MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2663, 3 October 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A sheep dairy for the manufacture of cheese has been started near Chattanooga. The milk of 1000 sheep will be used at the beginning. One of the features of the Atlanta cotton exhibition will be the manufacture of a suit of clothes from raw cotton in twenty-four hours. When the grumbling citizen rushes into print with his complaint, he “writes his wrongs ” whether he obtains redress Virginia tramp stole the outfit of a smallpox patient and proceeded on his merry way. Three dead tramps in a cave ended the chapter. ? These are the times that try men s soles” said the tramp as he stood barefoot on the sidewalk and waited the hired girl’s coming with half a pie. It is said that Sarah Berhhardt studied the air and expression of halfcrazed women by going-to a millinery shop and watching them try to select a bonnet. ... The Mexican Government has now issuedorders that no soldier guarding a ■nowder magazine can smoke while on duty and some of the Mexican papers support the arbitrary ruling. • Arizona ministers prudently leave their revolvers on the bank when going into the water to baptize converts, but never go in so far but they can reach the weapon in two jumps if necessary. According to the census taken m Anril last, the population of the .Dominion of Canada is 4,350,933. British STmbia a«d Ih. Mo.th-W.st ttmtories are estimated to contain IbU,OW 111., had a female barber, and instead of whooping around and raising Ingersoll’s np-such-place-about it, the women quietly raised a purse of 400dols and gave it to an old bach to marry the ehaveress and take bsr away. An Indiana man pulled a drowning woman out of the mighty Wabash which was all right, but be smoothed her damp hair as she lay on the bank, which was all wrong, and h.s wife has ettpd for a divorce on account or it. “Mv friend, you should shun the flowing bowl,” said a mb id temperance man to an individual with an ill.nninated nose coming out of a saloon door. “Yes, and the blowing fool, too, was the reply, as toper scooted away from the bewildered adviser. The latest freak is for young women to have their bands photographed, v, 001* the latter are shapely, nothing appearing in the photo but the hands and wrsts. A certain Bostonian, who is vain of her beautiful feet, has bad them photographed naked and unadorned.

A “ happy father ” inserts the following birth notice in a New South Wales paper:—“ On August 22, at her residence Bombala-street, Cooma, the wife of John E. P. Walker, of a, son. Persons indebted to the father will kindly look upon this as an appropriate occasion to settle their accounts.” General' Scobeloff, who bears the reputation of being the- most humane of modern -Russian commanders, telegraphed exultantly to the Emperor after the. storming of Geok Tepe, on January 24 last.— “ Eight thousand fugitives of both sexes were hacked to pieces by our pursuing -troops.” This is an example of what is called “civilised warfare.’' . The Californian sheep and cattle thrive upon what, after . the , bloom of spring disappears, seems to be dust. But it is not du»t. The sun dries the native grasses on the stem, the wind blows them into windrows, and the stock eat stalk and seed together—often licking them from the ground. It is this which induces a stranger to think that California stock lives upon dust! A sailor was stabbed in a street row and two of his mates went to the hospital next day to see how their wounded messmate was getting along. Ben Bobstay went in to ask about him, received a true statement of his case from the surgeon, and came out with a solemn face. “ Good Lord, mates,” he. said, “ Jack’s a dead man. The latin parts of his bowels is all cut to thunder.”