MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1651, 25 October 1887, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ago should always precede beauty, therefore let the old folks retire before ten o'clock. The richest colored woman in the world is Amanda Eubanks. She pays taxes on £BO,OOO. The Queen is said to have a remarkable memory for names, faces, dates, places, and facta. The new fashions are a revolt against aestheticism, the brightest colors being worn recklessly. It is said that there are more politicians in New South Wales to-day than any other country can boast of. When the Queen goes to Cratbie Kirk she sits in an ordinary plain-looking pew, and puts on no side at all. The New South Wales Government have offered £25,000 for an effectual scheme of rabbit extermination. New shades of old standard colors are coming in : pale delicate apple, willow, greengage, rifle absinthe, and chartreuse green. Kangaroo skins were recently sold by auction in Sydney up to 12s 81 per skin, the highest price yet realised in that market. A twelve-year-old colored girl has been sentenced to be hanged in California for poisoning a white baby she was tired of minding. It is said that £IOO,OOO has been offered to the Government of New South Wales for the monopoly of the telephone business in that colony.

Japanese printers are said to have reproduced in excellent style a number of Ametican publications used as text-books in the schools of Japan. The most handsome barber’s shop in the world is said to be in St. Louis, and is owned by Mrs James Thomas, who is worth £26,000. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, the great Brooklyn preacher, is to visit Australia during the forthcoming Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. Some important alteration is to be made in the wharfage accommodation at Newcastle. The coal traffic is to be separated from the goods 1 raffle. “What comes after Tf" asked a teacher of a pupil who was learning the alphabet. He received the bewildering reply : “ You do—to see Liza ! ” The Rev. T. J. Willis and the Rev. Oliver Dean, formerly Wesleyan Ministers, were, on Sunday, September 25th, at Napier, admitted to holy orders in the Church of England.

The manufacture of linoleum is about to get a footiog in Germany. At present there are no more than three factories, though the article has been in England for about twenty years. A hospita’ for animals will soon be erected in London, and at the same tine free dispensaries will be opened where the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs, and birds of the poor can be treated when ill. An industrious, hardworking accountant at Maitland, N.S.W., is said to have been the lucky holder of Cardigan in a Sydney sweep. Being unable to get rid of it or hedge, he scoops the pool for £9OO, The Edinburgh Agricultural Show was this year, for the first time, held without exhibits of cattle, It seems that pleuropneumonia is so prevalent that it was deemed prudent to keep them all away from the show. The total cost of the new Town Hall at Manchester—said to be the most important municipal building in the Kingdom, if not in Europe—was £1,053,264, inclusive of £201,925 for interest. The edifice covers more than 8000 square yards. The British Medical Journal says that a number of babies have been poisoned by sucking the green straps of their perambulators. An analytical examination of the straps showed the presence of enough arsenic in them to kill an adult.

A sentence of two years’ hard labor passed on an Adelaide carter named Burford, for overcharging the Government £1 in his accounts, has excited intense indignation. The matter was brought up in the Legislature, and the sentence is likely to be remitted.

Satire is sometimes deserved. A French maid of honor, at the Court of Louis XIII., asked a certain marshall to marry her. “ Yon are the silliest mau at Court," said she, on bis refusal. “Excuse me,” was the witty but bitter reply, “ 1 think I have just proved the contrary."

The results which have been obtained by Dr Freire, of Kio de Janeiro, in inoculating against yellow fever, give another striking influence of the power of the method of inoculation in preventing contagious diseases. While the mortality in the whole community is 1 in less than a 300, among Dr Fretre’s inoculated subjects it is only 1 in a 1000. The first vessel 10 bs propelled by elec'ricity ever built in the United States is now in course of construction at the ship yard in Ncwburg, N.Y. It is a yacht 37ft long, 7ft wide, and 6ft deep. It is to be operated hy stored electricity. It is building for a Newwark, N.J. electric company, and will run between that city and New York.

A woman called at the police station the other day to report that her husband was missing and she feared the very wora 1 .” “Don’t think he’s dead, do yon?" a-ked the Sergeant. “Yes,ldo." “Why I” “ Because he left home without Ct;fhrig any of the children or threatening to bieak my neck if I didn’t hand out half a crown. 1 tell you he was under some strange influence.’'

The enormous consumption of intoxicating liquors in Be'gium—more per head than any other nation—has led the Qofpmmeot to adopt measures for checking the evil. The Committee of the Auckland Y.M.O.A. has drawn a shower of printer’s ink upon its head by declaring against the introduction of billiard tables into the rooms “because billiards are played in hotels.” A shocking case of destitution is reported from Gisborne. A poor man was found in an old shanty nearly starved to death, and he was removed to the hospital. He had been out of employment for a long time, and a local paper says that he had made several applications for relief, but receiving naught but rebuffs and snubs, be became so disheartened that he gave up the hopeless struggle. He was just discovered in time, as he would soon have been beyond the aid <f human help. A frightful accident occurred on the 14th of July at Pirmasens, in Bavaria, where a wild beast show was being exhibited. A Swiss lion-tamer, nsmed Emile Schlepper, entered into a cage in which there were four of these animals. Ooe of them rushed at him and knocked him down, when the others fell upon him and began to lacerate him with their claws. He was rescued with great difficulty, and died next day from the effects of his wouuds. “Anyone pass here within an hour 1” asked a Geelong man of a farmer standing at his gate. f ‘yes.’’ “ \lan with a black horse 1 " “No ; man h ith a white hoss.” “ Wasn’t a tin peddler, was he 1" “Oh, no. He was the editor of an agricultural paper. ’ “ How do you know that?” “Because he came out on purpoaa to ask me whether potatoe planting or corn cutting come fust. He’s started a new paper and wants to get things reliable.” The following practical experiment (says an American contemporary) confirms the theory that cream ripening is an oxydising process:—Two jars of cream of equal contents, set side by side, and the one frequently stirred while the other was not, were churned after ripening. The quantity of butter yielded was practically the same, the difference being only I|oz, but the flavor was decidedly in favor of the stirred cream, which thereby got the benefit of being more exposed to the atmostphere, from which it could absorb oxygon.