MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 476, 8 June 1875, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

"Dah's de man, Mr Speaker — dar's de man what done it," shouted a coloured member, rising suddenly from his seat in the Arkansas Legislature, with one hand pointing to a white man in tho gallery, and with the other rubbing the summit of his cranium. " Dat am cussed white nun jesdone spit down on the top o1o 1 ray head." At a recent sale of the effects of the late Mr R. Needham, printer for the Wesleyan Conference, some valuable copyrights of Methodist works were disposed of. An interesting relic of John Wesley, namely, the writing desk on which he was in the habit of reading and correcting his proofs, was sold for a few pounds to Mr Allinghani, a publisher. The " Norwich Aurora " says : " A young lady, very pretty, walked around the new road (seven miles) in one nour and forty-6ve minutes. We remember HScSHmg her around* the road once by moonlight. Tin%-lFour hours and forty-five minutes. But then she said she. wasn't in a hurry. The old folks, had gone to camp meeting." She said, "Papa, won't you buy me a new diess?' " What, buy you a new dress, Susy f " Yes papa, won't you V " Well, I'll see. I'll speak to ; your mother about it." Elongation to an alarming j extent rapidly spread over that little countenance" but a thought suddenly struck her, and, with a smile, she looks up into her father's face and said : " Well, papa, if you do speak to mamma about it, touch her easy or she may want the new dress herself!" The "Artidemy" says it is probable th>.t a new hoik illustrating the career of Lord Byron ia Italy, and hU^elatiiim with the Countess GmVcioli, may ! bo published it no very distant date. It takes the form of a ii.u-r.i'ive, written by a lady, of a visit which she paid not long- ago t ♦ Ravenna, and to the Guicoioli Palace there, and of her interviews with the Houiefary of the Guiccoioli family, who produced to her several very curious and often aiiiiimiw d-n umenfa bearing upon the loves of By ton and the fair Italian Countess. All readers of Ashantee literature are well aware that two Basle missionaries, Mr Kuhne and Mr Rarn^eyer, with Mrs Ram»eyer, were captured at one of thai^nutatatiQiis by an Ashantee army in 1869, and wt^not given up till Sir Garnet Wolseley was known to be advancing on Coomassie. The diriries of Messrs Kuhne and Eamseyer have been edited and published iv Germany, and a translation of the work will shortly be published in London. We are informed tnat at one time the missionaries cmld only keep up the record by scoring- an old tin of preserved milk with a pair of scissors. - " Athenceum." There is a township and po.*t eomewhere in the North Island of New Zealand where marriages are few, and where n)t many vessels arrive during- a yt^.ir. For some reason beat known to the authorities the offices of Registrar of Marriages and Harbourmaster and Pilot were combined in one individual, and this about two years ago placed a c tuple about to be married in a carious position.* They preferred Ibfce simple in the Registrar's office to the BJeasings ortthe oamon, and just while the Registrar was basV tytfi'g the connubia I knot, in rushed a meSseag*er with the news that a vessel was being thumped to pieces on the bar, and that the pilot's services were immediately required. The Registrar rushed off i>reci >itate!y, '(uving his work unfinished, an^d proceeded in a boat to sec wli it was to be done the ves3el. He stayed away so long that..sfe half married coupje giew tiivfl of waitit/g,-au<£*£ last departed. Whether thoy sulwjoquentlv 'returned to have the' ceremony completed is notSl^arlj kno\vn>J^t repdi-t-says they did. - , < ' ' . \

