MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 11 January 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

"♦ ~" Palis appears to bt- overstocked witli AtiKTiesiii dentists at present. The other day a recently established dentist brought complaint against his Servant for having left him suddenly without giving notice. The servant justified bis conduct \>y explaii ing that all the while he was in the doi-tor's hoiree not a ciiiisrli* patient <nade. his appeirance, while he was oMged to sit near the. window and scream Uv tb« boar to make people believe that teeth were being pulled inside by Uih wholesale. The Court acquitted the servant. Cashmere is now the only part of India were cows may not be killed ; formerly there were many Hindon Smiles were tin's was the case. It is said that the Maharajah had a strong d'-sire to visit England, but his Hindoo education and feelings prevented him Hi» reason was that lie had heard that the flesh of the cow was exposed in Shops in London. The following appears in " Answers to Cm-respondents" in th<> Liverpool Bra** Band .V«w:-" Mnsicus. NZ." asks if a Band Contest can be. said to he properly managed and adjudicated when some weeks elapse, between the playing of the bands. At tbn Exliibi tion heing held at Wellington, New JZ'aland, a hand contest is dragging its length along. The first hand, from Oamaru, have played and gone home some weeka ago, and of course, the press and public have given their opinion, by which the, other bands can benefit. The Auckland Artillery Bund *re on their w<y mow to d > their part — some weeks after the first hand. Shonld not all the bands have pUyed the same day, and do they not manage these things better in England ?— f Sncb acourse of procedure is unknown in England or elsewhere. Ajndsje must form his judgment »>y comparison, and we can hardly nee how, under such circumstances, he can act up3u this rule. Another thing— a judge is never supposed to know what hand lih is listening to, ag he is located in his tent before the drawing for the. order talcs place, and he is not allowed to leave the tent during the contest. At the conclusion lih simply walks from the tent to the stage, and reads his decision calling out the numbers of the winning bands in the order in which they have played.— Ed. 8.8.N.] W. J. Peall and W. Mitchell in November concluded a billiard match 15,000 up, i" which some enormous breaks were mnde by both men, but the former won easily iv the hml. Mitchell's principal breaks were 534, and 1620; bat Peall eclipwd these with r-ina of 530, 441, 895. 1380, 1709, 1257, U35, and 1922. At an early stage of the game Peall had, when the time came for an interval, run up an unfinished Wreak of 606. Just then that staunch supporter of billiards, Mr C. Howard, ntf.--ed £20 for the first player scoring 1000 points; this, on resuming,, iPe-all easily secured by adding to his j incomplete effort no less than L l O-4' j (368 spots), this making the full breajc j into 1709 (18 and 543 spots), be liins j Leading Mitchell's essay of the previous , day by 89 points. This *as a really j grand exhibition, compiled in a v.-ry rapid manner, with the utmost precision, and as nearly as possible faultless, he after the interval but once getting ont of line for the spot shot, and then recovering position l.y going all round the taMe. Mr Howard then offered £100 to either player scoring a break of 2000 in the match, and ! Peall very nearly secured this prize ] also. When his score stood at 13.850 ] he ran out with a break of liso, and I being asked to continue it, did not j leave off till he had rim up 1922 (634 ■consecutive spots). This very nearly approached the two best hreaks on record— namely, 1939 Peall himself last year, and 1939 i»y Mitchell. It was not long ago that the doctors discovered the existence of muscular disease, due to the excessive strain of bicycle riding; and now they have given the name of " tennis-elbow " to A painful ailment, which is sufficiently explained by its title. While playing intense pain is suddenly felt in the right eMiow, the arm drops to the side, and " take " or " service " is impossible for periods varying from six weeks to six months. Such cases, it now appears, are very frequent. In 1873 not less than 200,000 buffaloes were killed in Kansas merely for their hides. In 1874, on the south fork of the, Republican River, upon one, spot were counted 6500 carcases of Ituffdloes, from which only the hides bad been stripped. The meat ■was not touched, bu> was left to rot on the plains. At a short distance hundreds more carcases were discovered, and in fact, the whole plain* were dotted with the putrityiug remains of buffaloes. At Gil more, ten mils west of Omaha, U.S., a company have started a" cattle " fattery." They have expended £15, 000 m the erection of big stables. There are 3750 stalls, and by winter they will bave 5,200 stalls. In each stall they will place a "critter" and they will be fed with food placed before them through a system of pipes, and cooked in enormous sfeam vats, having o capacity of 1000 barrels of feed an hour, They will ship in cattle from tlu Western Nebraska ranches and fatten them in these stalls. Bnrmah is, perhaps, the one kingdon in IndoChina seriously worth having It is more than two- thirds the size o: France, is accessiUe by three spleidn rivers, of which one, the Irrawaddy, it the most convenient water high-way it Asia, and is splendidly fertile almost throughout. The forests are full o teak, the mountains overflow witl minerals, and the plains under rndes culture prod'io everything cultivate* in the tropics.

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