MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 234, 25 July 1872, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The committee appointed to investigate regarding the capitulations has reported concerning most of the commandants, acquitting some, and severely censuring others. The cemmittee declined to pronounce an opinion on the surrender of fcaris, holding neither Trochu nor Vinoy responsible for that act. Lord Clarenco Paget made a charge through the Times against the Admiralty that the economy exercised in the matter of coals was responsible' for the recent disasters. Mr Goscheu completely disproved the allegation. Do not talk about yourself or your family to the exclusion of other topics. What if you are clever, and a little more so than other people, it may nob be that other folks will think so, whatever they ought to do. " Mi-3 Miffiu," said a visitor, " Emma has your features, but I think she has got her father's hair." — " Oh, now I see," said dear little Emma ; "it's because I have father's hair that he has to wear a wig." A Chicago paper eayss— " There have been four hundred and seventeen babies published in this city since the lire— three hundred and eleven o£ them female. — Hail to the new She-caryo. "Your dress," said a match-making mamma to her daughter, " will never please the men." — " I don't dress to please men,' was the reply, " but to worry other women.' Lonely. — Sighing lover (before tho kitchen): "Is it lonely ye are there without me?" — A voice rep ies : "Not at all, Jerry ! "Willies beeu here for an hour." No less a sum than L4l was taken at the last meeting of theTnames Rifle Association for entries and sighting shot. It is time now for punsters of the period to make their annual note of the anomaly that frieza cloth furnishes the warmest coats. A man, hearing that a raven would live two hundred years, bought one to test the truth of the assertion. He never found out the truth. .Referring to tho Scandinavian immigrants j the Wairarapa Mercury says:— "We can recommend no trip more enjoyable than one to tlie now settlement above Masterton, where the immigrants are working. Englishmen may see many a worse example for them to follow in the way- of road making, and Englishwomen will learn many useful lessons in the way of keeping their homes tidy, with every disadvantage to encounter, and many ' wrinkles ' in the culinary art. We notice that ajmost every householder there has a sgiuning-wheeUn her possession, and we expect ' that we Ehall shortly see some homespun at'.ckings, fee, produced by them."