MISCELLANEOUS.

Kumara Times, Issue 215, 12 June 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

At the annual meeting of the Moafift* taiari Gold Mining Company, it waa stated that the affairs of the company had at one time been in so depressed a condition that the directors had been compelled to raise funds by the sale of some old iron.' ,*

The actual revenue of China. ia " believed to amount to £25,000,000, raisedr by taxes on land,-grain, the transit oPgoOds, foreignomporte, and a;: ! few; other subjects, and by the sale of r<. rank and degrees. Of this amount £15,000,000 is believed to be spent in' one way or another upon the army. Some idea may be formed of the price of necessaries of life in China from the fact that £8 per annum is considered as tke average costs of living for a married couple of the working class. ’, A Connecticut girl writes that no sound is more pleasant to a tired man that the song of the coffee-pot. Yes, when it sings “Chicory, chicory, chic-o-rye.” Julie, looking on while her new little sister cried at being ■ washed, turned away saying, “ if she screamed like that V in heaven I don't wonder they sent her off.” :

The improvement in saturating wood and timber, invented by Mr H, Sainsbury, of Paris, consists in employ-- > iag a solution formed in the relative ap-i proximate proportions' of water, 1,000 litres; alum, 16 kilos ; sulphate- df copper, 19 kilos; bromide of sodium. 1 .. kil.; and iodide ,of sodium, Ikil. For the purpose of the invention, he prefers „ placing the timber or woodto in a close vessel' from which he drawe., off all the air, ‘ and in which He im- ' mediately injects the above mentioned. liquid with a pressure varying from 29 ?i lbs. to 150 lbs. to the inch. It is stated that the wood thus injected not 1 only acquires thereby a considerably.■ degree of hardness, but is also rendered , completely incombustible. ; A young lady refused to attend church because her hat had not been sent homS. • “ I hate the devil and all his works,” she said, “ but I hate;ad shat more.” ;’. ‘' n " ■ '

“My dear ,” said.a gentleman, tbhla’ wife, our new club isgoiiqg to the home comforts.” • “ Indeed,” sneeiijji ! . the wife, “ and when, pray, is our horde,', going to have alt the blab comforts t’ ’; . A lady whose fondness for generous living had given her a flushed face carbuncled nose, consulted Dr.Cteyr , j Upon surveying herself in the glass, s I exclaimed, “Where in the nam^l^r

wonder, doctor, did I get such a nose as 1 *’ this ?” ■ “ Out of they decanter, replied the doctor. . J I ‘ J '

The motto'for the weet -oh a‘little- r girl’s Sunday-school can! 'whs, ■ thee behind me, ; Satan.” ' ;I^OTej:-^rb r '' l gooseberries in the .garden, but; she was. , forbidden to. pluck, them, ... Hjiefc ijujp ‘■ J did. “ Why did you -not,” said the mother, when you- were tenapted --toy’. touch them, say, “ Get thee bemud mfe, Satan” ? ‘‘l:did, she said, earnestly, “ and he got behind me and pushed me V into the bush.” ‘ ' ■ ■••'J.! i

Mary, why did you kiss ypur hand to . the gentleman opposite, .this morning? said a; careful mother, to her, b|oomiM - daughter. Why, the gentleman ' naa' the impudence-to. throw ,p.kips .. across the styeeVahd of course, I it back indignantly! You .would 1 fibt' have me encourage him by keeping it would you 1 .. - A lecturer on “ Sanitary Condition . .. of Existence” sternly asked hisaudience : . - “ Does one woman in fifty fill thelowerhalf of her lungs with air ?” i utterly disconcerted by hearing a squealing voice replyl £ueatfif you’d inven t heard the voice of your mother-in-law when she was tnad : , you wouldn’t ask?>' that ■ ; . *->’> The 'following } appears |ih '\in ,; 'exchange A 'fruitful'/soufcfe -bf kero- si sene explosions arises, 1 frbm *-redwing the wick to be burnt till it isto'6 shbtti^ ; This is especially dangerous, if the wick : ' is smaller than the'nnnidr, 'for r wiien ' the wick js turned up, and tKe ’ 1 flames ru& ; along the ’ ! dr^,'Vor j pkrtai6Hjp dried, wick ; and if the wick be above ’ ‘ ! the kerosene, immediately igbif^' : itl‘ To 'Prbfes&r Dickertotfs rules I: tv6uld' : '' i add the following three, -: UX;'Lefr*th,s-J;« wick, be rather iptig than short. 2. Avoid as much fta pds&ble the fish of wicks narrower,-than the burner. ‘l3Use glass lamps, that you may know at a glhn.Ce when' tile kero&ene getsilbwi >jf The' Eet .7- C. - , Andrews;. - Who' haij tjust' resigned 'im : ' Scat ; fo*’ l Wsdrata|>ai 1! has a salary of £O3O fr6m‘ thb !/ Nblsoitt ’ ' ■ grammar school. L-y^.-i