Odds and Ends.

Otago Witness, Issue 1243, 25 September 1875, Page 3

Odds and Ends.

Lord Radstock is still preaching in London.

Dr. Oroke, late Bishop of Auckland, has been appointed by the Pope Archbishop of Caahel, Ireland. Farther discoveries of gold have been made in the Black Hills, and miners were flocking in from all quarters. F. E. Abbot defines religion as " the effort of man to pefect himself in all his relations."

The Challenger sailed from Honolulu on the 11th August homeward bound, via Hilo, Marquesas, Tahiti, Valparaiso, and Montevideo.

The Queensland Woollen Manufacturing Company, after many months' struggle, is now fairly afloat.

All the colonies are represented at the Melbourne Exhibition, except Queensland and New Zealand. .^The London religious papers contain Sany appeals for funds to pay the expense of excursions for poor children to places outside the city. The annual receipts of the American Baptist Missionary Union have advanced, in 25 years, from §104,837 in 1850 to $241,970 in 1875.

The secular clause in the Education Bill, after a great fight, was passed as printed by the South Australian Parliament.

A. premium of £100 is offered by the Railway Department of Victoria for the best designs of railway carriages suitable for this climate.

The sugar crop of the current season in Queensland is not expected to exceed 10,000 tons, half of which will come from Mackay.

A thinking being inhabiting a star of the milky way, owes God the same homage as the thinking being in this little globe where we are. Light is the same to the dog-star as to us ; morality too must be the same.

It appears that Robert Dale Owen is really insane. He imagines himself immensely wealthy, and Bole heir to the estates of the Earl of Bredalbane. His physician saya his insanity seems to have been the result of too much mental labour, resulting in fever and a failure of the digestive powers. Of eleven samples of milk sold and tested at Adelaide, South Australia, only one was pure. The question of having separate railway carriages for ladies is under agitation in England and America. The "Baker incident" has caused the controversy. The New York tribune states that it has expeuded a million and a half of dollars on its organisation and extension during the past year. The Spirit of the Times says that only two stallions in the . world ever made a public trotting record as low a* 2.20 ; and these are Smuggler aud Chambrino Gift. The authorities of the Alexandra Palace have determined to organise a great international carrier pigeon match between France and Englaud and Belgium and England.

Victor Hugo says that woman is the Conundrum of the nineteenth century. We may not be able to guess her, but we won't give her up anyway. Tennyson's Queen Mary will not, it is believed, prove a great success upon the stage. Even, iv a literary sense, it ig not going down as well as was expected, "Tell the tenants," said the Irwh landlord to his agent, " that no threats to <ihoot you will intimidate me in the If east." The honest portion of the American public and the uresd are beginning to express their alarm that Tweed, who stole twelve million dollars from the city of New York, may finally escape with his one year's confinement in tne penitentiary. He is now out, but still under arrest.

In the number of letters and papers despatched, ia money orders, and every other branch of Post Office business, Otago is far ahead of every other Province.

Judge Dunne nag a wife and ten young children, for whom great commiseration is felt. After the Government had offered Mr. Dunne a board of enquiry, and after that offer had been declined, there was nothing for it except resignation or dismissal.

It is rather remarkable, says the Leader, that upon the Sunday question the Roman Catholics and the Episcopalians are far more advanced than religious bodies such as the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, and the Independents. Mr. J. P. Armstrong, M.P.C., has been gaining fresh laurels as a lecturer at Lawrence. On the 12th he gave his *' Early Digging Days/ for the benefit of the Church of England Building Fund and met with great success. On the 16th he gave his " Irish Pilgrim," in aid of the Blue Spur School.

Wheat is sent to Chicago and other depots in the United States over a thousand miles, and is finally consumed in England.

It is noted in the New South Wales Government Gazette that Misses Minnie B. Husing and Martha L. P. Payter have been appointed to be automatic perforators at the Electric Telegraph-station,

Cambridge is proud of a young woman so innocent and pure minded that she remarked to her intended the day previous to their marriage : « Now miad J I SSi*™ a y br ° Ught klto the

The bottle factory in Adelaide, under

The San Francisco News Letter has for some fame been making a lively war upon the quacks. Practitioners without diplomas have been published in a black list. A complete directory of the qualified men, together with the names of their Colleges, nas now been prepared. The Government of South Australia have carried a motion in favour of the proposed annexation of New Guinea. The revenue of Tasmania for the quarter ending 30th of June last shows a considerable increase as compared with that for the corresponding period in the previous year.

A window ventilator, extensively used ra America, consists of air pipes set in a board placed under the window sill, the inner mouths of which are bent upward, bo that the inrushing air impinges against the ceiling, and spreads without creating drafts.

Every boy in every school in Berlin is put through a regular course of gymnastics. The same Bystem has been adopted throughout Germany and Austria. It is said that the manager of the mechanical department of the London Times is testing privately the practicability of being enabled, with the aid of electricity, of printing its sheets in several of the great towns of England simultaneously. General Grant, President of the United States, wrote a letter, some months ago, in which he said he should not stand for a third term, unless nominated, and that letter has been the subject of explanation ever since. Commentator treads on commentator's heels ; every day brings its fresh crop of annotations, paraphrases, guesses, and surmises.

Henry Ward Beecher was rusticating in the mountains at last accounts. A committee has been appointed to make arrangements for a pub ie meeting and social reception to him early in the fall, during the w »ek prpceding his resumption of preaching. Bishop Cheney of Chicago of the Reformed Episcopal Church, has engaged several members of the Richings Bernard Opera Troupe, recently disbanded, to train and lead a choir of 100 singers for his congregation. While the Challenger was at the Molluca group, a large number of birds of paradise were obtained, some of them exceedingly rare. These were not dissected and stuffed, but put into alcohol (which is the best way to preserve birds for transportation). An old man in Maine killed his wife, aged 61. His defence is that he did it while dreaming he was fighting a bear. The question of responsibility for murder committed in a dream is a novel one. Mr. Disraeli said at the meeting in connection with the proposed monument to Byron:— "When half a century has elapsed, private character is scarcely an element in the estimate of literal y geniua."

A definite project for a huge hotel, to accommodate 5000 of the people who will flock to. Philadelphia during the Centennial, has been agreed upon.