MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1158, 27 October 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

Sow scrupulously exact the English law is — especially the Bankruptcy law. ' CCTo-fc even tl_o fract_onal patfc of a. TDer_.r_tv (says Truth) can be dirverted from its proper channel. The other day a friend of mine in the West received by post a sheet of foolscap,-! -informing him that a doctors estate had been realised, and that a first and final dividend of 11-16ths of a penny in the £.was payable to- him in London ! Who shall say that the Bankruptcy law needs amendment 1 The American census, recently taken, has revealed some curious things. In the State of New York the number of females outnumbering the females is larger than ever before, find this probably accounts for. the unusually large number ?f women in the State below the age of.- 25j .although; according to the census enumerators, "thousands of these women will never see 35. The enumerators /report . generally that they found the most apparent contentment among the middle classes, and the least among the wealthy classes. Among the, richest families in'Bosfcon few ohildren are reported. A good, deal of difficulty has been experienced by the enumerators in obtaining the; 'ages of the females con nected with wealthy families. ' v . The following extraordinary production appears among the announcements of births in a late number of the '. Marlborough Express " :— " Aldous. — At her residence, Lanibton Quay, August 24, Mrs. Aldous, of a daughter. All the family doing immense ; father slightly delighted, with vacant stare andgargle. Brethren of the .O.S.G. D. please gargle and debit. " . . A certain doctor, struck' with a great number of boys under 15. years of age he observed smoking, was led to inquire into .the effect the habit had upon the general, health.. He took for his purpose . 38, aged from 9 to 15, arid carefully •■examined them. , In 27 he . discovered •injurious traces of the habit.- In 22 there were various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the^heart, - and a more or less taste for strong drink. In 12 there were frequent bleedings, from the nose ;10 had disturbed sleep, arid *12 had slight ulceration of the mucous membrane of the riiouth, which disappeared on ceasing the use of tobacco for soriie days. The doctor treated them all for weakness but with little effect till the'smoking was discontinued, when health. and strength were: soon restored..-— British MecKacrt Monthly.

f" I know I'm losing ground sir," tearfully murmured the pale-faced freshman ".but its not my fault, sir. If 1. were to study on Sunday as the others dp I could keep up with my class, sir— in£. deed I could ; but I promised mother ne_.ne-never to work on the Sabbath, and I can't, sir, ne-ne-never " — and as emotions overpowered him, he pulled outvhis.. handkerchief with such vigour that it brought but with it a pocketflask, a black cutty, and a pack of cards, and somehow or other the professor took no more stock in that freshman's eloquence than if he had been a .graven, image. . ' The. site" of the old fort which was _ erected when, the Maories threatened;an invasion of Auckland in Sir Greorge Grey's time is to be handed over to the city. It is between tlie Supreme Court and St. Andrew's Church. Dr. Tanrierjseemstohaye forgotten the existence of his divorced wife. She admits that he lived on water for forty days, but says that the water contained Va South American infusion named matematis. This is probably tfidte, an'infusr ion of the leaves of a species of holly, which, like the tea plant, contains a portidnbf'Wwjjwi^ '"iChe people of Brazil and Paraguay USe jit as a beverage considerably, about :6,000,0001bs yearly, butii^dpes not fdjrm an article of-export, Assuming this to be the material of Madam Tanner's story, the Doctor's feat is stilLwonderful. After all to live oh tea for six 'weeks is nearly as great a feat as to live that tiriie on water.