Miscellaneous

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 219, 10 September 1887, Page 4

Miscellaneous

Something like •• Protection/ The Tasmanian Government intend to impose a tax oi £25 on .all commercial travellers coming from other eountiies to do business in Tae mania. Miss Ada Campbell, the Australian leeturess, was lately in San Francisco delivering a series of lectures upon " Social Science," "Truth versus Christianity," and kindred topics. According to the " San Francisco Chronicle," she was undor engagement to lecture ab England, and alf-o to correspond with the Melbourne " Herald," the Napier "Evening News," and the "Wellington "E veiling Preps." The oil well at Oisborne flows at the rate of half a gallon per hor n %, and is considered most satisfactory. It is well to bo sanguine and full of anticipation ; we are better off for our hopes even if they are never realised. • That agrees "with Tennyson's remark — <% Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lo /ed at all ;" but when people are disappointed they can't see it in that light. The Caucasion may " pass in his checks." Two Chinamen have just been successful in robbing an Anglo-Saxon of a quantity of lead at Lyttelton, and now the Chinkies are to have a few months' princely feeding in gaol at the public expense. An argument for the electric light. It is asserted that one hour after the gas of London is lighted the air is deoxidised as much as if 500,000 people had been added to its population. During the combustion of oil, gas, etc, , water is produced as well as carbonic acid. By the burning of gae twenty-four hours in London, more water, is is estimated, is produced than would supply an emigrant ship on her voyage from England to Australia. " Ha\ c you spoken to my daughter yet V asked the old man. "No, pit-; I wanted your consent first." "Well, I achise you to give up the idea. I don't believe sho would marry you, and if she did, neither of you would 'bo happy." "Why do you think so, sir?" "Because you part your hair in the middle and she parts hers on the side.