ODDS AND ENDS.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 183, 1 March 1848, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

(Compiled from late English Journals.) We learn from Dr. Young's History of Mexico, that out of its fifty Viceroys , only one was born in North America. The Charleston Mercury says — AH the luxuries of life grow in hot moist climatei.— Not so, remarks the American Mirror, ice doesn't. The income of the corporation of London is c € 405,320; Tue highest fountain in the world is in the grounds of the Duke of Devonshire, where a single jet is thrown up to a height of 267 feet, more than 100 feet higher than Niagara Falls. In 1272, says the New York Mirror, the wages of the labouring man were three half-pence per day, and the price of a Bible well written out was £30, so that a laborer could not have procured a Bible with less than the entire earnings of thirteen years! A London paper says that sevetal trades-people in St.' Paul'i Church.yard have placed boards descriptive of their trade and calling againit the chimneypot! on the roofs of their houses, in the hope of cntching 1 customers among the visitors to the summit of St. Paul's. There are the same number of bones in ihe human body as there are pence in a pound sterling. The Cathedral at Salisbury has in it as many windows as there are days in the year, as many marble pillar* as hours, and as many doors as months. A young American clairvoyant named Davis, bai just completed a book which, it is gravely said, he hat been engaged ia dictating for the last two years, while in the mesmerio tleep. Ifc is entitled " the Principles of Nature." The New York Journal of Commerce calls attention to the astounding fact that in that city one-fifth of the entire population are paupen, supported in part, or wholly, by public charity. The Edinburgh Gazette notifies Lieutenant Waltea Scott Lockhart, of the 16th. Light Dragoons, grandson of sir Walter, and heir of Abbots- ■ ford, has been permitted to assume the name of Scott in addition to that Oi Lockhart. The Legislature of the State of Maine, on its adjournment after a session of nearly three months, passed a vote of thanks to the Newspaper Reporters for their able and impartial reports. A French Surgeon states that by fitting bed. steads with glass feet, and isolating them about eight' teen inches from the wall of the apartmen, he has cured the patients sleeping on them of a host of nervous affections. A three-half-penny periodical has just been started in Scotland, for the illustrntion of the topography, antiquities, and traditions of the country. There is a great demand, says n. Yankee paper, for a species of plaster which will enable gentlemen to stick to their business. Lord Denman, in the course of the last Parliament, introduced a Hill to extend the Uvr respecting threatening letters, or accusing persons with certain ciimes. The Rill was passed into an Act of Parliament in July, and under it persons c«n be imprisoned or transposed : in addition to imprisonment, they can be once, twice or thrice publicly or privately whipped. A newly-married lady who was very fond of her husband, notwithstanding his extreme ugliness of person, once said to a very witty frien!— What do you think? my husbahd has gone and laid out fifty guineas for a baboon, on purpose to please me I The dear little man ! crie,d the other, well, it is just like him ! The last, best fruit, which comei to late perfection in the kindliest soil, is tenderness towards the hard, forbearance towards the unforbearing, warmth of heart towards the cold, philanthropy towards the misanthropic. The Duke of Wellington, as Commander-in- Chief, has given his sanction to the formation of a grand cemetery on Shooter's Hill, for Officers of the British Army and Navy, as well as those of the East India Company's service. '1 he mausoleum will rise from the centre of the ground, at the spot where Sevendroog Castle now stands : it is to be raised in a series ot terraces, the substruction of which will affoid space for 10,000 catacombs. Whileacaipenter at Inverness was at woik m his shop, a cat chased a rat among some planks, placed on the rafters over his head, and the rat threw down an adze which was lying on the planks : the noise caused the unlucky carpenter to look up, and the edge of the falling adze levered his nose from his face. Mr. Alexander, of Hermitage, has left neaily i.60,000 to endow an hospital for the education, clothing, and if necessary the support, of poor children of both sexes, in the City of Glasgow. Upwa'ds of one-thiM of the I ships built in the United Kingdom in the year 1847, were built i»t the Port of Sunderland. Some workmen of Messri. Jones, auctioneers, Princes-street, Leicester Square, London, on breaking down a partition were horrified to find two hundred coffins containing human remains— the premises it appears were once a Chapel. An apt compliment was lately paid by a Parisian dent, ist to a Lady — he had made several ineffectual attempts to draw out her decayed tooth, ami finding at last he must give it up, he apologised bv saying — TLe fact is, Madam, it is impossible for anything bad to come from your mouth. It ii laid that notwithstanding the remonstrances of France, a Papal Nuncio will be acaccredited to the Sublime Porte, in which case the Pope would of course assume the protectorship of the Eastern Roman Catholics, which France has t>o long arrogated to herself, " The Steamer" is the name of a new penny periodical of eight large quarto pa^es, lately established in London. A rich collection of Hi brew books, consisting of 5000 printed volumes and 800 manuscripts, forming the library of M. Michel of Hamburg, hai just been purchased by the British Museum. Somebody notices a book as 'an amusing volume which comes home to everybody,'— 'Just the book to leud.