MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 31 October 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A circumstance anything but comforting to ladle who wear false hair occurred at the Melboi^, Police Court a few days ago. A wretched femal habitual drunkard, with blackened eyes and a fac like a bulldog, was brought up for threatening lai guage, and the nakedness of her head attracted th atteution of Mr Sfcurt, P.M., who asked what ha( become of her hair. Her husband stated that sh had cut it off and sold it in order to obtain drink Perhaps some lady is supplementing her charms b; aid of this drunkard's tresses, artificially made mt a chignon. — Otago Guardian. \ A young man went into Prince's saloon the othe evening, and called for a glass of liquor. It wa handed to him, and then he dropped a littl| powdered magnesia in it from a papei-, swallawin the whole deliberately, and placing the glass down looked the attentive Mr Prince in the eye, and said " I have poisoned myself." " What ! " screamed th horrified saloon-keeper. " I have poisoned myself! repeated the young man in a tragic tone. In an in stant Mr Prince had bounded to his side, and th next instant he had him on the floor and a man sen for a doctor. The young man struggled to free him self, and protested that it was all a joke. Mr Princ was too old and too educated a man to be delude< by such artifices. Immediately remedies were calle< for. Some one suggested a raw egg, and one procured, and there being no time to bother with i glass, and the victim to the poison writhing to i degree that made holding Mm an almost impossibli undertaking, it was administered in the shell, anc so adroitly broken that two-thirds of it went int< his shirt bosom. A bottle of sweet oil was nex emptied into him, his head was briskly rubbed, ho cloths applied to his chest, and his back wannec with a billiard cue. Then Dr Miles arrived, tool in the situation at a glance, applied a stomach-pump and within five minutes the facetiousness and othei things in that young man were extracted. On get ting to his feet he instinctively felt in his hip pocke for his handkerchief, and appeared to be very inuci surprised to find it there. He left the saloon vow ing vengeance against Mr Prince and his anxioui and earnest helpers. But this story was too mucl for him the next day, and' he quietly disappears from town. It is rather startling, is it not, to hear thai " the Prince of Wales was married on the 15th of May to Lady Alia Hay, a daughter of the late Earl of Erroll, at theßomai Catholic Church, in Spanish-place, London ? " Suoh, however, is the fact. And yet the kusband of Alexandra, " set king's daughter from over the sea," has not committee bigamy. The " Prince of Wales " who has just wedded j young Scottish lady of old cavalier and Jacobite blood ii the wrong " Prince of Wales." He is commonly known ai " Colonel Count Charles Edwavd d' Albany, the only son ol Count Charles Edward Stuart and of Anna, daughter of the Right Honorable John de la Poer Beresford, and niece o the first Marquis of Waterford." When the right Prinw of Wales last year went to the Vienna Exhibition he hae the pleasure of seeing this great-grand-nephew, or whatevei he mar be, of the Pretenders of the last century figuring^ a Highland dress among the officers of the Austrian »rmy It is rather doubtful after all whether the " Count Charleij Edward " is so nearly the direct representative of the royal Stuarts as to deserve even in that way the complimentary title of the wrong " Prince of Wales." As a matter of] fact we believe the direct heir of the English crown in thd Stuart line to-day is Francis V., ex-Duke of Modena,*" by right divine " Francis 1. of Great Britain and Ireland, KingJ But the Count is conceded to be a Stuart, and his reappearance in England to marry & Scottish noblewoman is at least a curious incident of the day worth bringing to the notice of the lovers of historical romance. A resident of Sacramento, California, has latterly given up steamboat travel, and now when he wishes to go to San Francisco, he provides tickets by the railways. His preference for the latter method of locomotion came about in this wise ' — Not long ago ho had occasion to go to the metropolis of tb3 Pacific coast, and accordingly he started for the steamer's landing, with a carpet sack in one hand and a cane in the other, in what he supposed to bo ample time. But when he came in sight of the wharf, he observed the boat apparently swinging away irom her moorings, and, amidst the shouti and joers of tine bystanders, he broke into a frantic run for the landing. The boat was Bft or 10ft from the wharf when he reached the place where he had hoped to find a gang-plank, but nothing daunted, and trusting to the momentum acquired during the run, he leaped into the air and gained the vessel* deck. Not without accident, however. The carpet bag struck one passenger so violently in the stomach that he doubled up like a jackknife, and absorbed a whole flask of brandy in getting straightened out, while the cane struck another man in the fnce with sufficient force to suddenly induce him to get down on his knees to look after Ins hat. When he hud recovered it, the man who had occasioned 4| this commotion *aid to him in a tone of mingled apology and self-gratulation, "Well I made it ! Yes, you did," paid the tore-headed passenger, " but. you durned old fool, tun boat ain't going out, ihe'i coming in.