MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 24 May 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir Thomas'Phillips, whose death was announced in the last Suez telegrams, was a celebrated book-collec-tor at Cheltenham, where he possessed an enormous mansion, as well as one in "Worcestershire. Both these houses were so full from top to bottom of books that it was difficult to find a chair to sit down upon, and visitors have been shown into the housekeeper's room, as being the only one free from litter. His books do not «eem tohave brought him much happieess, for he left all his best collection to his youngest daughter, on condition that his eldest daughter or her should never enter the house —a pleas-" ant frame of mind for an old gentleman of 80 to die in.

The following is'from a Belfast paper :—0 ut of the£l2,ooo sent from Ireland for . the Chicago sufferers, over £II,OOO was subscribed, by those attached to the Union with England and the friends of British connection, the Republicans, Eenians, Nationals, and Hoine Rulers cdntribiting but little —facts that should not be overlooked by our Transatlantic cousins. A Wellington paper says :—Eour of the Scandinavian single women, who arrived by the..England, were married the other day to fellow-passengers by the Rev. .J. Paterson. Some amnse*lrient was caused over the services by the want of a interpreter, but all the women, we are informed, had well learned to say " yes." -•-■■"•.■ A list of future sblar tf eclipses appear in the London Times, froin which we learn that a total eclipse will not be observable in New Zealand until September 9th 1885.