MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1526, 9 April 1886, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

MrC. T. Stndd, the faatoas cricketer, has jp Ten hi* fortune, £IOO,OOO, far the misnoui in China (Inland Missions). After a severe illness an Englishman shared off bis whiskers and otherwise disguised himself. He then went to his doctor and said he was a brother of the sich nun, who, he asserted, was dead. He thus obtained a certificate of his own death, bad his own decease registered, drew the burial money from hi* lodvre and decamped. An advertisement recently appea ed in the Timet and other papers, in which is embodied the following simple bat utmifk-eiit statement:—"To-day Mr R. Kohson. a laborer, receives from the Court of Chancery £250.000, which has been in the possession of the Court 141 years." The Gore t'nu-jn of Tuesday says that the local bailiff covered himself with clory and a member of the " Harmy" with confusion the other night. The burly myrmidon of the law joined the procession as if in searrh of salvation, and marched along some distance with it. When he had gained enou.li prominence, he produced a summons from his pocket and l>an<le<l it to one of the members who glories in the display of a red shirt on every powihle rvvaainn. The baliff was made the subject of special intercession at the subsequent meeting. Nine years aeo Prince Lonis of Battenhnn; was promoted over the he-ids of 160 senior officers, and two days afterwards he was appointed to a ship, and cranted two months' leave of absence to bo to Germany. Two months aco this favorrd personace was again promoted over the heads of nearly 300 ottKcis. I Jit ma return from Darmstadt he ia to be appointed to one of the 1 loyal yachts, the berth of u liUi is among the best prizes of the sen ice. Ben are of pae»aee* of iujorions pnrportin? to m>ke Pennine Hop Bitters: also preparations and Cu'dj siid to contain all the properties of American Hp B ttcrs. l'Ley soring an on account of the C»t>u'ar,tv of the gvnuiue. which is cnlv put nn in r.*c a /iif-paiir! im'vr-iv>lo'ed l>ottl»j, w iMi n"n? "!).• S;a:e" and " Hon Bitters" Mown in 'he r'i** and U the best family medicine ever made. Head A correspondent of th» burner Tt'tymph snrpli.->s the following useful item concerning t ; ie erection of *».<? ! n .... : - " \ir MVav, of T«munu, ha« mule a .-n g -tTiri t'..t w*>i'd lw of immense value to sUf-.-p f.irm-s and o*l<e»a in the erection of wire fen i-j. fit* HTvs.-e*»s that mil it creater strength an I r*-«i«t»*ii--e t■> auimais would l«e g lined bv them if th- ui,»*. i .«**•.! ~f !-e : a/ .all .attached l>v staples on the a of the p w!«. \rere a ti:rlie<l in«i<le an 1 ontdde alternatel*-. He tt!!s tip he has trie<l a fence tl.ia way an I it is intiniu-Iy stionger."