Miscellaneous.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 280, 9 July 1908, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

Eight hundred settlers travelling under the auspices of the Salvation Army arrived in Canada by the steamships Kensington and lonian, on 10th May, after an evcellent passage. They will be distributed throughout Ontario and the Western provinces, where employment has been secured for all. This is probably the last large contingent of immigrants to arrive this year. The Army’s immigration operations for theseason cease in August. The wife of Baron Meirder killed herself at Tsarskoe Selo, owing to the hopeless condition of her only daughter, a girl of 17. The doctor had stated that the girl could not recover, whereupon her mother left the house, stating that she was going to St. Petersburg to consult an eminent specialist. Two hours later she was found dead in the park, asked the Baton’s forgiveness, and stated that she could not survive the death of her child. The girl died, and the bodies of mother and daughter will be conveyed to Nioe, as both had often expressed their horror of being buried in Russia.

The most curious railway in the world is built on ice. It is laid between Cronstadt and Oranienbaum, and is in use only in winter. Its success has suggested the construction of a similar winter railway between the two important commercial centres, Krementchug and Ekaterinoslav, which are united in summer by the steamboat traffic along the Dnieper River. This means of communication is closed in winter by the ice. A costly, roundabout journey has to be made between the two towns, though they do not lie far apart.

A terrier belonging to a man at Bristol having bitten a' child its owner decided to have it destroyed. A chemist syringed prussic acid down the dog’s throat,

but, the London “ Daily Mail ” says, without the desired result, so a second, and stronger, dose was administered. The animal, however, again suffered no ill-effects. The next day it was given a piece of meat containing enough strychnine to kill a dozen dogs, but the poison again proved futile. The dog was then chained up and is still alive.

Mr Asquith has said that because women cannot defend tbe State they should not have the vote assigned to men who can, but in England, which had not learned to worship at the feet of free trade, the .England of Trafalgar and Waterloo, women exercised the political rights attached at that time to the ownership of property, and might even sit in the House of Lords-. It was only in 1830 that women were finally deprived of all franchise rights, and yet in 1837 a girl came to the Throne, filled it for sixty-four years, and ruled well. Wo need not therefore, consider the contention that the physical disabilities of woman justify the denial to her of the political franchise.—“ New Zealand Herald.”

The celebrated French physician, Ricord, was one day walking along the boulevards in Paris, when he met an old gentleman who was very rich, but who was at the same time noted for his extreme stinginess. The old man, who was somewhat of a hypochondriac, imagined that he could get some medical advice from Ricord without paying for it. “Doctor, lam feeling very poorly.” “ Where do you suffer most ?” “In my stomach doctor.” “Ah, that’s bad. Please shut your eyes. That’s right. Now put out your tongue, so that I can examine it closely.” The invalid did as lid was told. After he had waited patiently for about ten minutes, he opened his eyes,’ and found himself surreunded by a crowd, who supposed that he y/as„ crazy. Dr. Ricord, in the meantime, had disappeared.