MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8141, 28 November 1894, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

The total production of whisky in the State of Kentucky for the past your was 20, 133,803 gallons. Kansas, the prohibition State, is divided by Missouri from Kentucky. A "runes" Calcutta telegram says that lately a, mail train oti the Bengal and Nagporo Riilway ran into a wild elephant wh'ch was straying on the lino near Guilkhera. The engine, having carried the animal about a hundred yards, then left the rails with the first five carriages. The ckphaut was thrown down a bank sixty feet high, and was found dead at the bottom. No one in tho train was injured, and no damage done to tho rolling stock or line. As the Bristol express was leaving Ciewe (Station recently a bailor ru lied out of the refreshment-room, and jumped astride the butlers of the last carriage. Iho oflioials tried to btop th« train, but failed. Tho train is tho fis esb on tho ru'lway. Telegrams were bent along tho line, and at Prees, about twenty miles away, tho engine was Btoppe 1 by .signal. Jack was found still astride th.> bull'er, and in answer to tho guard, ho replied, "(Jo on; lam all light." With ditHculty ho was persuaded to leave his position, and to continue his journey iv in ono of tho carriages " Labor " is not " justified of her children "" — at least in Newea-tlo Tno editor of the Evening News, a journal established by working mo» to advocato tho "eight hours day," was lined at tho Police Coutt for assaulting his reporter whom he hid sumin irily dismissed. Tho editor apparently lost his temper whoa he was called "overbearing b.ily,"and put violent hands oti his colleague. Ib came out in evidence that tho reporter was only 17 years of age, and that ho woiked foi this advocate of tho "eight houiii day '' on an avt'ia^e 18 hours a d.iy ! In no malteis lelatiog to composition havo more emns aiisen than in tint of punctuation. An amusing story is old in the Pall Mall Magazine of a lonorter who was describing tho dresses worn by the principal guests Ho fe't it incumbent upon him to indicate that a certain lady, whom wo will call Mrs Brown, and who geueially dressed with remaikably good taste and effect, had not upon this occasi n attained her usual level of excellence, lie therefore frankly clnonicled that " Mis Brown wore nothing in tho naturo of a dress that was remaikiblo. But judge of hib— and Mrs Brown shorror upon reading next morning in ono. of the loading paper.-, " Mrs Brown woro nothing in the nature of a dregu. Thai