ODDS AND ENDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7075, 18 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

ODDS AND ENDS.

—Professor Huxley declares that in all hia travels and studies of savage life he has found no people so wretched and degraded aa those who exist in the poorer quarters of London. —The largest room in the world, under one roof, and unbroken by pillars, is at St. Petersburg. It is 620 feet long by 150 in breadth. By daylight it ia used for military displays, and a battalion can completely manoeuvre in it. Twenty thousand wax tapers aro required to light it. The roof of this structure ia a single arch of iron, an.l it exhibits remarkable engineering skill in tho architect. "Buohd-paiba."—Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At druggists.— Kempthobne, Pros--BKB, and Co., agents, Chriatchurch.—[Advt.] Eighty years ago William Cary wrote from Bengal: "The people here hate the very name of Christ, and will not listen when Hia name is mentioned." Now a missionary writes that the books most in demand there are such as bear 'conspicuously the name of Christ. His name has become the groat attraction and great power iv missionary work there. " Rocgh ON Kats " clears out rata, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, akunka, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists.— l.'t-MFTHOBNE, Pbosseb, axd Co., agents, Cl. -iatchurch.—[AnvT.J - The fondness of tbe coloured raco for highsounding names ia illustrated by a Florida negro named Rorupo, who is wedded to a maid of'his race culled Juliet. Thia couple have have twins, whom they haye named Romulus and Remus, and the family ia conveyed to church on Sunday by a horse named Pontius Pilate.

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—Eiiiiign Reynolds, of the Greely relief pa'ty, is called to mind as the hero of the rnacuo of the men of tho Austrian barque Olivo in mid-ncean in November 1879. Ho was thon attached to the sloop-of-war Constellation. He stood in tbo lifeboat all day in a blinding storm, rescued 12 men, and swam from his boat to the Olivo aftor dark, and set her on fire. His bravery was acknowledged in a gold medal voted him by the Austrian Government.