ODDS AND ENDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 24, 19 May 1876, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

- —'Mdlle. Titiens has had an immense success at Baltimore.- |f f »A report 'th&t Mellle. • Iromreiii* is about to visit Englrfad is Her Kr ons for the casting oIP2G-t<?n gun. m The death is announced, from Amsterdam, of Dr. ilsye, the most popular poet of Holland. • Mr. Secretary Fish lias exonerated General Schenck from any wrongful purpose * in regard to the Macliado claims. ". The Japanese Government - has-pur-chased six large cannon and EfiglsnA antT"3?elguun for a State snbventj#. X. WTlre Jersey States have passed a bill Tritfodrawlng the present copper coinage oflSd. to the shilling, and assimilating it to the English. Sk* Wiiliam Armstrong's 100-ton gun. /,SOB e Italian navy will be sent toAalJj being fired at Elswick. SeJpT otfewill shortly follow. tlienSJr Opera House in Paris amounted to 83J^S||j^g | Ti}ere were 5,000 persons preIt is that neither the civil nor the military officers of the Sultan liave received any pay for nineteen months, and the cash-boxes of all departments, except that of -the JVLirins, are entirely empty. The flussian Imperial train, which is to carry Petersburg, has arrived at Calais. A semiofficial'telegram from St. Petersburg says: —" The Duke of Edinburgh wSI accom- , Ducliess hither before taking a ' command in the British Navy for years indispensable to reaching AdmilSjfg&> rank. The Ducliess will rejoin her hustjpra;; in turn at liis various stations, and willl thus pass next winter at Malta." • A iVlrr Beliiap, United States War SeCrstary. lias resigned office, it hayntor been proved that his wife had to obtain an appointment for a Mr. Maysff portion of the -goo&s to be exhibited at the Phiiadejpfiigr have been delivered at the Mbl- ■ Inbition buildings, including three of Gal- ' lowgyfe much heavy machinery, tana a large part of the articles sent by Messrs. Elkington. Nearly all the contributions from Queensland, Egypt, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, and Japan arrived. The preparations in the foreigt sections are much in advance of those in the American sections. The Netherlands Commissioners have arrived at New York, also the entire Netherlands exhibit, weighing 1,200 tons, which will come to Philadelphia by railway. About five per cent, in weight of the whole of the articles to be exhibited are already deposited in the Exhibition buildings, and large quantities are daily arriving. A large Cornish engine "to furnish pow.;r in the machinery buildings is almost completed. Is<3. will shortly be all up. In the Art Gallery, pic-ture-hanging will begin on April 1. In the main building much progress has been mase cases, counters, and shelving -show the goods. DirectorGeneral Goshorn has established his headquaiders-, at£ the grounds. The British steamerijady Head is expected from Halifax with tlie articles for exhibition from Nova n At Assizes on a man named Cannon was tried for~"the third time for the murder of an old man named Morgan at Kilbeggan, county Westmeath, about eighteen months ago, under circumstances of great brutality. The object of the murderer appears to have been pl'inder. Morgan was found terribly hacked and mutilated, and a reap-ing-hook, with wMch tlie deed had been committed, had been used with such force that a portion of it broke off and stuck in the bedstead. evidence against Cannon, who ifad liVed Morgan, but had left at Morgan's recmest, was altogether circumstantial, tlie cfnsf things implicating the prisoner being the finding^jam>. a huge bonfire in the prisoner's 1 mains of portions of the clothing which? had been worn before the murder. The Jury now acquitted him—a verdict" which, it is said, was received with surprise. From Paris is announced the death of |M. Patin, of the French Academy. M. i P;ytin was eighty-tbxee. Mr. Charles Matthews has returned to England from India. He is now at Bristol,. ; and will be a t the Gaiety Theatre atEaster. . c M. Trupheme, by order opJthe | Minister of Fine isVto execute marble bust of for ■ Museum of Aix (Bouchesßlti Rhone), 1 native place. ■, < • >. The Universit'v has renounced the right of conferring | f degrees without oral exftminatioiikfisi? that? 1 the abuse of the so-called degree m absentia no longer exists in any Prussian'- University. A telegram from Corunna states that the Linthorpe, steamer, of and for London for '-t Huelva, with ore, foundered off on Sunday morning. Five of the •> crew were lost. " J * arT T'

