Miscellaneous News.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5434, 26 March 1889, Page 3

Miscellaneous News.

The Czar of Russia is credited with receiving ii 2,400,000 and upward from his domains, but upward is an unlimited term. Last year 302 vessels, nearly all of steel, were built on the Clyde. Surely it was shipping coals to Newcastle when we find for the week ending 9th March 500 bags of wheat w&re shipped from Melbourne to New Zealand. King Kalakau, of the Sand'vich Islands, has become a prey to the cigarette habit. He awakens in the night to puff his paper covered weed, he smokes between courses at meals, and is, in fact, clurfng his waking hours always surrounded by a cloud of illsmelling smoke. " No," said the condemned, " I don't think much of your judges ; there's nothing polite or gentlemanly about 'em, you know. There's Recorder Smyth, for instance. He gets me into his Court and asks me : 'Are you guilty or 'not guilty ?' and wlien I tells him 'Not guilty,' instead of taking my j word as one gentleman should take another's he goes to work and leaves it to a dozen fellows that never knew me a second in their lives. 'Taint square that's what I say, and 'taint good manners, neither."' Some excitement was caused on Feb. 15 at the Melbourne Opera House, where the Hicks-Sawyer Minstrels are performing, for just when the overture hud been concluded, and the performers were taking their respective places, flames of fire were observed at the wings. The curtain was lowered for few moments} and the fire promptly extinguished. The accident happened through the border lights, which arc unprotected, catching some of the scenery. The most noted song writer in Philadelphia is Septimus Winner, who still owns a music store in that city. It was he whe wrote the popular ballad, "Listen to the Mocking Bird." The song was first published in 1855, Mr Winner using the norn de plume r>f Alice Hawthorne, which was his mother's maiden name. The profits, it is said, exceeded £20,000. Queen Victoria has abolished the royal kennel of stag hounds, and with it the Master )f the Buck Hounds This was doubtless affected partly by a desire for retrenchment xnd partly by the comments of the press. A method of solidifying petroleum has just been discovered. A small quantity of soap is added, and the mixture is heated. When it is allowed to cool, the product can be cut into small cubes like those of compressed charcoal. Thus petroleum can be used as a combustible, it being now easy to transport and manipulate it. Tlia authorities of tho Pension Ofßco say that perpetual motion i.q certainly a thin» in) idiigtT to lu> laughed at. » Washington ] letter j-ays. Chi< j f Clerk LtEcomb insists I that they have now at the Patent Om'ee models that go until they wear out, and uu-y have the power to run till doomsday. But they are all, bo far, practically useless > cause they can do nothing else but run themselves. Thoy have no surplus power to run something else, But he thinks the machine will come that can bo of of practical use by running other machines. A diatiict near Smyrna — a narrow strip of land about sixty miles long,and averaging soiro eight mile 3 broad — yields the annual produce of dried figs that is exported to every largo city in Europe, The deterioration in tho physique of the stokers, in thejßoyal Navy having become very marked, the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth (Admiial Sir Edmund Commerell) has forwarded to the Admiralty a strong representation on the subject. IraPajne the American gun expert, asserted in Paris that ho has discovered a process for the manufacture of gold from an alloy of eilvor and copper, and is trying lo raise funds to start the. proper works. There aru not more than twenty liua» sian princas entitled to bo styled gransd duke. There are five grand dukes Nicholas, three grand dukes Michael, and two «raud ;Uiku3 Alexi?, Sorgius, G\;orj, r o \lexandiT and Cunstntitine. Save your money and buy your Boots and Shoes at Henue.ssy's, where every line in stock is the best of its kind procurable, and at prices that "can't be beat." — Adv "ROUGH OX CORNS." V;1; f. r Well, 1 "Kofi m Coins.', ijuick relief, eimok-te, permanent cure Corns, watt', buni ns ; at chemists and druggists. PJIiCUCII < N KATX"— Clears ouf r.-.fs. iv.iVe. :or civs, ilius, fviits, beil-busis, beetles, insei-rss. skinks jac'; rabbits, sparrowp, gophers. At chemists nm rush's.