MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8124, 8 November 1894, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

The estate of Glencoo, Argyleshire, was bold, on September 0, in Edinburgh, for Ll5/JOO, being L 2550 above the up* Bot price A Shoflield cabinetmaker committed suicide in a horriblo manner. In a fit of madness he completely cut off one of his hands and bled to death. Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., will upend & portion of the Parliamentary recess In making an inspection of tho fortresses of the eastern frontior of France. Advices from tho Argentino Ropublio state that 300 public schools in thab country havo boon closed for want of suflioienb funds to maintain thorn. An English mile is equal to 1760 yards. In the Scottish mile there were 1984 yards, and 2240 in tho Irish mile, and a Welsh milo was equal to four English ouea. Tho Earl of Airllo has become a patron of tho Church Society for tho Promotion of Kindness to Animals, and tho Bishop of Argyll and the Isles a vieo-prosidenb. A jug has been invented with a tub« ! from the i'iui to the bottom, so that in drinking tho liquid is drawn from tho bottom and no froth reaches tho lipa. Reports again come from Florida thab tho alligator is rapidly becoming extinct. It is reported thit fully 2,500,000 of them havo been killed in tho labt 12 years. There will in future bo few boy smokers in tho Scato of lowa, Tho Legislature has passed a law prohibiting thu sale of tobacco to anyone under 15 years of age. A supposed miraculous fall of manna in Mardin and Diarbekar, Asiatic Turkey, has been found to bo duo to deposits of a species of lichen which was carried by winds, MrCharlos M'Ausland, manager of tho Dublin branch of tho Belfast Banking | Company, committed suicido by shooting himself at his suburban residence, Belmont, Kingstown. A memorial from tho Nowapapor Society has been sent to Lord Rosobory protesting against tho canvassing for and iiibortion of advertisements in publications issued from Government offices. In Paris you can boo hundreds of womon 'cyclists in tho Boia and in tho streots, and as for the divided akirfc and tho prim knickerbocker thoy aro taken for granted, and no ono thinks twico about them. It is rumored that Miss Jay Gould id engaged to a brother in-lavr of Princosa Beati ice against tho wish of the Queon. Miss Gould is said to be tho richest wu married woman in tho world. It is said that the longest continued cataleptic sloop known to science was reported fiom Germany in 1892, the pationb having remained absolutoly uncoiibcious fur four and a half months. Tho company which built tho railway between Joppa and Jerusalem Ins failed,, and it is even huggested that tho railway may in a few years bo abandoned for lack ot sutticionb business to pay expenses. Spalding has lobt its giant, an inmato of tho local workhouso, who has died from pulmonary consumption. After death ho measured Oft lOin, and tho collin which contained his remains w&a 7ft 'Sin long. What is claimed to bo tho oldest specimen of pure glass is in tho possession of the British Museum. This specimen is a small lion's head, which bears tho name of an Egyptian king of tho eleventh dynasty. Mourners at Parisian funerals aro furnished with little wads of cotton nith which to wipe away thoir tears. Tho tears are then preserved, and are supposed to possess rebtorativo qualities in case of fainting. It is estimated that more pooplo in Biitish Central Africa aro killed by crocodiles than by all tho wild beasts pub together. At Teto annually 00 pooplo thus lose their lives, and at Chikwawa alone labt year ton wore carried away by crocoJilcs. Tho man who chalks on his window an inscription which reads T^n OT from tho street has been matched by tho master of an English fishing-smack, who after pitching his boat, determined also to paint tho name on tho utorn. To savo trouble, ho oporated from tho deck. Then ho went a&horo to admire his handiwork from a distance, and read : jJJaKjg. i A tailor living in Swinemunde Suwjse, after receiving a "sound cudgelling,' 1 has had likewise to apologise in tho , " Agony " column of a Berlin newspaper. The advertisement ia as follows: ''I hero with declare that the journeyman blacksmith, Herr Karl X.. is a very honorable man — most honorable { a-d X take this opportunity of withdrawing thg mobt defamatory charges I make against him. Herr Karl X. h&s already given mo a good thrashing foe the said slan* deroiw words, But Herr Sohicdsman (thu intercede?) informs mo that Ilors Karl X, wilt not do go again if I state in a public nawapaper that he 1q aa honor* ablo man, &nd put a th@lw in tht P9st*