«** u. i/unu»r lweennaie, in tne • meuicai ourgical Review ' forJ^pril, Jmthe following remarks 011 C^^^ h<lll^ l T a ««^Hal point of view :— , tcar W^ N dinipd'Mattthe greater part of the ales brewejjflji thejjpl^; Irflfo&vrhat they are repre- # nte €#*?. fop^r f#4mh'e Jtiblic imagine they are dippiingjijgamilljl^rm^xted infusion of malt, flavorMjfrth%bp|;, They *f6 in reality composed <l>f a ftlf^ntecfWc^hatfine to which a small miartfjjjiy ' pT. mo^T has need added. In some cases it Is partly flavored wttn hops, but more often by quassia wood chips — an innoxous ingredient, its chief merits being the low price at which it can be 'pttrobaBed. v> rAB-*BSdtriSB fcKe*TeTr~s"macfe— for' commercial and other reasons — it is sent out to the publican, who retails it to the public without loss of time ; so that, in addition to an adulterated article, thectmigttmwts tfhlfgect to*dfiftk "thV 'liquid* fn an immature sUte, ; befttl'eHihe fusel'dl contained in it has been converted by chemical action into an innocent ingredient." ' A Queensland farmer recommends, the sowing of old wheat as a remedy for rust. He says:--*' My reasons are these — First, I have a field of 20 acres, which, whenever in the course of time it came to be M wheat, wA^to be winter proud. The rather IWht, r^owed (merely from practnV result was, it became ii»i^||rairVan Avtoi nothvt all to be comi tfTtoJnroptof ata acgiQ^ingVeurtibour, even though tliB culture of the soil was the same in every respect, and the only difference was that the ground was sown with old wheat. Another year followed, and it presented the same appearance — shrivelled in the grain, and the straw very weak and very brittle. The fresult was, I tried it last season with some seed wheat three years old, and I reaj>ed a plentiful harvest —and for grain and straw my crop was unequalled. Many farmers have suffered from this distemper destroying their crops, and who, under the title of ' rust/ believed the distemper incurable. I would advise not to sow wheat of less than two years old ; and be sure never to roll it until the crop appears overground. I have tried this,' and found that I extirpated the rust from ray fields.*' A terrible tale has reached my ears. The thinu happened not sixteen thousand miles Irorn Dune- | din, so I had better not mention names, nor will I say anything about the occupation of the parties The story went thus: Mr B, who is young and good-looking-, was, with a number of others, spending a social evening at the house or' an intimate friend — a family man. After ten, the children of the house and some other children'wlio we r e staying there were brought in to say good night as was the r wont, and to hare their small ftsts oiled with raisins, etc. The affair, so far as they were concerned, ended in the usual kissing of infants, iv process of which they all went round the room bidding a tender farewell to each truest. 8., however, they all carefully avoided, one and all going pasf him. At last some «t' the ladies, noticing this, instinctively suspected olfcit by • ounding there they might gt^ke ajbenotor point. NMlete, Jessie/ said one faNt datas^Mbo ti gi^ ' yon have not kissed '^o\l\vfiPtj*kiss Mr B ; he never kissofc us. rie^ot^y^fcdbeV.nurse, and when we look at nVn he slaps us and says, 4 Ruu away, you brats.'" T^'s otherwise somewhat pale countenance assumed a healthy glow. »nd the unrestrained hilarity of the co-upauy was now somewhat hnshed, and only escaped iv giggles and gasps. They enjoyed themselves that evening, and there was only one man in that crowd who did not, exactly think life and happiness were one. That man rather wished he had never neen born. — " Otago Witness." The Taranaki correspondent of the " !Yew Zealand Times" thus refers to a visit which he pai i to Mp Hur>»thonse, at >resen' an inmate of the, I'aranaki Lunatic Asylum : — ' The m >st piti.ibl 1 o>je*t possible to co i ico' ve. in contrast to what he had once her 11 1 1, pr< l se fed its'lf ftv'iuin.