MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1541, 29 April 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— — . -..^ ■' — — Mr Charles Marvin, in his w»rk, •"The Russians at Mene and Herat, ' » aTB ;_-" Thanks to the evacuation of i Candahar, we stand in thi.4 position with ro^ard toth?*. key of India — that, though wp may protest, we cannot enforce oom;>Ui-yy wirh our »'•*■<• Had we retained Oandahar, we conld have h«Jd over Russia's head tie threat of occupying Herat in the event of the railway b^ing pushed menacingly in that direction, that power has zone from us for ever. The Gladstone Government fluntf it heedlessly away, together with all other ft nits of the eighteen millions sterling invested in the Afghan war. The threat to occupy Herat is a weapon which is now in Russia's hand?. Before a mnglf s^poy could arrive Wore Herat to defend it. Rnmia. thanks to the Trans Caspian railway and her new position on tho P^rsoTnrcoman frontier, couW he mistress of the place in an entire fortnight, any fraction of which.' period womd l»e miffi-jient for her troops to pat the fortresses in a condition to resist an Knglisb s»*ig*» ; while at the same time Russia could pour reinforcements into Herat from the Caucasus a clear triouth in advance of English succour arriving on the scene from this country." Lawyers are subjected to some pretty rough criticism at timsa, but we do not remember any member of the fraternity getting a worse hit than this 1 . •• The sna«» PrencWgsst (says an Auckland paper), who U abont to be "tried for the i tnlh-der of hia wife, hits selected Mr W. F. Buoklani to rfftfend \iiiß. We reqaire no further proof of the man's insanity than thw. It wo'xhl not surprise us in the least tq iwe His Honor, Judge Oillies, commit both lawyer and client to the Aaylunj before the case proceeds very far." The scri»«e who penned the above mu*t have suffered at some time or other from th*-sw " mscally hills of i otts " which Mr Travets sb eloquently discoursed upon some two years ago in the Wellington papers A hunter of second-hand book-stalls in London , has had the rare good fortune to iight on a rich trouvaille. ft is a manuscript note-book of 120 papes, bouud in faded Russia and steined by damp. Ninety-eight of the pages are covered wjth Aphorisms on women and other subjecos in the hand ■vyritin? of the Ute Earl «>f BeaeoosHeld, 'it i* conjectured they were panned upwards' of 40 years ago. Mnqt of them are extremely cynical, jf pp. a ," a f.jw i»y way of example :— ♦ Cnqn«*tte» j^ive their blossoms to their lovhi-«, their thorns to their husbands." * e Ther« is no niamage in heaven; noithcr k there any heaven in marriage. A good woman we*ries a man ; a b%d one worries him." It d»es not speak well for the fair sex, that, a* a rule, "he best succeeds am<)i>2 women who has the poorest opinion oT .them." " A wo. nan may not have a religion, yet she always has » deity.' A Weanty without wit seems to me to resemble a bait without any j hook in it.— Marriage is mach like a «[>acioua birdcage eet in a garden on a winter day. The ips would tie out »ad the outs would be in-— lt is often net until a w«ui*n fi-ula that she is too .old to he loved h'y. man that she Beck» to ba bved by flod.— Of all the women whom I ha*» known, I chiefly rwaetn\»er those, who' forgot themaelTes. — A wo>nan is flattered by the love even ef n beggar in rags. — A man will return rather to her who has deceived Jiim than to her wham he has deceived. — The " rmio'ji " means quaint aa well as inqnisitive. Woman, in both senses of tlie w»rd, is a curious animal. The Russian Pr#ss have ben urgeing the abrogation of that part of the Declaration of Paris which deals with privateering and the right of search during war. The whole of the European Powers, who were parties to the Treaty, ratified the following:—"!. "Privateering- is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral Hag covers- enenaieg' goods, witb the exception of contrataud of war. 3. Newtral goods, with the exception of contrahaqd of war, are not liable to capture under an enemy's flag. 4. Blockades,,- iu ordet to be binding, mu«t be effective ; that is to sa» maintained by a force saifici«n< really to prevent access to the enemy'i rjoast." I' should be renaemWered tha< the United States refuged to Vmj partiei ~ji the abolition of privateering. Br N. W. Richardson ef Londos ayi : — »• I wa» rewmily able to conrr

i a considerable amount <j£ conviction U . an intelligent scholar who was singing : the praises of the 'ruddy bumper,' an< saving he could not get througl the day without it, when I said tc Mm, ' Will you l»e go«d enough to fee! my pulse as I staud here !" He did so. I Htjfl ' Count it lawfully ; what does it say ?' ' Your pulse says 74.' I tlieii sat down in th« chait,aud asked him to count it again. He did so and sail I. You i' paiae ha 3 gone down to 70.' I then lay down on the lounge and s*itl, "Will you take it again? 1 He replied. ' Why, its only 64 ; what an extraordinary tiling?' I then said, * When you lie down at night, that is the way niviiv , : p.-s yoiir lieart rest. You know nothiiig about it, but that beating organ is resting to that extent ; and, if you reckon it up, it is a great d«al of rest, because in lying down tlm hpartis doing 10 strokes less a minute. Multiply that by 90, and it is i 600 ; multiply it by pisjhty hours, and vfigtin a fraction it ia 5000* strokes difforWlt. Aid as the heart is t!r.-o«riusp six* ounces of Mood at p>'"vy stroke., it makes a difference of 80,0 )0 ounces of lifting during the night. When I lie down at night without any alcohol, that is the rest my h^artgets. But when you take your wine or grog you do not allow that rest, for the influwnce of alcehul is to increase the number of strokes, and instead of getting this rest you put on something like 15,000 extra strokes, and the result is you rise np ♦cry seedy and unfit for the uext day's work till yon li«ve taken a little more of the 'ruddy bumper,' wtaidh you say is the soul of man below."