MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2832, 22 April 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Strange that game should be so dear when the efforts of every sportsman is directed to “ bring it down !” Donizetti’s opera “ Don Sebastian," which, when produced in Paris, was a disastrous failure, and was described by a critic as “ a funeral in five acts." “Mr A. is one of those people who rob Peter to pay Paul.” said Mr B. “ Hardly, hardly,” responded Mr C. “ Our friend A, dosen’t do that exactly, He always stops after robbing Peter." Dr Risely, of Philadelphia, speaking of the condition of the eyes of school children, says : “ Hypermetropic eyes are more numerous than both myopic and emmetropic ; that next to myopic astigmatism, distinct lesions are most prevalent in eyes with hypermetropic astigmatism.” From this it appears that “ the eyes have it ’’ —but what it is they have is a conundrum to us, and we regret that they have it. Some horticultural swindlers in Paris advertised and sold a new plant to those who wished to have the rarest and new est. The plant in question was the “ arc-cn-ciel,” or rainbow. This wonderful plant was to produce a blue flower, from which was to issue so brilliant a light that one could see to read and write by its rays at night without tho aid of any further illumination. It turned out, on coming to maturity, a common fern.

Too Mild for the Occasion.—Burlington “ Hawkeye ” states that whoa a man was butted over a fence by a goat, the man said, “Go to," He did, and added a l eap more which tho “ Hawkeye ” fails to quote.