MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1257, 25 October 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ah insurance company to indemnify bicycle riders for injuries received has been organised in London with a capital of £IOO,OOO. The Crown Prince of Portugal is going to Madrid to ask the hand of Infanta Edlalie, the only unmarried sister of King Alfonso. It cost Clare Sewell Read, who was recently elected, without opposition, a member of the British Parliamentfor West Norfolk, the sura of 2,453 dollars for election expenses. An old woman in the Carlton of Glasgow was told by her son, a sailor, that the ‘ Glen’ Lino, in which he had sailed, made the longest stretch known, going so far as China. “ I dinna ken hoo far that may be,' answered bis mother, but I’m gey certain that the Claes Line stretches far, for it gangs from pole to pole. “Now, my dear,” said the candidate’s wife, “ I don’t want to throw the slightest obstacle in the way of your election, ind if you choose to turn the house into a bear garden, and have all the loafers in the place tramping on my carpets and filling the curtains with pipe smoke, and drinking whisky, out of my boat teacups, I shan’t say a word. But I want you to distinctly understand that if another of those women’s rights delegations copies to know if you are going to a jnanly stand for down-trodden womanhood well, that delegation has to be twenty

years older and keep its veil down, or 111 interview it myself. That's all dear.” The business depression in the iron and steel trades of Pennsylvania is deeper than ever, and where a large reduction in wages is not submitted to by the operatives the establishments are closed. Only one half of the mills and glass factories are in operation in Pittsburg, and libera is great distress among the poor in consequence, A Q-ebat Extbinbss. —The United States o America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. Green, cf Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A, He is the proprietor of the well-known Bosohee’s German Syrup, which is unequalled as a remedy for Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. Ho 'manufactures also Green's August Flower for dyspepsia and all disorders of the Liver, These preparations are used throughout the civilised world and thousands testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations have reached an immense • ale solely on their merits. Sample bottles of each are sold at 6d, or full-sized bottles at 3s 6d. All druggists keep them.