MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 2938, 19 July 1872, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A most successful experiment in the conveyance of live trout to a distant stream has been made by Mr George Balfour. He started from Christchurch with two dozen young fish in a can provided for the purpose by Mr Johnson, curator at the Acclimatisation Gardens, and travelled all the way to the Lyndon station, Waiau, in the Nelson province, considerably over 100 miles, where he arrived without the loss of a single trout. The Bendigo Independent thus writes of the sexton’s office at the Back Creek cemetery : —“Whether alarmed at the number of burials which have recently taken place, or that the office is not so lucrative as of yore, the sexton has resigned his office of L 325 per annum, and tenders are to be called for a successor at a L3OO a year. We wonder what some of the old sextons who ‘ gather them in’ in the old country would say to a salary of those dimensions,” The Resident Magistrate at the Thames, in order to put a stop to constant breaches of the Publican’s Act, has expressed his deter* mination to increase the penalties in these cases in geometrical proportion until the maximum penalty is reached, and said, if the publicans at the Thames could stand that, then they must be doing a better business than he thought. The committee appointed to investigate regarding the capitulations has reported concerning most of the commandants, acquitting some, and severely censuring others. The committee declined to pronounce an opinion on the surrender of Paris, holding neither Trochu nor Vinoy responsible for that act. Lord Clarence Paget made a charge through the Times against the Admiralty that the economy exercised in the matter of coals was responsible for the recent disasters. Mr Goschen completely disproved the allegation. Do not talk about yourself or your family to the exclusion of other topics. What if you are clever, and a Jifctle more so than other people, it may not be that other folks will think so, whatever they ought to do. “Mrs Miffin,” said a visitor, “Emma has your features, but I think she has got her father’s hair.”—“Oh, now I see,” said dear little Emma ; “it’s because I have father’s hair that he has to wear a wig.” A Chicago paper says s—“ There have been four hundred' and seventeen babies published in this city since the fire—three hundred and eleven of them female.—Hail to the new She-cargo. “ Your dress,” said a match-making mamma to her daughter, “ will never please the men.”—“ I don’t dress to please men,’> was the reply, “ but to worry other women.’ Lonely.—Sighing lover (before the kitchen): “Is it lonely ye are there without me?”—A voice replies : “ Not at all, Jerry ! Willie’s been here for an hour.”