MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 26 September 1868, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

It 13 said that an Ohioan who beat his wife all night recently, was arrested next morning, not , for the beating, but for disturbing his neigbors' rest. A Bemahkable chicken is now in the possession of Mr. Phillip Killey, of Douglas, Isle of Man. It has four legs, two beaks, and three eyes, but only the usual number of wings. It is stated that lately a new tradg has been opened up amongst the Chinose in Victoria, who are buying up worn out horse shoes for export to .China, where they are eagerly purchased by the gun manufacturers. Shun a prospectus as you would a death warrant, and if you hear a man promise more than five per cent, for dead money, button up your pockets and call for the police. In these days knaves don't go out and draw pockets; they sit down at home and draw a prospectus. The First Smoking Carriage.— ? The first railway carriage expressly built for the accommodation of passengers who indulge in the "weed" was- constructed in 1817, from the designs of Mr. W. Bridges Adams. This carriage was made for the Eastern Counties (now the Great Eastern) Railway, on which line it is still in use. A Pobtion of the royal stock bred by her Majesty the (Jjucen on the Flemish farm, Windsor Park, under the supervision of Mr. Brebner, was forwarded on June 30 to the East India Docks, en route for New Zealand. The consignment consists of a fine Hereford bull-calf about nino months old, named the Duke of Edinburgh, out of compliment to the recent royal visitor to the southern hemisphere, and a boar and sow of the 1 pure black' Berkshire breed. The animals were shipped in the Siam, which left the Eaßt India Docks on July 1, for New Zealand. The stock has been purchased from the royal farm by a gentleman in that colony for breeding purposes. • ■ * HoimißLE Discovert nr Canada. — An awful tragedy has occurred at St. Eustachc, Canada. A man named Lebau and bis wife, who were in the habit of robbing and murdering wayfarers, and travellers who stopped at their house, . attacked a traveller, tho man with an axe and the wife with a razor. The traveller knocked down his. as3nilant, and the wife mistaking her husband for him, cut his throat. She has been arrested, and has confessed all of the past horrible transactions. Three skeletons were found in the house. Eussian Customs. — Many Muscovite celebrities never think of goin;r to bed. They do not know how to go to bed» most of them. An ex-sovernor-ifeneral of Rfcf Petersburg, and a minister of state were both discovered tatwoGn shoots at one of the late emperor's palaces in full uniform, with their^ jack-boots and spurs on. A Russian peasant scarcely knows what the use of a bed means. He rolls himself up in his sheepskin anywhere and everywhere, and sleeps till he is i hungry. Ho has no fixed hours of rest ; and is as likely to be asleep at noon lay as awake at midnight. A Rusflun household is never all asleep or all awake at the same time. — " The Russian Pcasantrv." in " All the Tear Round." | The Cornish Masons. — The Cornish masons have set the workmen of the world a noble example. When trade was .brisk they asked for an afc vancc of pay, and obtained it. Now that the trade is slack, they have magnanimously proposed that sixpence per day be taken off their wages. At present the men of one large firm only have made this offer, but let us hope that it will be imitated elsewhere. Such emulation will be furthered by promulgation of the fact.—" Once a Week." Good Eyesight.— The aptitude of the Abyssinian mind for the reception and propagation of tales of the wonderful, is evidenced by an anecdote told by Mr. Salt (Travels of Lord Valontia, vol. iii., edition 1803), that on his visiting tho coast of Calam Ne-rus, near Axum (supposed to bo so called from King Calam, Caled, or Elistheus), the guide assured him that if any person should take in a candle at nght, he would see distinctly the whole of the way to Jerusalem, whit'jor Calam, whoever he might have been, went on a pilgrimage. — "Abyssinia: Mythical and Historical." Racing Speculations. — In the case of tho Protector Insurance Company v. Lord FitzSardinip, in the Court of Common Pleas, London, certain financial statistics were submitted to the Court, which cast a powerful light on. the ruinous scale of the racing specu* tions of the present day. Tue defendant, an officer in the Blues, made affidavit that his debts amounted to £600,000,, and nut in affidavit of the Marquis of Hastings, in corrobofation of liis own, that not one farthing of the said debts were " gambling debts'.'* Lord Fitzhardingo swore that .during the lifetuno of his father ho had a<£ cepted bills of exchange "to the amount of nearly £300,000 for his brother officers, Colonel Hugh Baiiev and' Capt. Little, and that he had in addition, raised by accommodation bUls£ 130,000 towards the payment of his own debts. Eventually Lord Fite"hardinj;e is stated to have compounded with bis croditora for 7s. 6d. ■ in the pound,* Coloival Bailey for 2s. in the pound, and Cm% Littk for Gd. in the pouiMi ■ 7

