MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2188, 1 March 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Russian newspapers affirm that the damage done to the imperial yacht Livadia is owing to the employment of steam power disproportionate to the strength of the vessel. The engines being worked at full force, siruek the vessel so violently, it is said, as to crack the hull.

The King of Dahomey recently summoned the European residents in Wbydah to attend him at Dahomey, there to witness the annual « custom ”in honour of his late father. As this “ custom ” involves the pitiless massacre of hundreds of captives, the British residents refused to attend.

The number of visitors to the National Museum of Natural History and Q-eology, Melbourne, for the week ending January Ist was 6452 ; for the month of Dicembei, 11,850 ; for the quarter ending December 31st, 28,712 ; for the half-year, 43,733 ; for the year, 96,247. Arrangements are in progress for the issue of a war modal to mark the services of officer* and men who have done duty with the several columns in Afghanistan, It has been decided to grant the decoration to all who actually crossed the Indian frontier. The Cleveland " Herald ” having published some verses entitled “ Why Do I Sing P” and written by a young woman, the Chicago “ Tribune "rejoins that it is probably because her father paid about five hundred dollars to a music teacher for spoiling a good stocking darner.

Sbo Knew Him. —The Vioar—‘“ Well, Mrs Smith, toll your husband that 1 do hope be will come to church next Sunday.'’ Mrs S. — «< Ah, you don’t know Smith, sir! 'E’d never go if I told ’un that there. I’ll tell ’un as you do ’ope as ’o wunt!” The departure for the south of Prance of Sir Charles Q-avan Duffy is noticed in the papers, as well as hia intention of staying there until the conclusion of his second volume of “ Young Ireland.” The work in question ran through its first edition in three days, and it was necessary for the author to correct all the proofs of the second before leaving town. Save the “ Louisville Courier Journal

The history of protect ion in this country sines 1861, when the Eepublioau tariff system was inaugurated, shows that instead of producing a diversity of industries it bus had the effect of concentrating capital in a few artificially supported manufactures, whose profra have been dooreed and fixed by fiat legislation, in those fiat profits the working man does not. largely share. For four or five years, during the last decide, the prourcted manufacturers shut down their mitls and turned their workmen out to starve or tramp for a living. A short time ago (an American paper relates) a mad dog went through Clifton, N to Princoport, whore he died. He bit a pair of young oxen in Clifton, both of which cud, and quarrelled with all the dogs ho D et ok his way to Princeport, where ho bit a p-iv *f horses, both of which have since died. A number of the dogs have gone mud, and in their turn have bitten other doge, slurp, and cattle, so that a general slaughter of dogs and form stock is non - the order of the day.

After the Maiwand disaster, (ho for the wounded officers was bow (o let these friends in England know that the utter annihilation of Burrows’ force had not Isfcon place. The wires had been out at Oaildubuß, and the city was surrounded. A native, however, was found willing to run the risk of conveying the message to Quetta for one hundred rupees to be paid on arrival. He was faithful to his promise, and uached his destination in seven day, travelling only by night, and hiding during the daytime.