MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.
One of the Monarch Line steamship 3 is being specially fitted up for the accommodation of 1000 members of the Salvation Army, who propose having a " Salvation parade in New York. It is stated they will return iirthe same same ship after making only a brief stay in America. The ' Australasian ' refers to the Bryce-Rusden libel case thus :— "Busden will have to pay about £10,000 for having attempted to relieve dullness with malice." This is a very neat way of putting it. Mrs. Jennie Lind Goldschmidt confesses that she has kept her vocal organs in tune for twenty -five years by yelling at her children. The newest Paris sport is snail racing. The racecourse is a smooth board, at the end of which is a lighted candle, towards which the snails begin to creep when the room is darkened. There are miniature hurdles son the course and a river, and the famous racing snails are handicapped with pellets of clay. A statue of Pharaoh, which had lain buried in the Egyptian desert over 3000 years, has just been unearthed. It represented the Pharaoh who was responsible for all tha Egyptian plagues, and on one side is a statue of a little baby, said to be that of the Pharaoh who perished in the Red Sea.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1750, 18 May 1886, Page 4
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217MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1750, 18 May 1886, Page 4
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