MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 460, 10 February 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The New York World, discussing the 11ilup.se labor question, says:— If Air. Samson, of North Adams, had invented ar imported a machine so skilfully contrived that leather . could be flung into it like corn in the hopper of a. grist-mill, and come out in the form of boots, as the corn is ground into meal, the interest excited by such a machine would be comparatively slight Whv shouldtbeworking-chrsess make an indignant protest against the coolie, labor any more than against the steam-engine, the powev-loom, the sewing machine, or the new agricultural inpleirteutsl One steam engine will do tlv work of a dozen men. and it subsists on less than on less than any on° man of the dozen If a species of monkey bad been discovered in China capable of performing human work without any human wants, their importation and propagation would not be very stoutly opposed ; and yet mulabor organisations are thrown into a great ferment by the employment of a nice who bear some resemblance to such a tribe of capable monkeys.”

The blood from the slaughterhouses which formerly ran into the sewe-a of Paris, is now carefully collected and used in the preparation of black puddings, which are in great esteem. In a single day 8000 kilogrammes in weight of these puddings have been sold.

The copyright of the popular song “ Home, Sweet Home,” has i>een sold in London, for the large sum of .£443 10s.

As much as £BO is readily given for a passage from Paris in one of the Nadar baloons.

Air. Bunny, iu a recent election speech at Carterton, referred iu hopeful terms to the Land Transfer Act, and as an instance of its simnlicitv and expedition, mentioned the case of a gentlemen in another colony who sold a property in the morning and had everything settled befoie evening. 1 • .

According to the A'ew I ork Nation,’ the very advanced women of A merica are striking out some exceedingly startling views on social economy. We learn that the great Airs. Cady Staunton will now be content with nothing short of the emancipation of the sex from marriage as it is The arrangement to be' substituted for the vulgar old custom is to bo limited matrimony, the contract between the lady and gentleman expiring in three years from the date of entering into it. It may, however. Do renewed for the triennial period by mutual consent ; If such a complication as a baby should 1 arise dnritigtb'-'int ,1-vm.l, the 1 uly, on retiring from he engagement, i« to take charge of it, the father paying for i its board....