Miscellaneous.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIV, Issue 1222, 3 December 1897, Page 7

Miscellaneous.

It having transpired that a Welsh clergyman recently drew a cheque for fourpence, the statement is made thafc cheques for threepence, twopence, and even one penny have been cashed in London. A cheque is said to have been drawn for one halfpenny at Worchester. The Emperor of Japan, Mitsu-Hitu, is devoting himself to the advancement of women in his dominions to the level of the Europeans. Stained teeth and shaved eyebrows are to be abolished. He was the first to introduce the celebration of a silver wedding into his country. When he had been married twenty-five years he gave a feast and received innumerable wedding presents; and this delighted his female subjects, who considered that no Empres3 had before been so honored. She not onl) shares his throne, but is consulted on matters of national importagce. Moreover, she has a place at his table, an honor acceded to non» of her predecessors. The Empress Fuska has shown herself worthy of these addition*! privileges. She is an energetic patroness of the Tokia Women's Hospital, conducted on the latest scientific principles. She rides well, and takes ample advantage of the g) mnasium specially erected for her benefit in the palace. Ifc is in her honor that her husband has composed many of his prettiest poems, showing that the bravest deeds have ever been inspired by feminine beauty. Mr C. L. Hasbrouck, a druggist at Mendon. Mich., says ail of the good fcestemonials that have been published by the manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhcex Remedy could be duplicated in that town. For sale by G. W. Hutchins, Balclutha and Kaitangata. At Yarmouth Primitive Methodist Temple a .novel wedding ha? taken place, the Rev. W. A. Hammond uniting in the holy bonds of matrimony a piir of deaf mutes. The bridegroom was a Cambridge tailor, and his bride a milliner of Yarmouth. The bridegroom's brother, Arthur Clark, also a deaf mute, gave the bride away, and was also « best man.' He had himseif a month since married a lady who was deaf and dumb. One bridesnnid was similarly afflicted to the bride, and in the wedding party were several others. The service was interpreted by Miss Hoggett, the instructress at the School Board's Deif and Dumb School. For the purpose of removing horses from burning buildings, *?. new firemask has been placed on the market, consisting of a hood to cover the eyes and nostrils, to prevent the hcrse from seeing the fire or smelling the smoke, the device being easily slipped over the animal's head and fastened with a strap. You may hunt the world over and you will not find another medicine equal to Ghamberlah's Co ie, Cholera, and Diatrhoc* Remedy for bowel complaints. Ifc is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by G. W. Hutchins, Balclutha and Kaitangata. The Bordeaux Training Company has adopted sunbonnets to protect their horses' heads from the heat of the sun, as, an average of 12 horses died yearly from sunstroke. Since the horses were bonneted with this contrivance, which is made of rushes, and resembles a high-crowned hat, bound with red braid, has holes in the top for the ears, and is tied under the animal's chin, there have been no cases of sunstroke. The loss which the Company suffered taught it, for its own sake, to recognise that horses have nerves. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals at home has taken up the matter and it is said that large orders for horse bonnets have been placed with certain manufacturers. A man in Canada is constructing a boat which, he says, will cross the Atlantic at the rate of 100 miles an hour. It is in the form of a gigantic cylinder, and the passengers are to be enclosed in an evenly balanced floating hotel, which will remain stationary while the outer shell revolves on the water.

The New Woman is gradually working her way into all professions, and, indeed, into every field of work. We hear of lady doctors, lady lawyers, and lady divines innumerable, but Miss Ada Hammond is the first auctioneer of the gentler sex who has come to our notice. Miss Hammond has been an auctioneer for nine years, has held sales throughout the English provinces, and recently wielded the hammer at a large ssile afc Myddelton Hall in London. There will be little work for inventors if one knew all that Nature has provided for our use. On tho shores of Alaska and British Oulumbia the seal fishers have recently discovered a new member of the finny tribe, which they have named the 'candlefish.' It is of the smelt family, and is so extremely fat that on being hold up to the light it is almost transparent, the backbone being quite visible. When the Alaskan wants a light he takes one of these fish, dried, sticks it into a crack in the rough wooden tablo and lights its nose. The fish burns with a three-candle power, and a large one will give light for three hour-, the fat acting as wax and the spine as wick. Women in Germany seem to take up many extraordinary occupations. According to recent statistics there are in Fatherland three ' lady chimney sweepers/ fifty-threb women slaters, seven women workers in armory, nineteen clock makers, fifty road makers, fourteen tinkers, 379 blacksmiths, 309 masons, and 200 marble workers. There are even some women who work in quart ies and sewers. Li Hung Chang's visit to England is said to have had the most beneficial effect on the destinies of women in China. Since his return he has appointed the first Chinese lady practising medicine in her own land to be* physician to the women of his household. Two delegates, Miss Wang and Dr Eng, are to represent the Celestial Emp-re at the Women's Congress in London in 1898. The latter is the' daughter of a mandarin who was converted to Christianity ai.d graduated in an American university ; and she obtained the degreec of doctor of medicine at the Women's Medical College, Philadelphia. She has been so successful in the healing art thafc sbe is now known as the Miracle Lady.