Miscellanea.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 75, 22 June 1865, Page 3

Miscellanea.

English Climate Changing. — In a communication recently made to the British Meteorological Society, Mr. Glaisher stated, as a result of an elaborate inquiry, that our climate during the last hundred years has altered — that in fact, the temperature of the year is two degrees warmer now than it was then ; the temperature of the month of January has increasted still more, and the winter months are all much warmer. This is the first time we have been able to speak with any confidence of the increase of temperature — an increase dwelt on for years past by very aged people.

Health op Scotland. — The Registrar-General's return for the eight principal towns of Scotland shows a table of births, marriages, and deaths in January all considerably above the average, though the mimber of deatlis was exceeded in January of last year. The epidemic of typhus continues. One hundred of the deaths in the eight towns in this month, one in every twenty-eight, were attributed to violent causes ; twenty persons were crushed to death at the entrance to a concert-hall in Dundee, and six were killed by the falling of a gable in the Edinburgh Theatre. The death of the widow of a schoolmaster, aged 103 years, is among the returns. The month was remarkable for a very low mean barometricalpressure, with a small amount of rain, and much iold. The lowest temperature marked by the therii.ometer was 14°, at Perth, on the night of the 29th. At Birmingham, that night, it was only B°. I In the Scottish towns, the mean temperature 35°5, was the lowest recorded for any January of the ten years since the establishment of the General Registrar-office.

The Raileoad to Desteuctiok. — No man and no woman is safe who has once formed the habit of looking to drink for solace or comfort. While the world goes well they will likely be temperate ; but the habit is built, the railroad to destruction is out ready for use, the rails are laid down, the stationhouses are erected, and the train is on the line waiting only the locomotive ; it conies to us ; and away we go in a moment, down the line we have been years constructing, like a flash of lightning, to destruction. — Charles Seade,