MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 3989, 21 July 1887, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Private letters from St. Petersburg cay the students who reconlly attempted to tnko the lifo of the Czar were moroly boys, ('•ne was 18 nnd another 19 years of age, while the eldest is 24. Tho loss in the Missouri PaeiGo Railway through last year's striko is placed, in the annual report of the company, nt SOO.OOOdoI. while the losses to the strikers uro estim>it«*i by tho Curtin (Congressional) Committee lit OOO.OOOdoI, making a totnl of 1,400,0' Odol. An American exchange is responsible for tho following alleged remedy f'ir destroying r-ts and mice. It lias tho quitlifi-alion of being both pimple, and cheap. - s onio of our readers ought to try it. Here it. i« : Take flvo rarts unslaked qiiinklitno in pownr. one purl sugnr ground very fino, three purls fli)iir of any kind, oaten oi 1 whouton. Mix well together. Put somo of tbo mixture on a little pla'c, and nenr to it a second pluto with water. Mice, after onting somo of tho mixturo, feel thirsty and drink tlio water. Tho lime, being quick, gots elack in their stomncliß And kills them in a few minute?. Mr Macdonald Cameron, tho membor of tho HoiißOof Commons who hits jutt, received tho handsome fee of £500 for reporting on Mount Morgan as an oxpert, cxprcm-ei n Tory high opinion of the mine Tho Australasian sal s ho docs uot agreo with Mr Jack, t o Queensl'iid goologUt, or with local practical miners, that Mount Morgan is tho «ol diflcr] ivsicluo of iin extinct, thormal skiing, b>.t Ihe theories whii'li bavo been formed re»pi'cl ing tbo origin of tho lodo do not affect the oredit of tho mine as u going concern. Mr Cnmoron putiniutri Mount. Morgan as capablo of yiolding 2^t, OOnz. of gold per nnt:um, worth, say, £982,000, or, uftor paying working oippiiec, » net profit i>f £705.000. The profits at present appear to ttverngo £200,000 per annum ; tho yield during tho half your ouding 31st. Muy having boon ii little under 4.0,00007.. Mjnint Morgan is beyond doubt the ricliest gold mino in llu< worhi, and thoy aro lucky mrn wlio hold original shares.

I The will of the late Mr J. D. Pernns, of the firm of Lee and Ferrinß, of Worcester sauco fame, has been proved. The personal estate amounted to £665,000, the whole of which is bequeathed to his widow and children. The New York correspondent of the Standard writes : — Experieneed observer* say the present immigration from Ireland, which is expectrd to rival that of famine years, is another form of the anti-rent movement The prosperous Irish here, who have to BUpport their poor at home, prefer bringing them here lo continuing to pay the rent to their landlords in Ireland. Ninety out of every hundred now arrive here with prepaid tickets that have been bought in New Fork. b