MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1952, 7 November 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Treasury department at Washington has ruled that sheep and Angora goat skins are dutiable at 30 per cent, ad valorem on skins alone, instead of 10 per can!, as heretofore. During ten years, 235 actions for damages against railway companies have been tried at Manchester. The sale of waste paper from the different public departments in Great Britain realises annually sixteen thousand pounds sterling. The shareholders in the Manchester Aquarium have decided to have it open to the public on Sundays, from 4 to 6 p.m. Wreaths of artificial foliage and flowers made of metal, and carefully colored after nature, are used for wall decorations, and on festive occasion at Paris. A novel watch is said to have been invented by a Swiss watchmaker. The motive power is compressed air. The population of Jerusalem is estimated |at 19,000, of whom, about 5000 are | Mahommetans, from 8000 to 9000 Jews, I and the rest Christians cl various denominations. One of the severest penalties to -which criminals in Scotland were in ancient days condemned waa to be deprived of the use of salt. Polo, which has been supposed to be quite a modern game, is asserted to be almost identical with one that flourished in the twelfth century amongst the Byzantine aristocracy. It is a popular belief in Spain that a stork's egg is a certain cure for habitual intemperance. The celebrated Father Augustin Theiner, of the Order of Jeaus, died at the Vatican on the 10th. August, klker beiiig many years Prefect of the Secret Archives of the Papal See, he lost the Pope's favor by the literary help which he gave to the opposition bishops during the Vatican Council. He was 69 years of age, and wai at the time of his death occupied in writing a history of the Council of Trent A war of races is threatened iv the State of Tennessee. Sixteen negroes were taken from Trenton gaol on the 25th August, by the whites, and lynched.