* on i se<4 l | i broad ami long enough t> serve for sleeping on, and at the en I of a ra "derate! y-sized room, the upper portion of his body clothe I in what at first sight had the appearance of a tittered Ma >ri ma', twisted up and h in /ing fr >m his n» j ck like two thick ropes, sat tlae geutlem in we had c >me to see Closer ins'iectiou showed tliec>verinr to be blankets and woollen c\ »rhes torn to shreds, and kno'te I rt-nd twisted in an indescribable manner The I lower portion of his boly from the hips was completely bare. NotHing but rags on or about him Phy.sioaUy.he looJfe^strongandN^ealthy, heavy in ffesh and TrM>rous in \motv>hv Ak I entered the j room he sat ufy and, on^beintf iflvodrtee I, cordially ( shook hinds. Although a str^trg^r, I was heutilv I welcomed ane^^offereil a seat on, r,he board beside j Mr Hursthouse, as also a porion of fru t brought I bv my fnend, and which was generously shared i amongst the company. lat once felt at c »se, and I lost the scared feeling which at first came over me, and readily answe ed the umner us queries as to length of residence in province, opinio is regarding it, and urospncfs in regard to my oc u,)atiou (which j had been mentioned on niv being introduce I), and « other matters. Mr Huisthouse is as m ich the, courteous gentleman now as ever — fluent a- d entertaining in conversation — in spite of the grotesque j ness of his appeiranoe. Hi- hauls are connnuilly ( on the move, tearing and pulling to pieces the r.igs • which serve f»r clothing He rea Ih a little, and has writing mtterial9 a 'ready huily, and is hum >red as far aS possible " | The Ljn.lon orresp vi Umt of the M«lbourne | " Ai'gus " contributes the following : — Poor Fecht.'r, the actor, has, it seems, lost his leg at Cinca.snu.ati. If this be true it need not put an end to the practice of his profession, although it must be carried on in another branch. Foote, the comedian, suffered the saim loss, and vet made a living, and a good one, by his histrionic genius. As Feehter is said to be one of the best dramatic readers in the world — indeed I have heard he was the tutor of the late Mr Bellew — let us hope he will have a career before him still. — The indefatigable Lady Franklin, in concert with the enterprising Mr Gordon Bennett, of the " New York Herald," is equiping a vessel — the Pandora — to accompany the Government expedition to the Arctic in hopes Jbo find some relics of Sir John Franklin's expedition. This r a union of sentiment and businasa entegftflsY. winch is quj[te unique, and will, I sincep^jThtfpe, be blessed wick success. — I wonder Tth^theV *you produce Goiitiefljr and cuff and collar coffee in Austaalia. Thejr do in America it seems, so that fitjjjj: cob really get a meal out of their shoes and shirt witriout sending them to the pawnbroker's. The jelly is made by boiling " the boot with soda under the pressure of two atmospheres-" I don't exactly know what that means. bw*»<J*shonWl be under considerable pressure myself before I ate it." « Then the tanuic acid in the leather combined with salt makes tannate of soda, and the gelatine rises to the top, whence it is removed and dried." Then, for the cuff and collar coffee, the linen is treated in a similar manner with nitric acid, wKfchsacfttig o n fc hs lignite contained in the fibres, pro lucesx glucose, or grape sugar ; ana 1 this> being roasted, gives an excellent imitatlm of coffee. When one h.is eaten one's boots and drunk shirt. I have no dou.>t science will presently discover something juicy and palatable in one's coat arid,

ltie~ 15 IFarat Sar," of a recent da*e, Biv«: - "Mr Ritchie, of hmUihja^^l^'W^r^h-ip, on breaking open myoWe^maTa c*<{ the other morninif, fou»id a gMsen pea emWdd^befcween the whjj^Md the v?£e ofUhe egyr.; »e M^mnta f«£ iti^fn^hera^O'n tfce fact fha* )iis <ttj|eka -<re ill '* theinHifof fiSelintj in the i^irclfeD 'ffii question very n;|fot»il!y*arise^; how dd the u4"i fifft i si le the aJtieil ? S »e-»kin\( of mysteries, We may s'.ite that while h era-in in BaPftfH^ w»» ii-secfcina-the hi-fHst »f a foWl for d uner. he found a bl tele pin firmly e<nbedde I >n the fle-*h. ]t in presamed tlmt^ih' f.wj ha I .sw;iUo^ved ina«4»u. au(i thut it had final'y worked its way into the breast of the bird. A fatal affray took place recently at Barrow-in- . Favuesvin JUncashireJTwayjoucg^liien employed at Mr Claye's Riilway Jloiling-Stock Works, one a coaehniaker, named Ennis, and the other a patternmaker, named John Hockin, quarrelled over some work, an 1 agreed to " fight out" the dispute. They left the works at 12 o'clock for the purpose, followed by a laig" nnrnber of their fellow-workmen. A.plot of land known as Kendall's Garden was chosen for the combat, and in a