MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 1607, 19 July 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

If Adam is acccountable for " consequential damages," he will have a rough time of it. A Chicago journal considers the destruction of about a cartload of " origin il poetry" in its office as the most gratifying feature of the fire. A little giri, after noticing for eowe time the glittering gold filling in her aunt's front teeth, exclaimed : " Aunt, I wish I had copper-toed teeth like yours." G-ood young lady : " Little boy, have you ever been baptized ?" Small heathen : " Oh, yes, mum ; I have the marks here on my arm." A coroner's jury in Wales lately held an inquest on the body of a convict who died in the county jail, and rendered a verdict that " the way ofthe transgressor is hard, and the deceased came to his death by natural causes." A Texas editor, in discussing the right of a member of congress from that State to his seat, says : " Tbe seat is his by one of the highest titles known to the law of civilized lands — the right of purchase — for he bought his seat and paid for it !" Judge — " I fine Tim TLeary $5 for assault and battery ou Pat Moloy." Pat Moloy — " But, your Honor, I want more damages. He blacked me eye, and if I bad been invited to a tea-party I couldn't have gone." Judge—" The Court knows nothing about consequential damages. Tou must carry your own case to Geneva." Adjourned. — San Francisco Bulletin. The process of unifying tbe military system of the new German Empire goes on stead'ly, and is carried down even into the smallest details of dress. Hence an alteration lately ordered in the helmet. Formerly it had a symbol ofthe particular country in front as a device, but now the eagle of the empire is in all cases to replace it. The German tricolor cockade, in a very small pattern, is to be worn beneath the chain of the helmet on one side, the special national cockade on the other. MArttiMOFAL Reduction-. — " Do you allow any reduction to ministers ?" said a young lady, to a salesman in a well known sewing-machine agency on Washington street, Boston, the other day, where she had been trying to drive a bargain, "Oh yes, always. Are you a minister's wife ?" " Oh, no, I'm not married," said the lady, blushing. " Daughter, then ?" " No." The salesman looked puzzled. " I'm engaged to a theological student." The reduction was made. The French Canwon Captured at Steasbueg. — A large part of the cannon captured by the Germans in the last French war is to be employed for a purpose which could scarcely have been divined at the time of their casting at Bourges. The Emperor of Germany has presented gratuitously to several parishes which have hitherto possessed no church bells, in compliance with the prayer of their petitions, therequisitequantity of metal for the long-desired ornaments to their churches out of the French cannon in the Strasburg artillery depot. In this way not less than twenty parishes on the Rhine alone have been provided with beli-metal. The Cathedral of Cologne also obtained 500 cwt., and that 7 % Frankfort-on-Maine 260 cwt.

To Make Clothing atebpboof. — Tt ought to be mora generally knowri that cloth may be made thoroughly waterproof in this simple manner. Take of alum and sugar of each | lb., dissolve in half bucket of water, aud when quite clear, pour off into another vessel, immersing the clothes therein for a few hours ;°theu take out without -rinsing, and hang up to dry. A gentleman of our acquaintance has told us that he haa been exposed to the wildest atortns of rain and wind for 5 hours, without his undergarments being damp in the slightest degree. We commend this to some of our up-country friends. Maeriage of the Emperor op China. — The Emperor of China is soon to be married, and has imported a pair of elephants to assist at the ceremony. His future consort is undergoing a careful trainiug lin the etiquette of court life. For three ' years the looms of Nankin, Hongchau, and Canton have been engaged on the silks and satins for her bridal trousseau, and just now they are announced as completed, at a cost of nearly half a million in our money. "While the bridegroom, who has the sun for his emblem, goes forth in a car drawn by elephants, his bride, who represents the moon, is to be borne to her palace in a palanquin I composed entirely of strings of pearls.