MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8161, 16 April 1895, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

Edison, tho oloctriciun, woars no ovcr-co-it, however cold tho woiUhor nuy bo Tho proportion of killed to tho number of railway travellers is in Franco ono in 10,000,000 ; England, ono in 28,000 000 j and in tho United Statosone in 2,400,000. At a Hale of autographs in London, recently, a letter of Ilobeit Burns fetched Lll, and one from tho author of " Jano Eyre" roali^ed L 5. An autograph of James I. sold for L 6. The Waipawa Mail thus describes what it thinks tho country wants and does not want as Parliamentary representatives : " What wa want to soo is a deeply - grounded, almost religious conviction, that tipsy mon, cheats, liars, needy adventurers, gis-pipes, girl-stalkers, cranks, faddia 8, and tho liko, aro nob what wo [ want as representatives. What wo re- • quire aro mon of sober, industrious habits, who havo kept their end up and are quite unpurchaseable. If such men, or a small minority of (hem, possessed brilliant powors, ao much the better. They, nt any rate, would not wreck the ship of Stato and involve us in disaster Wo don't want any heroic legislation. Thcro is no national crisis. No foreign usurpor has his hand at our throat. We want little beyond coonomy, und lotwo tQ \rfrk out our own dystiny," ,