MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 December 1863, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

; Compounding with Conscience — In : Bishop Bloomfield's life il is related that ; -when curate of Chesterford, which was on the high road ti Newmarket, lie ; endeavoured to remove or mitigate the scandal of Sunday traffic occasioned by ■ the Eiistev Monday races — "" When lie returned as Vicar he renewed his rem<»n- --■ strances to the Jockey Cfub, which were now hacked l»y his neighbor, the then Lord Braybroke. The influential patrons of the turf were at first \ery unwilling to make any change. Bishop Howley addressed the Duke of Yoik on the subject; but the Dike declined to alter his practice, and said that, though it was irue he travelled to the races on Sunday, ' he always had a Bible and Prayer Book in the carriage!' Eventually, however, tlvs first day of the races was changed Irowa Monday to Tuesday.'' A Musical Bed. — Several foreign jour- , nals speak of an invention just produced in Germany, namely, a musical bed so constructed that by means of a concealed piece ot mechanism " the piessure of the \ ody produces thesofrest harmony," which \ ila«*^ Jons enough to lull one to sleep. At i,ie i \bead of -the -bed is a dial with a hand, which can be placed at whatever hour the person wishes to. awake; and at the time VVxed " the bed plays a march of Spontini, ■with drums and cymbals, loud enough to awnke ihe soundest sleeper." It is a maxim, that whatever hath ne owner is vested by law in the Sovereign ; %>ut this is hardly xsorrect, for on infant left deserted, without an owner, on the step of a door, with a flannel waistcoat on, is vested in the flannel, without being vested in the Sovereign. Why is a young 1 Jady like a bill of exchange? — -Because she ought to be settled as soon as she ■comes to maturity.