MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 278, 14 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

H In the armies. »f France, Italy, lingand! Spain,. a> spectacled man is rarely Hmo* la the Cfernum army they acts H x Novmi otrtti, wrttt vasal Reart/rs. H At the Cmjue Satomonsky at Berlin has been a dual between a crocodile a serpent* The crocodile chopped ©if head! of his antagonist with a bite and it. lie died the following da/. i Crocodile* should be careful in dietary. A VtAXSfOta 'CO tOVTDR*. Oo November 1^3 r at midnight, Robert a plumber, aged 29, climbed to a window of the third tlat of a house George's-road, Glasgow, and while tap©nrthe pane to attract the attention his sweetheart —the servant of the house backwards into a sunken area. was lifted; up insensible, and conveyed the Western Inhrmary, where he died. <ss« *rcm» ©v WAtES' 'to the. frost. hi* services for active duty in of war. Of course the heir apj>a~ IS too-precious a life for hint to be to the tront, but if there is to be a atfw'r, anct we want India's resources, as the I'rinue is so popular there— re-appeurance among Lis friend* the would stir up the Makoiumedan to the highest point. If the ia compelled f> remain at home, has the cup of hope dashed out of hiss he will probably succeed Lieut - .Steele in command at Atdershot. correspondent in a. Wellington paper '- —"By the way, E am reminded that Travera has not answered my question the whale cast up at the Ftlot Sta1 am still thirsting for information. in the legal technicalirte> he gone through in order obtain a«v€sted interest in a stranded went out to the Pilot Station, and, stuck a nag in the cetecean, exto the foolish sailors who thought to them, that for want of the of this simple rite by them, interest ia it had termtnatjd. lie consolation, and sold the (far how much perhaps Dr. Hector state) to thu» Mtuetun au t h ovi ties. If been wrongly informed in this 1 am ©pen to* correction."

ADVANCE OF THE SEX. The " Joseph Home" Scholarship, says the &pnetator t for proficiency in jurispradlcacß—a scholarship of £2O a year for three year*—at University College, London, has this year been gained by a lady, Miss Ettau Grme. Even Shakespeare, though he ventured to draw a picture of a lady pleading the cause of a man in danger of death, and taking some rather fine distinctions with the laudable end of sating her lover's friend, never ventured to anticipate that a lady would take up by preference the science of jurisprudence—generally thought the driest and least attractive of studies—as an intellectual pursuit. And prokddy law, in its more scientific aspects, will never be a very popular pursuit with women, even though eliey niig tt very well acquaint themselves with enough «f it to make them very tolerable attorneys and land agents. As to the land agencies, however, on ssond thoughts, we hesitate ; for it is easier to conceive a woman witfi a passion for jurisprudence, titan one who had mastered Shtgdeft's " Wnd.rs and Purchasers,'* even for the vary practical object of advising her prtnetpats on tlivir contracts for sate or purchase. I* is only intellectual ; doygirdiu'ss that cm do that, but there is infcetkeSttat d">ggeduess in sunu women, though it is rare. AtE.S.\N*£>«:R THE. CIS BAT. A welt-known trader of a political party has a niania for visiting in td-hoits«s and interviewing their inmates ; and rjcjntty he has count? across an incident almost unparalLd in it* incomprehensibility. II s went to a private lunatic asylum which he had previously vhit.;d. and seeing t'lera a distifiguiftievt-EiKiking urui sitting hi ».-»Ufy atoui*,. want up and siiJ to him : ki lIovV d » yon dto I' I think I have seen you before. Miy t ask your nanvj T' '' My name !'" returned the inan fiercely, " I am Alexander the Great I" '* Why." said the visitor, who auddjtdy remembered having already had a discussion with the man, *" fie last time I was here you were St. Pant I" " Yea, of course," the man rejoined, qttickty, " but that was by the first wife." A REMEDY FOB RAt.ONES.:}. The British Consul at Nieotaielf, in reporting on the absence of cattle plague front that part of South Russia, observes : —■" In the summer my attention was drawn to several eases of sudden baldness to buttocks, cows, and oxen, and the loss of taits and manes among horses. A former servant of mine, prematurely bald, ' whose du.'y* it was to trim my lamps, had a fcabtfc of wiping his petroleum-besmeared hands in the scanty locks which remained to him, and after three months of lamptrimming experience, h's dirty habit procured for him a tnttjh finer head of black glossy hair than he ever possessed before in his recollection. I subsequently tritd the remedy on two retriever spaniels that had become suddenly bald, with wonderful success. My experience induced me to suggest it to the owner of several black cattle and horses affected as above stated, and white it stayed the spread of the dis. ease among animals in the same sheds and stables, it effected a quick and radical cure on animals attacked. The petroleum should be of the most refined American qualities, rubbed in vigorously and quick ■with the palm of the hand, and applied at. intervals of three days, six or seven times tn alt, except in case of horses tails and manes, when more applications may be requisite." JiEW cn^BA. Mr. A. Gotdte, in bis account of his trip to New Gninrn, says :—" We camped near the bank of the Landsic River for the night, and in the morning I gathered some interesting botanical specimens, which the native who accompanied me carried to Port 3loresby the same evening. The only occurrence of any importance that happened during the first visit among the natives was the arrival of a targe trading expedition from Alema, a distant part cf Cape Possession, about 120 mites along the coast. The natives brought with them large quantities of sago in conical-shaped mats ; this they exchanged for earthenware, which the Port Moresby natives are famed for making This trading expedition was composed cf the pick of the Alema tribe—young men and women, with a few old men. They numbered over TOO, and came in nine large canoes, or rather rafts, for every four canoes wira lashed together, making a platform right across, with a sponson right round, and they are propelled by two huge elliptic sails. This large company of natives never having seen a white man before, their terror was very great at my appearance, more especially among the women. I mention this to show that Port Moresby is a great centt~.il p'aci for trading purposes, the natives coming from agreat distance for pottery."