MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 1, 26 November 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following is Voltaire's views of a Turko - Russian war : — " A hundred thousand mad animals, whoso lends are covered with hats, advance to kill or be killed by their follow mortals covered with turbans. By this strange procedure they want to know whether a tract ot land, to which none of them has any claim, should belong to a certain man whom they call the Sultan, or another whom they call the Czir - neither of whom ever saw or ever will seethe spot so furiously contended tor, and a very few of those creatures who thus mutually butcher each other ever beheld the animal for whom they cut each other s throats." This hardly holds good ot the present war. , Alfresco " religion " will shortly nave developed itself sufficiently to need a special organ. This is truly refreshing to all sincere Cliristiuns. I was so. oh, so gratiHed at an advertisement in a religions contemporary— not the Sporting limes —last week, that I copy it and give it the benefit of an additional circulation among those who may not yet have been awakened ;— " Walter Penrose, formerly a coster monger, is open for the Lord's work, in-doors or open-air, accompanied by his chromatic concertina.— Address, Costermongers' Cottage Mission, Vinegar

*f'r>tin'd. City routl, V,,t' ' V«m&>km loin; i* mighiv, Imfc §UM by ftt* ■rtcfthkito concert ma it mfiftfesto'#Steo>>!k : ; |W fsoftfi may we •-«;><?«* ths (P4 &'»»» a trcmliOHß £$?«', W >** ? !\«! to tfio Corinthians punctuated W.tH n^nftets att.J cymbals ? One mflr« n-'U Wupmp from I lie same pioin «fir«?l s— .4 CVMfow gentleman, out during lU» k$ artel seldfttfl home nt night* cm b«i witl» nonportable apartiV*Wf< ?# j|rtH©w«^. Partinl bosird. with ;Mfn att4'b»*s I r required/ I tad b™?n >*?ala«4 fn itnncrinn tW ChriHtiau sfPrt'l^tA^n, Me Mr John Lawrence Tool.*, *!«?sy« (r*ttft> hnn\n to tea. Seriously !p»<*&ing, this thing U a degradation to A frts>fitiwif>f found recently m La f?nrt>r!ln p*vi«»<n« eotno interesting par-* liflolnfs ritj m>p* Moid of Orleans,- who, for From b"if»g <» fair wrrniin, o» some artist* hove ftnpifrterl, »m vory dark ; Tier hair wnK rut. It ko ft pnge, find atrnight across tho forohftad ; find sdie wore ft munly dress, pnurpaint noir. cjuxussesaltachees, robe courto de gnu grin noir cl un chapeau noir : not n very nftrwtvo cost u mo. Tbi-* document. wMHi Im* been pultlished in the lifitmn JlUlori'/ua, throws some Hghc on Count Sullolk and thcaiege of Jargeau, as woll ns on tlio trial of Li Pueliea, Kow li'ird it U to make a living in tliis huge sprfish city I Hero is an advertisement that meatis a great denl : 'Envelopes addressed, 3< per XXX), by n youner lady ~ cond quick writer.' My dear young lady— not the poor girl who advertises, bwt you who read your World as yon Iriunejo m your easy chair,— can you spare one moment ju»t to count up what this means? Well, if yon were to sit down, and address a» envelope ererv minute of every bour for seventeen consecutive hotrs, without stopping for fool or rest, you could earn three shiHine*. Do you know howr much peau de suede t four buttons, are a pair, my dear? Auckland papers state that two or three Auckland gentlemen bave been fortunate in the- raon&ter sweeps, which although put dowu >» Auckland, have aerertheless been got up iv different parts of the colony attd in \«straliH, Mr Holloway, late editor of the •' Waikato Times,* was fortunate enough to buy Chester in Milled £2000. Melbourne sweep. He Rave the drawer £5 for it in Melbourne. But now the prorokiuy; part comes in. He left it with a friend on the otner side, with instructions to sell it if he got a certain price. To this day he does not know whether the ticket is sold or not ; and as may be expected, h?» is rather auxious to learn whether he if*, entitled to the £1000 prizo or not. Air Harrington, butcher, in Drake street, has drawn, Chester in Toak's Greymoutli sweep, and comes in for n h mdsoine sum. Mr Pt-nxberton, of the ' Herald* olh'ce, is likewise a lucky man, and has druwu tho winner iv a good sweep.