MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 112, 25 July 1885, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

London has 120,000 foreigners. An eighty-ton gun costs £10,075. Things that Must be pushed— Barrows. There are 10,000 policemen in London, There are some stupid men so inhospitable that they have never entertained an idea. Professor Haselmayer has died at Vienna, aged 47. A retreating chin ia a sign of silliness and, if the brow is shallow, of imbecility, Nugget weighing 7ozs 12dwts found on the Kumara goldfield. Some men cannot stand prosperity. Others never get a chance to try. There are 64,000 lawyers in the United States. The laundress's daily soliloquy — " Aye, there's the rub." Man is like a potato— Never sure when he will get into hot water. What age is the most deceiving?— The sausage. Bakers are generous. They never keep all the bread they knead. | A pointed chin is a sign of craftiness, wisdom, and discretion. "I don't remember having seen you before," as the lawyer said to his conscience. Ismail Pasha has purchased one of the largest palaces in Florence for £70,000. " All's well that ends swell, "as the sailor said when the wind went down. Dr. Yon Haast says the Thames district is lull of objects of interest to the geologist. What is taken from you before you get it ? —Your photograph. Russia's last war with Turkey cost her •about £130,000,000. Josh Billings is worth £30,000, made principally oy his books and lectures. If you visit a young woman and you are won, and she is won, you will both be one. There are over thirty Mormon churches in Colorado, sixty in Indiana, and about seventy in Arizona. Care may kill a cat, but a boot-jack sent with proper precision is more speody in its action. There is a class of people who a?k why you " don't come to their honaa," but never say "do." The widow of the late Czar is quite astonishing the Parisians by the magnificence of her dinners. Mr Boucicault thinks it extremely probable that the Prince of Wales will visit Australia next year. Salt water will prevent the hair from falling out ; but to prevent the hair from being pulled out get home early. There is a man in Bermondscy who is so lazy that he ha? worked but once, and that \vu* when he was labouring under a mistake. The composer of "Only a Pansy Blo. csom" is a person named Howard, who formerly travelled with a liver-pad. It has recently been ascertained that the Chinese coal fields occupy an area of 4C0,000 square mile?. Tho use of alligator leather has become so general that it causes the slaughter, every year, of ?ix million pips. There are 623,325 Oddfeilows in Great Britain, an increase of 33,377 during the last year. Tho original mauuscripfc of " Tarn o' Shanter " has been sold at Messrs Sotheby's for £152. This is the highest price ever paid for a manuscript of Burns. Kaiapoi Woollen Factory fined £1 for allowing 55 women to remain in a workroom, during meal time. Victor Hugo was first a Royalist, then an. admirer of Napoleon, and at last a Republican with Socialist leanings. Miss Braddon, the story writer, is Mrs John Maxwell, She is rich, and live 3 in a historic old mansion at Richmond, a suburban village of London. Oil bore at Gisborne is down 800 feet, and the veritable oil rock is expected at a further depth of 250 feet. The presence of oil is already manifest. Tramway Company are taking steps to move for a new trial in the case in which North obtained £SOO damages against them. Sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-five families in Boston were provided with free soup during the past winter. Reduced railway aud steamboat fares are announced to facilitate the visit of Waikato cpuntry settlers to the Wellington Exhibition. With less of the money-grubbing element about them, Australian elevens would be far more popular than they have been of late.— "Truth." A Wellington jury has given expression to the opinion that more stringent regulations sbonl 3 be enforced relative to the sale of "Rough on Rats " The proposed Howick wharf would roquire to be 1,400 feet long to get 6 feet of water at low tides, and would cost nearly £3,000.