ODDS AND ENDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5949, 5 March 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

ODDS AND ENDS.

.;The,Sacramento^ee advises pianHna wUd rice in the lakes and, sloughs, so ts to afford food for wild fowlsV "r- ■•

,T^| Amencanmonmnent to?the-■memory of Edgar AUen^Poe will^hu sald,:fje 1 b'Oßfa-tas-relief-representihg-the sceDe ot . t^. 9 ,^*v,ea,' r ,with the,Tpoet as the hero full-size. ' . ' - ■■-.■' ' •--'■ ■'

.. There are said.to; be three miles of bookcaßes,.eigWi feethigh, in th^reaclihg-'room of the British Museum; It v lighted -by an electric light; in the dome. -: :-°: , :i , ■'•'.^ hPV Catnliridge memorial in favour of fl^? a 1^ B- A; d^ee to women who have fulfilled; the collegiate as well aa. the other conditions of gradaatioa is to ibe pressed oa ; the Sanate of the UnlveMlty at an' early •date^ ...--. ■■::,. '. -'...,' •.:. ;.'.. ;; -:: I; ■•. ■■*

. The first school for idiots was organised by Dr Eaward Sequin, who lately died in New York. There are no w- 75 similar Instita. -tions in civilised countries. '"" ■.■•*""*•■•■

It is said that ther annual income of Great Britain amounta:rto-lbyo- thousand millions sterling, and that two hundred millions are yearly added to tKa already stupßodous miss of/British capital' ' r r ' '

It ia iaidthat the valne olseoffering« at a recVnt heathen feistival In- India wnoaated to.£2oo,ooo,.must of whioh cinie from poor people. :■:;-: .r;...-...->■■' '{'.■[■. "■.'.■'.'■'."■':. '■■■:-

T&e London Hospital Sunday Fund for last ye« exceeds; by, £474 the' Urgent previous oollebtion in the metropoliß, the total amount being £30,411. ;■'r+,V-'■■'"■- :- !i,''r^.:" Fiettph;ymtors----tO''rtiH6--; Melbouni« Exhtbition:, are^ anxioais to get np a large lottery «o as to enable: exhibitors to get rid of theirgbods.: -" - ■-■■■'• •■■■•■'■ "

The Australian Churchmanfiaya that larrikinism of a.very odious etamjp is,rampant outside moat Sydney ckurck door« on Sunday evenings.:.:; "'.; :t '.--J. ;/ ■■■■.h :;r;--;..:.r

■ Sir .Francis' Lycett, who:ig;lately dead; hac, during the last tea years, .given over £50,000 'towards the erection of < Wcsleyaa ohapels in Lpndda.';;;'■';' '■■^^■■:o

A-Ma-Peng, ■ Sscretiirjr of ? thy' Chiuess Embassy in Paris, ias been appointed Ambassador at Vieana and Rome.' He ia thirtyfour years old, and very rich' He Bpeaks French fluently, and ia; a cousin -of the Pnihe33 Emperor. • ■-.-•;,:- .....V ■^Mr'Tbm; Hughes, is booked for answering thousands of letters as to his '".« New Rugby* He has also been lecturing :to a crowded audience at the ; Working Men's Colleee, Ormond street, London; V." _The. late census shows "the', population ■of the United States to be over 51,000 000t Tnree hundred and twenty thousand immigrants are estimated to have arrived at NewYork during 18S0. ;'.-: -/ /; ;> f ItUs'said that the proposed New York International Exhibition in 1883 <will ooßtten millions of dollar*, which it is proposed to raiae by,., the, issue of, stock of two kind* First, the principil intending exhibitors will be asked to purchase preferential Bhares, and when these are taken up the general publio will be invited to subscribe. !>: ■_ A Washington piper tells of fte.wonderml leap of a oat in that city. It says : •• An adventurous and patriotic cat ascended the Washington Monument, the other night, by the stairs whi.h are within. la the morning whenjthemen went up to work; she took fright, and_ springing to the edge, took* leap/of 160 feet. After looking around » little, she proceeded to leave; the plane, and had almost, gotten beyond the shadow of the monsmeat, when a dog "that; stays around the base started for her,: and not 'being in her best running trim, she was easily made a victim and killed." : /

