MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 August 1863, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

From the Home News, May 26.

The oldest of Italian patriots, the venerable Ruggiero Settimo, has just died at Malta. This eminent man was President of the Government of Sicily in 1847. The Mercure Aptesien states that a German has just invented paper cups, which may be used for drinking the hottest liquors, and the cost of which is only one centime! A Frankfort journal states that the Principality of Lichtenstein, the smallest sovereign State of the Germanic Confederation, containing only 6200 inhabitants, after receiving a constitution last year, has just witnessed the establishment of an official journal, appearing once a fortnight. As there is no printing office in the State, the first number of the Lichtenstein Gazette was printed at Feldkirch, in the Tyrol The present representative of the family of Washington is, as was the late John A. Washington, on the Southern side. His name is William T. Washington, remarkable as a tall man, reticent, grave, very much resembling the Father of his country, and having a beautiful daughter, also a secessionist.

The dog show at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris, has proved a decided success, as many as 30,000 persons having visited it in one day. The number of dogs exhibited is 850; among them are 11 French packs of hounds, and by their side the Duke of Beaufort's splendid dogs. The animals are placed in large sheds, and can be examined without difficulty.