MISCELLANOUES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3420, 28 January 1890, Page 2

MISCELLANOUES.

, 'A%cred'':.relic now in the museum., at., Stockholm was formerly in the Church of Skifvaip, whero it wrought miracles aa the hand of a saiut; in realty it is the.fin of a seal. ~.;.-..,., . I. 'in the United States 25 Leglisla- ' tures, besides tho National. Government, have made scientific temperance a compulsory; school study in. ..their ;..:-. respective States antl Territories; u :' ''•'• '■' ! ; The Governerof Victoria, Lord Hopetotin, in. .course of an addres^at" : .tlie Scotch' College,;, j MelbWne', 1 ' .sfjqaking of modern' language's','said thoy wero every day becoming more and more a necessary part of every man's education. ; He .considered that. ■ , a'thorough grounding in the classics was a necessary part of every gentle-,,.. man's educatiori/hut mail professions j \ and pursuits which men were likely to follow after; theyjeft school French,. {}. German, and Italian were daily 4 becoming more and more necessary. ; In commerce, in military matter?, in science and;in artj French, Geruiani' and Italian were absolutely necessary, ' and .lie would respectfully r ask .the ,', teachers aridparehts wbotUerincreased 1 )] '• ' attention might not be given to those subjects., ; ' '' '" ; '''■;'' '■''■■"\>W'".:i -»'' A ■movement : pn, : ;fooV'ln 'St!'-'': Peter&bui'g' for pbaer.yihg Sunday 'is'it L, ' l :•;: is'understood ; '.intha'United'.Btates •■•■ and Groat, Britain' ;: Itis paid 1 that - 1200, St..Petersburg 'Merchants ha>8 Vf ; already, declared theinsejvea willing to;'". keepitheir places of 'businesscios'ed'oh ■- 1 ' the 'first day of tho week. , .A'liargo stoat was killed on Mr Brook's farm at Ashley .recently, A number of fowls and"a;litter ofkitterisl ■ fell victims to it' before it'wVs seiWd - and killed by a,dog. , ~,.,, ,. .,.,,,.,, ; 'According to the Etaw.eraStar, Mro' IS Stephenson has pre'sontod j£2oo for a. cottage hospital at Hawera,;This,sum, ,;■,- with, the Government subsidy," will " procurei a,comfortable building., f fV Mr *■ brNeV 'South •who waß a claimant to the Caithness ' peerage, was cashier to a'London firm ■'■ for thirty years before going to Australia, i :■•:v.->\ •■i.in

:,•! There has been a chango/ iii'tbe'i - I '. • education laws in SoVool ; * children have now to' ,! atterid 40 days If in the! quarter instead; of 30, and *■ cbildreri who havb ; attained a certain degree of proficiency aro allowed to leave school at the age" of thirteen instead of fifteen.. ~,,.,,,. ~ ,'■ An Agrioultural'LabouforV IJuioa & has been formed at Kaiapoi. It appears ithat the wages'about the district ranged ..from 8s to 4s a day of nino and twelve -hours; (is wasi thei'"!. " highest sum.paid by any farmer;' It is said that the report by Gener. : ' i al Edwards already published is hot the General's only official utterance on the subject of the defence of the colony, but that.it is supplemented by- - v a confidential report, going more '. fully into details, ...,-"

I The President of the Central Board fjW of Hoalth, Melbourne, has received l(i a return showing that from the 10th' ■ to the 27th December there have.;been 121 cases of typhoid fevor reported, with six deaths, and 26 oases of diphtheria with six deaths,', '} '. ..■,'■ ; !v '' .

'A wonderful quantity offish was sighted off the New South Wales ': coast by tho Captain of the bqrquo Brunette when making the port recently; :Oaptain..DftHi||<aya that for. T -, > threo hundred miles to:tliejEastand ' ' Nii'th-oast the soa was literally alivo ; witbbbnita dolphin, Had he been pre- [ '\-\ pared-with casks.and .tho requisite, :■■■J appliances for'curing hi coiild hVviAbrought tons into port. When twenty. ; | five niilesoff the coast the'flsb. were so numerous that largo numbers were ": caught by the orew/»-and-this continued 'lip to about fifteen miles off land, There the current, setting strbng.to : '- the sprthward put an end to the spirt.; ' '''" " :j Good newa trom Wellington, and quito true, youcan got a splendid ■harmonium '.. from'Ls, piano or organ-from, organ with divided octave' couplara | in •solid' black walnut cases from Ll7,"V,''- ; Th|s..beats all tho.cheapest houses in, ': town. jby year four visits Lirtra'velling wpeiiaW "■. added; of musical instrupients t ;, tuned, oleane'dj'-aiid'^bairddin^w'reed^'ii' 1 ' put' in acoordoans, Conoertiiias, liar- 1. mpriiums, and organs;' also 'liberal ox- : changes wade, Any instrument may be '[:.'■ purchased qtt:jhe;tjme,payment^Bystern;. : > 1 ffo)n;2s 6d, per'week. ■ Call'and" ex-"j;. change your oldrpjano ty/iiew.oiie t a,t 1 ■■ : ■•";[ ' •totes-street, ■• Wellington. (Sole Ij. •■ agent: of the Celebrated .Worcester, ''l; ■■-• organs.)—advt : . "'.|

tife An American paper has the follow'ding'* A German doctor baa made nn alarming discovery about 'oaticer. The diseaso attacked a.tarns rat in his possession, and, having no qualms of conscience about vivisection, he tried, successfully, to inoculate two others with it, they taking the disease in its malignant form," ~ "Friction tieat,"caused by two disks of heavy iron rubbing against each other, is to" take the place of steam, gas, coal, an J oil." A London firm has a contract with the French Government, under which Nfcoy annually snjiply France with Skiisimda.oftoi^p i dried fruits, The French Government requires this largo supply of dried fruits to make tkewino which they supply to the French army. We may all earnestly pray that tho prophecy of Victor Hugo shall bn fulfilled, and speedily: "In the - twentieth crntmy war will bo dead, tho scaffold will bo dead, but man will live. Forty-two yearn ago thero was bnt one man in the Unite I States worth as much' as 5,000,U00d01, but now there are lfiOO persons whose possessions soverally are equal to or Aeaterthan that. This conconlral ion .'"Wweallh, to which the civil war gave rise, and which railway buildings and speculation hare accelerated, is, moreover, going on rapidly at tho present time, In ono of the London churches women who have received the benulit of choir rehearsals are 6entcd in twos antk threes throughout the congregatifc to guide the singing, which is in with more readily for the presence.'of these assured leaders.