MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1356, 23 June 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

They were silting together on the sofa in the parlour conversing in a low, tremulous voice. They had only been married a short time. He seized her band, and in a voice full of emotion : Birdie, you do know that, it was your innate modesty, your apparent indifference that trade me resole to win you at all hazards ? -Yea; George, the apparent indifference game is what, captured you. You are the first one I tried'it on. I slipped upon three or four oeoasions by gushing too much before it occurred to me to change mv taotics. I wish it had occurred to me sooner,' and she sighed heavily. Doh't Dib in thh Housb.-" Rough o< Bits " Clean out rats, mioe, beetles, roßohea, b»l bugs, flies, anti, insect*, mole§, j»ckrabbitp, uophera. Kempthome, Proesor and 00., Obristcburoh. 1 La Nature publishes some interesting details as to the number of bullets required to kill a msn. At Soferino it i 3 esti : mated that 8,400 ; 000 were fired by the Austrians, which occasioned a loss to the French and Sardinian troops of 2,000 killed and 10,000 wounded ; so that in this bettle 42,000 shots were required to kill and 700 to wound one man, showing an expenditure of 2881bs of lead to each man killed. The Germans, however, in the Franco-German war appear to have shot much better, for it is calculated that with an expenditure of 30,000,000 rifle bullets and 362 cannon shoti the French 105t35.000 killed ordied from their wounds, thus reducing the average, number of shots required to kill a man to 13,000, about 861 b. This calculation muift have been arrived at by assessing the cannon shots tired at the number of bullets they would correspond with in weight.

Wbim' "Hough om Cobws."—Ask f<>, ! Wells' "Bough on Corns." Quick r«li(ff, complete, permanent oure. Corns, warto, bunions, Kempthome Prosier and Co., Agents, Ohriitohurch. 1 Miss Mary Anderson is said to have had a curious experience during a visit of many days to Stratford-ou-Avoo, before commencing her engagement at th«« Lyceum. On one occasion the clerk of the church, iu which she had been accustomed to spend many hours, asked if she would mind being locked in while he went to tea. "Nothing loth," we are told, "she consented and remained, shut up in the still solemnity of the place. Kneeling down by the grave of Shakespeare, she took out a pocket ' Itonieo and Juliet,' and recited Juliet's death scene close to the spot where the great master who created her lay in his long sleep. But presently the wind rose in a storm, the branches of the surrounding trees rustled igainat the windows, darkness spread through the ghostly aisles, and terror striken, Mary fled to the door, glad enoigh to ba released by the returning janitor." A good story iB told of one George Shaffer, who many years ago lived at Portsmouth. He had once been out shooting, and was coming home with his gamebag empty, and wearied, when he stopped at the tollhouse for a moment's rest. "There's a fine lot of ducks back here in the pond," said he to th» tollkeeper. " What will you let me fire into them for?" " Can't do it," responded the tollman ; " I don't want to have my ducks killed." George put his gun in the tollhouse, and walked back to have another look at the ducks. When he was gone the tollman, who wafl a wag, drew the shot from the barrel, and then replaced the gun. George returned and then renewed the question. " Well," said the tollman, " though you are a good shot, I don't believe you could hurt them much. Give me your money, i>nd you may fire." The money was paid, and quite a party, who had gathered round, went back to witness George's discomfiture. He raised his gun, fired, and killed nine of them. "The deuce!" cried the tollman ; " I took the charge out of your gun." "Yes," snid George, "I supposed you would. I always go double charged." The staid city of Glasgow is much exercised over the doings of a photographer who has suddenly developed a wonderful facility for paintine admirable landscapes with his eyes blindfolded. He is said to be a " painting medium," and the pictures produced are supposed to be the work of the denizens of the spirit world. The seances, we learn from Society, are given in the usual manner—a certain number of people attend the sitting, the medium is carefully blinded, and then, under the full glare of the gas, a landscape is produced in oils. These pictures are said to possess undoubted artistic merit, and the performance, even if a trick, is certainly a marvellous one. Sometimes the entertainment is varied. The palette clean and with the colors arranged around it, is laid upon a table with a supply of brushes, a couple of pieces of card are fixed upon the ease 1 , some person selected by the audience tears a small piece out of each of the cards for the purpose of further indentification and thea the gas is turned out. After the lapse of a few moments it is relighted, when it is discovered that landscapes or figures have been painted on the blank on*<3o, tho wot paint testifying to their recent execution, while" the matching of the pieces held by the member of the audience shows that the cards have not been exchauged.

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