MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 284, 21 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

OFICM. A young man at Chelsea died from the effects of opium contained in pills which the servant at a dispensary had given him in ignorance of their composition. WAS HE St'tTKD I "Atlas," in the fferhf, says :—"The British householder is nothing if not viri tuons. I copy the following advertisement : from a daily contemporary, and stncrJy | treat the scrupulous and prophetic adver- ; tijer iwaj be suited :—" Girl (r-'s;>«.-ct.iM-.-) ; wanted, about 16. Will have good home, 1 and no children. Inquire, street, | King's-cross-road." WEIN' AMERICA. Wedding presents are goinr out of \ fashion in Yankee land. It is now iuh i! j to put in the corner of the wedding invitation card, "No presents American brides, also, now rarely wear white, while no lady over twenty-two is entitled by the present fashion to a bridal veil. I OSK or THR ADVANTAGES ( F MATRIMONY. Hu used to cramp ids feet tip in little bo,.ts and Eimp painfully to her ru:;id'.*t;cw | every Saturday everrti',', t>ut the morning after his marriage- he went into a shoemaker's, dn«w a e!:nlk mark aro-md '-is foot, about an inch from it on both sd les at tUw heel and t'>e, and told the man to make him a pair of boots after that- pittern. Oh, there's sweet liberty ' thrr.-'s balmy, l.w>«ridEess free-foni in the mar/tag© state, of w.deh sore-he; tat and distorcj.i bachelors have no c inception. W M»£>EKF"L. If the proniifs > Pf>ntair:ed in following advei-tis.-.ttju: e it !V»;u th.r frlt'i I'int "■ is t'>vr linguistic pow.u*.* of Balaam's aSA will ceas-j to l>.? tti try dbvu : j "To Eie s >td, s : x c«»ws. No. 1. A j beautifid c»w, calved eitfit d svf, wi k -h sf>f tulid f a'; at toot ; ag>o 1 milker. N>>. A cow to cdve in af>out fo-irteen d-tys, and great pr.nnis". T;e other twoe »v* are cdved af'out t days. a;> I »''! l spmk fin- thriwdw. For ]*ai*ticniars. apply at ir> I'pper Bucktnghaiii-str«.et f< r fc>ur days." THR ETFEf'TH OF ftrJIMtTR Kf!AT. We clip the foltowing from the Melbourne Ait" :—"" The of Australia do not feel the heat in suminrr nearly so much as white people, arid iwoutt! appear that trees indigenous to t!ic soil are in like manner proof against heat and drought, tvhetvns th«-> 1 imporied sutler severely. A visit t'» the suburbs where tire ground has not been irrigated during the recent «hy weather will show that Kngtiah oaks, elms, poplars, and fruit trees have been shedding their leaves as though it were tEte end of aut-uuin. whilst the leaves on the indigenous tr»'cs ar« firmly set and green, although not ftvsh looking." may i kiss ror, i Miss NetEson seems to have had a peculiar experience her recent visit to St. Louis. After her last performance there, oti her return to her hotel, she found the corridors blocked with a crowd of between seventy and eighty ladies, who had come in a body to see her personally and express their admiration of her. After they had delivered their verbal congratulations. and what t'-e reporter calls " floral tributes," otif? of the yotur,' ladies announced Iter intention of " kissing Neilsofn, if it was perfectly agreeable/' It is difficult to imagine anything mors agreeable; and the ceremony passsd oil" with delight to all concerned. HOW SHAMF.FCL. According ff> the Kctr Zmhx»4 Mmil the consequence of appeafin against the valuation of a piece of property in Wellington was distressing fo one gentleman. It had been found necessary that Mr. Ames, the City Valuer, should revisit the property in question, and he went there in a cib, for the hire of which he paid ICM. T>o valuation was sustained, and the property holder was ordered to piy the 10j. cih hire and the Court fee. Melancholy fate. The property holder on hearing about that ten shillings looked gloomy ; but gloom was nothing to the expression which his face assumed when Mr. IS.ifcer, Clerk of the Court, called out, with affable. ;dry briskness, " Come and pav the coat* !" Hj expressed disgust at the law which compelled one man to pay for another's cab hire, and seemed eenerally to think that the liberty of the subject was being interfered with.