MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3383, 31 May 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

pROFE'SOR PJIOCTOK, the astronomer, and Mrs Sallio Crowley, were married at St. Joseph, Missouri, and lefc for Chicago yesterday They will sail for Europe on June Ist, and next fall will start on a tour of the world Jtiis wire went to Australia with her invalid husband, hoping the voyage would do him Rood. He died there, and the Professor and widow arranged matters on the voyage back again, Edwin Booth appeared as Othello in London to a crowded house. Garlicld ia poor-his intimate friends pay not worth over £5000 if every item ot his property was brought to the auction block Timothy Maher, the strongest roan in New Haven, is dead. He could hold GOO pounds suspended from hia middle linger. The rulers of the AdventUti m Michigan have forbidden life insurance Bismarck has a salary of £.3,000 as Chancellor of the German Umpire, ihe British States Minister in the German capital receives £7000, and the United States Minister £3,500. , . , Rev, Dewitt Talmage's salary has been increased from £1,400,t0 £2,200 per annum. Queen Victoria, they say, is n great ailvocate of early marriage. An extraordinary era of speculation in diamond stocks is reported in South Africa. The most money comes trotn England, where it seems to be bo plentiful and so cheap that its owners are willing to invest in smythiug. A urent financial reaction, is predicted. . r Glasgow papers state that Catherine Marshall, aged 14, a daughter of a railway labourer, has not taken food since the beginning of the present year. She takes a little water daily, but scarcely sleeps. She is greatly emaciated, but her pulse is perfectly natural. Verdi c: ;>ecfca to have his " Otcllo ready for the stugo by the end of the year. His "Simon Bocauegra" has beeu produced at Milan with gre:it success. It has been almost entirely re-written. The first draft was given iv 1857. It did not please ;in its present form it is a complete triumph for the vetean maestro. A desoiipuuu uf Lord 80-iconslield s appearance iv his collin says :—" His hands are crossed above the winding sheet His face has not the slightest expression of pain, but wears an expression of placid and happy sleep. His eyes are closed, and his mouth is smiling. His face looks many years younger than it did in the latter period of his life," which reminds one of Tennyson's lines :

" His palms are folded on his broant— Thore is no other thii.y exproas'd Hut lons disquiet merged in rost.