MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4527, 30 April 1889, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

According to the standard, Count Herbert , Bismarck's interviews with Lord Salisbury ' have resulted m a complete understanding between Germany and England, The late Emperor Maxiinillian, of Mexicoi nould have been the next heir to tho Austrian throne, had he lived. Ho was tho next brother to Emperor Francis Joseph. Archduke Otto, who is now the direct heir after his father, Archduke Charles Louis, will be 2<t years of ago next April. Ono of the titles of the Emperor of Austria is •' King of Jerusalem." It is needless to add that Francis Joseph has no dominion whatever over Iho Holy City. : An extraordinary disclosure has juet como to light respecting the health of tho native population of Noumea. Out of the 25,000 Kanakas of which it is composed, upward of ■4000 are afilicted with leprosy of tho most dire kind. Desperate efforts are being made, though very lato m the day, to combat this frightful scourge, and the construction of hospitals for tho reception of theee unhappy people is about to bo undertaken. The Standard's Paris correspondent writes : — A curious caae of a woman having passed off for a man during more than ten years has just been brought before a Paris Police Commissary, The woman carce to Paris dressed as a man m 187S, and, m partnership with her lover, has been at the head of of nn important printing office. Till now neither the I printers whom she riirentod nor any of her customers or other people into whoße society she was thrown evor Buspected the truth. As her conduct has given rise to no scandal of uny Bort, it is possible that the Prefect of Police, to whom she has now applied, will grant her demand for authorisation to continue to dress m man's clothes. Tho noted quality of tho Coffee made m the Cates of Turkey, France, and America is chielly <)uo to the fact that only Fresh Routed Coffee is used j so that none of tho volatile oil and other essentials aro lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson's Coffeo, and you will have a beverage uliko refreshing and stimulating, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru.— [A DVT.]