MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1280, 10 September 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

“Peiryhingles,” in the “Melbourne Weekly Times,” in speaking of the latest invention introduced amongst the juveniles of Melbourne wherewith they can wile away their precious moments, says:— “ This ingenious instrument of torture is a little iudiarubber balloon, attached to a musical instrument set in the key of X, and of all the discordant noises I ever heard the toy-squeaker is the most excruciating and nerve-jarring. The sound is something of a combination of the cry of a chi'd in pain, a cat in love, and a rusty hinge in want of oil. At early mom the youngsters of the neighbourhood (my own included) start blowing these infernal squeakers, and sleep, shuddering, flies from mortal eyes. There is only one consolation, and it is that a method of ingenious revenge upon an enemy is now within the reach of all. Buy his children and the children of his neighbours some penny squeakers, retire to a distant suburb, and wait patiently and pleasantly for the news that your enemy has committed suicide or infanticide.

At the Sydney sessions George Berner, late chief clerk of railways, was sentenced to ten years by Judge Docker. The sentence is commented upon as very severe. His defalcations were under L 2,000, whilst Holt, the ex-bank manager, for embezzling L 40.000, was only sentenced to four years. Berner read a statement to the effect that he had endorsed promissory notes for a tradesman who had failed, and that he had been compelled to have recourse to money lenders, since which he hadalways been involved.

The Wellington correspondent o£ the “ Tuapeka Times ’ states that owing to the absence of several goldfieds members, who, to make sure of their berths, were on board on their way South, the items, L4OUO for testing the beds of the Molyneux and Mataura rivers and L 450 towards the purchase and erection of improved machinery at Blue Spur, which had been placed on the Tupplementary Estimates, were struck out in Committee on the casting vole of the chairman Had they not been in such a hurry these votes would have passe

There are so many phases of the the unemployed question that it is difficult to imagine anything original. However, we think the following will be formed sufficiently original to deserve a corner in the current columns devoted to that industry. We take the following from the “Melbourne Weekly Times.”—The public of Melbourne will be relieved to hear that the strike of the scavengers, which threatened to seriously affect the cleanliness of the eastern portion of the City, has been amicably settled. The men remained idle for the whole ot yesterday, but met Mr. Oaynor, the contractor (at his request), at his stab'es, in Queenabury street, in the euvening, for the purpose of discussing the difficulty, the result being that Mr Gaynor paid tae men the overtime claimed and also agreed that all the men fhould he ieinstated in their former position without prejudice, the contractor reserving to himself the right as to whom he would employ in future, provided that ehoy joined the union. As this satisfied all the demands of the men, they will resume their work to-day. They regret that the action of their employer should have caused them to have inconvenienced the public.”

The ignorant daring of the old Spanish grandee, who used to say that if he had been present at the creation he could have given the Almighty some useful hints, is almost equalled by the following utterance of the Rev. He Witt Talmage, In a sermon on the creation he gave the following description of the origin nf this planet “Out in the space there hung a great mass of rock and mud and water and shell. Thousands of miles in diameter, more thousands of miles in circumference. A great mass ot ugliness, confusion, and distortion, uselessness, ghastliness, and honor. It seemed like a great common on which smashed-up worlds were damped. It was what poetry and prose, scientist and Christian agree in calling chaos. Out of that black, rough shapeless egg our beautiful world was hatched. God stood over that original Anarchy of Elements and said : ‘ Atlantic Ocean, you go fight away and lie down there ! Pacific ocean you sleep there! Caucasian range ot mountains, you stand there ! Mount Washington, you ha sentinel there ! Mount Blanch put on your coronet of crystal there ! Mississippi, yon march there, and Missouri you marry it there !’ and He gathered in His Almighty hands the sand and mod and rock, and rolled and heaved and moulded and dented and compressed them into sdape and iheu dropped them into four places ; and the one was Asia, and another was Europe, and another Africa, and another America North and South.” “ A Miraculous Salve.”— For the cure of ulcerated Bad Legs, Boils. Ahsoessss, Scrofula, Scurvy, Swollen Glands, Tumors, Ulcers, Barns, Scalds, and Skin Diseases of all kinds, “ Clarke’s Miraculous Salvo ” is superseding everything. Its curative properties are wonderful. Sold everywhere in pots at Is IJd, 2s 91, and 4s fid each. Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England.

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