MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2754, 20 January 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

;'wNo line in England carries the same number of.passengers, or carries them so cheaply and pays so large a dividend, m the Underground Railway of London. The passengers last year numbered 110,000,000. Several of the underground and overground railways carry workmen 12 miles a day for a penny, thus enabling them to enjoy cheap bouses sad country air. . : j i

“ Any good shooting bn yonr farm •iked the hunter of the fanner. " Splendid,” replied the agriculturist; "there is a drivewell man down'in the clover meadow, a cloth pedler at the house, a candidate out in the barn, and two tramps down in the stockyard. Climb right over the fence, young .man, oad both barrels, and sail in.” •

Four .English soldiers and two Sepova were recently carried off and sold into slavery in Afghanistan, and the English papers are. eager for some one to imitate the exploit of Colonel Stewart, who, disguised as ah American horse dealer, . penetrated the enemy’s country, afterwards resided on the frontier for a month, meeting the special correspondent of a London paper every day, without being suspected of being an Englishman. It may not be unworthy of note that as this year commenced with a Snndiy 'it will also end with a Sunday, and will thus have a Sunday more and a business day less than most years have.. The same thing happened one year when Mr Gladstone was Chancellor of the Ex chequer and had a deficit in his revenue, and he attributed a part of his deficit to the extra Sunday depriving him of one day’s revenue.* It is quite possible that many persons will be out of their reckoning aS to their income this year if they do not take into account the fact that it will consist of 53 Sundays and 312 business days and holidays.