MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 56, 17 August 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

As showing the immonso demand there .is for tlie Sacred Scriptures at the present time, it is stated in the Day of Rest that ,:~" The Bible production in nur time is equal to moija than a million a year, or say more than 19,000 'every hour, or .five every minute of working time. At this rate, the press jg producing an English Bible or New Testament every twelve seconds. Those Bibles ' are not wasted — they are required —and more copies of the Sacred Scripture nre demanded in the English tongue j;l'an in the languages of all the other na,tion]s of the world, although the n^mbjojr of versions to which this country gives encouragen^ent and assistance, over and above, is considerably more 'than 150. • h The breaking out of war seems to have had tho effect of inundatinjsjondon. with foreigners, notflnly hordes of Turks iand Egyptians, who have , naturally political and commercial rea^pns for icing here, But foreigners -of • all sorts. Xibndon society has never exhibited within my memory so m,any alien physiognomies. A curious adventure Isappened to one of these gentry, a {Spaniard, at the house of a great lady of 'fashion the other night. His name (or 'something like it} is Senor ArriarYarvo, which percolating through various footmen on the staircase, became at the 'drawing-room door Mr Harry Yarvi Here fhe. usher 'exercisfed his judgment, and thihkirig' "Harry too familiar, jnCrdduced the Spanish hidalgo as "Mr Henery Harveyr; l? - . ■