MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2677, 18 October 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The furore for Japanese wares, which has prevailed so long in London,reached a climax the other day. After a sale of many hundred tons of fans and parasols, all the “ fair beings” were fanning themselves with red, yellow, and purple, while presentirg the same colours overhead to a sun which might else have levelled its stroke at the heads of the fair army. Not only m the streets, but on the river was the same display —every spot seemed in full blossom ; it was no longer London, hut Yokohama. . An American paper gives the following description of the Western farmer = The average Western farmer toils hard early and late, often depriving himself of needed rest and sleep--for what ’ To raise corn. For what ? To feed hogs. For what ? To get money to buy more land, hor what . To raise more corn. For what ? To feed more Imgs. For what? To buy more land. And what does he want with more land ? Why, he wishes to raise more corn —to feed more hogs—to! buy more land—to raise corn to feed more hogs—and in this circle he moves till the Almighty stops his hoggish proceedings. It is a hard thing to heat a drnm of boiled oil. A card writer in a Buffalo hotel refused to write cards for a colored citizen. Then the colored citizen arose in his wrath and fell upon that card writer and spilled his ink and spoiled his cards and split his pens, and upset his desk and evilly entreated him, smote him sore, and pounded him even into pulp, and filled him with bitterness and sorrow, and made all his hones to ache and cry out with, the anguish- of his lamentations, and expounded the law unto him and caused him to understand more folly the true inwardness and intent of the fifteenth commandment and the civil rights hill than he had ever learned from other teachers in twenty years. Thus the humble missionary labors of obscure men are causing the civil nghts bill to he known and understood throughout the land, so that even the card- writing man though a fool, need not err therein.