MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 277, 12 June 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Cardinal Newman lately completed his eighty-fifth year.

There are about 15,000 miles of electric wires in the city of Chicago. The Queensland cattle return up to Ist January last is given as 8,640,000, against 4,103,000 last year, Cannon Farrar offers £IOO for proof of one instance where drunkenness has been cured without total abstinence.

The oldest judge on the Bench in England is Vice-Chancellor Bacon, who has attained his eighty-eighth year. Since 1877, 1820 persons have destroyed themselves in consequence of losses at the Monte Carlo gambling tables.

United States Consul, Griffin, of Sydney, New South Wales, reports a heavy demand for American beer in that Colony. Greece has under arms 60,000 regulars, 26,000 reserve, and 96 Erupp guns. Turkey has 820,000 men including 85,000 horsemen. Dr Lansdell, the English missionary in a single recent year distributed no less than 56,000 bibles among the exiles in Siberia.

A large percentage of the children in Germany and Denmark being sickly, the medical men declare that the school hours are too long. It was stated at a soir&e in Edinburgh that the North British Railway Copmany employs 14,000 servants, and pays annually about £825,000 in wages.

The King and Council of the Sandwich Islands have issued an order that after April 1, no Chinese can be admitted into the Hawaiian Kingdom. A coloured woman, Miss Carrie Bjragg, is editor of the Virginia Lancet, published in Petersburg, Va.—the only newspaper in the Union conducted by a coloured woman.

A baker in England, having reduced his price a-half-penny on a certain size of loaf, was notified by a miller that no more flour would be sold hing by the ring to which the miller does belong. The Princess of Metternich and several ladies of the highest Austrian aristocracy have resolved to send a doctor to Paris to study under M. Pasteur his treatment for the cure of hydrophobia.

The kingdom of Italy is spending $20,000,000 in redeeming Naples, driving new streets and sewers through the poor quarter, and removing the poor people to a new-built section in the suburbs.

In the immediate vicinity of Vienna, not two miles from its outskirts, trails of wolves were lately observed. A party of huntsmen accordingly went in search. One wolf was killed by a well aimed shot. The Duke of Sutherland's steam yacht has been equipped with a doublebarrelled gun to kill whales. One barrel fires an explosive bullet, and the other • a harpoon, both being discharged at the same time.

The Danbury News says there is a little Scotch terrier there remarkable for his singing gift. He will accompany almost any instrument, and his intonations are very pleasant to the ear, and of varied compass;