MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 53, 10 August 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

An amusing instance of editorial fiff^. sence of mind is related by tRe Sotffh, Australian Ads#rtisei-,of ;^une^&;p" By a curious, slip:, of tbe.ectitgm],: pon,jth©> name of J. 3?. -. Stow appeared, attba^fopfc of a very able letter against deep drainage*, which, was published in Friday's issue of the Advertiser. The mistake occurred, thus:-— The letter came to us without a^ signature, but knowing the au.thor, we wrote asking for iris "authority. to.sufck scribe his name or any anooymous signature he might select, ™d he chose the. word ' Olnaoinu.' The editor intehdedtft, attach this nora. de plume, but unforlu* nately, in pure nbsent*e,of miti3rlibrae\ chariically affisod his 6%n autograph, and? was greatly :istoni9»ed next morning to

find himself figuring in the Open Column. The accident- was the more awkward, because the view.s-expws.W it) the letter are-, opposed to those of the editor, who has been quite oppressed by the thanks he has received, verbally and in writing, from opponents of deep drainage, for having as : they naturally supposed, so earnestly and. ably advocated their cause."The Paris correspondent oßtlie S.^Mv Herald writes: A curious, wager has just been. lost. One of,, the -bettors had asked the other at what moment the 16$cen(ury. commenced. .'" OKI" replied ; the ? latter, " wjiy, of course, it bogan'oa' tKe, Ist January, 18Qi" •' lfot at all,'! cried the querist. The two thereafter had-a^ wager on their respective, opinions, and the. second? parly has lost. -In faetj ,the\ the century in question only«beginspn. the Ist January, . 1801. To:«onstitufe a, complete centiiry a • hundred vJreaVs^m'QSt-. hure filap«ed. The, first 'ppntnrjr'of »h& 0 iristinn i>rn not h-ivine fi»iislve3 un'.it »hn pnd of the 3Lst, Dets.MiibVr the 103 h. year at midnight, the second' century drily commenced ■on the Ist January. 101, to. jend at midnight' on the 31st December.. 20O; and so on. Consequently thelQUi.. century will terminate, on the 13?t De-r-----cember, 1900* , „-L .-..•« .:- Miss Martha Turner, who is.one .of.the vice-presidents of the Australian: Health ;Society. recently delivered a capital lecture at Melbourne under the title of "Familiar Talk on Sanitary Subjects:" Alluding to the necessity of taking, exercise, was difficult to get,' particularly" for girls and youug women. Women" to vHiom, walking was recoramefide<i^lia"ijtwi) foes to contend" against^cheapcabiianfl heavy. • clothibg. There were few who would nofe" find some 'good excuse for not walking, when they could' be driven two or three, miles for 3d. 'Think,' they said, «of thes saving of our clothes.' Yes, and let them . ateo think of the damage they did to their livers. When she saw how Uurjr dressed, she did not "wonder much at their distaste", to walkmsr, When twentyfour yards 6F^ material had to be carried in one garment . and the train must be held in. the handy then, with an umbrella and the inevitable-, tiireo»vptume noVel, a ladywas heavily weighted. But when the weight e«mM.O;. be pois-d on heels two inches hirfU and v about the fize of , a shilling at the base, then no doubt most people would rido.. rather than walk." Any tjhange which, was to take place in the habits of life must be slows* and ! would only come; through the growth of right, feelings and sound* public opinion, Wei on a more edietated common?sense 'view of fie usages and habits that controlled our livers. 1 ' A Paris correspondent says:— -A. few strange* accidents and offences, A party composed of two men and a women: ..went, (o Auteuil to pass the clay.. i W,hilej the t , dejeuner which they had orderedVJwas being cooked, they resorvetf : to kill ?time*' by an excursion on the Seine". The'ligbt boat drifted against a sv p"ile a^d broke'-my two; the parties were precrptated inft>" the river; ono of, the men 'could swiinjso''.' he dived to rescue the woman, att'd.nfter much difficulty brought her to the bank. Judge of his fright ; it was the body of another, woman, that had lain six, days in the water. His companions, were, drowned — A man committed suicide by, boring a gimlet into his neck, and going, to a window, iavited the passers-by to a

it in" re'pU^d she.asrthe ; Soket.of.leave^ pn/jn" hayi s KJ'^r.e^b i efpre nhe''police magfstrat e ,tl» chargo ip^ him, inqwxedMiM **>*$*&** answerccf jn the affirm-tfive, be drew a concealed dagger i'ro-n .his vest,, and stabbed 'himself to death— The Tribunal .of Antfouleme has disposed, of nj singular / lunatic. A young collegian aged|ls, finding alone with j tho /servant maid, aged 24, went upstairs jor a. sabre, and while she wa> 'stopping, plunged it into her back. She died. The prisoner, who had an excellent character, had not been annoyed by the servant, scould nqt ' , explain his motive, would wish to commit *--„. self-destruction as an expiation,/ but ba ! d • not the courage to do so. He was ordered to remain in a lunatic asylum till he was » t »'2l ycara of of ag». ' An Admonition to the Public. — There are impostures on the market purporting to bo the same as, equal or superior ; to a celebrated'medicinal be verag3,of standing ''and excellence. These nostrums arq compounded of unrectified spirits, bighwines nnd pernicious drugs. Ot course they hurtful iv the last degree. The article of „\ which they would-be rivals or.imitations is Udoipho 'Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.— A dvt. . \ \ \