MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1645, 28 December 1885, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following by the Mell>onrn« correspondent of the Ararat \dvertite* is too good to be lost:- "It was ■ dry day, and thy and.it was proceed ing. Suddenly a brilliant idea occurred to one of the two in savei y— you known how Auditors toil— over the annn.il investigation. • Pipage show mo your petty cr.sh book. Mr .' The cash book wr« produced. 'Ah I see,' said ; j the sagacious Auditor, as he ran over i the columns—* Broom, 5s ; broom, 5s ; broom, sg. S^i-ins to cost ■» lot to i keep the Imll clean, eh!" * Yes, sir/ • | said the Secretary ;• we do lv»ve to I j usp a good many I>rooms, I must say.' i i • Well, said the An litor, laying down • | lii 3 pen as he s;ir>ke, • I tell y<-n what |j it is — T don't proceed oire bit fin the r . j with this andit until you buy another < I broom ' The Sen -tanr realised the sis- -• uation instantly, wr-nt o»r, and almost 1 i immediately returned with a hrootn ' i » in each po<ket — r»i»R labelled • Dan- ? ville' the other ' Honuessy,' i The pride of persona! adornment -> (snys a Horn;* pipr) has given rise iii j j various quirters of the globe to souv i ! questionable tastes — such, for mcc stance, as the wearing of scalps and j birds' plu'nage. But no f*>h?on of 1 the kind has eomr. within meisnreal c f distance of th* last. New York novoltv, f This consists l»ri. fly in the use of i human eyas a 1 * a substitute fry jewels. ;■ j A irenMenian lately arrived from Peru j ! with 200 petrified eyes, which he s { handed over to T ff.iny, the great \ jeweller, to He polished and mounted c in goU for a necklace. Th« wnvfc c went on nvrrily for a tine. But t. after a few had been thus treated tlio . men engaeed on this pleasant ta^k a were selzM wit!i serious illiess, and t inquiry elided tint it was probably y dv«» to come powerful acid poison used v j br the Ineos in embalming their dentl. s So the work had to h*» stopped for a . ! time ; bnt of course the defect can h« 1 i easily remedied by the simple plan of f procuring eyes from bodies which hare J not yet been made into in nannies. In y the meantime, perhaps, decayed teeth } strung together for brneelet*, or finger 1 nails enamelled to take the place of t mother- of pearl might make effective ! ornaments. \ The Anglo-New Zea'ander says : — j Mr S'ininfl N Brooks of Hyde, t England, arrived at St. Louis on 23rd \ Ocf., and fully indentified Maxwell, - the allesed nauHerer of Mr Preller, as . his son Hugh. The father said, " Hngh, i is it you" The son replied 'lt is ) father." The o'd man staggered : against the birs of the cell completely overcome. Recovering with a great f effort lie said. "It would have been . Kettrr for yon to be dead than here." i After talking with his son th^ father ; told the reporters lie was convinced of i his innocence. In this colony (writes the Melbourne . correspondent of the Bfliast Gazette) we do not often hear of a clergyman i dying vt*ry wealthy, and if such occur- ; ences do take plact they a»-e " few and far tatween." It apj>ears. howevei, a case heard in the Equity Couit j recently disclosed the fict that a Wesieynn clergyman (of all perpnasions the ruost remarkaMc to be tieh), the Rev George Hurst, of Bur wood, Sydney, lately died, and left property in New Sonth Wales* worth €37,811, and in Victoria worth £74,072. in a'l worth £112.3^3. The property in Victoria incluied the well-known Temn'e Conii l«oi!dings. Advices from Tonqain to tbft Paris Tempt of October 29 descrih« the situation thete as very gloomy. Since the beginning of the snmmer three thousand Frenchmen have died form cholera, and la'ge nnmbers are daily succumbing to that disease. The mortality among the troops hinders the progress of the campaign. Th» reinforcements thn' arc sent from France we scarcely sufficient to fill th? gaps mado in the French ranks »y rhe -'lagne. How the Money Goes.— The Ngatiwhakans trihe received £600 for town rentals at Kotorua, and according to a local writer •• incite.-! " it tn provide for a tavji, nl which 360 cations of bear, liesides mm. were, consumed in three days. This does not much look like an increase of te-nperance among the Mniii*. Ski vnv Men.— "Wells' Health Renewer, " restores health and vigor enres Dysppesia, T.npotence, Debility At druggists. Kempthorn* Prosser, <fe Co.. j\gents. Cliript'hii'ch