few minutes the men were engaged in a tierce pugilistic encounter. The rules of the "ring" were fWly observed. Each man had his second, and tljere wiJls also a timekeeper and sponger. The tioF'N^t^hfor irjmaj^g <jtawo hours, and during thislkn^ iVis aavSL ncSjes^than 84 rounds werefough^. BY"two o'clock 'tlieVeonib itanis were quite exhausted, but the quarrel seemed no nearer a settlement, as the men, backed by their supporters, still displayed great coolness and courage. At half past two a number of policemen arrived on the ground, and this was the signal for the crowd to disperse. They did so, leaving Hockin on the ground in an insensible condition. He was picked up and conveyed to the nearest house, where he received medical attention, but, despite this, died at live o'clock the same evening. It was found that among other injuries he had sustained a severe woun<l on the left side of the lidd, and this is su p »osed to have been the immediate cause of death. Ennis was arrested directly after the fight, and found to be much injured about his head and chest. Five of the assistants of the fight and seven of the aiders, and abettqrs have akio been\pprehended. IndiaV|^^g<ase o\ihe^'O s 'young women, Amelio Cough anlU^L)fete H^ioS^ay&^the " Bombay Gazette ") who\wem ra-4rav\ bo^ft gud^nly aroused to , the importance of the stepNfchey had taken in allying ■ themselves with the two Mahomedan camel drivers, , Merbhau and Jumma Khan, presents a view of ; modern English life among the lower cl\sses which I is nob without an interest. Both 'of the women j appear to have gone to Australia the same time, ! and to have been in service there when they met the two Mahomedans. Neither of them could theret fore have been in want'; they seemed to have been simply allured by the display of wealth that the . Mahomedans appeared in their eyes to possess. The want of education that the girls have shown is very clearly demonstrated in the readiness with which , they went through a marriage ceremony which; it . might be presumed, the most ill-informed English girl would at once knW was only a farce. Both of the wonienTcStae AomVjornwall ; Ik&t though amongst Cornishvnii^^ignoitonc^ni^^'bQ expected to be ; found, yey^wVj^njplisl^eV.^wdbe prepared to believe thaV two Englist w\menj^£ne twenty-two and the othe\ twenty-fouV yeaS^s of age, would be ready to dv as these two did. They believed themselves to be married to these two Mahomedans, bej cause they each possessed a certificate signed by some person who professed himself to be a Christian mm ister, and who probably performed the farcical proceeding of marrying them in soms out-of-the-way I place where no lamest eyes were likely J^inj trude. i£rom t^e account that the wometnfcve themselwesi^euof tnfe coXuectiilui with these men I thore canN^e n^ frou'it sha!^ Meghan and Jumma | Khan bribed somewise ftilo^ in Adelaide to perI suailfa these u^noiaut 'voruen that by going through the ceremony he himself coucocted they would become their wives ; an>l after succeeding* so far it was easy to cad them to be ieve that they were troii)^ to reside within British territory in India, and so they were in 'uce 1 to leave Australia, and doubtless thought that in India they would be as grin I ladies as duchesses are in England. They j have been saved, Jiotfever at Hje last moment from j the fate thatr^&Maicr cefy&inTy fiWe met them had I they once crossed) thfe bordefo and passed the hills [ into Candaha^. which appears to have been the [ locality destin&J to receive them. These two I wo nen were thrown upon the world, one at four- ( teen an 1 t*>e other nt fifteen years of *ige, and by j some means at that age emigrated to Australia, | and during the seven years they had been there 1 they seem to have nearly lost trace of their parents ( and friends m JSnj&aodj; they had no one to cmj sulf or a^vfcte t}ttoin,\nd each one inspired theNithVVith w»ra^eV^r- take the leap in I the dark, in^afiyhigptheajseKel Vjth^ two Mahomei dans ; the c>w frequences of 'which they obtained . some slight knowledge of when they got; to Kurr ichee.

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