MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 300, 10 April 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Jackson, a sis'M* «"f flu- Hi-v-. C T ns. H. Spurgeon, tho popular E'ti'-dis'i dir : n- , ha» Gomißt'fic (l [iiTMu'i'm.;. S'!i-t> i* very talented, and bveoinitig almost as wU><(uuit as her giftul brother. TKE KAtLWAV PASWEMiISr.. The Judge of t'e Liverpool County Court has decided- that a railway company is bound to provide the I ohhr of a tirstclass ticket wifcli first-e!as , n-.ccummodation, free from, tobacco smoke. A KWOTCr PotS'C SETCtKP. In Missouri fch« Courts ?;»ve d-cided that a. woman is not an old maid until she is thirty-five years old. The tid« of ft minine immigration to Missouri has already set in, and there isn't an emigrantesa over thirty-four years old. WttAT A PC MPtttS ! Now surety this is something like a pumpkin ! This is what the Walrumpca JV«U'» says about it :—" A monster pumpkin, grown by Mr. William Dixon, watching as much as SoUb., is on view in thy ■window of Mr. James Clayson. Round the girth it measures about six feet, ami ia otherwise equally proportioned." tEMfEUASCW. Th© awakening itv England on the subject of temperance spreads on every side. The clergy of the Established Church are especially active. The Archbisnop of York and several bishops have become known as earnest temperance speakers. The clerical memorial asking for the enactment of repressive measures has been signed by 2 £,06" clergymen—more than half of the whole number connected with the Established Church in Eti:eland and "Wales. Among them are It bishops. 21 deans, 60 archdeacons. CJ> canons, 190 honorary canons, and l'2ti> prebendaries. a 3t?B.rEtrc re a 'chh GACtowg. An extraordinary ease of attempted murder and suicide recently occurred at Sheffield. A widow named Booth left her son Frederick and his sister, nine months old, in the- house while she went out to work. During her absence theboy attempted to hang himself, but the rope broke and let him down. He then seined the carving-knife and was about to cut his sister's throat, when the neighbors interfered. On Christmas Day the boy stabbed the child with a crotehetneedle behind the ear, and but for the timely assistance, the child would have most probably bled to death. 3MA>rPoOtStt R.tMKS. Every hairdresser who- practices shampooing ought to be able to show his customers a medical officer of health's ee:tificate that tile waste-pipes of all his basins ace effectually disconnected from the drains. We have reason to suspect that this most needful precaution has not been taken at all establishments where shampooing is carried on as the sequel (?f haircutting, or, in combination with hairbrushing by machinery, a mild form of sensuous indulgence. And it can scarcely be necessary to point out that when the pipes from the basins are continuous with the- drains, the circumstances of shampooing are altogether favourable to the inhalation of whatever foul and pernicious vapours the sewers may be able to afford. Ousts of sewer gas are displaced upwarls by the escaping water, and pervade the basin ami the surrounding atmosphere, white the mouth and nostrils of the person being operated upon are held directly over the orifice from which these gusts proceed. The scented soap covers any odour which might proclaim the presence of dangerous gases,, and the douche causes deep inspirations, so that if mephitis air be present it 1» copiously taken in. The tfemitory ifecord has little doubt that in some mysterious cases of typhoid fever and blood poisoning the disease has been coromnni\cst«d during shampooing, and it conceives be his duty to cal attention to this *«»ft*ir of the totfetto. . J

HOW TO MAKE JtEWSPAPEBS. A juvenile who had visited a newspaper office handed to his teacher a composition entitled, "How to Make Newspapers," in ! which fie thus describes tho process : The I head men sit down to their desks and ! write on square pieces of paper what to I print on the paper. They put them in a i box and send them upstairs. When they j get upstairs a man takes them and gives a ! lot of other men every one a piece of this I paper that has been written on. The man | that the paper is given to take 3 the types ; and fixes them one after another so that • they read what the paper reads. A man I then takes the words and put them in a | box and places them in some machinery, I that makes it go round ; then there is a | boy who stands over 'the machinery and ! puts the paper on the machinery, and then I some hook brings it down over the box \ with the types in, and the types have ink on, the types print on the paper then ! there is hooks that take the paper upland : lay it on another machine that folds it up i and then they sell them.