MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 190, 1 July 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

In London, a girl Inis died from pyoemia, resulting from the lute of a cat. At a sale in Paris, a pair of spurs of the time of the middle ages fetched nearly .£IOO. A Wisconsin jury found that “deceased came to his death from calling Bill Jackson a liar.”

There are now more than forty equine butchers’ shops in Paris, where horse flesh is sold. At a pound sale, recently, at Armidale, New South Wales, horses were sold for sixpence and a shilling each. Professor Agassiz wants £200,000 to establish a museum to illustrate the history of creation as far as known at the present day. In his last annual report, the RegistrarGeneral states that London, within its widest boundary, has now upwards of 4,000,000 souls. An interesting experiment in journalism is being tried in New York. A daily illustrated newspaper, to be called the Graphic, has been started. A burglar, who was sentenced at the Maidstone Assizes to seven years’penal servitude, offered to toss the Bench whether it should be fourteen years or nothing. A man who bought a thousand Havana cigars recently, on being asked what he was carrying, replied that they were tickets to a course of lectures to be given by his wife. At Yokohama an enterprising trader recently imported 22 rabbits, which the Japanese eagerly bought up at enormous prices. The 22 creatures realised upwards of 1100 dollars. A couple of pawnbrokers in Birmingham have been fined £5 each for taking in pledge, from a child eight years of age, property stolen by that precocious infant from its mother. This is the way the Chicago Times speaks of the traveller Stanley apropos of his Livingstone lecture After one has seen this Hennery, and heard him cackle his story, one cannot help entertaining a rather poor opinion of the venerable doctor for allowing such a person to discover him.” It is rumoured that James Gordon Bennett is making preparations to establish a new daily paper in London, which is said to have been a favourite project of his father’s, who held that a London daily, conducted on American principles, and with American enterprise, must reach an enormous success. The House of Commons can bo as disorderly as the Otago Provincial Council when it gets excited. The latest instance of this occurred during the recent debate on the Burials Bill, concerning which the London correspondent of the Liverpool Weekly Albion says that “ the division was preceded by ten minutes of sustained roaring, in which a Tory colonel tried, without the least effect, to make himself heard.” A daring burglary and robbery has been brought to light in New York. Three masked burglars entered the residence of James Gardner, a wealthy gentleman, and while two held him and his wife in bed and threatened them with death in case an outcry was made, the third ransacked the bureaus, searching for valuables. The burglars escaped with about 200 dollars and a gold ring from Mrs Gardner’s finger. A correspondent of the Ballarat Slav, in an account which lie supplies of the recent voyage of the Star Queen, from Melbourne to Hong Kong, relates a curious circumstance. After the vessel had been about a month at sea, and had come safely through the perils of a cvclone, eight sharks were caught, and in the stomach of one of them was found a copy of Sands A*. M'DongaU’s “ Melbourne Almanac” for 1872. How the book came into the possession of the fish is a problem for the curious. A frightful suicide was committed by a man named August Mayford, a miner working in the Central Shaft at Scranton, Pa., America. In a moment, and before his companions could interpose to prevent the deed, he precipitated himself down the shaft, a distance of about 400 feet. His friends and acquaintances, and the other minors, descended after him as rapidly as possible, «r rushed from the various drifts, to find his body crushed and mangled to an uudistinguishahle mass. The seaman who appeared in the Police Court, charged with a breach of the Foreign Seamen’s Act, and who excited the commiseration of those present by bis pitiful appearance, terrible lameness, and apparently utter physical exhaustion, had within the space of twenty-four hours sufficiently recovered to appear in the clog dance before an admiring audience last night in the Prince of Wales Theatre. We learn that the sailor formerly starred in Dublin, and in other Home and American cities, and that he is eminently successful in the character of the “sick sailor.” • —Auckland Evening War. As the schoolboys say, “ Marbles are in,” and considerable amusement was afforded the other dav (says the Bendigo Independent) by the sight of number of brokers engaged in the peaceful recreation of “ring-taw” in front of the Beehive. The game not only afforded them amusement, but was the c mse of amusement to others, who renewed recollections of their bovhood, and chuckled when a good knuckle down shot was made. One apoplecticlooking gentleman was hoard boastim* that ho' ; v had won “rivc-and-twentywhile some mirth was provoked by the care with which a swell, chid in irreproachable sit-upons, spread his j handkerchief on the ground before making a shot. We congratulate onr friends of the | Beehive upon this latest addition to their recreations, and hope it will last, if they 1 face our word tor it, marbles am sneerin' - to I billiards, .whisky-poker, 100, Yankee grab, pitch-.u.d-to or sharelnoking !