MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1521, 13 March 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

m It i? reported tiiat the Pope is in f ivo of cr^.i In -^ ;o re foreign cardiu.ih, ill tiki'l4 the chance of the o it ;i : i 1 ■h-) 13 <i>vt% to someone outs' I- the It-l'a-i cardinal*. Mi ■„' ■> i r'-\i »tv! I>t pa : las in t ■? t ■••. by the day, but at t c !■;■.• of i ' I I""" cubic yard of s !•>• r> -:z ram.ivfd. Taey usually ;a.'<; 2. v I ,;-. ; .- •:i-'.y. t.ilv p-.-op »sos t> adopt gold as its ru >net,"iry unit. Since resumption its specie circulation his not been hirg , only, one-seventh 'iMU-4 in sil.'iM-, as required for small change. The Spanish Lifeboat society, estab 'j-hed in 18S0, and which already ii» •v, i.i.o n* of £POO a year, has estsih lisliod 80loc.il branches, and has beeu the mea is of saving 814 lives. The hitosr idea of the Ameer of Afghanistan is to illuminate CaWu. »>>• i!i.> electric light. It is stated that J c h:n sent some officers to Bombay to make, the necessary arrangements. In snit*' of th^ depopulating policy of the Russian Government in semlin exi'es to Si eria. St Petersburg hn n creist-d 25 per cont. in fifteen yea s Its population nil 11W 562.000. During the year 18S4 there were 2949 new buildings erected in Brooklyn, that being 254 more than were erected in ISB3. The «si,nn-.i nuiu'^r v buildings now in Br.-oklyn is 75,055, md c itiug a populatini of 6 JG,509, Two policemen in Paris, furious a f the attacks by the On du Penple, anne. ; t'u'inselvHs with 8w0.u3 aud ussaultei th eHtor in his office, wounding him baliy. One of the assassins receive^ Mn-OH shots, and ca mot snrvivo hi* injuries. A series of experiments has been co'vlu -ted at Spezzia to ascertain theffect of torpedot- r on steel vessels of Lin type of the ironclad Italia. Her kee plates were displaced and bent, and water entered her compartments, but she maintained her position. It has been found that the emeralds in the diadem of the Empress Eugenic, recently sold were bo^us. An English nobleman bought them for C 40.000. The money has been refunded. Paris Figaro asserts that the Empress knew that part of the stones in the diadem were false. A water-spaniel named Black, belong ing to tho owner of a bat Ling maohi ue «t Biarritz, in France, 3aved eight lives aud had a dog fete in his honor, to which tbe. town corporation gave £2 and a silver color. He is now the property of the Russian Grand Duke Vladimir and wears silver bracelets. There id an incubating establishment ki Albany, New York, which has turned out 400 chickens since October, when it began running. About on« hundred amd twenty -five dozen eggs are used weekly. When the chickens arrive at a weight of one and a half pounds they are sent to market The excessive coldness of the weather and heavy snowstorms have driven h^rds of wolves from the Carpathian mountains into the cultivated district* were they have in some cases spread terror amount the people. At Homonna, in North Hungary, a pack of 120 wolves entered the village whilst the inhabitants were at church, and were not driven out till a squadron of Uhlans attacked them with swords and carbines. Other painful cases arereported fr mi diffirenfc pints of turf country. Recent experiments with the telephone between Melbourne and Sydney have yielded most satisfactory results. The special line la <-ly established between Melbourne and ydnoy was used and although conversation could nos be carried on very wull, singing could be heard distinctly, and the voices could bo heard. Similar results were obtained with the return wire, making a total of 1.200 miles, the longes distan -c ever spoken on the ordiuaryt telegraph wire. Mr Thomas Cornish, a mining engineer of wide experiencs in pntical gold-mining in Australia and America, is attempting to form a syndicate, with a capital of about £20, 000 in £10 shares, to enable him to investigate certain gold-mining pro perties in Australia, and esp?ci illy in the Northern Territory and Queensland, with a view to the syndicate acquiring rights which they could either work or sell. A Newport (Monmouth) tradesman named William John Eskaile, a mar ried mm with one child, formed a connection with a woman named Price and determined to elorm wit!i her to New Zealand. He secured two berths in the R M S. Rimutaka and had got aw iy '„> \j >> I ) 1 v ! i 1 I') 1 ; of' 1 1.1 %* l> j 3 when he was arrested at Hie instance of his partner (Thoma'i Dowson) on a. charge of embezzling the Hnu'ft cash. Dowmq discovered Hiketle'a crim 1 in a (strange uiiiuier. The aHsoonder wrote . to a Loud in firm of passenger-brokers - Ordering them to secure him two bertll3 ' for New Zealand. This letter was ' blotted'bn a new office-pad, and Dowson who was writing afterwards. noticed so,Ti'< words which roused suspicion. Ho cut out tin nopermo»fc V ieaf and r< ad the whole of the epistle.