MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 258, 30 January 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A NtVHfU hunhr spent thref mo 1 ths U okinj* tor a grizzly bea», and the u hii'h rcla ives have Hpent three 111 'ii hs looking lor him I hey think he must have lound lhe bear. Jiussia i?» believed to possess more precious siot eh than any o her nation The lorests in <le United Si -tea are disappearing at the rate of 25,000.000 acres a year A Manchester woman named Drake, who was present a' the fidd of Wate 100 as a nurse, has just attained bet J00: h birthday At a rtcent o'leeHon in one of the Adelaide churches 600 coins were j laced in the box»*s, ot which 300 were threepenny pieces. The totai was £lO. A French paper pavs it has been fiotictd thit labourers who work bire footed upon asphalt pavements arc subject to swelling of the Innb* A mussel has been found at New haven, s*co land, which held a sixpeuse fi inly clasped between its shells, the run of the coin just j-howinj;; beyond the edtje. A Paris paner says that the Prince of Wales smokes forty cigarettes a day, and indulges in one betweeu each eourse at dinner while on the continent. It is said that 2500 store* and shops in New York are now closed on Saturday ■> ft. rn< on», and, that as a resu.t, at least 50,000 persons ei joy a ueekly halt-bohday. One rsu tot the English law for the better housing of the pouter classes will be the recnova l of the tour largest prisons in London twenty ili es out ot the c ty, and the erection

of dwellings for poorer people on tluir t-ites. A rumour has been current in England t iat the threat Has tern had been Bi»id to tho Fieui'h Governmei t for £21,000, and that a deposit on the purchase had been paid. Mr Siukey, the revivalist, finds that his most popular hymns are "Jem* of Nazareth passeth by,' •• A'most Persuaded," <4 Ho'd the Fort," ano the ** Ninety-aud-Nine." Mr Sin key composed the music for the last song. Fx President Arthur ; s so bothered by perscnß who request him to sign a'l sorts of documents and petitions that he has made it his i u'e, as a matter ot Feit c protection and in justice to everyone, not to friizn any petition. The Tichborne Claimant's sons are going in for a military lite One has joined, the depot of the Hampshire ttegiment- at Winchester, and a brother is in a cava.ry regiment. Both were recruited under the name ot Tichborne

Mr Mundella, MP, ore of the j greatest educational authorities living, is strongly in favor of free education in England He argues that the abolition ot fees would iucrease school a! tec dance, and greatly simplify the wok of educaiion. A Cincinnati violinist says that he haw discovered, in a certain s| ecies o* pine, the wood which gives to the old Italian violins their superior tone. If ♦his claim proves to be well founded, violins, it is expected, will be obtain able at one-third the present p?ice. There is good reason to believe that the condition of t »e public finances of Canada ia a subject of grave anxiety to her thinking men. Jt is not merely that the public debt is now so very heavy, but the municipal liabilities have become a serious burden to those who can ill affoid it. R w industries have made a greatf r advance this century than the manu* facture of paper. At the beginning ot that time tuere was hardly any manu factured in thp United States, wherea*

now 500,000 tonß are annually trade Kurope produces 1,000,000 tons, the gross valuable beng estimaiud a* £4O 000,000. A tragedy ol the sensational oner! took place lately in Tangier. A man named Mllugh. formerly an artillery sergeant in the British aim;, murdered hi« paramour and then ran through thw stieets wounding every one whom he met He stabbe.i fuur Moors, two Spaniards and oue Jew. One of the ]Vlo..ia di 'd soon afterwards The men ol the St Louis Tramcir Company wbo are on strike, and some of their sympathisers have wrecked a Dumber ot tramcars and assaulted the drivers and conductors On-» man killed bv a policeman,and many other* maltreated While a Oermnn infantry officer was walking in cvilian attire, over a poition ol the M»tz fortifications recent ly, he received the challenge of a sentinel on duty, and as he took no not'CH of tre warning, iln- sentry fired Mid the officer tell dead ,*n the spot The Tii libnrne claiman 's wife, Mrs Aithnr Orion, is dead. Sir Koger is I vtng c.uiet y at Mierrnss, preparing Ihe sUny t ins ii.e.