CURIOUS CUSTOMS AND FACTS EXPLAINED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 123, 12 September 1876, Page 3

CURIOUS CUSTOMS AND FACTS EXPLAINED.

llMTPtf.Ktt ('OR TptK KVvJttMC. t.s- AwtKMr 'irwK*.—Attw»P.:f the ,st m shots. 1 * were ruade of ! at her, [it, rush, or wood, and th« Jcwis's lilons wocb moons as ; |uiid, in the fifteenth centwry, th» [ilu worn? beaks on fie points of their s, so- long? that t!Wy encamb* red usulves irv walking and wt.re forced to [iiunt tip to< tiwh? knees. The tine gen* urn, fastened their's with chains of ,[ or silver gilt, and wishers with laces. t , how«unr, was a'terwards prohibited, no forfeiture of twenty »hitEing:-», and iftin- of being cursed by the His BaTEER op S»Ptras.,—Htnry VIII. iimliuwl, t « fchnperor Maximthan, and ijwisa, in tiVlli, entered into an ofteniillianck! against Franc©-. lit nry VIII, kd: at Calais, and was joined by the iitirop as a nutwmuniy to the King of liHid, who allowed r»c«i one hnndred it# a day E"V i.is table. Tticy invested nit:iin« with ait army of £f>,W> men ; tlio t>no do Longuevitte, iware.,mg to tilk-f, was signally defeated at CJtttne- , 'this battle wa* called the flattie of r», because this French nsed spstr* u tlians they did t'leir swords. ||K OF iSTARi *?ttAM?B«R. —t'ofe© it* that the Chamber was si> catted i the fact of tt» Poof being garwialwd i stars. but this baa been contradicted, lumw stars wwvb obtifc*rated before fclur } y£ Elizabeth. It is more |>ceb»|>fe it vim! it* nam i from the tf.'itrm, Jewish Mints, »lepo«ittsd there by order of iiird t. jJm* «ftw or covenant was ivod to be valid <s Xcepfe fottnd in those ■atoms, ant t hurt} t w>y remained tluj banishment of the J«wa by mrd I. Tue tVatC wa.+ feftmvy Vtl. fw: by- a nnutite* of th« Ct>imcil r wftief* in viotafcion »>f C.iaFta. as it It with mit and t-vnnina! «m* M'ud by fiUe rnte» of taw. In tb«t rtetgn ■ C. it «3t-f»fißu«i tts power ttpon <nvi innovatoc? it* tiliocty, who otdy iu(t in their sitrt'erin and eontetlktte«d ; Diuiwc «»otfwrtt»Mso.li Ovliiorts arid eon* : [itililo. It was. abotis ved in IttlL runt Pies.-!. "Iton p«n» wert* bn nay as ; y n» EW&Jy bitt steel Kiuny into ttjc J nt tyear 682% wt.sft thw ti'i'st gross : llfue-slit |M8»» wix» sotd Wi^k'Sal. for i to, la tun yuu's, ov to the year 183% ! [M'ice gross had some to BA,» two ytears later to. ♦!». ISnt at taw f>Ci«t day tv butter pen can Ibe obtatned ;l, pwr grosfti. As showing tiie dennMii i, ; utty bt> stated that in tu« y»ar ISt# rly wet" Htatiittfautrtrwd , lii'tumt auii alcn v Nttcauct'tf »r ITstv&st&x**—Cml>rell»* ■ of very anoitnt <4»tev as they app ar ; :i« carvings at t'ersupotis. iJiitftftthr, . i visited t. ct yotttlWrw part of Arabia, • ; saw- a of t ;»;• j iitiiy returtiinyr frouu a tnoS({tte, pre- | utli by soTner bitndryifo of sot liters, and 1 i Ilu -nd «uuh of the prvnce» of f.b ! iiurous fanwty tansed a larga ntnbcvtta I iu carried by hi»s';de. The first pjrson ! i ust.d mv ttnibrtOa in the streets of ; ultift was the bentsvwteufe Jonas Han- : V wuo'died in ITS®.. Kor a wutlr; ; eii» not nstKiJ for nn r> te> earry titen# liout bemg- branded as «tfeintnate. AS t, iv single