MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 639, 17 July 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

TransatanUd Provincial Editors) aro frequently compelled to tako the amount of their subscriptions payment for advertisements in-kind, and a rural Ver-

moat newspaptr ann ounces that [its minimum charge for a first-class marriage notice will be 151b. of dried a .)ples. Notices with “poetry” cost 121b. of onions more.

The death of an aged yeoman in the neighborhood of Carlisle was occario’-ed in the follo A Liicbouciiiar manner. The old man in’ffiis youth was liberal ami convivial, but as years accumulated" unon him he acquired pemirious'habits. He had in his possession a stack of very'Hne wheatprices advanced—his heart warmed at the delightful idea— longer he kept it, ho flattered himsclf.jthfi'mora' valuable it would become. But the '- things '-'of this world are perishable. Rats."mice, and a who'e flock of birds madejtfne with the stack. How was this to he prevented. A happy’ thought suggested. " itself—he came to’tbe resolution of-tethering a cot to the roof, with length! sufficient to admit of her descent on either side, to snap up the ravcuous^intruilers’whenever”!hey presented themselves.. Puss’didlherduty with fidelity, as wo may presume, for her master provided her with regular supplies of rni'k ; one morning having ascended the roof with the accustomed allowance in a saucer, he missed jhis'’fo< ding. and slid of? the stack to the ground, and lighted upon his feet. The violence of the shock pro. dntedfherria, whiolr speedily 'carried him to his grave. It has ,hcon calculated that in three years hence there will be no more available space'in’thc sixi'cemetcries. belonging to Paris. The Municipal Council will shortly discuss a project {for creating a great general cemetery for Paris at Mery* sur-Oise. twenty-eight kilometres’from the capital. Cremation favorTn Paris.

An Omaha girl has'introduced a"’roman tic mode of suicide byistiiff’ing her lover’s letters down her throat until she choked. She couldn’t swallo .v’jhis unkind words, anil so came to the end

A valuable labor saving machine has been developed,but West. It’is called the self-raking, breech loading, seven-octave, non-explosive, automatic urchin chastiser, and combined hair comb, ediiorialprotector and Lash cutler.

A poi lion, consisting of 10.000 copies of a recent issue of the ’Dundee Advertiser was printed on a paper manufactured from reeds grown’on thcjbanks of thoTay. The paper is said closely resembles that made from jute. As far as the experiment has been tried, it is said to have been very satisfactory. riEgles in the Australasian says—“ In the exposition of miraculous events it is dangerous to illustrate by examples with which the listener is too familiar. The following, a friend assures mo, occurred within his own knowledge, and he does not thiuk it ever found its way inoo print. A Scottish minister a' iemp ed some missionary work amongst the Oarts'nerrie miners and smelters.. To one bid workman he told the story of Jonah, and seemed to produce an impression. A few days afterwards he explained to the same man the same man the miraculous deliverance from five of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The old smelter waited till he had finished, and then said—“ I’ve been before this blast furnace forty yeais, ami 1 tell ye—the thing couldn’t be Ami look here, minister, I don’t believe your fish story either.”

It is understood that the loot obtained by the English troops in Aslniutee, when equally divided among those who took part iu the compaign. will amount to 7sCd per man. The troops expected to have looted a great deal more. It is certainly mure profitable (says a contemporary in America) for tna purpose of loot r.,0 be the meanest employed in the United States Custom House at New Yoik,thaua British soldier iu such expeliitons as that against Aahantee.