MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1315, 14 March 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A correspondent of the New Orleans Southwestern Presbvterian'says in one of the wealthiest, most intelligent, moral, and prosperous coun ies in Texas not a drop of ardent spirits has befn sold fir six years, and the goal is W thout an enforced tenant, Paris was recently chosen for an invasion by English p c'tpockets, bat the French police were soon informed of th**ir presence, and laid their nets fora haul. The result was the arrest of less than 32. Nearly all of them were captured either in omnibuses or at the railway stations.

A young man now aged nineteen years, who will come info an estate worth nearly £200,000 upon reaching his majority, wts lately coramited to prison in England for theft. He had previon-Iy been twice convicted of the same iffeice

A model of an electric railway on a novel plan is now being exhibited at the Westminster Aquarium, which promises so much that the ir renter, Mr Danohell, speaks of the attainment of a velocity of a hundred and fifty miles an hour for passenger and light ’trains. 'ibe newest thing in Parisian agencies is tbaj; whiclj promises to obtain from eminent financiers decourations or titles on modern tentis. Toil esn become a prince for 75,000 francs, a duke for 50000, a count for 25,000, and a ba'on for 20,0€0. Warehouses for the storage of oo’d air ere now in operation in New York, and from these cold air will be served through pip sto any part of the city. In the new , Washington market a network of pipes is * T °d running through the building, and cold air will be servea lo any o. -.- ?tul!a furnished with perishable articles. It appears that there are in the United States no fewer than L urteen Londons, two of which are papiia’s if counties. Edin burgh, or Edinborough, appears twelve times. The name of the Ir sh rapit i', l -ow-vi r is more frequent, the e being as many as 24 Dublin’*, including villa es and townships— six being in Pennsylvania alone. Eolioway’s Pints,—lnvalids detracted by indigestion and di courage.! in I h< ir se rob for us remedy should make trial of this never fading medicine. A lidy, long a marytr to dy*peptic tor'urcs, wr tes that Holloway's Pills made her fed as if a burden had brn tak-n off her. Her spirits, formerly low, 'have greatly improved; her eapri.ious appetite has given place to healthy hunger, her dull, slk headache has departed, and g edually to marvellous a change has been effected th»t she is altogether a new creature, and again fit for her duties. The e Pills may be adminis ered with safety to the most delicate. They never act harshly, tor do they ever induce weaknesi-; they nghtiy direct deranged, and control excessive action.