ninbr. tla stents to have been it at a eottue-hotise for - extraortlinary Minns— k nt as a eoaeftt or c atr in a vy » ow*r, bwt not eonwn©nly carries*!! tu« walkers. Th» jFiemttk 'HMhr ad- : - i ti» thj Custom-UtoOStf who, hi f.ar win,. b«rvowed the umbrella from lk » coffee-bouse, shall the ne.tt time be ciiiiid to the maid's patten.?." Aft late 117%. one John Ma«aoaa£d, a footman. > wvote hi* own tife, infottm tts t k .at | hud "a hne sdk orubrelta, which he mglit from Spam ; bttt he could not, It any «i»tufort to himself, ttse it—the | plo catting; ©wt, '* Freßc.tiuan, why j I'fcyott get a vouch f" lie fosther says i | itw.is time there were no mnbrellaa | itt in London, *xc> pt in nobtemea s | IMS, whfc re there was a large otiar bang j thu hall to l E.otd oner a lady if it rained j iltt escorting: her Co t .e carriage.' He | i8«lf w„s on one oceasion to | t liia sister's arm from the abos<j he j w upon t.iniself by carrying an mubrtlla. | : ua WootSACK.—The seat of t e Lord ! (It Cliamteior i» the Honse of Lords is : alkd front it* being a targe bag j »001, without baefc orarnsi, and coverea I it.cud doth. Wool was the s£apleco«iility of England in of Edward :,,wbtni the woolsack first came into nsev [ tttffi TR£A'£5tKJHf OF VAttltASfIS tS Alt' St T'totlts^—ln the sixteenth centaury i pnn.si, ment inflicted ttpon a vagrant * t..at after being sevsrely he tafee an oati* to ntnrn to the place ire he was bwtß. if » second time conhid he lost the upper part of the gristle his rig .8 ear; and the t drd wtfcncj- was to:,able by death. i-D the n«iXt centary i Taw was even more for the Hncptnt was branded wit»the Ltt r V, i tu be a shvve for twt» The Will cowvktion was visiteul; viith w.dp- '!!,. botinf t.ie ears, and death. J»iitd«r <utt.s nave sincj been intrwlttced,, and to the old rigors tt> be carrLd out at o.ic taint time, t.»e anthorU£j» wwtd f tiave w ft»W, as no fewer than TO trainps Ww. , n and Wales IStTOI £sra£, AoJC.—in law, v* m persons are esaotea to f wr yk,ars th«y are pro .ibited a*.i a become vespensible for their aeiv. po tige of legal capacity lwenty-on* t F it ftj-mes for sti.'we purposes ttttttb wli«r. In crimixttd cases a prison of tie P o£ fe««sttttt» y«ar» tuay le capitally (stt tuv any cup rial otfenc*, but t&e age of seven. At twei* c a n.a;e kjf Ukjwte h..v eaiu ot aQ«gtance; at four* kit he ia at tue ywrs ol uiacretioti, and

may cntir into a binding marriago, or consent or disagree to one contracted Ik tore, jor choose a gttatdiaii. Aft Jids at I welve is at tnatttriky for t. trfe|>Hf]ir's» 4. "v»"ii6 nnder twenty-one can scm* r~" 1 i>E Parliament, l>e ortlnined « pficat, or be admitted to praetii«c as an att>>r«u; y or S rtrrist* r, and a bbfciop cannot be cxit.TwCiiittd before thirty, j The Skvbs Wkupto or toe World.— The of Egypt ; Uie manaolcUin, or tond>, bntEf. fo-r Kinsj of Carta, by Arttntisb, his c|»icen; the ; Temple of iStaria, at Ep tA*iA; t walls | atid ftangi-ng gar«kns of t..e City of Babylon ; ihe tast fd" tEie Still at Rbodts, called tU: Coto^tt*; the ivory and gold statue of Jbpiter Ohinpus ; the Pharos, or tvatef.-t»»w«r, bitiU by i'tohny Pl.iladot|>in», Kins *>S Egypt.