MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 530, 14 June 1872, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Forty thousand is the estimated population of the Christ Church district of South London. Of these 30,000 are paupers. Prince Henry, sou of the Imperial Prince of Germany is apprenticed to a’Berlinbookbinder. His father is a compositor, and his grandfather is a glazier. A fond mother of Edinburgh touched the recently vaccinated arm of her baby with the tip of her nose. Strong vaccinnatory symptons have since appeared in that feature. An Illinois woman committed suicide by hanging herself to an apple-tree. At the funeral a neighbour, noticing the sad appearance of the husband, consoled him by saying that he had met with a terrible loss. “Yes,” said the husband heaving a sigh, ‘ she must have kicked awfully to shake off six bushels of apples that would have been worth a dollar a bushel when they got ripe. During the investigation of the Dilko riots at Bolton the following unparliamentary spar took place between two barristers ; Mr. Terr, Q.C. told Mr. Addison that he did not “ know a man who would be more easy to disembowel,” and compared him to a caged animal that made a great noise. Mr. Addison retorted that if “ his friend ” went on ho should 41 have to. compare him to a very disagreeable animal. ” A correspondent of the English Mechanic gives the following curious remedy : Put a piece of quicklime as big as a walnut in a pint of water in a bottle.. - Clean the teeth with a little of it every morning, rinsing the mouth with clean water afterwards. If the teeth are good, it will preserve them and keep away toothache ; if the teeth are gone it will harden the gums so that they will masticate crusts and all.

Good news for sailors.—Bread made with sea water is stated to increase the appetite, and stimulate digestion. “It is pleasant to eat,” so says M. Rabuteau, in the Union Medicate, and exercises a beneficial effect in many diseases, being also conducive to health on shipboard during a long voyage. Eight thousand four hundred and twent eight was of yore the number of the seat in the gardens and promenades of Paris. During the siege 2,340 were used for firewood, so the Municipality is about to replace them at a cost of a If. a piece. In Belgium the day labourer earns one shilling per day, and pays about ten pence a week rent for a cottage. In some parts of England the wages of the agricultural labourer reach one shilling and eight pence a day, without food. When fed by his employer, he is content with rye-bread, potatoes, and curds. At his own cottage, his,food.is still worse. The labourer in Denmark receives from seven shillings and six pence to nine shillings a week, the hours of labor being twelve or thirteen in the summer, and while daylight lasts in the winter. When the employer finds the food, the wages may run from two shillings and sixpence to five shillings a week. He is not much worse fed than the Somersetshire labourer, although wheaten bread and bacon must in themselves be more nutritious than rye bread and cold sals pork. The Danish master is far worse clothed than the peasant in England, and above all far worse housed. The charges for oho relief of the agricultural poor are on the increase in Denmark, being about two shillings per head for the country population, ,