MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1467, 13 February 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ralph Schmidt, a convict on Blackwell's Island, who recently fell heir to an estate worth £25,000, has been pardoned by Governor Hill.

The recent creation of Austrian life peers, fourteen, included a cotton manufacturer, the director of the State printing office, and threa professors. The commander of a Danish Arctic expedition, just returned to Copenhagen, says there is no possibility of ever reaching the North Pole. In Roumelia there are 400,000 Jews, 200,000 gipsies, 100,000 Slavonians, 40,000 Germans, 30,000 Magyars, 8000 Americans, 6000 Russians, 8000 Greeks, and 7000 Tartars.

The floating deht of Spain is fttated at £1,800,000,0f which £1,400,000 is secured by the national stock in the hands of the Bank of Spain. Oatabbh of thb Bladdeb.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, ourtdby "Buchu«p«iba." Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosse? and Co., Agents, Ohri*t church. 3 A Maori up north, who rented a house infested by bugs, took legal advice to_ see whether he could not live rent free in it by way of compensation. The French Chamber of Deputies will be requested by the Government to vote a sufficient sum to enable Dr Pasteur to establish a spacious hospital, to be used especially for the treatment, by his method of inoculation, of persons who have been bitten by mad dogs. In England, a Queen's messenger who brings home news of peace in his bag receives £SOO in cash, in accordance with immemorial custom. The news may be " stale," having possibly been telegraphed and published a week or two before, but the messengers letter is the first official announcement of the fact.

Baron Leon de Lenval, of Nice, has offered a prize of £l2O for the best easilycarried instrument for the improvement of hearing in case of partial deafness. The instrument is to be constructed on the principle of the microphone, awl must be completely finished and sent in before the end of 1887- The award will be made at the International Congress for Otology, to be held at Brussels in September, 1888. »• Bough on Oobns." Ask for Welb ' Kough on Oorna." Quick relief, complete, permanent oure. Corns, warts, bunions, Keinpt'iorne, Prosaer and Co., Ageritu, Ohrißtchuroh, 3 _ Fifteen swords won by Garabaldi at different times during his campaigns are to be placed in the Capitol at Rome. The Chinese Government have established an Admiralty Board, and great improvements are expected from its formation.

The potato was introduced into France 100 years ago, and the Agricultural Society proposes soon to celebrate the anniversary. Clencoe, Scotland, is subject to the heaviest rainfall of any other place in the world. It exceeded 128 inches last year. A professor ot dentistry has been appointed for the schools in Surrey, England. His business is to look after the teeth of the pupils. A section of the sky, some five degrees square, recently photographed in Paris showed 3000 stars on a 10-inch square plate. British imports during November decreased £870,000, as compared with November 1884, and exports decreased £1,240,000. Plies and Bugs, beetles, insects, roaohei anti, bed-bugs, rata, mice, gopheri, chipmunks, cleared out by " Bough on Eati." Kempthome, Proeser and Co., Agentp, Ohriatohurch. 3 Afoot pavement, composed of iron slag, powdered and laid in cement, has been laid in a portion of the Strand, London. If the experiment succeeds this will form i new utilisation of this waste product. The Church of St. Etienne du Mout, at Paris, commenced in 1228, reconstructed by Francis I, and added to by Henry IV, is about to be restored. Pascal, Pearauft, Rollin, and other famous men are buried there. Since 1859 the sum of £74,000,000 has been expended in the improvement and embellishment of the French capital. Of this amount £34,000,000 was laid out on street^

" My dear," sud a young wife to her husband, "you have never taken me to the cemetery yet." "No, my love," he replied ; " i' 1 ' '' ,3 a pleasure I have yet in anticipation." A Lady's Wish. ~"0h, how I do wiah my f'iii;) was ea clear and as tw y urn!" said k Udy to a frieud. "Taicnn m-Oy make it eo," answered fchefrumi ' '• • ?'' inquired the first lady. " By Dt S ale's Hop Wrtors, 'hat m«k?« pure ri?h blond and iu«'th. I. dirt i f r :««, asjeu observe " R'ft'l Advr.

" My friend," said the Rev. Sydney Smith to n cobbler who was mending bid shoes when the great wit was a poor curate in Gloucestershire, "you remind me of the snored ordinance of matrimony." " How so 1" quoth the cobbler. " Because you bind two soles together in. unity," replied Mr Smith with becoming gravity.

Cubed of Dbinking —A young friend of mine w»b cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated hie tystem that he wag unable to do any business. He »a» entirely oured by the use of Am. Oo'a Hop Hitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away theappitito for liquor, rruido hia nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two years, and has nojdeairs to return to hi» cups.—From a leading E. R. Official. The late Earl of Dudley was the victim of many extravagant fnncies. An exchange says :—" On. of bis crochets was that his body was as brittle as glass. On this account ho was constantly and closely attended by a body servant, whose business it was to prevent any person from accidentally knocking against his fragile lordship."! HOUiOWAY'S OINTMBKT AND PlM.B.—Old sores, Wouno'a, and Ulcers.—The readinesi with which Holloway's unguent removes all ob»l motions in the circulation of the vessels and lymph Uio* ex.j!-iina thuir imsistable iafluenoe inhemlug old sores, bad wounds and indolent sorea. To insure the desired effect the skin surrounding the diseased part should be fomented, dried, and immediately well tubbed with Ointment. This will give purity to the foul blood, and strength to the weakened nerve, the only conditions neceisary for tho cure of all those ulcerations which render life almost intolerable. No sooner is this Ointment's protective powers gierted than the dentruoi-iva process ceases, and the oomtruoiive business begins—new, healthy growth appears to fill up the lately painful excavated pits.

Hollow ay'b Pills.—The Great Need.— The blood is the life, and on its purity depends our health, if not our existence. The*e Pills thoroughly olaanii thia vital fluid from all cm'amina ions, by that pover strengthen »nd invigorate iha whole system, healthily sdinnUtc .slavish organs, repress over-excited notion, and establish order of circulation and sec etion throughout every part of the body. Tho balsamic nature of H'olloway'a Pills commends them fc-j the favor of debilitated and nervous constitutions whiohthey soon reousifcate. They dislodge all obstructions, both in tho bowels and else, whore, end are on that account much sought after for promoting regularity of aotion in young females and persons who are naturally weak, or from some caußO have become so.— [4dvt.]