MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 281, 10 July 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

King Humbert of Italy has granted a considerable subsidy to the commercial and scientific expedition which -embarked recently at Naples for Africa. Boston expects to expend about $15,000,000 for new buildings this year. The boom is greater than at any time since 1874. There is a report of gold workings being restarted in Scotland. The currency of the world is not appreciably affected by the gold workings of the United Kingdom. Of the 320,000 Indians on the American Continent, about 200,000 are still pagans and savages; about 100,000 have been civilised, many of whom have become Christians. Upwards of 8000 men are out of employment in Vienna, with starvation staring them in the face. The same condition of affairs prevails in every large town and city in Austria. A lad of fourteen jumped into the Seine not very long ago. Several persons saw from the top of the bridge the efforts he made to save himself, hut no one had the courage to go to his aid. The Italian Kailway Directors are almost offering an inducement to their countrymen to be bitten by mad dogs by abating 75 per cent of the fare for persons travelling to Paris to undergo M. Pasteur's treatment. There are about 100 mills in Philadelphia engaged in spinning and weaving silk, while there are four at Darby, a suburb. Plushes and velvets have recently been added to the products. About 8000 persons are emyloyed on these industries in Philadelphia. A tramp who was recently in custody in the Colorado Springs gaol possessed an ingenious harness—his own device —which he could fasten to the truck of a car, and by means of which he could ride in safety all night under the train and fast asleep.