MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2196, 26 August 1890, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

It beiug reported that Madame Bernhardt might require to have oue of her legs amputated, an American offered her a large sum for tho dismembered limb, which lie intended to embalm and exhibit. There are 000,000 children in Great Britain insured at this moment:, and the Bishop of Peterborough believes j 600 are murdered every year for the insurance money. Mr H. Barker's store of amusing j juvenilia has by no means bfeu exhausted. He contributes an article on " Naivete and Humor in School Girls " to the forthcoming number of * Home Chimes,' from which we take these remarks by a school-girl essayist on * Pride uf Dress " : " This is a very sinful thing for wovnin as well as gills. We owghter be neat and clean the Teacher tells us, but not to think that ribbins and feathers are tho things that can do it. We should rekillect that when God made that beautiful woman, she was not aloud to ware no clothes at all. Her name was Eve and I have seen a big picture of her iv that nice gallery in the Park. She is standing in the Garden of Eilen, looking strate afore her. She looks lovely. So pink. We owghter feel really ashamed of ourselves, when we think that ie was only after she had done that sin, that she began to look round for some bits of clothes and things. I like to sit on the form afore that picture and think about her, and about the garden, and about where her husband would be if the picture was a bit bigger." Information from the New Hebrides, received via Sydney, states that the Presbyterian Missionary Synod of the New Hebrides closed its sittings on the 2Gth June. About the only question of general interest discussed was a minute — 1. Affirming the desirableness of getting British subjects to settle in the group to aid in the civilisation of the natives. 2. That the Imperial Government be moved so that legal titles might be obtained for lands purchased by British subjects iv the Islauds, 3. That the law is unjust which prohibits British subjects from selling firearms and ammunition to natives, while men of other nationalities are free to do so. 4. That the law should be rescinded or applied universally to men ofall nationalities. 5. That settlers in the Islands be allowed to engage labor, but that all recruiting for outside place, be prohibited. The missionaries recognise the fact that British subjects are severely handicapped as traders, and that as there is already an abundant supply of firearms in possession of the natives, the prohibition serves no good purpose to the natives, but only to drive trade into the hands of the French and Germans.