MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1412, 4 July 1884, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

-• Splendid reports have been received in Sydney from the Silverton silvermines. The place is distant about 800 miles from Sydney, and near the South Australian border. Mauy :of theassays have yielded at the rate of from Isooozso I6oooz 6f silver to a ton of ore. Only a few days ..ago a solidblock of ore, weighing 2581 b, and estimated to contain three pounds worth of silver, Was obtained only 18 inches below the. surface of one of the claims. The country ,}*as]»Ben pegged out for miles in all direction*. There aro now about ! sixts Indian girls at the Lincoln Institution inPhiladelphia. They are attentive aud well- behaved, and most of them are Christians. They are taught in school one half the day, aud are iwAwrcted in house-work and sewing ihe other half . They are apt pupils wad make- rapid progress in their studies. The institution will soon be moved to more convenient quarters* Electric lights have been introduced into a gunpowder mamrfactory in England. The buildings are scattered over three miles, of territory, and the wires are carried above, ground from a dynamo near the centre of the enclosure. The ratio of marriages ko> the entire population of Switzerland is found to bo very low, as compared with that of other countries in Europe. The average of m&rryhig men is tqirty-one years, a women twenty-sevepryears. Mr W. Jurgens, 'blacksmith, of Tinkers, who was fbuhfl'dead in bed some time ago, has left a will, dated some four years back, ; by which he bequeaths the whole of bis property to the Eureka Lodge of Good Templars for a sick and accident fund. Hi? property is estimated at LSOO. It is generally considered that he accumulated this amount since he became a Good Templar.