MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 11 May 1901, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

•Queen Margherita of Italy intends to devote her time and money to the,intellectual culture and artistic "development of her country. She received under King ;Humr bert's will abont £400,000, and. the: State •makes her a dowager allowance of ,£40,000 a year. She has already specifically set apart £28,000 a year- -to assist and reward young workers in science, literature, • and art. Becentlr r'.c personally.consulted with a number of- representative Italians ,- ihclud-" ing composers, poets, and-artists, and all enthusiastically approved her designand promised assistance in ita execution.

•<•'. Mr W. S. Cainej M.P., "had an interesting experience when-he was-recently in America. Visiting some big "works where a patent automatic machine is'made in enormous quantities,. he; .w#s tolcj;that, a flag flying orer a' high tower wSs meant to indicate the arrival of a visitoT." :Upon entering the main gateway he' found his name displayed on a big'board in gigantic letters. Asking air explanation, the proprietor of the works said, "Well, you see, if my workpeople see a visitor being shown round the works, and they don't ;know who he is, they are "constantly looking up from their task," following the' stoanger with their- eyes, and their* neighbours if they know who he is;- That is a great waste of.: time: But when S'hcy is.il tha works they are not so filled with curiosity,, and merely glance at'iny visitor out of the corner of their eyes- and then-go on with their work. And so time is- saTed." The fate of assessment life assurance offices in America is rather unfortunate. The " Insurance Budget' and Commercial World," of London, quotes from the " Economist,'' of Toronto, of the Order of Chosen Friends:- Itis said that in 1893 it had had a membership of 33,892 and a death loss per 1000dol.-'of 17.0; in 1899 the membership was ; 20,797 and the death rate per lOOOdol.' 22.1. The financial state of the ; order afr the end; of. 1899 was as follows :—Assessments levied,? 719,917d01.; claims paid, 722,122d01.; claims unpaid, .221,197d01. ; and : assets, 102,284 dol.; leaving a net deficit of' 118,9i3d01. And now the concern is hr the : hands of a receiver. " Considering 1 (says the '.'Commercial World') the recent-history of these associations, it- will almost seem! as if the time had come when'they should be taken out of the hands of- the insurance superintendents and delivered to the tender mercies of the police authorities." .' * One of the most honoured names in'Saotland, indeed, the oldest of itsmarquisates, j is that of Huntly, who also' as Baron Meldrum sits in the-House of. Lords in the peerage of the United kingdom. :• The family has always been conspicuous in. the wars of the country, for the third earl' commanded the left wing at Flodden, the fourth earl fells at Corrichie, half a century later, while it was the fifth earl' who became the first marquis. The second'marquis was the great Royalist, supporter 6f : Charles 1., who was beheadedin the ! same year as his Royal master. - The present marquis, who was 54 on' March sth, was at one time a Lord-in-waiting to. Queen Victoria, and later he became Captain of the Honorary Corps of Men-at-Anns, while for three years he was Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen, ■■ The " Law Times," in referring toi '.the recent case of a police' who was stopped in a hansom cab-'and asked to make an order, calls/ attention to the fact that while a-police magistrate has no jurisdiction outside his—own court, a judge of the High Court has; jurisdiction anywhere in England. ■ Mr -Justice Stephen wass once applied'to for, and' granted, an injunction while driving'in a cab through Piccadilly Circus. Lord Brampton, till recently known as Mr Justice Hawkins, 1 once made an order while walking on Brighton Pier, and Mr Justice Wright has,-bee;: known to grant an injunction-while travel Hug in a railway ."carriage; But the most curious case is that" of ." Vice-chancellor Shadwell. He was a member of the society called " Psychrolutes," and the. conditiotir of membership was that each of .its' members should-bathe in the open water daily during-the months... from ; November to March. It . was while bathing in;.-the Thametf near Barnes that H« was applied

"Sir Edwin Arnold, who has been seri- j ously ill, is said now to be practically, blind. Fortunately, he acquired facility in dictating-- to 30 years ago, when I his sight was-good, impi-ovising thus, after | work hours',- the whole of "The Light of Asia."; - Sir: :Edwin,. will-hot isuffer.-the. chief privation of an authorvsO lamentably afflicted—a, -reluctant., .idleness. >'- A-Great;Medicine.—"I have.used Cham-sberlain'-s Golici Cholera,- and-.Diarrhoea Remedy, and find -it-to be a great. HsaysHMr 5...-S. Phipps, of-iPoteau.rArk. .','lti cured; me-of bloody flux. . -I- : cannot speak too highly of it." -This- remedy always wins golden opinion, if not praise, of those who use -it. The -quick? cures which it effects even in the most severe cases make it a favourite everywhere. For sale by J. C. Oddie, chemist, Timaru.