rr The: st*tse cf Spinoza; lately unveiled at Hague, .is'the finst sculptured effigy of • Jew ever erected. • While tie Jem wen a nation their abhorrence.of idolatry' prevented a practice so c jtnmpn .amongst 'the Assyrians and Egyptians',;' since 'thenthey.jiave been nardly popular enough for p'theis "to do for them what they .omitted to do themselves • and nowy afterl numberless monumental representations of Christ and- the Apostles, the first statue ofa Jew is that of • Pantheist. .-The First Baptist Church Jackson. Michigan, was.the yiqtim'oT.V/onrioni lar. ceny lately, some one rnktiog off with thdr cabinet; organ bo deftly;th'lit'tHey do not know where it has,gono..",,.'"'I1::"" ' * A man named Kobert M'Gibbpn, while working on the steeple of the new Free Oharoh, Greenosk, lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of-160 feet, and was killed instantaneously. I'His brother was killed some three weeks before by a fall from the same steeple. ' '■;•:•=;.< The result of the firet trial in tutnina tha glgwtio turret of the H. M; Si 'Inflexible has, it appears, at lastbeen made, aod^thesuoomb has exceeded all ::anticipationfci Ky ill acdouats, 'the ; turret,.:■ containing the two 90-ton gnns,r made the complete! revolution in 60 Beconda. l;f:•.-.- ;--:;..,: : >r .A^ej^io^inarywhirlwindrecentlyswept along the ElEternwiok road, near Melbourne, destroying a fenceand the front of a cottage while the atmosphere immediately around was perfectly Btill. ..i; 'v;;'

■■. It has been fully resolved .by'the Geueral Committee of'the rP»l eß tino;Exploratioa Fund to,complete the Buryeyxof the Holy Land, by: extending:it to -the east of the Jordan. - ; > • =

An accident has * jast .> occurred at the rocket factory id Woolwich -Arsenal. A. 24----pounder rocket exploded whes ih'rthe course cf manufacture.'/ Theroof of'the bnUding waa blown off, and three men'were injured, two of .them being sariously bnrned. The photophone.'or the turning of light into acuad—thie inYenttonVof ■. Pnifeßsor Bell —is attracting much attention from Boientifio sopietie?, and Professor Bsll, has beea explaining it b3fore densely orowded andiencf s

'Endymion'is to be translated into Ensfitßn, bat it has first to be, pwaed by the cenßnrcf books;for. fear it \ should contain anything unp'easant to the.Czar.- . The Czarewitch,, the : heir, to', the Russian throne, :1s -intensely popular; with all classes lnhisowncouatry. He ie prodigWsly Russian la feel-ng, has showa a decided will and atrong character in-all.the public duties that hava bo3nodnimiltad:tohini,'aud is an excellenfc husbind andfather,'-'-"-I: .; Fjfty-twcipeHqna.died in BhiiUnd in the year 1880 leaving fortunes ~'6t £100 000 and upwards. Three of them left more thaa ■ mil'ion—the Duke of Portland, £1 500 000 - Mr John WilHams, of.; Gaerhayes Oastle Cornwall, £1,600,000; and -Mr Thomai Ii&ooo^ -i|nberburst!: ;;:^ L»IW«hi5 o.

Proftsior Virohiw,- Professor Momanen, and Professor Hildebraha all appear in public condemnation of1 the anti-Hebrew agitation in- Germ any. 'The. G/own' Prince »nd nia wife also omit no, oppbrtunifcy to show their disapproval.; Prioca Bismarck h»s never pretended to like the Jews, but he big made. uae of them: as ccoaslon has offered uom time to time.i; *, :: -vA; v . ■ ■