Oa, general Agerite.