MISCELLANEOUS

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8002, 15 June 1894, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

The Queen has given orders for th« sale of tlio entire Royal stud at Hampton Courb paddocks, consisting of 120 horses and colU. Vicount Morpeth, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, has betn married! to Miss Rhoda L'tistrang*. Like hii parents, the bridegroom is a temperance reformer. At tho Botanical Gardens a tabulated card marked by the action of the ami by aid of a burning-glass recorded 211 hour* of atm* shine during the first 67 days of tho present* year. Some Babylonian tablets which have reached the British Museum prove that) faith in one God existed in that part of tho world as far back as 3000 year* beforo Clnut. A London magistrate decided that a cab " public place," four men having been found gambling in a four-wheeler, which wu standing on the rank. A widow lt»dy has left L 16.000 to a French town, for the purpose of providing an income of Ll2 a year to 40 old and childlm couples. A veteran of the First Napoleon ha« just celebrated his hundredth birthday in Franco, surrounded by his children, grand-children, and great-grand-children. A test case has bo«n taken in London to decide whether cyclists, like drivers o£ vehicles, can be made to obserre tho rule) of th« roid. A firm of art dealen in Glasgow have been ordered by the police to remote from their window engraving* of paint* ings by well-known artist*, th« nude, figures not being " fit for public inspection." The Austrian Emperor entertained the Kaiser in Berlin, where dinner for 80 guests was served on gold plates and dishes. The centrepieces and vases were likewise of ma«•ive gold. Lord Brcadalbano is croditrd with owning the most magnificent residence in Scotland. His lordship oan ride 100 miles wist from Taymouth Park to Ardmaddy Castlo, on the Argyllshire coatt, without acttina; hoof off his possossioni. Georco Grossmith had a fight when h« was at sohool with young Orwin -afterwards Dr Orwin, of tho Throat Hospital —and was severely punished by th» future medico. After the fight, Grossmith offered his opponent twoponct to declare that the battle had ended in quite a diflerent fashion, and the oflee was accepted.