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MISCELLANEOUS.

Some old dinner custom* still prevail, The Romano used to rooline at their banquets, and the habit of lying at publio dinnora is common etill. The admissions to the Paris Exhibition from the sth of May to the 30th of June numbered 5,994,000, as compared with 3,343,000 in 1878. A performance* of Shakespeare's " Tempest" an Berlin recently waa reno ired npeci«lly incoresting from the faot Uint it waa Hcoomp*nied by florae cbaruotenstio and offeofcivo inoidontal 4I.UD c, which has been written by Wilheiiu Tauber. " Tannhauser" was performed #for t\e first time in Spain at Madrid iv March laal". The work met with an o. tbu'ftetio reoeption, many portions, inclusive of the overture, boiog rede* m mded. The only other opera by Wagner which has been heard on Sptm<B'i coil ia •' Lohongtin." A. marb'e etatue of the Frinceeo of Walew, ly Ohapii'S, one of tLo uiob 1 kid ua of the French nculptore, iU'i'lohol i'ig cmpleiim in P^ri», and h iotended for prea uU\i>u to the V-ttiorml Ar^ Gallery in Copenhagen, fl-r Royal fiiuhneaa ie represented in a sitting portion, and in a high-neoked d-fSB. j A letter chute is now as much an of lofty nuildings in tho (^roat American oitee as »n elevator, It is a «qnare tube running from the top floor of the structure to the bottom, whore there ia a mailbox, olenrod At regnlar poatal hourw. An aperture in the chute at each landing enables the ocoupanta of Jtho offices on thai atom to post fch»ir letiera, newspapers, or other dooumenti with a<l convenient deainiob,

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North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 4

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MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 4