MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1425, 1 August 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

I ' There's one thing about me,' said young Fastboy, 'that is always on timo.' I know,' said his friend, 'your clothes.' Aud Fastboy said that wasn't just what he was going to Bay, but it was true, nevertheless. The " Polyclinic " states that the use of paper towls in cleansing wounds has been found very satisfactory. Sponges have always been l'egarded with suspicion by surgeons, as it is difficult to keep them in a perfectly purified condition. But the paper towels are to be used once only, and, as they cost only from Ml 4s to £1 10s per 1000, are available in the sick room. They are from Japan, and th« pule colours with which they are decorated are found to be unobjectionable. of eminence have roported that within a short time of the earthquake at Colchester, the level of the water in the wells lose J5 '<• above the highest level ever known. On the Sunday after the shock the water had risen Bft, and it has since remained at a rise of 7 ft. On thft application of Bishop Horden, a giant has bepn made by the Religious Tract Society in aid of the translation of the "Peep oi Day" into the Ojibbeway language, and of the " Pilgrim's Progress" into Cree, for the use of the Indians in this remote region. This will be the seventy-seventh language into which Bunyan's work has been translated. Two additional suicides, arising out of losses eft the Monaco gambling 'ables are reported to have taken place at Nice, where the victims were spending a holiday. One gentleman blew out his brains, and the other shot himself through the heart. Boiih were Austrians, and members of good families. • How fresh and green everything looks, murmured Claribel as 1 t;u-y wandered along the road. "Everything?' questioned Adolphus, looking down into her violet eyes. ' Yes, everything,' she replied, abstractedly. He wanders with another girl now. Mr Jenkins Masher, having sent, up his card and received word th it Mrs R. will be down in a moment, steals a kiss from the pretty maid. Mrs R., entering unexpectedly : Jane, how often have I told you to a 1 ways receive your visitors in the kitchen ? The following ad vertisement appears in a Wisconsin paper : 'Wanted — A medium-sized house for man and wife as near new as possible. This is a delicate way of informing the public that this couple haven't been married long. A thieving young Pittsburg dentist has eloped with the daughter of a Philadelphia nabob, and a'l the laughing-gas ever used by the new son-in-law won't create the ghost of a smile on the old gentleman's countenance. Flies axd B^gs. — Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rabbits, cleared out \<y " Rough on Rats." The New Zealand Drug Co., Sydney, General Agents.