MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1423, 28 July 1884, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A great deal might be said about pictorial advertisements, if thft impossibility of reproducing them did not stand in the way. As it is, we must content ourselves with showing how an advertisement can be illustrated without the help of daughtersinan or engraver. As arranging printers-* types thus,

an ingenious advertising agent presents the public with portrits of the man who does not and the man who does advertise, and says : " Try it, and see how you will look yourself." Society seems to be greatly exercised concerning the visit of Tawhiao, the* Maori King, who is expected to arriveat Plymouth to-morrow (May 81) in the Soiata. Already (says the European Mail) it appears, Lord Chichester has invited the dusky monarch to> vi&it him at his mansion at Sussex,, and there seems every probability that he will be made just as much fuss of as was Getewayo when he came over to this country to " defend his rights." The fact that Sir George Grey, the late Premier of New Zealand, publicly bade Tawhaio and his fellow chiefs good-bye is looked upon as a sufficient passport to their entry into society. We should not be suprised to see the Maori king feted at the Mansion House or even petted in the gilded saloons of Royalty. Under the heading "The heights above and the depths belovr," the following statement appears in " Knowledge " :—" A remarkable illustration of human degradation rtaches me from the other side of St. George's Channel. An Irish gentleman of station and fortune recently undertook, in concert with his English brethren, a series of observations of variable stars. Hehas, perforce, been compelled to relinquish his share of the task for the simple but sufficient reason that he dare snot cross his own grounds at nighfc to proceed to his observatory for fear of being murdered. This gentleman—whose nauae, for obvious reasons, I suppress—is resident on his own estate, and actually offered all his tenants leases in perpetuity three years before the Land Act was ever heard of. Hence it is the mere fact of being a landlord at all which imperils his life. During all the ghastly horrors of the French Revolution, when the guillotine was perennially soddened with the lifeblood of some of the best and wisest Frenchmen, Lalande was suffered to pursue his astronomical studies in peace, and when the death of Robespierre enabled innocent men and women to breathe freely again, 4 thanked his stars' for his escape. According to a very pathetic report sent by Lieutenant Frederick to the Moscow Gazette, there will soon be no Kfunscbatkans left in Kamschatka. Tin' pupulaiiou in a district larger than i/i.v whole of I'Ymui'w, which was oncn

above 50,000, had in 1880 fallen ofl to 6200. The only occupations of the inhabitants are shooting and fishing. Their food consists almost exclusively of fish ; for the annual income of any one rarely exceeds 16s, for which not «yen 401 bof flour can be bought. On the western coast things are even worse ; the mortality in these pa» ts is «yen greater than in the east C i the Commodore Islands, however, *hich are separated by a distance of 1 irdly 300 kilometres from Kamaschatk t, the population is nourishing amain under the benevolent supervision of an American firm. It is very sad, no ■doubr, to read of the dying-out of a whole people; but considering what Uamaschatka is, mankind doe* not suffer much by the extinction Oi -.he Karaaschatkans. Speaking of the stage- gains made oy the theatrical stars nowadays, the bt. James' Gazette says :— " The return of Mr Irving reminds us once again of the favoured position of actors in these •days as compared with their predecessors. If we look back some 40 years of the theatrical record, the modest sums received by Charles Kean on his American tour are quite put to the blush by livings enormous gains. In 1846 Mr and Mrs Kean occupied 50 nights between New Orleans, Mobile, and St. Louis, and realised an average of $300 per night, or $15,000 in all. Irvine's week at St Louis alone brought in $81,719. Kean's 72 nights at the Park Theatre, New York, averaged $960d01, each performance, or say §50,000d01. in all, while the Lyceum company's first four weeks there resulted in receipts of over $75,000d01. This contrast shows the vast strides the populations of the various Ameri- . can cities have made, as well as the greater interest now taken in matters theatrical. It is curious to note that when Charles Kean ventured on the production of two Shakesperian plays <' King John' and • Richard III'), on a scale never before attempted on the Transatlantic stage, he was but ill rewarded for all his taste and care, the lavish expenditure not being covered by the receipts," At a rather late hour the other Sunday evening, some commotion was created outside a honse in a fashionable square. A quantity of straw was on the steps of the front door, and in the halL Lights were burning high, and on the balcony there were also fan<y lights. After a time the curious were rewarded by seeing a young racehorse led down the steps, followed by several gentlemen in evening dress. The florae seemed to take things pretty coolly, and was led back to his stable, from whence he had been fetched to fulfil ,a bet made over the dinnertable. The question is being asked : Why •should not all our colonies subscribe -something towards the maintenance of the Royal Navy as well as India, which at present contributes to the revenue the sum of £102,553 per annum for Navy services in the Indian •waters? The colonies repay the Government for the services of our troops; why, therefore, should they not do so for the services rendered by the Royal Navy 1 This would admit ■of a sensible addition being made to the -strength of the Navy without a further •call on the taxpayers. — Home News. In reality the Blue Books have exploded the Gordon legend. People iind that General Gordon has remained at Khartoum because he chose to ; that lie has from the commencement of his "mission ignored with stolid obstinacy his instructions, and that he has attemped to force the hand of his employers, and to oblige them to substitute occupation for evacuation. Under these circumstances, while everyone hopes that this singular envoy will not become the victim of his own folly, most persons consider that it would be foolish for us to expend blood and teasure in carrying into effect a policy precisely the reverse of that which represents the deliberate intentions of oar Government. There are now 126,349 pupils in attendance in the schools for girls in .India. Only a few years ago no women were allowed to learn to read. The Gazeta de los Hospitals, Valencia, reports the cure of trichiniosis by the use of alcohol in quantities of 6oz to 9oz in 24 hours. The Edison lighting station in New York is now connected with over 500 "houses, which are wired for nearly 13, 000 lair p9, of which 11,272 are. actually attached to the conductors and ready for use as required. Mr Gladstone is expected to contribute a little manuel on •' Healthy Bedrooms and Nurseries " to the series | of handbooks about to be issued by the International Health Exhibition Committee. Not one warehouse has been built in Alexandria since the English bombardment. Catajerh op the bladder -Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by v Huchupaiba." Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christeiitirch