MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1557, 5 June 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— ♦ An American who recently visited the river Jordan says he neve, saw in this country a stream so vile. Itis Irss than eighty feet wide, less than -ten feet deep, and as dirty a** <:a-i V. Its carrent is as swift as a mill *a<*f>. lie stood about half an -hour on " Jordau'3 stormy banks," and saw all he oared to of it, The hanks are called "stormy" because of the millions of mosquitosthat live and have their lipuv thore and storm people that are fools enough to travel hundreds of miles to _(?« tho river. The Amsterdam firm of J Metz is busy with the erection of a special weerkshop, in which the cutting of the larafost diamond o_ the world is shortly V_"be commenced. This diamond (says a Home paper), which has recently been found in South Africa, weighs 475 carats, and is said to be greately superior in colour and l>rilliancy to all the other famous diamonds of the w arid, the largest of which, the " Grand Mogul," is in the possession of the Shah of Persia, weighing, after being out, 280 carats ; next in size follows the " Oiloff," of 195 carats, which adorns the point of the Emperor of Russia's sceptre; the English "Kohinoor," originally weighing 116 carats, but in its present form reduced to 102| carats. The •* Regent," one of the French Crown iewels, weighs 136 f carats, tlie tim*s spent in cutting this last jewel was two-years during which tiny* diamond dust to. the vain •o ' "i", 0 > used. Tho "Star of the Bouui," -.v ; t:_;i has been cut at Amsterdam, weighs 125 7-16 carats. ' Music is the sound whkh one's ghildren make as th _- ,■». * the house. Noise is tn. aouud w_uc_t

other peoples children make under the sain*- ciivnmst;ini*es. A Baptist minister was once asked how it was that Ik* consented to the marriage of his daughter to a Presbyterian. "Well my dear friend," he replied, ".as far as I have been able to discover, Capid never studied theo-l-gy." Young ladies who will net marry wben they have a chance Miss it. — Exchange. No doubt of it. But what ar. they fo d-< ? When one accepts an offer .she generally Mrs it too.— ( Bout on Post. ) Wf: Mr nst this senti- _.!* r it. — >'■>" ! nAep*nden f . Flies ajtd Bfos. — Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bedbugs, rats, mioe, gophers, jack-ra 'bits, cleared out by " Rougnon Rats." The New Zealand Drug Co., Sydney, General Agents. Tt is init>.is«rible to remain lone* sick or out -of ht.-ilf.li where American Co.'s Hop Bitters are used. See another