ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 80, 21 September 1878, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

The revenue of the city of Duucdin now amounts to the handsome sum of L7<>,ooo per annum. The German Telegraph Offices are vapidly introducing the telephone. It is estimated that American tourists will leave over L 4,000,000 in Europe' this year. Another batch of 600 Mormons left Liverpool for the promised land, on the 30th June. During the last year there were in attendance in the Glasgow schools 28, 344 scholars. A singular anniversary is to be held at Pompeii next year—to celebrate the destruction of that city and Herculaneum 1800 years ago. A Mississippi paper says that land can be bought in that State at ten cents an acre, but the people prefer whisky at fifteen cents a drink. America has sent over 400 missionaries to Turkey and spent L 1,000,000 in efforts to convert the Turks to Christianity. Five boys brought before the Cardiff magistrates on Saturday, said they had not seen a bed for a month, and had no friends. Scarlet fever is reported as very prevalent in Liverpool, and an epidemic of the disease is feared during the present hot weather. Mr Stanley has gone to America for the benefit of his health. The Koyal family of Siam is rather an extensive one. The present King has twenty-one brothers and twenty-five sisters. A crater of an extinct volcano, 3000 feet long and 2500 feet wide, has been discovered in Oregon. Polygamous marriages continue to be frequent in Utah, 110 having been solemnised in one day lately. There is another threatening of famine, or at least great scarcity, in Madras, in consequence of drought. The Duke of Euckingham, governor of Madras, is taking means to meet the possible scarcity. A Avoman has been taken into custody at Longridge, near Preston, on suspicion of having successively poisoned her three children and her husband in order to get the burial money to which their death entitled her.

Cardinal Mnn-ung, in a recent sermon, defined •' society : ' as a " conspiracy of fools, fnshion. custom, mutual flattery, eating, drinking, and refined hardness of heart." Tli.' lar,i>- st strawberry farm in the world is s.-iid to he that of John It. Young, jini., two miles from N'orJ-)!!■:, Va. It comprises abtut 250 acres, and yields 2000 quarts to the acre. The Glasgow Free Church Building Society has given grants for seventeen new churches to the extent of LSOOO in excess of its income. The Socialistic press of Germany boasts no less than seventy-five publications, 135,000 subscribers ; an increase of eighteen in the number of the papers since last year. Watercresses are fashionable wear in bonnets in New York. The are made into wreaths with a large water forget-me-not. A newly imported Hungarian, employed on a farm a few miles north of this city, tilted up a beehive the other day, to see what the bees were doing under there. He knows now. He says they were making chain lightning, and had 2000 tons of it on hand, which exploded before he had time to let the box down.—Burlington Hawkcye.