Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

A dnijjgist in St. Petersburg has | Invent i' 1 ;i method of tipping cigars vith A.pu'paratiuu, no that they are lighted, likv a maxh, by rubbing -ag'iiu»t any iiurd surface. . A mnnufactuiing cump.iuy is said to have paid him 60,000 roubles for the patent' Philadelphia cauufactmeis nave a prouugs for oo.iting all kinds uf umtdllic nultstaiiui'A with lead, thereby liiukiug ihem rust pi oof. They exhibit a uuui >er of articles coated with leal tlsaf. have bemi exposed to the wea'hor and "iiumur&ed in acids, that do not shi»vv any chungo, either I)<jui ■ the actiou of the weather or the acMs. Souio bhingle nails, so treated, placed side by side with g.ilvanizud vails aud exposed - for a lou,j time, show jio - appreciable change, while the galvaiwze'l nails sliow signs of rust. T!ie Bloody .Assizo« wore those held by Judge Je'ifieys in the year 1685, after the suppression of Mnmuouth's rebellion, tlpwards of 300 nersond were executed after short trials ; Uir^e nuuiht-rs were tiogged, itnprihoued, and tiued ; 'and nearly 1000 weie sent as slaves to the Atuericau plantations. The iiussiau Qoverumeut has prohibited the' circulation of Punch within the Euipne, owing to Vdr&es which have appeared in it" recently coddeuinin^ hetreatuieut of the Jeivs.' The } National Batik of New Zealand propo:-e to cancel £150,000 of capital, with the of writing off losses, an^ to call up 30s per share: Dividend will also, be suspended. The Masuuit; Grand Lodge of New Zeahiud'lias received a letter from the Grand Ludge of Kansas^' U.S., exteu'ling ; fraternal' ' lecognition and assurance of, support, iiu their- effortß to establish and maintain independent j supreme Masonic power in the Colony., The letter states that the Grand Lodge of Kansas!) as also shown recognition to the Grand Lodge of Tasmania. . The, Hon the Premier received the v following cablegram recently from the Pjem'ier of Queensland,:— "The preliminary census enumeration gives , the total "population of Que'ehißlaac! as -393,938, an increase in, 10 years of 180,412 ; in five-years '7s,oßs.'' Some 1 ' uneasiness was felt in' Brisbane recently owing to "the action of Casey, organiser of the Labour - federation/ who^ in addressing, the :-Tnen at, Barcaldine, advised them to f-deiiiHnd~.-that ; Government, should «-V!r'her."fiud' work for .'them . or -send '■(them to gaol. / •'-übsequenfcly Casey >-incitefl tfie men to burn' out a store.when_he was promptly taken ". "into custody, and will be charged with * the offence. A discovery of an alarming nature was made' at Victoria' Barracks- Mel-' bourne, on the 6th- mat., when a Sergeant of Artillery found in a dark passage a rifle , lashed, fco. the railing* of the staircase , and a cord from the -trigger attached to the door of a room close r>y,-in which about a dozen men •of the' battery slept. The opening of this dbor .' ( w6uld have fired the rifle, which c pointed straight to the doorway * of the room in which two , sergeants slept.. Though inquiries have been made, 'no explanation has yet been fciven-of 1 the serious affair.