MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1993, 11 January 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Generosity misplaced becomes a vie©. It is said that no one can arrest the flight of Time, but who is there who is not able to stop a minute P

‘ That’s it! ’ exclaimed Mrs Baseom at the concert, as the singers came out again in respond to an encore. 1 Make ’em do it over again until they get the thing right.’ The little one, being a guest for her grandma at Boston, had been liberally feasted, when a second dish of pudding came on. Looking at the steaming dish she exclaimed with a sigh, ‘ Grandma, I wish I was twins.’

* This is about the slimmest dinner I ever sat down to,’ he said, aa lie surveyed the table ; ‘ but I s’pose I ought to make certain allowances.’ ‘ Yes, John,’ replied bis wife, ‘if you would make certain allowances you would have no occasion to find fault with your food.’ Seven Dunediuites recently sent over to Sydney for twenty-five tickets in Tattersall’s sweep on the Carrington Stakes, and drew Gift. A cable message has since been received that Gift won the race, and that the lucky Syndicate receive £4725. The eldest knight of the Order of the Iron Cross, founded in the war against Napoleon in 1813-1814 Lieut.General (retired) Augusta Stockman, died at Dessau at the age of ninetysix. The deceased General enjoyed the special favor of Kaiser Wilhelm 1., and His Majesty often talked over old times with his contemporary. General Stockman had only lost his wife four days previously to his own death, With her he had lived an extremely happy life, which had lasted for sixtyfive years. While at Oxford the other day we

(Hospital) heard an extraordinary story of the effects of cocaine used as an injection- A Professor had the cocaine injected in his jaw, and immediately became unconscious j artificial respiration was restored to, and after six hours consciousness returned. The Professor says that though apparently lifeless he heard all that was going on around him ; this is one more lesson to doctors and nurses to

be very careful what they say in the presence of one they believe unconscious. The poor Professor, ever since he recovered, has been haunted by the remembrance of a case of; drowning, where he tried artificial | respiration for two hours, and then gave in ; had his doctors given in at the end of two hours, where would the Professor be now ? An accident occurred at five o’clock in the morning the other day on the Paris-Oologne express train through the breaking of a kerosene lamp. Instantly the carriage was in flames, but the shrieks of the passengers could not be heard owing to the speed at which the train was travelling. In the sleeping carriage were four ladies, the Countess Alvear de Benitet and

Mme. Quintanas and her daughters. Mme. de Benitet rushed along the passage of the ear in order to reach

the alarm signal, but she was unable to do so, being almost stifled with the smoke. After the passengers had experienced a few minutes inexpressible anguish the train stopped and they alighted. It was found that all their luggage, containing wearing apparel, bad been burned, and that Mme. de Benitet had lost a bag containing jewellery and a large sum of money.