MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1469, 18 February 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Paris is suffering from great stagnation in business.

The average cost of a session of Congress is £600,000. It is very sickly ip Rotfte, and a dull winder is anticipated, Siberian mines produced £1,804,000 worth of gold last year.

The present population of Romo by a new census is 385,000. Last year there were 120,000,000 gallons of wine sold in Paris.

The Paris catacombs contain upward of 3,000,000 skeletons. The Russian coal oil field cowers 14,000 square miles of land. The wheat crop of Russia this year is 288,000,000 bushels. The consumption of opium is largely on the increase in China.

France is issuing Treasury bonds to the amount of £BQ,OQO,OOO. Ridgeway, the founder of the American colony in Paris, is dead. Tomatoes are eaten in India with sugar and cream for breakfast.

The buffalo and elephant afC psed instead of horses by the Biiroiese. Sixteen whistlers performed tlie opera of i‘Norma*’ in Milan, Italy. The memorial of Shaftesbury will include a statue in Westminster Abbey.

German navM offiiers have been forbidden by their Government to write articles for newspapers.

Th« now ship canal to connect the North Sea with the Baltic is to have a width of 200 feet at the water’s edge, and 86 at the bottom, with a depth of 28ft, The cost is estimated at about £7,800,000. Not one of the 113 samples of food submitted by the public inspectors under the Food and Drugs Act to the medical of the parish of Islington, London, during last year, was found to be adulterated. A royal decree has been promulgated in Spain ordering the corporations of all towns whose population exceed 100,000, on the request of the local Educational Committee, to appoint a medical inspector of schools.

In regard to Hungarian wheat, Mr Stern, Consul at Buda-Pesth, reports as follows :—“ One hundred and fourteen millions of bushels of wheat were raised on 7,940,000 acres, the average per acre being about 14.4 bushels. Spain, it is thought, can soon not only make enough steel for home consumption out of her easily-worked non-phosphorous Bilboa ores and Asturias fuel, but fur the supply of the wants of England, Germany and Belgium. A London project is to make plates by photo-engraving of the American illustrated magazines, print them on a common quality of paper, and get them on the foreign market at half-price within four days after the issue there of the originals. American societies have established 600 schools in the Turkish Empire, which are attended by 25,000 pupils. Recent discoveries prove that the art of wood engraving originated with the Arabs, about the ninth century.

“ Rough ok Rats.” —Clears out rats, truce, roachei, flies, anti, bed-bug*, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. Druggists Kfirupthorne, Prosser & t ln ., Agents, Christebiirob.

When Roscoe Conkliug was “learning to be a great editor " he wrote : “ Nothing bothers a modest but hungry old hen so much as when she has made a hearty breakfast off an old shoe lace and finds the unfortunate shoe at the end of it.”

England’s big cannon booms a charge of almost 600 pounds of powder at once. Such spendthrift habits should not be encouraged in a gun. Dbohne of Man —Nervousness, Weakness. Dyspepsia, Impotent e, Sexual Debility, cured by “ Wells’ Health Renewer.” Druggists Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christohuroh 2

A Washington physician was discussing bis enemies, in Judge Mackay’s office. Among other things he said : “I know, Judge, my patients never slander me nor criticise my knowlego and treatment.” “No,” replied the Judge, with a sly twinkle of the eye, “ dead men tell no tales.”

“Yes, it may be angel cake,” said Jones, who had been persuaded by his beat girl to test her culinary abilities, “but for the last two nights since I tasted it I’ve seen more little devils, hobgoblins, snakes, wild-cats, and spooks than would crowd a seven-storey pandemonium.” A Lady’s Wish.— “Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clear and as soft as yours !” said a lady to a friend. “ You can easily maks it so,” answered the friend. “ How ?” inquired the first lady. "By using Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did it for me, as you observe ” Read Advt.

Mrs Grindham—‘‘l hear, Mr Growler, you have been making complaints about my house. I wish you to understand, sir, that it is conducted on the beat English style,” Growler—“ That’s the trouble. 1 can’t sleep on a pillow that is the Prince of Wales’ coat of arms." Mrs Grindham—“ What do you mean, sir ?” Growler Why, they are made up of three feathers 1 Ha I ha ! be, he, haw, haw I’ 1 Rbmedy yob Habd Times,—Stop spend* ing so much on fine clothes, rich food, and style, Buy good food, cheaper and better clothing, and stop the habit of using expen* sive or quack doctors, or humbug medicine that does yon only harm, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, American Oo.’a Hop Bitters, that cure always at a trifling cost, and you will see better times and good health. Bead Advt. Papa ; “Johnny, it would be a good thing foryoutorememberin life that we never get anything in this world if we don’t ask for it.” “Yes, wo do, pal” answered Johnny, promptly, “ I got a licking in school torday, and you can bet I didn’t ask for it, DbBPAIBING Banxbes,—The number of suicides among the brightest and most capable of business men, bankers and others, will be reduced to a minimum as soon as the specified virtues of American Hop Bitters are known. As all men who work with their brains and neglect to take the needed exercise, the food taken does not nourjjh, and dangerous debility, physical and mortal, ensue, Bead Adyt.

“ I wouldn’t worry about tho cholera, dear,” said a wife to her husband, “it isn't at all likely tbat it will reach this country.” "1 don’t know about that,” he replied, nervously, “it might break out at any moment, and we might have a frightful time. I—l think I had better pay the baclr pew rent, anyway,’’

At Mr Glover’s temperance lectors at Wellington on Tuesday night it was an. nounced that if temperance candidates were returned for the licensing election two or three public houses would be closed in each Ward.