MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 26 February 1870, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

What was thought to bo a great diamond, weighing 7 oz,, found at Armidale, New South Wales, turns out to be a piece of poor crystal quartz very much water-worn. By the Allan Company's steamer Hibernia, which left the Mersey for Quebec lately, Miss llye took with her a hundred young girls she has selected — seventy of them, from five to eleven years of age, being from the Liverpool industrial schools. On arriving in Canada, Miss Rye will house her charges in a " home " she has selected near Niagara. There they will be trained to dom-.stic service, and when fifteen years old they will be hired out to respectable families, only too happy in that country to procure " helps " who really know their duties. At eighteen the girls are of course free to act for themselves. A journal publishes some curious statistics relative to the cafes in Paris, and states that the French capital possesses 4730 of those establishment, in addition to sixty-four cafes concerts. They give employment to from 8000 to 10,000, persons, and the business done by them amounts to 120,000,000 francs annually. They are most numerous in the neighbourhoods of the central markets, the Palais Royal, and the Porte St. Martin. On the line of the great boulevards there are 142, and on the Boulevards de Strasbourg 17. After the great cafes, well known to everyone, the most frequented are to be found around the new cattle market at La Villette, and the Halle au Ble The waiters are generally paid by the gratuities from customers, which are estimated at 5,000,000f, yearly. A Curious Telegram' — A telegrapher wishing to tell a person he was coming down to see him directly, adoped the following economical mode of telegraphing :" — " Read conclusion Third Epi tic John." This with the address, made up the ten words which cost the minimum price of half-a-crown, (the dearest tariff of telegraphy in the world), our readers may like to know what was meant by his brief address, and for their benfit we copy it: "I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto the ; but I trust I shall shortly see thee and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee Greet the friends by name." It is evident that the editor of the " Chicago Tribune " must take the first place among duelling editors. M. Paul de Cassagnac pales his ineffectual fire by the side of such a hero. The American editor finds it necessary to place the following intimation at the head of his news: — The editor of this paper, in consequence of the number of analogous engagements previously contracted, will find himself compelled till Easter or Trinity to refuse challenges from his honorable adversaries, political or otherwise. The following advertisement appears in a London journal : — "Dress Coats Lent. B ■ — lends the finest of clothes for opera, balls, or wedding. New fashionable and premier quality from the most eminent Westend tailor, &c." A Paris journal, just to give a slight idea of the state of society in Ireland produced promised reform and probability of Ulster tenant-right, says that numerous landlords from that country have arrived at Woolwich to study the various systems of plating, so as to be able to cuirass their doors and windows !

Baron Lesseps, the original creator of the Suez Canal, who is approaching his 65th year, was recently wedded, at Suez to a most lovely Creole 22 years of age, whom he is most fondly - attached to, and who returns his affecl J tion. A correspondent says : — Perhaps your readers will not be unwilling to learn how this mutual affection began. M. de Lesseps was at an evening party, at which the young lady who has become his wife was also present. M. de L. had brought a quantity of the "roses of Jericho,"a favorite flower of the ladies — not so much for its beauty, as for the legend which says that if the flower blooms when- put into water, the wish made at that moment will surely come to pass. M* de Lessepg distributed his roses, all of which, placed in water, began. to bloom, and it would be difficult to imagine the wishes which were silently uttered at that moment. There was, however, one exception, the rose which had fallen to the lot of the fair Creole, who complained forth with to M. de Lesseps. "Mademoiselle,' answered the latter, " I have not the power to cause this flower to bloom ; but deign to form a wish that I can gratify, and to you it shall be fulfilled !'* "Well, then, I wish whatever will please you most, "said the blushinogirl. " Then I wish you to be my wife." The Empress signed the marriage settlements on the day of the inaugration of the canal, and a place — the place of honor — has been reserved for 1 the signature of Napoleon 111. At the same time Her majesty delivered to the bridegroom, in the Emperor's name, the grande-cordon of the Legion of Honor. The decease of another no.table Australian gentleman is announced. Mr John Stephen Hampton, late G-ovenor of Western Australia, died at St. Leonard's on the Sea, England, on Ist December. There is an almost unanimous wish that the new street from the Bank to Blackfriars should bo named after Mr Peabody. On November 25 the Liverpool magistrates decided that a bicycle is a carriage within the meaning of the Act, and fined a youth named Carrol for driving one upon a footpath. Wife,s Commandments. — 1. Thou shalthave no other wife but me. 2, Thou shalt uot take into thine house any beautiful brazen image of a servant girl to bow down to her and serve her; for I am a jealous wife, visiting, &c. Sv Thou shalt not take the name of thy wife in vain. 4. Remember thy wife to keep her respectably. 5. Honor thy wife's father and mother. 6. Thai shalt not fret. 7 Thou shalt not find fault with thy dinner. 8. Thou shalt not chew tobacco. 9. Thou shglt not be behind thy neighbour. lO.Thou shalt not visit the rum tavern ; tCa shalt not covet the tavern keeper's rum, nor his brandy, nor his wine, nor anything that is behind the bar of the rum seller. 11. Thou shalt noj; visit the billiard hall. And tHe Is|i commandment is — Thou shalt not start out later than nine o'clock at nighfrv — "New Britain Record. Judge Cannon, of Cay County, North Carolina, recently charged the grand jury of that county that a lawful fence should be "horse-high, bullstrong, and pig-tight." Mr Gladstone, the Premier, has purchased the Aston estate, in the parish of Ha warden, which comprises Aston Hall and Aston Lodge, in all about 923 acres ; also three collieries-, the whole producing a rental of about £2590 per annum. The property formerly belonged to Admiral Dundas, A woman living on the property of Sir Watkin W. Wynn has presented her husband, a laborer, with five childern at a birth. Three days a»o they were all a live. The Queen has sent her £7. Twice she has had three at a birth, all of whom have lived. The poor woman has had twentytwo childern, "Punch" says :— " That famous old vinsyard, the G-los Voneof, has just changed hands for £62,000, Mr Nathan, on hearing of this, remarked that it was the largest amount ever realised in the Old Clos line." We have seen a private letter from Japan, in which the writer says — " All the married women shave their eyebrows, which gives the face a singular, uncertain ~~ appearance, as if there was nothing to distinguish the top from the bottom, and blacken their teeth. This custom has the effect of making them look hideous, and unpleasant when they are most pleased, for to look at them when laughing, you seem to be looking into a coalscuttle." Montgomery, Alabama, ia said to contain laundresses who receive clothes to wash, and then make money by " hirino' them out " from Tuesday to Friday. Derivation of "Whig." — A literary gentleman of London claims that the word "whig" was derived from the initials of the party motto, " TVe hope iv God." JHolloway's Pills and Ointment. — Preventives of weakness. — Whenever circumstances produce impure blood, or lessen the force of the circulation, stagnation takes place in the lungs, and consumption or other formidable symptoms discover themselves. Let Holloway's remedies be tried on the first feelings of debility or on the first annoyance from a dry, hacking cough. The Ointment should be well rubbed, twice a day, upon the chest, and between the shoulders, and the Pills should be taken in alternative doses to purify the blood and cleanse the system without weakening it, by rousing or aggravating existing nervous irritation, These observations carry additiofc&lweight in summer, when decline and general weakness from heat and other causes are more apt to prevail.