ODDS AND ENDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5798, 18 September 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

ODDS AND ENDS.

Calisto Garcia, the only remaining Cuban insurgent leader, hss, it is laid, embarked for the United States. The total expense incurred by the reprerentation of New Zaaland at the Sydney Exhibition was £5191 161 6d. A fugitive slave demanding asylum has been received at the British embassy at Constantinople by Mr Gsschen. Abcut 336 300.000 galons of beer were manufactured in the United States in 1879 and 1,245,600,000 gallons in Great Britain. The manufacture of clothing in Chicago, hai doubled in four years, and gives employment to 30,000 people. The value of the goods nude U $15,000,000 ''■.:"■. The lady writers in France number 1700, of whom 1000 are known ti be'authoresses of novels or tales for the young, 200 poetesses and 150 compilers of educational works. ' The rank of doctor (honoris causa)' has been conferred upon the Imperial Crown Prince of Prussia, by the University of Prague, for the book entitled "Fifteen Daj s on the Danube," reoently published by His Imperial Highness. The practicability of Herr Bydt's method of raising ships wav lately demonstrated at Kiel, when, before numerous spectators, an anchor-stone weighing 30Scwt was raised from a depth of 10 met;era by means of a bsl« loon three metres in diameter.

,In Louisville they are enforcing.a Sunday obssrvance law that shuts up newspaper offices, baouhes hackmen, and restrains policemen, firemen, and telegraph people. The object is to make the ordinance odious by an ectreme interpretation, and so lead to its repeal. ' ,

The total revenue.of British Columbia for

the ex months ending December 31, 1879, was £36,055, whioh includes the Dominion Governor nt subsidy of £20,809. The total expenditure for the came psriod was £36,720 leaving a defioit of only £685. The Argus says that the day may oome before many years are over whan the possession or non-possession of Pacific coiling stations for wardships or merchantmen will decide our commercial. position in waters whioh should be peculiarly our own. ~:■:■;■

Garibaldi has presented to the museum of Senor Bomero Ortiz, at Madrid, the poinard used by him in his Anfwjcan, expeditions. In an accompanying letter to Senpr,,Castelar he expresses good wishes for; the, future of "uoble Spain." ; , ~., ,;,

; The B»nk of England oounts among its clerks in Ihreadneedle street, Sir George Augustus Leeds, Bart., tha descendant of an anoient Cambridgeshire family. Sir Henry Page Dick, desoended from a trusted servitor of Charles 1., is a clerk in the Brighton bank.

At tbe Southwark Police Court on July 9, Anna Man* Martin, 56, was plaosd at the bar before Mr Bridge for further examination, charged with the wilful murder of Eliza Bar-

low, 17 years of age, at No. 7. York road, Lambeth, mutilating the boiy' and concealing it in a box in tbe kitohen. The inquiry resulted in the prisoner being committed for trial. :

The House of Lards Committee has passed tbe preamble of a bill for the construction of a subway, available .for all kinds of traffio, vehicular and passenger, under the Mersey, so as to connect the towns of Liverpool aud Birkenhead. The total length will be 1 mile 6 furlongs, and.'the estimated capital required will be htf-a-million.

Preaching a "Hospital Sunday" sermon in London on Sunday, June 13th, the Bishop of Manchester said there was an unwise disposition to multiply hospitals for special diseases, often only with the motive of benefiting the officials connected with them, and with the danger of the possibility of these agencies still farther pauperising the poor. A statement that an unsaleable skull, said to belong to Confucius, th« great Chinese philosopher, was lying in London, is denied by a learned Chinese, the skull being identified by him as that of Sung Li Tsnng, one of tbe last emperors of the Sang dynasty, 1025-1265. Tbe skull, whici was adorned with pwtle, was carried off by the toldiers of the West during ths plundering of Tuan Ming luan. Italian papers state that somewhat serieus differences have arisen between France and

Italy, in respect both of the new Tunis* Goletta railway and the proposed telegraph cablo between Sicily and Tunii. It was alleged that Italy ii anxioui to ally herself c'oaely with Enplind, with a view to protect herself against the preponderating influence of France in the Mediterranean.

On a little houheur dujiur table to which he succeeded, the Duke of Portland, it is stated, recently paid probate duty at a valuation of 10,000 guioeis. The table is 2ft wide, 2ft. 9in. high, and ISin. deep. The top, frifze, and back are overlaid with old Sevres plaquee, and the mounts are very highly oha>ed and gilt. This, the Artist states, is for fits «izp, tha most v.lunbls pieoe of furniture extant.

The steamer Bulgarian, on her voysge from Boston to Liverpool, |pass 3d June 30th, }nlat.44d,-g N., lon. 47de«. W., the small float LUt!e Western bound to England from New York, mannad by two men, who refused to leave. They had had fair weather. The Bulgarian passed a large number of icebergs, some a mile long »nd 500 feet high,