MISCELLANEA.

Kumara Times, Issue 2818, 2 October 1885, Page 2

MISCELLANEA.

During the past year 20,000 articles left in London cabs were delivered up drivers, to whom rewards amounting to upwards of £2OOO had been given. The Roth.ochil.ls have advanced to the Egyptian Government the sum of £250,000, to be paid back in September. The Austrian Government has refused to authorise the establishment of private cremation societies, on the ground that they might encourage crime. The decree states that murders are often detected by the exhumation of bodies, and that, even if bodies were to l«e examined before cremation, there would be tin tim" to ;<n:>ly in every case those delicii'i- c■ 11■ -111 i ■a■ tests which are uaed where poisoning is suspected.

SJThe Parnellites supported the English Government in the vote to exc urfe Bradlan«h from the House of Commons. A remarkable bedstead made to order by a Milwaukee furniture firm is 24 feet wide, and has nine compartments, each intended to hold one of the purchaser's children. A pencil walking-stick has been sent to Mr Gladstone from Cnmbetlnnd. It is a cedar cane, 34in. long, with half an inch of Borrowdale lead running throughout. , . . , , . At a sale of relics which had been the property of the poet Burns, at the Tarn O'Shariter Inn, Ayr, the other day, the "Tarn O'Shanter" and " Sonter Johnnie " chairs fetched £4:7 each, being secured for Burns's cottage. The stirrup cup, a small wooden bowl with a silver band, was sold to Mrs Christie, publican, for £55, and an autograph letter to Hamilton Nimmo fetched £7.