LIFE OF Aiy "7: • Mr. Edwin coiiicumWK (says the " London Examiner,"), has beeifflf 1 under the necessity of beforeSr 1 the Lambeth Police CojS ;his Frederick Best, aged el®en, for abscond-^ 1 ing from his s«vi<fe and .going over to Mr.® William /3£ the Regent^f 1 Music H&l. ~ c inan first " took (as he says) to J - 0 1 teen), he them the noble ? n art of the to stand en-^ 6 tirely in loco paregtis; to feed them, 5? clothe them, and finally—they misconducted 'th^nselves —to them. It w'ss *t£e * exercise of " spanking " pQwprs which seem to chafed, mentally, tli(3 acrobat. Mr. Brown, whose motto .to have been " Spare® the spank the child," found it9ll! necessary to "break a stick over defend- W ant's back. ji|jve.ar at and kick ant." In Germany i f t had even been foimdßli necessary on"se}te£ai occasions to give " a good hidingand he gave it. did Mr, 9% Brown, in a-fine-Brownonian fashion ; andpMf if " Tarms and sides why bruises are but?S a natural and*necessary incident of corpo- p3«j ral the heart of Brown was iioT^uienatecr*from "defendant," re-B§| fractory and upgi'ateful as lie was—not a bit ! For I wards, Brown had kg® let out acrobats to Mr. PI Kesterton, and Jgeceived £2B therefor, he bought out of the money, ass new scarf and a'nc'w carpet to perform J-jl > that ! Yet, such is i t flat this hardened de-; so dark he could not 3 ■'offiSffihe trapeze, and so mate-1 damfeg£, , '?myj!'a i un the. risk of killing : Mr. Mff"'" jyßiy ri '\'"; but he actually ' ; went over." toJVSa 1 ' Kesterton, of the rival % into the "shade all 3 his performances for his old affectionate {! from the flying- | and so-attracting eager | spectaiftjrs ;to witness a more deliciously dangeisf% .performance than any. child had j ever go through before—a 5 the enthusiastic Mr. I " ,-1 7 characterised as j " wond3Sss|g§kAnd wonderful Mr. Chance ! seemed I<s3|§Sfk it though he did venture to suggest w&Cbrit might perhaps be " dangerous ' suggestion, soon , disposed" Mr. Kesterton's reply. " iSTo doubt "it was dangerous "—if' 1 defendant ' missed his mark. 111-used Brown ! 111-used mother" ! Mr. Chance, instead of ; ordering to be given Tip to his J mother, to have the full benefit—poor | mother ! —of her child's " performing on flying trapse blindfold," for Mr. Kestci'ton." <>i'uered?hi m to go to the Newport.gjtet fedustrjal School for three months." A QtTAIvEil. TRICK. Yvli stranger lias 'climbed four pairs . of stairs,"and mai'o a half-dozen turns, he finds himself at the door of the chief edi- , torial room of the Philadelphia " Bulletin." j Max sits jure inside, and as the' ; stranger "enters he is seated at AcC&eriM right" Ho is seated in j fashioned gfjdiiit-bottomed chtei. j bottom of gone to look formic $ dust of the PBgrim Fathers. There' itrV ' newspaper spread over the vacant j spot, % \ and Mr. Adeler cheerfully fbmarks §&.• ' ■$ "Sii right down—fine day —wliji§| did you arrive ]" . V; The man sits down. If he is a small man he sits on-j-the floor, his feet slant towards the ceiling, *his knees dig-'into his ; throat, and his _bsfik is dreadfully bent, ; while his hat "Fell ' through, "W?" .Mr. Adeler, as "he loolfs round. ,? Hoiv d 9 you : like Philadelphia?" h The stranger struggles, finds liiipself 3 fast, and asks to be extricated. He is politely informed that it is against the rules of the office to extricate anj 7 one who falls tlirough the chair in which Afj|emns Ward used to sit, ami is in just the €bndi- j tion he left it. ;■ " Doc-s Philadelphia come up to your -ij ideas j" kindly Mr. Adeler, as he opens another exchange. The stranger setegto work to bust that ; chair or break hrajFback, but- he can neither. He the joke has carried far but is informed that it' 4 is not a joke—t-Jiafc no man around office was ever more sober in his life. Thd*vieiim "tries to laugh, and that five miu.w-tes more will finish his spupvl } column. - ' 'S'' " <ih, no,lt won't," replies' Mr. I c< Vvl;y, 1 have known men wiio wer®pn~ the vorg-j of tlie giiive to live in tion foi*~sne -hour and sixteen minutesj 5 ' jAifer a (quarter of an hour or inori|Jpr. meiuoiy of William Penn. then spent in debating can be extracted under editor is called in to cast a of tlie MS. of a Ch/istmas IS®. possesses the flßfejof the eafly stories \vritten for J

•\ xtcaordiruuy of drowning jt cwwufcly m MatTowbom|>ublin. Th«fw in in- Mn" lano a well- which i:i»nimtmu:ai;i'« with a ;<treani which w trow VBil over. A woman uatUM'i !>virt}-h;»t rai««.-;«I tin- trap of khw wet!, and wa* ab«»nt tu draw watm\ when Hii« ov> riiat.'mtxd |ior««lE an<l fell in. AIL .:l.iorttt to rt i>>vm>' tin? body proved fuMv:. Lit i* Iluit if. luiH h(M;rt carried eiowri the *N't-:t>n, i) the Litlwy, pawning tttvler iHvhlitv t-axtle In- inn wav/and it; u expects i that if will >!" tuMTswiM-y r... midve an opening near t heckle ut Ji. Hj >< >h w iierw a .scrakintf has been iliiccil- aeros* felif? nri'stream t<> .(•(■>vt:rih aow»» to fcUe ttosk fron» the lill'ey I»y way of khe newer. A few «l»y» aijo- tl vto tt! died in Den.* Ivoat-l, )unihw, an man named -Joint f)avida spirit dvalev, who during his life isplayed considerable Mcoentrieity. S"HX•en years ayo lit' hail himself measured | M [ a colli u mailt! for the final reception of m Inniy. Thai! net very pleanani; eomunion, iic kept urn If v hi* ' >tu I, ami to any ■icn<t who might have occasion to visit ij, house ho was always ready to show it. 'ufortunately, however, when his end did nia>, it. win found that froru tin- of me am I it.-' nil uit'court exhibition* is luwl ~■,.11:(',■~11:(' a likhlo frail and worn, anil had to i- repaired tor thf reception of Uis b«dy. iblioutfh kh- ptacfc'ee of providing eofHust irfoi'o death is a novelty in this country, in wull known to have 01-itai.ru--.I in * 'lii-ua inn time immemorial.