Miscellaneous.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4208, 8 October 1886, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

Madame Fibsen, of Maas, has bequeathed her entire fortune to the Academic Francaise,in order lo found a prize, to be awarded every five years, for a work on political economy, wiitten for the benefit of the working classes. A captain of (be Salvation Army, at Utica, ia in gaol for knocking down in a meeting a man who had created a die* thrbanoe. He was fined £4, but according to the rule of the Salvationists he preferred two months in gaol to paying the line. The Paris Temps, ia a discussion on the Hew Hebrides question, accuses the Australian colonies of wishing to establish a kind of Monroe doctrine in Australasia.

Tbe wator-plantain is used in Jluasia aa a remedy for hydrophobia. "The roots are dried and grated, then spread on bread and bntter, {and a good dose taken night and morning. Two or three doses are said to be to effect a care.

The Chinese language is said to contain only about 330 words, £et it \» t»y no means monotonous, for. it has four accents—the even, the raisecj, too lessened, and' the' returning, which multiply every word into four.