MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1990, 4 January 1890, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Captaiu Jackson Barry, a New Zealander of some renown, a contemporary remarks, is making headway in Tasmania, At Hobart the other day he lectured to a fashionable audience, having his "Worship the Mayor in the chair. The lecture was enlivened by the gallant ccaptain’s recital of his adventures on a whale, and some very choice selections on the Town Hall organ by Mr J. Mangham Barnett, organist of St David’s Cathedral. Captain W. J. Barry is compiling a book, to be entitled “ The Australian Colonist and Man of the Times. Says the Honolulu Bulletin of a few weeks ago:—“ Professor Santley, a distinguished English professional singer, passed through per the Zealandia, bound from the colonies to America.” This personal paragraph evidently refers to Auckland’s old friend Santley Clampett, on his way rejoicing to ’Frisco, with his pockets stocked with the wherewithal to make a start in the States as “a distinguished English vocalist.” In a letter to a medical paper a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, who recently settled in the Orange Free States, writes as follows in reference to the nature of the competition to which he is exposed :—“ Sir, —My opponent is an unqualified practitioner, who was formerly a sailor and deserted from his ship. Afterwards he became in turn a constable and a butcher. He was attending a child who died yesterday, He is now making its coffin. —Yours truly, etc.” News arrived by the San Francisco Mail that Mr Wm. Noble, the founder of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance movement in England, whose serious illness was noticed in Dec,

last, has made considerable progress towards recovery, and it is expected by his medical advisers that he will be able to resume his labors in the cause of temperance during the early spring of next year. While a certain section of her white sisters are clamoring for privileges they think they should enjoy, a Maori lady has taken one very practical measure for the removal of some of

barriers raised between the sexes. At Dunedin the other day this advocate for women's rights took her seat in the smoking carriage attached to the northern express, promptly produced her own cuddie, borrowed a match, and joined in the general enjoyment of the fragrant weed. She not only smoked, but asked intelligent questions about the country. Prince Lucien Bonaparte has succeeded quite unexpectedly to a fortune of £30,000. The story of this windfall may be described as a romance. In 1824 Lord Dudley Coutta Stuart, son of the first Marquis of Bute, and M.P, for Arundel at the time of the Reform Bill, married Christiana Alexandrine Egypta, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino. Lord Dudley Stuart died in 1854, having survived the Princess seven years. For many years her only son, Mr Paul Amadeus Francis CouttsStuart, had led the life of a recluse in Brompton, unknown and almost forgotten. He recently died and a solicitor called one day at Norfolk terrace and informed Prince Lucien that his nephew, whom he had never seen, had bequeathed him all his property. The method by which the most delicate perfumes are obtained from flowers is not of the most aesthetic

nature. The flower petals are spread 1 over the glasses which have previously > been covered with a quarter-inch layer of fat. The glasses are then shut thightly into wooden frames, and before long the fat absorbs all the perfume The next process is to cut up the fragrant fat into small pieces and put them in alcohol. The perfume at once deserts its oily protector and unites with the alcohol. It is then fit for the market. It is to be presumed that London Justice has made its computation with accuracy when it says that all the people now living in the world, or about 1,400,000,000, could find standing room within the limits of a field 10 miles square, and, by the aid of a telephone, could be addressed by a single speaker,