MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 4594, 18 July 1889, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

One of tho tenchers m the Becond Ward Pehool, Alipghnny, celebrated tho centennial by telling her scholars tho history of Washington and then requiring thorn to wrilo wbal they remembered of it. This is what nne of iho youngest arltolnn wroto : "G. Wellington cli'ipt with his Imt^hct nnd hunt into tcers." — Vithhurg Chnmiclii Tttrgraph. Tho E'liuorirof Japan lino lakpn putvession of a mngniliocnt now paUcu buiit for him lit. Tokio. The stylo is n curious mixture of modern European nnd nnriiwit Jnpnncso architecture, but the interior it "holly arranged m European mntinrr. Th» architect. i« n native, an-1 iho n>«t of the building and lilting* £900,000. Nearly nil Iho furnituru has been muuufui'lurcd m Ocrinauv.

The Italian papers report that an electro theodolite, which indicates with mathematical precision the position of an enemy's thip, whelhcrat anchor or m movement, has been set up at Madalcnn. Tho battery, which defends tho island of Caprera, is situated m a valley separated from tha sea by a high bill. On this is placed electric machinery communicating with the battery. Them is also a very small " panorama "indicating the po«iliou of hostile ships, their direction, their distance from the battery, and tho point to which tho firing should be. directed. The gunners do not see. the oni-my, but aim high, tho balls pacing over tho hill. On the other band, tho enemy having no moms of ascertaining tlie situation of tho hidden battery, cannot return the fire. Tiio iuventor of the'machino i» one of the heads m tho engineers department of tho army, and has gone to Madalena to direct the installation of the machinery.