ODDS AND ENDS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 51, 28 January 1884, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

The total ascertained expenditure of France upon the war on which she entered with a light Heart in August, 1870, is now declared to be £841,410,6'00. As the war began iu August and ended In January, this makes the cost to Fiance of her march to Berlin almost exactly two millions a day. The Dean of Bangor has had a controversy about tea-drinking. According to him, “ Oatmeal and milk produce strong* hearty, good-tempered men and women; whereas excessive tea-drinking creates a generation oinervous, discontented people, who are for ever complaining of the existing order of the universe, scolding their neighbors, and sighing after the impossible. > suspect that overmuch tea-drinking, by destroying the calmness of the nerves, is acting as tt dangerous revolutionary force among us.” The Bishop of Lichfield announces to his clergy that he has founded a new clerical order—for what precise purpose does not transpire—to which, “ after much deliberation and prayer,” he has decided to give the name of the “ Fast oral Order of the Holy Ghost." During a dlitfussion on “ Social Purity,” at the Exeter Hall Diocesan Conference, Arch, deacon Earle ridiculed the taste for blueribbon wearing. A blue ribbon is supposed to denote total abstinence. “ Why, then," asked the Archdeacon, “ should.not a person wear a flame-colored one to show that he professes to speak the truth, or plaster a receiptstamp over his button-hole so that the world may know that he pays his accounts regularly?" A Melbourne paper suggests that “ Maid of Arts ” is a far better designation for a lady graduate than “ Bachelor of Arts.”