MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 57, 4 March 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

By order the lamps at Woolwich Arsenal were extinguished during the thre* moonlight nights last week, which resulted in a total saving to the country of 36s.—'Globe.'. •

A Canadian young lady, who had got a look at Prince Arthur, remarked, in his hnaring, " He's better looking than the Prince of Wales, and more of a. man. I wonder who he is going to marry?" The Prince smiled, and blushed like a girl. Prince Arthur snoots with a gun labelled. " Erom your affectionate mamma, Xmas, 1868." / The " Irish Times " tells the following strange story:—Archbishop Trench gave a visitation dinner to about fifty of the clergy of Kildare, and there was of course- the usual toast drinking. " The Queen," we are told, was received in " solemn silence, and not more than one-third of the clergy drank it." The Prince of Wales found quite as little favor, while lord Spencer, in his capacity of Lord Lieutenant, was absolutely hooted from his accustomed place ia. the list of loyal and patriotic toasts. An extensive fire at New Sharlstone. coal company's pits, near Wakefield, has been causing great damage for some days past. A vast stack of coals, said, to contain several hundred thousand tons, ignited about a fortnight ago. A large quantity of coal was removed; but it was estimated 'that something like ten thousand tons were still on fire. .