MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3326, 17 October 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Wrexham publican has been fined L 5 and costa for supplying drink to an intoxicated person, the wife of a Good Templar, who had frequently requested the defendant not to servo his wife with liquor. According to the best authorities, the coal production of the world is about 200,000,000 of tons annually. Great Britain furnishes over 120.000. tons of this amount, or considerably over one-half. Tn the United States, with all their vast coalfields, only 41,000,000 of tons are raised for a population of 39,000,000, whilst the above largo quantity of 120,000.000 are raised in Great Britain, which has only 32,000,000 inhabitants. It is true that ont of those 120.000. about 12,000,000 are exported, and that in tho United States the supply of wood for ordinary fuel is almost unlimited. Public opinion in China on the subject of the possession by women of personal property goes even further than English law. Lately at Hong Kong a rich Chinese merchant had, although married, established a second household, in accordance with tho immemorial custom of the country. The lady who adorned this dwelling, one of the best in a fashionable quarter of the town, was loaded with presents, her boxes filled with brocaded dresses, and her fingers covered with rings. She, nevertheless, thought herself at liberty to sell all tho valuables she had received, to pocket the proceeds, and, in spite of her small feet and tottering gait, to run off with the man of her heart. Justice was appealed to by the merchant and his friends. They claimed the restitution of the value of the gifts, and tho return of the fugitive to the harem. But the judge, an Englishman, could not, under the circumstances, regard the gifts as anything else, or tho woman as anything but a free agent, and dismissed the case. The lady, however, narrowly escaped being stoned by the crowd, and the judge’s decision was much blamed by tho Chinese.