MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

According to tho Hebrew National of London, there ara 6,000,000 Jews in the world, one half of them living in Europe, and allowing only 200,000 in all America. A clergyman went to a hotel to order a dinner for a number of clerical friends. , " May I ask, sir, " demanded the waiter gravely, " whether the party is High Church or Low" Church?" "Now, what I on earth," cried the Clergyman, "do my I friends' opinions matter to you?" "A i great deal, sir, rejoined the waiter; if FTigh j Church, I must provide more wine ; if Low Church, more wifct'es." A gentleman having paid off all the debts J of his extra vacant son, the young gentleman, after ha ving been most profuse in his thanks, observed—" Now, sir, all will go on ail Binnoth ns clot-Work."--No, no, Tom,' old gentleman; "no more of your clockwork, I entreat you. I have had ; enough of tick, tick ! " j A Lady was taken before a magistrate at ' Cincinati charged with appearing in male j attire, but the case was dismissed as there ! was no law applicable to it. A Cincir.nti ; paper declares that "men have to rise now : before their wives or -wear their Sundav clothes, and they have no assurance when they undress at night that they will ever see their unmentionables again. A curious fact is brought to public attention by recent statistics published in England. In thirty two counties of that country, and'in twelve of Wales, there are one thousaml three hundred parishes and hamlet* in which no liquor is sold. Norfolk contains one hundred and twenty seve" parishes and townships in which thorn it neither beershop nor public house. Lin- , eolnshire hai one hundred and sixteen such places, and Di rsetshire one hundred and I eight ; Gloucestershire has eighty three, and Leicester eighty ; Herefor Ishire hag one. Devonshirn, twenty three, and Cornwall twenty five. An old serceant at Nicuport, Belgium, has contrived, out of his modest pay, to collect a library of eight thousand volumes He has announced his intention to leave it *o his native town, above named. A correspondent of an English paper suggests that the following experiment might he made in America or Australia on a leg of mutton : " I should hold it up by the bone and dip it in liquid india rubber ; as soon as it hid received sufficient dippings to be perfectly air tight, I should ship it for England." The late Earl of Derby has loft behinc him a fortune, of £190,000 a year. When his Lordship succeedod to the estates they wre said to be worth £60,000 a year, but the great increase is attribute 1 to the wonderful extension of factories in Lancashire ami the consequent enormous increase of buildings. It appears that Prince Louis Murat, 'who was supposed to have slung tiis hammock before the mast, and who certainly joined the French Navy as a common seaman, enjoys certain privileges not accorded to tars in g. ncral ; ho messes with his captain, has his own cabin, and will, no doubt, be spared every unnecessary hardship. One day during the hard winter of 1863, a Miss Arnold applied to General Milroy for a permit to forage her cow, whose mi'k was the chief support of the family. "Are yon loyal?" afckcd the general. " Yes " she replied. Hi began to write the permit. 1 "To the United States or Confederate | Stales?" "To the Confederacy, of course," 1 she replied. "Then I ehall give you no ■ permit. This irfnroone rcliellicn must lie crufdiei'." "Well, Midfhe, ''if you can crush it by cterviiig Jol n Arnold's cow, I «o »t-"

A new knitting 'machine, capable of taking 321,000 stitches a minute, and of making 500 shirts ft day, has been invented in Canada.

The population of Victoria in lfiCS was upwards of 700,000, that of Melbourne and its suburbs alone being 174,003. The amount of public land told during the year was a little over '275,000 acres, at the average price of £1 Gs. Id. per acre, giving a revenue of £5(50,000. The stone quarried is valued at £07,010. One hundred and »even breweries made upwards of 17,000,000 gallons of beer. Pottery was made worth £10,456. There were eight hundred and fifty three manufactories, giving employment to about 11,000 males and 3,000 females. The total quantity of gold exported was 1,1)57,493 ounces.