MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 31, 26 September 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Tilers' is. so> maeh talk about education just now,, that the utterance of at* accomplished peer, tli.e- father- of a celebrated, ov rather notocvo«,» young nobleman, is ; wo-r-lfcy of record. The pere> terrihfa wa* reproached with neglecting the education 'of his snn by a friend, who insisted that abo>ve all things a nobleman should be 1 well educated. "■ Should He ?' responded ; the incorrigible parent. " Look at me. I 'am said to be the best educated nobleman- in England* lam not worth a six* pence iri' the world* The oolt shall' be j trained differently,, and must go his own gait." Be has. There is some-thing ia old |O.Uage ; s-tn bios afoor all. I have heard! of a lady i decorating her bedroom wrth them j bat : a friend of' mine has done better still. He has made a collection so complete that he 1 was induced reluctantly ta part with it for ' £8000 the other day. The Viceroy of Egypt hns ordered a magnificent musio bos — the lnrgeftt most ! «.)stly, ur,d naost tnseniom* article of the I kind pvt-r manufaotured— to be sent to him to Cairo, or wither to Alexandria, | lor his summer residence is within cool i round of the hipping sea. I cannot say if Ut» good old English fiune *' Mon^y in both pockets " is played by the instrument, but I should imagine not, I What would you think of such an an--1 nouncemonfc ;is this ia a respectable bam and beef shop ? •* Hams let oo hire for din»er parties?' 1 Nevonhele-ss this is what they do in Paris. Y.>u goto v shop [ where thpy sell hum rotfiil Uy the slice, ' and pou say : " I harp got n dinnerparty 40- morrow, and [ want to havp a hot ham —the largest and finest, you have." 'I libse pjctraordinary aniules called ■•JMUibjns de Y"rolf " (please put iv tlio c) ar<« as big us a whole «he n p ; und tlv larger they are ilko Uetr.f»r < he qunlitv nt t»»R meat. Now in Kn^liiU'l the euoriu<ms ham would !ia <£ ' i U- p- a ni^htiimtv lor vviji-ks orerany ■vi linu-v hnincliold. In Paris, however, you pny simjilv. II. ti! is a fact, wonh what it may be. r e t • H ! I, '••,■ '-. -!i '";■•/ \ "'!i. Iridifi'

papers to hand t— ln one town, Banualoro every month 5000 rupees ore be.uM contributed towards tho Turkish cause. If all India helped tho Porte liko this, "Turks" would soon rise. It must be remembered that Bangalore, though a great South Indian Europoau military station, is by no means sucth n centre ot MaliomeJanism n« HjrAwliad, Lahore, and the rest. But floating learos tell which w»y the current riios 5 and it should be home in mini that Indi* pisses*es a population of iibmn 300,00«),000, one in seven of whom is a Moslem. If universal war does not prevent its being held, tho French Exhibition of nest I year will have some specially attractive featuroa. There is to be n grand central avenue, in nliieh the buildings allotted to h he Various nations aw 10 terminate, th& frontage of" each-representing some re raarkable historical building ot' tho country to which it is assigned. Thus the jfUcadeot the Belgian section will represent the spli-ndid Hotel dc Yillo of Brussals, A cascade will flow down from the Palaoe of the T rooadero, cross (lie Sein* conduits, audi supply water (or thi* mae-bU iiery of the Kxhibition w\ the Wi.injp de Mars. It will be surrounded by four colossal groups of statuary, personify lag by groups of animals the four quarters of the world. Europe has boon intrusted to M. Cain, Africa to Fromoit, Asia to Jacquetnart, and America to Rouillard. Australia is not spoken ol ; but might at least be grouted a kangaroo aboat to leap over the cascade. At the instance of tho Bishop of Melbourne, Dr MoocehoiiHo, a plan, has been I set on foot fos th» religious instruction ot j Church ot England children attemluurf. state schools, under the seeulas systeuk of Victoria 110 religions school] it permitted, and there are Sunday *cho>>ls belonging to the denominations,, it is felt that they are not sufficient. What v wanted i« & school foe imparting religious Instruction to. children during the week. The bishop,, who has entered into the subject with tlio energy and eatbu*ia»m whiolv characterise all bis proceediiig,s in connection with church affairs, has-deli-vered addresses in Melbourne and the suburbs, whette- church societies hare been formed to undertako the work. In Melbourne an in&iential meeting was held at the Atlienamni, at which the Chief Ju*« tico pyosided. and every where the Binhop's appeal has hesn heartily rusponded to. A good mitny members have enrolled their names, but the societies have not jet had timo to become thoroughly organised. Xt is not long since, says a Melbourne