Miscellaneous.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2610, 21 May 1877, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

Mr Mundella, M P... v. wealthy Briii-h manufacturer, recen'ly sp.-jki- <>f the time when, forty years ago, ho saved his first £5 out of an income o: ,£7O a year.

Mr Dixon, a British civil engineer, is (o conduct the removal from Fpypf »o London of the obelisk which .Vei.eraet Ali presented to the Prince Regent fifty-eight yeare ago. The Sultan keeps a steamer bandy, so that in case of a coup d'etat he can retire from Constantinople, without waiting for a call from the functionary who effects suicide with his little scissors upon inconvenient rulers.

[Recently the two sous of the Key. Chas. '1.1. Spurgewn-delivered addresses at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London. One of them is thought to inherit his father's humor and eloquence. They are both, however, trailing for business.

Charles Mathews wishes it understood that he is not, as has been reported, engaged in writing his autobiography. T. A. Trollope begins a series of papers on "Homes and Haunts of the Italian Poets "in the current Belgravia, with a paper en Dante. : sir John Lubbock has a catholic mind. His papers in the current London monthlies are on the imperial policy of Britain and on the habits of ants.

A short autobiography of Barry Cornwall is in the press inEngland. The volume, will also contain a biographical notice and some unpublished poems and sketches of his literary contemporaries. A good anecdote is related of a lady at a party whose dress and form were faultless. Just before dinner an admirer offered her a flower from his button-hole. The dress being fastened behind the flower had to be adjusted, with a piD. Just then they went clown to dinner, and the gentleman thought he heard a noise as though wind were escaping from a bellows. The lady had soon lost her fair proportions, and tlie tightly-fitting dress was most baggy. It appears that, the latest faslron for thin ladies' dresses is an. air-tight lining blown out to the proper size. The pin put to keep the flower in had. penetrated the airtight lining and caused a grand collapse. : ; .