MISCELLANEOUS

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 183, 10 August 1871, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS

'.• - - The total amount of money given away by the Baroness Bnrdett-Coutts in charity is said to be £5,090,030. The " Polynesian slaVg trade " is occupying the atttention of the Aborigines i rorection Society, London. Paper clothing is made in China and Japan. A coat co3ts 10, and a whole suit 25 cents. rr It is said that Tiortoise-shell has nearly ceased to be an article of commerce. Vulcanite has cut it out. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia are said to save nearly a million tluii-rs a year out of their income. M 4ttrcsse3 stuffed with spongjs dipped in giycerine and then well pressed, are c miiwr I ir^ely into use in Britain. 500.000 tons of jute are annually produced in India. Nearly the whole is sent to Hriai.i to be ma'nif.ictur«d. A 1-idy correspondent writes to "Land and Water" regarding the habit of her pest hedgehog, which is a confirmed drunk ad. A Bill for the complete separation of Church and State is being prepared by the Italian Minister of Justice. At the present rate of progress, it would take 700 years to extinguish the national debt of OJreaf Britain. It is believed that before long the Suez canal will pass in o Knglish hauds. During the siege of Paris the asphalte pavement w<vs largely used both for fuel and for the distillation of gas to fhl balloons. Conversions from Christianity to Judaism are becoming very numerous in Germany. In one detachment of Paris National Guards there were ten children under 12 years of age. They wore the uniform of the National Guards. A Ciiiua letter says :— " There is much uneasiness prevailing at Pekin. There is no immediate danger, I think, but the air is full of strange mutterings." (10l 1 ornauit nts and other objects have bean found under the guano iv th.3 Guan.ipe I-dands, Pqpu ; aho a stratum of w K'llen rags a mile long aad five feet thick. An International Prison Congress will be held in London next year, at which the directors and inspectors of all celebrated pi i^ons, including even one from Japan, will be present. The anti-chignon pledge has been signed !>y 53,000 lalie.s in Geimany. The whale-fishers on the Noiway coast dre their harpoons from cannon. B-et-root brandy is attracting attention in England. A m >.uu3cript waltz, by Beethoven, longer than those previously known to have been c- imposed by him, has been discovered in Belgium, and will shortly be publish ,d. M. Guiz-»t is confined to his bei, but dictates to his daughter for several hours daily. Th« "Pull Mall Gazette" says of a certain Irish Court of Law, that it is n^-ver s > sure to be wrong as when the judges are unanimous. Some of the Prussian railways pay dividends as hiydi as 24V per cent per annum.' A kind of spiri, equal in strength to • Scotch whisky, is now manufactured in India from coffee pulp. Incom'nnt;ble wicks for kerosene lamps are made in Vienna of asbestos, boiled in wax. Th u y last for about a year. In one common stair in the New Town of Kdinburgh, no less than 230 souls drag out a wretched existence. Tho lax'ge^t breweries in England each, produce annually from 70 to 9J million quarts of beer. The youn^Q'ieenof Spain is said to be is devout a Catholic as the ex-Queen r.sa li e'l!U Baron Liebig it engaged In the compila'ion of an encyclopedia of che.nistry. Lou's Ulanc is reported to meditate taking up his abode in America. An on dit is current in England that the Q.ieen has settled her estate of Bal-ni'-ril on the I'rincw Louise. Biscay law requires that for every tree cut down two rntidt be planted. Tliis law is said" to be ri^u-omly enforced. Ace irdiug to Professor Leone Lev! th'j awnrr-^ate cipital invested in the liquor traffic in Britain is £117,030,000. and the •ium'>er of parsons engaged in it 840,000, or. including their dependants. 1,500,00). Th'i new Mint in London ia to be erected in Temple Lane. The Irish Church General Synod have alopted the fo!l<rwing canon: — "There shall not' "b 3 any cross," ornamental or icrhecwise/ onHlie communion table, or on the c»v&ringeth'erß"f,. nor- shall a cross be ejrected or. depicted bn^the wall or other structure' behind the communion iaMe." • California his 743 successful billiard sal'MiY)*sj 'one of "which Has a bar inlaid with ijold'a'n'd irfoss. agates; at a cost of 200.000 dols. •* Three thous md doll irs a day is not an uncommon sin** to be taken at the bar of some of these saloon's It is .understood that in the 1 event of the Pope's death the Sacred 'College will renyn'e'to Malta — a determination arrived at in a secret meeting, held in conseqiirtnee'b? the state of. the health of Pio • Nona. Th 5 "Jewish Chronicle" thinks that then will soon be fnrrai'd.in England a * Universal" Israelitish AUiancft, iitr the purpose-" of . drawing .more closely the ties .thrfitj.bi'ioi the J.ews of Rn«land to their brethren "scattered throughout the world, anil the first step toward? carrying out that object must be to draw more closely the ties 'that bind* the Jews of England together. • Boston boasts of if roe baths, free Hbra.ries^ free churches, free schools, free concerts, free ferries, and free bridges. New Y«vr^ in, addition, has free fights, and many wh*o make free with the public cash. 'A military reunion was recently held at Boston, arid six generals rose to address 'the" company.- The whole «ix were "through!* in less than bix minutes. Genepal Honker made the longest speech of the .evening, . " I came not here to ac,quire the. reputation of a politician, but to^see soldiers. I don't care at all for talking soldiers, but for those that can fight. lam not here to talk, nor to play politician. Ido not want to do either,** and " Uncle Joseph " sat down. Geueral Sheridan was not one minute on his legs. General Burnside v came for the express pui-poge of listening."" General Custer bowed his acknowledgments, and General Installs compressed his ideas into the simple words, " I am very much obliged to .you." , - ,