CO* respondent,, that the Mayor of Hobarl Town, sent owf a- gig-antic nalmon weigh* ing vevt'ral ounces to a medical man in Melbourne, as the produce of the Derw»>nt. The dictor in qu'«tion adornod with several thouiand pounds worth of diamond*, a> ho usually does on festivo occasions, andl invited a large number of his Irit-iulß to banquet oil' tlii* itnlmon. Tho hMt was so aduurablv vu<»ked that tht 1 doctor afterwards prescnUsi the cimk with a vuluablu g,old medaU *" suitably iusirribfd" 111 tWt» rej>o*ii!rs sny, as a fitting iivenento of the- gn-at evwit.. An tidinir.ibJf engraving iv tho Mullioiirno Flinch ol' tilic bediuiuotvlfd ilot-tw ri-iin^ in staler armed with nut en innous ii>li slice aii-1 fork to divide a «aliiv>tt of thepropoutioas oi' a juvenile sariimts «v iiupneHSiHli the Mayor ot lluijail Tow 11 thut lie Ikk ii/>»v S.-IH two more- *nliiv>n dikilw Mayor i»t' Alflbouiiwv Thi<^disim<;ii«xUfc>i Mugislniio ri'pnili'd the uf the doi'ltir lie siininioiu'il an illu-ttriom d uti'-r yitrty, at which the gcntiineru^^ of the two Haliuon »us gravul^ disciisseiL Some ol the guests lUiiintniniMt ttwt they \ were bom fid* satinoiu wliil^nne- of tli9iu declared that they wer* »ilittin, trout. Considering that tlw colony ha«] just bought Mp .\lar4tall Wood's replica of Daphne tor £lol>o>, \w might hive waivod 11 scruple aud politely a«suirod the Moiyural efitertuincr that he- nevov tasted lUOfe genuine- snlmon in his lifev On the- purchase of Livings motion* nothiug «cry noteworthy waaiiaid, and yet what opportunities it would have afftrded. I onro knew an old rector who. was so worried by people cooling down ostensibly to- look at the- living but in> rcalky to se« \\o-% snon, ke waa Ojjely to. leave it, that lie began to-fchitek the" nest pruscn. 1 tation " would really bo an eligible investments Ho foJb hale and) hearty enough but still these perpetual visits of persons who hoped to find him with qhc leg inthe grave began to tell on him. One man brought Ibis wife, and 1 as they lookrd oser the rectory together,, openly spoke of the improvements they should make (in case they should make up thew minds to buy) when it full into their hands. At last he hit upon a plan to cool these speculator*. Whenese* they, King ab hw trout door, he gave his servant orders to sny that lus masker-was ll es&rciain2 the colt upon, {Kaifustrd at sno-U evideuee of his rudte feealth, tiiey aiways- went of in a ras?<». _. The editor of the Kevue des Deux Mondes, jiisb dead, was a man who made many/ eaemies» aod f»v friends. Buloz fought his way up and up, until ho be* came editor and 1 sole proprietor of the now famous I'fevr&w, but ho had kw battles. Lite*arj rivalries, apsang up about his path, and 1 , of course-, he gave mortal offence all times to exk'eat sons, of genius. In the Atbffnaum of Jan. 20; last there is a sketch, of his career, written by tbe dashing pm of Edmoncl About^ It is 1 very trenchant, denies to Buloz the pos* ' session of generosity,, gentleness, or esprit j aad credits him with close-nsffedness, sliabbinesn, and a bard asgularity of ohnracter. Dumas once liad a falling out with Buloa. and when Bway upon his travels, the gay romancer was wont 80 : direct his letters to b c Paris j mrnal lie co-ireiponded for in thii fashion :— " Aft Marseilles, and 260- leagues from 80102 the imlxcile." And About— who quarrelled with the rann over tne price to be paid for his powerful aad striking tale off Folia— says of Bu!oa that be died at the a<*eof74, tk closing Ins 0110 eye, and re« signing* in default of esprit» the vigorous breath that wed to animate him." But he confesses that the " executioner of the 1 Hevue des Deua Mondes " was not a common man } neither was he a fool, ' as the Review and the millions of francs, he left behind him amply testily. M, About is justly a little prejudiced, ve»jf elparly. I >ne Hay Bnloa was Iwing; Aumptouslv entertained by M. de Pont Martin, n contributor of his. who own«d a snlendid eliateaa atv-i deni»«n''e in th>) south of France. When taking leave— <l he blory is .M. A bout's— of his host, the e.ntor remarked, " Whi«u you huve *ueh a irne park an this you ought not to ask to* for , ■■ivnnn.t for your copy." Tbig briogs to

nne's miod tho dilemmi JeßVe y fora Uituaetf io when he had to reg leu t Pajto Knight's ocoeptance— wh > had » mantio of £10,000 a year— ot" a cheque for 2 guineu* for that, short article of his own on the topograohy of Troy. M. About prefise* to his account of Huloz a French epigram, which he says was current in Paris a qunrter of a ceh'ury ago. It rwns somothiu^ in this style : — Buloz, so nhnrming, as one knows— Whon death chad claim the groat offender Will have a single eve to clchu, Bat not a scrap of soul to render !