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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 193, 8 November 1872, Page 5

The King of Dahomey is reported to have changed the fashion of his wearing apparel. Seated on his throne, he received a scientific commission, not ago, his body profusely decorated with the blue, gold, and green labels which had been carefully peeled from tile medicine bottles brought by Europeans into his dominions. In a communication to the Astronomical Society a gentleman of wellknown scientific attainments gives reasons for the belief that the spots on the sun are produced by volcanic action, which is for the time intensified by the proximity of some planet. The "tides in an ocean were supposed by John Herschel to provoke the volcanoes on its shores. The close proximity of the moon to our planet; is also thought to stimulate them to increased activity.

J.ob bells of .T'lpihof tlBlO, and again recently, .. were • struagejy disturbed .duriugjhe changes in the •solar envelope. May not such curious sympathies and reactions of-masses' -on'- each other, and their .singular relations to volcanic action, lead to an explanation of phenomena that are otherwise verv'f mysterious ?

■■At..a recent sitting of the Pistrict Court, held nt Warwick, Queensland, tne Judge gave a decision, not on a point of law bu'. o< practu-e, to which there can be no reasonable objection. his. Honor, Judge Blakeney, staled that he had always idluwe I members :)t r ;he Press to be exempt from serving j !)R -juries, aud he should give rastru'r--tions to the Registrar that she rulesmmld ..be strictly carried out. herp S : He considered it very important that, those who were connected with thePi ess should not be liable to serve on ; juries. The Jury Act does not- specially exempt members of the Press out it -.would be at least as much to the public interest that.they should befree from serving on the juries, as that privilege.should be accorded to -every" i petty Government official. " Say, Csesar, why am your legs like an. organ grinder ?" " 1 )on't know, Mr Sugarloaf; why is they ?" " "Cos they carries a-monkey.-about: the streets." A. brick grazed the head of Mr Sugarloaf just as liis ears disappeared round the corner of the street. Stosy of a Misee. The 'ltalie, Turin, says the following scene occurred a few days ago at a railway station On a bitter coid dav a millionaire applied at the ticket office for ..a third-class ticket. ' What !' exclaimed the official, who knew mm,'you sir, take a thirdclass on such a day as this !' ' Why, I must, was the cool reply, " since there is :io fourth-class.' ' I beg your pardon,' answered the official, handing him a ticket,' but there is—here is one.' The man of wealth hastily paid for it, and rushed forward to take liis place. On the doorkeeper asking to see his ticket, the traveller produced it, but rather taken aback on being told that the ticket would not do tor him. ' Aud why not !' he exclaimed. ' Why, sir, because it is a do"--ticket !' a

lUisrxG MONEY FO.H Purposes.—The Bishop of JN T elson, in opening, the annual session of the Synod ot his Diocese, 'delivered an address, in the course of which he referred to the various methods of raising money for the church. In doing so, he said t; The raising of lroney by sales of work, by music and lectures, by bazaars and giifc auctions, if properly conducted, cannot, as far as I see, be objected to, for the performers and.' workers' are the real contributors, and they may, as in the case of work, music, and lectures be made highly instructive and useful but lotteries, raiHjs, and art unions, falsely so-called, and such like, ought' £ think, to be unanimously disapproved, and repudiated by us as illegitimate/ improper, and unworthy means of raising money. The spirit of gambling is so rife in all classes in this colony, that this is a sufficient reason why the Ohurch should set itself against everything which encourages gambling, and certainly decline and disapprove any proposition for raising funds by such means. . A. Useful Society. —The. j>rospectus of the JNew Zealand Trades Protection Society has been issued. The primary objects of this society will be to "protect subscribers against fraudulent dealers in business generally, and to assist them by information regarding the respectability j and standing of parties proposing to deal with them by e a tab 1 ishing corresponding agencies in the various towns throughout the colony ; to trace ouc debtors P who may change their residence, 01* whose addresses are unknown ; to circulate periodically amongst subscribers information Of a strictly private and confidential nature, including all proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court, assignments for the benefit of creditors, declarations of insolvency and dividends payable, registration of bills of sale and mortgages, judgments in the Supreme Court—in fact all information derivable from sedulous inspection of those legal records to which access can be obtaiued j the collection of trade accounts, dividends, and rents; and therecovery of debts through out the colonies at minimum cost to subscribers. A. statistical reporter watched while a thousand men passed a looking glass as-, a, sign on the sidewalk in Broadway. The result of his observations showed that 999 men glanced complacently at their image as they passed. The other man was blind. Four hundred and fiftytwo woman passed during the same hour and a hall, and none ot them looked in Ihe mirror all of them being intently examining each others appea"iane<y and dress.