MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 269, 17 April 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

The whole o f the money called up <n gas shares in the United Kingdom is urder thirty millions sterling

A New York inventor claims t» have deviled a miehine which will set type by electriciiy and give a clean proof without fail. There were 32* suicides in Vienna in 1885—that is twenty-one leaa than in 1884 Women furnished fifty two cases of this total. A Kentisb landlord has received notice from no less than nice of his tenants of their inttntion to leave their farms in consequence of the agricultural depresMon. The Empress of Japan, who is a lady of culture and enli,;h*enment, and takes gnat interest in the education of her own sex, is said to contemplate learning French and Bngliah. Not more than 4000 emigrants leave the shores of France in a year; all of them, with the exception of about 300 who go to Algeria, find their way to British Colonies and the United States Published statutes show that since the first lirense to dig for told was is* sued in Bal'arat thirty four years ago, 1623 tons of gold, valu'd at £220,000000 have been raited from that golrifield. An Englih Coroner recentlv said in the course of an inquest, that the practice to which young mothers were addicted of "cuddling" their infants at night, was responsive for the death ot about 500 children a year. A juror engaged in trying a murder case at Winona, Minn, refused to allow the lawyer for the defence to point at him the pistol with which the crime had been done, and, though the lawyer showed that the weapon wa»» unloaded, ihe other jurors tacked up the remonstrance surcess'uHy A curious club exists in Paris, whose object is to apsii»t intoxicated persons borne late at night If the patient in able *o indicate where h 3 lives, he is escorted to his lodgings; if he is too far gone to givo the iufbrmation, he is conveved to the head quarters of the club and kept till sober. Colonel Daniel A. Potter (Boston) has procured from a pawnbroker o* that city the diamond ring given by ei Empress Kugenie to the native that took the body of the Prince from the field in South Africa The native was pensioned *or life by Eugenie, and is living somewhere iu Massachusetts Reports agree that the current winter has been the most revere known in Scotland for twenty yfars. A telegram of January 25 to the Ameri can paper* said that snow was 2ft deep and sheep were nerishing, the wild birds were Booking to the towns and villages for food. The trains moved with difficulty Berry the Frgli*h hangman, is a tall, respectable looking man, with the appearance of a mechanic. He is a shoemaker by trade, but he does not work now. as the executioner is well paid. He gets £lO a bead, or when there are more than one, £lO for the first, £5 for the second, ard £5 for the thi.d, with all his eiqenses paid.