MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 21 April 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I ♦ . T!i« deaths from typhoid fever in Naples last year were 8872. The Globe states that Lord Rosebevy is a partner in the firm of Hoffnnng and Co. to the amount of £100, 000 An American editor offers a reward of 5 dollars for the best treatise on " How to make outdoor life attractive to the mosquito." A child two years of age, the son of a wealthy farmer iu St. Louis, America, was seized by a pig and eaten, with * the exception of an arm, which was fonnd in the jaws of the animal when search was beiug made for the boy. William Youngell, young aristocrat in Calcutta, is under senteuce of death for the murder of his betrothed. -She had refused to accompany him to a concert, and he, thereupon, shot her dead. The family of a seedsman in Victoria, British Columbia, consisting of four hoys and two girls are lunatics, and have been so from their births. It is a psychological puzzle, as the parents are perfectly sane, and are unaware of madness having ever existed among their ancestors. In connection with the reference made at the trial in London of * the Socialist leaders to the cartoon in Punch complained of by the prisoners on trial, a contemporary says: — " A nything more execrable in taste and execution 'than J the illustration in which it represents Hynriman, Burns, and Champion swinging swinging from the gallows, with piotrudiug tongues and distorted visages, haßseldomHisfigu«'dan English print. Even the Hangman covers his victim's face with a cap, and execution follows conviction instead of preceding trial. The genial jester of Fleet street dispenses with the cap, and merrily pulls at their gallows ivpe out!n

morning on which they surrender to take theiV trial at Bjw street Police Court. This a wors«, even, than its pictorial lampoons on the majority of the Irish peopl', and that is saying a great deal." The " Tamw irth News" says :—The secretary of tho Sydney Local Optionists, Mr. Knapp, wrote to General Neal Dow, the authn- of the Maine Liquor law (absolute prohibition) asking the actual facts as to the malt of Hi# working thereof, and the General sums the case up thus: —(l) Every distillery and brewery has been suppressed ; (2) the drink traffic has been reduced by 16 20th, and a direct saving effected to the state of 12,000,000 dol.; (3) before Maine submitted itself to a prohibitory liquor law it vas the poorest state in the Uniou, atd it has since become one of the most prosperous ; ctud (41 after 30 years' experience of prohibition, the law was re-anacted in 1384 by a three to one vote.