MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1453, 6 October 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

# According to an American paper there are at present 20,000 active oil ■wells in Pennsylvania, yielding over <>0,000 barrpls a day. There are now nearly 38,000,000 barrels of " ile," or enough to form a Jake more than a mile square and ten feet deep stored in the region in tauks. An incident of a somewhat romantic character is recorded in a recent issue of the Dundee Advertisoi*. A certain Sunday school in Dundee had its annual trip to Monifieth, when the general enjoyment seems to have reached a high pitch. So much was this the case that sitting quiet daring the brief period occupied by a railway journey of six miles was found to be intolerably irksome, and to pass the time the teachers" urged the minister "who accompanied them to perform the marringe ceremony in the carriage. Yielding to the pressure brought to bear upon him, the minister consented, three of the young men chose partners, and the ceremony was duly performed in the regular way, the minister winding up by telling the parties that they were legally married, and reminding them of the duties devolving upon them in their oew relationship. All this was looked upon as good fun, but the parties being subsequently informed that by the law of Scotland the marriages are really valid and binding agitation followed on the heels of amusement, and it is said they are taking professional advice on the matter. It is added that in some cases the united persons are well enough pleased with the prospect of finding their union a reality, but in others the feeling is of an opposite character. Marriage c remonk'S in Scotland are certainly edged tools which it is the safest not to play with, as other not overwise persons have found out before. ; now. Whatever may be the upshot of the escapade under notice, one cannot help wondering what sort of teaching the children get at a Sunday-school where the teachors are so . sentimental and the minister so amiably plastic.