MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2644, 27 September 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A man with a silver-plated, double back" action coin-holder want into bh editorial sanctum and commenced explaining _ the beautiei of the article for holding sovereigns, half-sovereigns, &c., and ho hid got half through before he found out ha waa in a printing-office. When he saw his mistake he went to the door, Badly opened it, and kicked hinuelf cleat down stain. M. Duclerc, the French Premier, ie a meet honorable man, but he Ib not a dip.omatut. He wai born in 1812, at Bsgnerres do Bigorrei, and, like many sueoenful competitor® in the Btruggle for life, he came to Paris from the South at an early age, end had to battle for s long time against adverse he was a proof reader on a Republican jour* nal, and soon became a leader writer upon it, and joined that advanced Republican sstcrie of which M. Gamier Pages was one o* the leaders. The revolution of ISIS was the turning point of his career. He became Under-Secretary for Finance, and rcon after Minister for that important department. During the Empire be turned his attention to finance, and became one of the directors of the Spanish Credit Mobilier. In the A-ecm-tly elected after the war he voted against the preliminaries of peace. He is much respected in his own parly, and out of it is regarded ®r

a shrewd and sensible man. A new item say a that the best female circus rider In Russia is Dounedratiaky, who ‘ turns a double somersault through a hoop, and carries her name, which is painted in the centre, along with her.' To turn a onbla somersault through a hoop may not be a very remarkable feat, but to get her name through, without knockiuc eff soma ,£ its corners, is ccr'alnly an cstonianing performance.