MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 329, 16 December 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

It is said that opium eating ing so common in the -UniteeK States, especially among women, that an asylum for opium eaters has recently been established there.

A Melbourne speculator has secured the free .members of the notorious Kelly family, with the intention of making ,an Australian-tour with them. They are to be taken to Sydney for Exhibition, to-’ gether with several of the horses which were once used by the cowardly gang of murderers. .

A story comes wiifted to- u> from just arrows the classic Murray. A squatter’s wife had in hefy employe a ... pretty housemaid and a Chixxese gardxxer. With ' the natural acuteness of women,„she.-soon found out that John was 1 welly-xxinchee gone ’ on the: ta jd-of- all-work. Oxxe evening • just about dusk, tlxo lady thought she - heard Jehu’s dulcet, notes in the frontf. garden, and, softly raising the window, T she “ popped out her head ” just to what was going oxx. The celestia cabbage-raiser saw the head, look it fo 1 the housemaid, and, in the twinkling of ■ a bed-post, slid up and Id sed tlxo owner thereof. John got six months in a ■ New South Wales giidl; and' the lady neVtir thinks of the “ stolen kiss ” with- 1 : out a shudder. ' ■? The Sydney Echo writes :—‘VThe best abuse 1 man in Sydney for many a ' V , long day was Edtvaad Ttickett dri Tues- -i.; had won the boatrace hp would not only j : have been, the hero for the hour, /'but J a hero amongst heroes. . The prescience —■ of so many excellent people would have been justified. The city > would have I been as gay with bunting as if a second 1 Waterloo had been scored ; and every » barmaid in the place would have been as ■ bedecked with blue ■ ribb rns as if her H | favourite had won the Derby, As the case stands, thousands of p rsous waited unable-to sleep, until so.m- unseasonable hours oxx Tuesday, and then, ici some instances, were unable to sUep after the telegram was received. And then the report was magnified. It was rumoored that Hanlon got out of his boat ami had a a rink, whilst Trickett was pant ing ■ and puffing after him. Another versian was that the Canadian sat down in his boat and read a newspaper. - Crowdsnow declax - e him a sell. Considering rl the large amount of inoxxey-staked'oxx his-*j^B winning the race, it is not to bewondei’ed at that 'mortification overpowered just judgment. Even.the.past victories of Trickstt were spoken of spoken' of as the triumph .. pf . brute strength ov T er finished skill. He is also ac—cused of evincing a self-- H confidence ixx the certainty of winning that prevented •■hi.nl ■’ taking'- ! the pains to secure a conquest -; H

The beat and most thoughtful news-, papers, remarks the Atlanta Constitutiou now allows its contributors to the, waste basket to write on of the sheet.j , , . . . ,a A gushing reporter once wrote with reference to well-known belle ■ Her dainty Teat, were incased, in shoes that might have been taken for fairy boots. ■He ties'U'p~his wardrobe in fas handkerchief and left for parts unknoVn when it “H y flirty feet were incaflti in shoes chat might have been ferry boats.”