MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1122, 28 August 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

+ A Foreigner has drawn a design of a bridge to go across the English Channel, from Folkstone to Cape Grisuez,. a distance of twenty-three miles. The proposed bridge embraces many varieties of style ; some parts tubular, some iron framework open to the sky, and some viaducts of masonry. A story of extraordinary intelligence on the part of a dog (says an English paper) is vouched for by Mr W. H. Pearson, of Darlington :— There hangs in my parlor a photograph of a large Newfoundland dog, which belonged to Mrs Richardson, of LowelL She took him to have his photograph taken. When they got him fixed, with that big tube pointing at him, he didn't like the look of it, and got up and shook himself. He repeated this every time they got things arranged. They could not get him to sit. Finally, Mrs Ricliardson said, « You are a bad dog ; go home IHe sneaked out as if ashamed, with his head down and his tail between his legs. He kept out of sight all day, and the next morning was missing. About noon he came trotting in wagging his tail, and with every indication of a happy dog. He had a package tied round his neck, which Mrs Richardson, on taking off, found to be a photograph of himself. She went down to the photographer's for an explanation, where she learned that the dog had that morning returned there, statidned himself before the tube, and gave the artist to understand that he wanted his picture taken He sat perfectly still, and the artist took it It appears that the " luncheon episode " was not the only unpleasant ness which occurred with the Australians at Nottingham. "A Member of the Team," writing to the Melbourne Argus, says: — "I have to narrate another unpleasant incident. It appears that a leading citizen of Nottingham saw a person, whom he took to be our manager, write on a frosted widow in the Flying Horse Hotel certain linea reflecting on Captain Holden's character Forthwith, this leading citizen copied the lines, and wrote to the Notts committee that our manager had written them. This was on the night of the second day, and on the third day Murdoch received a note from the committee asking him and Beal to appear before that august body in full meeting assembled, and offer any explanation they could. The note did not say 'We are informed Mr. Beal wrote the lines.' but it said in an unmistakable offensive and deliberate manner that he did write them. Beal and Murdoch without hesitation went before the committee, and denied having any knowledge whatever of the lines. It was no use, for the leading citizen was there and positively declared that Beal was the writer ; and, as a matter of courso, the leading citizen's word was much more to be relied on than Beat's. Fortunately, however, the writer of the lines was in the pavilion, and hearing that Beal was charged with having written them, he, in a straight-forward, manlyjway, walked into the committeeroom and admitted that he had written them, and pulling out an envelope from his breast pocket, added, ' Here is the original.' The committee 'humbly apologised to Beal for having for a moment supposed that he had penned the lines in question. Beal however was not satisfied with an oral apology, and so the chairman of the committee sent him a written one. lam afraid it would have gone hard with Beal if the writer of th<? lines had not so ■('Miorously stqipml forward ; and from tliis it is easy to int'or how sometimes t:.'. innoocr.it suffer for t'ae guilty.'