MISCELLANEOUS.
A Paris correspondent says that French boys continue to have an aversion to all games, such as football, which may entail any bodily hurt. '1 he Austro-Hungarian Government has protested against the French Government's increased duty on cattle and corn, and reserves the liberty to make reprisals against France. Great search has been going on for some time past to discover the origin of the appellation, " Tommy Atkins." It has been traced at last to an official blunder at headquarters; and the "joke " at its expeube has been continued ; so long indeed, that its point has been completely lost. Count De Lesseps says the reports that it has been decided to widen the Suez Canal are premature. London has one clergymen for every four bar-rooms. Schools in Italy now double the number there were in 1861. Sandwiches are a great staple in London. Forty thousand men are said to be daily engaged vending them. Leicestershire, England, boasts of a girl who, though barely fourteen years of age, is six feet five inches in height, weighs 252 pounds, and has " only just commenced to grow."
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Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 14 February 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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185MISCELLANEOUS. Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 14 February 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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