H 1 UGH F R A' S E R, Blacksmith, Farmer, &c. • • . HAVELOCK. Horses shod on tlic shortest notice. YORK HO T EL, Geobge-street, Dunedin. i LEX. MILLAR, in returning .lhanks for j 'j\j 4t1.«4 tl.« generous support he has experienced -ince conducting the above j named Hotel, begs to assure those who have patronised him, and also the public in general, t*;at his gratcst rk'sire wi'l be to secure the first-rate article in the market, so as to ensure their future favors. N73;— Good accommodation for horsos. T H. M I L L I O A N, . CIVIL AND MILITARY TAILOR, AND HOSIER, Next Edinburgh Bakery, George-street* 1 ' ; Dunedin. N.B.— ( Country Gentlemen con have patterns jin'd directions for self measurement .w.tojardeduo 'application* IT U D SON'S HOTEL, MACLAGGAN STREET, DtJNEDIK. Best necommodation for the Mning Community, Travellers, and others. The Bar Jb ■supplied with nothing but first-class Eeeis, Spirits, &c. ' 23 DANNATYNE'S SUSSEX HOTEL, D OEOEGK STEEET, DUNEDIN (Opposite tho Eoyal George Stables). ■Good Accommodation fer Travellers. D. BANNATYNE * * " - , Proprietor (Late of Union Hotel, ,Wotherstones). TT I C T O It I A HOTEL, GEOKGE STREET, DUNEDIN. T. REYNOLDS • ♦ • Proprietor. (Late of Commercial Hotel, Waipori) . 'T. "R. begs to inform his Waipori and Tnapeka friends that ho has opened tho above Hotel, which is replete with every convenience for Traveller*-, i

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riIJITHRIOX LIVERY AND BAIT STABLES (Behind the Criterion Hotel), ' PBIXCES STREET NORTH, DUKEDIN. WILLIAM CORSAX begs to announce that he lias token the above Stables, lately in the occupation of his brother David, and trusts, by strict attention to business, to merit a shore of the patronage so liberally bestowed on hia predecessor. Firat-clfteß Saddle and Harness Horses, also Buggies, always "on Ili^e. 23 WI LLI A M GILCHIt I 8 T , , iMtOIitEK OF ' CROWN, SHEET, & PLATE GLASS, Paperhangines of every description, Oils and Color?, tc, &c. N B. — Country orders punctually attended to. Goorge-strect, Dunedin. JA S . D1) ~M AU S, Wholesale and Retail MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF PTIOTOGEAFIIIC GOODS, 7 and 8, Fleet-street, DUNEDIN. WHEELER'S ADVERTISING AGENCY, Ttlcgraph Chambers, STAFFORD STREET, DUNEDIN. E-T. W H E E L E R, Collector, Advertising and General Commission Agent. Agent for'Dnnstnn Times, llokitikn Leader, Huwko's Bay Herald, Ly ttloton Tirao.*, Nelaou Mail, Southland Times, Tuapeka Times, Timaru Ilcrald, Tamnaki HoraW, Panama Star and Herald, Wnikouaiti llerald, Wakatip' Mail, West Coast Times, and Wairarupa Meicury. "Noto the adtlrcss— Wheeler's Advertising j Agency, Tdogropli Chambers, above " Even- 1 ing Star " Office, $taifonl- | jtTe«t» Dtmsdia.