—The end. | t'Pif£t>E DOWN. The Lijutt Argit* is a novelty in the way i of newspapers ; it's a perfect gem of a I paper. Its style of typography is something grand, white its literary matter is guided"by none of the n cognised rides of grammar. We find the following in a late Edition of the Ar.jit*: —" Under the heading ' tp Side Down,' the L>jM Arijn* thus apologises for one of its shortcomings in the art of printing:—'Tuosc of our subscribers who got last week's " printed upside down " will, we trust, excuse us when «e tell them that, being short-ham led, a tatty volunteered to »to the printing. She amid she could turn a mangle: or a sewifig-iuachinv and it was dnnicd odd to her if she couldn't run a printing-machine. I'lks " IK'tl" 'and Iwv went at it, and bc- : I: ween the two th<y run the Arpw upside down. The- wfiutiiti eonsot-d the E iitor oy remarking, ** Ntvur itni-l, oil chap; t <.•;>' wilt o;i;!y sav the prvnt«-r's tight ijgalu." »V..0 a-o»u lu't h-j a printer I' " ,i rrr.r;rt"Tfj:r> v.czsr.. X f-.iT-i-:!.!'.! ( c;:;i'r. n;•■..> is ropor l ed in the Si. a. I'V.mic -o pvi t ;r:>. A co?tftrsued (hanvkr-r i n.ii.i".! J -.» u JPfvrdy, with his •'•ifw atiil Eiw *hddreu. occupied a housain oiv of t-r tthtiut. llw wa.-t in th:j- h r.bit of constantly beating his wife, and the faiudy hvi t>. en to such a■ statj of utter tl s i tut ion by the drunken habits of the father that thiy depended upon the charity of neighbours for food and clothing. Toe brutal husband often articles I. ft in the- hott.-t-, and carried them off to txciiange- for drink. Owing to a representation of the neighbours a warrant was granted for the man's arrest on a charge- of habitual drunkenness, and a polimmatt went to the house. Here a gh is tly scene met his gaz?. The children, ragged, dirty, and half-starved, were huddled together in a corner. Lying on the bud was the dead body of the mother, and by her side the husband stupefied with lienor. A doctor was brought, and found that th*e» woman had died from smalt-pox, combined \vith ill-treatment. 'I he usual pivcmtions wero- taken against the spread of the diseas?, tfie man and his children removed to the hospital. NT.W FOoTB_U.t. RCLES. 1. No match to be played without a surgeon being in attendance on the ground. 2. Should there be a hospital within easy distance, notice to be given beforehand thr.t the services of the statF may be called into requisition. 3. Ail ample supply of bandages, lint, splints, and other appliances to b» kept always in readiness. 4. An ambtdanco to be in waiting, to convey anyone who may receive an injury to his home or to the hospital. ~>. Jf an ambulance cannot be procured, then a sufficient number of cabs to be in immediate call. CJ. Proper attendants and nurses to be engaged to wait on the sufferers. 7. Brandy and other stimulants to be kept on the grounds. 8. Crutches and sticks to be supplied for the nay of those whoso- injuries may be only slight, but who yet may require some artificial support to enable them to return to their homes. 0. aV*o game Jo be played except on ground within easy reach of a telegraph olrtee.— Pwmh. roos PAM»Y ! The Lye It district is happy or unhappy, as the ea-s-i* may be, tu the possession of a reaidrut who is known to local fame under the name of " Paddy, the Ham." It appears t.tat on a recent occasion a lady hostess at the Lyetl required some poultry —good laying luais—and the news reached Paddy, who docs a little in "chicken rtaring." He found, however, on application, that the number of young pullets repaired was rather beyond Ids resources, but Paddy set his wits to work, with what result the sequel will show. Paddy took the order, and in due time he arrived at the Lyetl with a sack full of very tine looking young pullets. It was re narked at the time that a large number of bird's heads had .a peculiarly clean-cut appearance, but this was accounted for by Paddy as an indication of their " high breeding." The lady was well pleased with the bargain, and the money was paid right down into Paddy's eager hand, when he at once clean, t out. It seems that lie had cut oQ* the combs and gilts of a number of roosters and passed them off as pullets. Ketnrned to his home, Paddy was asked how he got on at the market, when he said, '* Degorra, I was afeerd thtm lads of roosters would start crowing afore I got the money."— Mxthanye.