MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 673, 12 March 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— o — Catholio population of the City of London amounts to over 600,000 souls. Boys under 15 years of age are not allowed in the streets of Vallejo, in Spain, after nine at night. The hind legs of frogs were being sold re ccntly in New York, at from 4s. to If per dozen pairs wholesale. The foreign commerce of the United States is no more than half that of England which has eight millions less population ; and it is not morn than equal to tliet of Franco, tho population of which is leas than that of the United States. “ Gi-og,” the sea term for mm and water : t may not be generally known, derives its name from Admiral Edward Vernan, who wore grogram breeches, and hence was called “Old Grog.” About the year 1745 ho ordered his sailors to dilute their rum with water.

Graphic.—A St. Louis newspaper says beautifully of Salvini’s Othello: “It was the awakening fury of the Hyroanian tiger disturbed at his feast of blood or the distended tempest of a tropic land, laying all waste before it. The audience were horror-struck.”

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