MISCELLANEA.

Kumara Times, Issue 1646, 7 January 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEA.

The Bank Of Eilglatid was founde'd in 1694. The capital is £15,533,000. The British Government have 40,000 troops of all arms massed in Ireland. Statistics go to show that suicides are more frequent in hot weather than doting a lower temperature; A new scientific Journal} entitled “ Knowledge,” under the editorship of Mr Richard A Procter, is announced. The grand-daughters of the Queen ride about on tricycles, which are daily coming more and more into use by English ladies. So great lids been the destruction Of cedar trees in the famous Lebanon forest that they have dwindled into a mete thicket} numbering only 400 trees. The £500,000 given by the latd George Peabody* in 186$, as a fdnd for building lodging-houses for the poor in London} now Bfnounts to £^20,000. American papers received in Queenstown state that it is reported at St; Louis that the Fenians Have purchased a warship} with which they intend to make a descent do the Australian coast; Fourteen London lads, enticed frdm English ships} werd recently discovered held in actual slavery by Turkish residents at Constantinople, and the consu- 1 lar judge at onCe ordered their release. If the English language were divided a hundred parts, sixty virOtlld bd SaXon; thirty Would be Latin (including of course, the Latin that has come to its through the French), and five parts would be Greek. There is a theatre' in Berlin which gives performances at half-paSt six o’clock in the morning during pleasant summer days. The price of admission is low, and 2066 and 3066 persons are often present at these representations. A singular death occurred in Paris recently. A man struck a match to' light it, and a bit of phosphorous flevV on bis hartd} burning.it slightly. The next day there was a white spot, which he covered with plaster, A pus vessel formed, which caused blood-poisoning* and the man died;