MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

I in. Edinburgh Agricultural Show was this year, for tie :ir-t tini-. ii-11 without exmi.-ts of cattle, it seems that pleuropn. ouonia is -o prevalent tiiat it -was deemed prud-nt to keep them all away from *he .-ho-w. 1-i.KxT Rk.-T UN has 1.'i.0 K) Bands of Hope ami jir.enile t-mperan c societies, wifi an agg.-g.ate membership of i (iooi rjo I I.* lee n recently received in pcison a .lubike .address from the 1 ij:*-- i Ixtngd cn Bands "f Hope. I mi: - • i Cars iin -yst-m is in a -tate of liiga d. 'pm -at in H -nnany. From rc-c-nt -tat'ste s it aitjeir- that more than ‘J.i p-r c‘nt. of tie-Herman students are in re h■' of more or less support from public funds. Stain av;d take th" initiative in celebrating in tin mo-t -oleum manner the t'-urth centennial of the discovery of Ain.-ii'-a in IIU2, and for tin- purpo-eshe will invite ali nations who people the territot i— d;> riveted by Columbus to take part m to.- «-■- -hration. -lonv Dn Min:, of Allentown, Mo., el.-inn- to •!- tii- olde-t volunteer iirctnan in the United States. He joined Relief Company X«. 7, of Cincinnati, 0., in IB2S. He is now Ml years of age. Ml— 1" I.oIIKNi'K XIoIITINO u.E has published an appeal to the women of Kngland to ii-lp in providing a central borne and adeij tate organisation for the Women's Protective and Provident League. As odd practice prevails in regard to mourning tor deceased relatives in Corea, Any one who has suffered such a loss goes about for a year wearing a kind of pointed basket ou his head, which com-plet-Iv hides bis fa.—, and no one is permitted to address or speak to him. Someone threw a head of cabbage at Ignatius Donneily while he was making a speech once. He paused a second and said : “ I n-ntle-nen. I only asked for your ears ; I don't care for your heads 1” He was not bntiicrcd any more during the remainder of his speech. Fit Kits: was a fend b-tween the four-year-old young lady and her aunt, which came at last to declared hostilities. But the litttle lady knelt down at night and said ii.-r prayer—•• Bless papa, ami bless mamma, and —there came a long, ominous pause—“bless auntie; bat if you can’t bless her it doesn't matter. - ’ \ Kitv rec ntly. one solid piece of ore weighing five tons was taken from the Sierra Hr.amle mine at Lake Valley. Xew Mexico, which upon being sampled was found to contain over 6(1,000 dollars in silver. This is the largest solid piece of ore ever taken from a mine. The A-- L-r/1 If.-oihl states tbit a Chinese coin, 30 H) years old. has been found by gold miners digging in a claim at Cassiar, British Columbia. It is supposed to have been left there by Chinese mariners wrecked on the coast long before the Christian era.