MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1904, 15 June 1892, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

The census of Cape Colony, the preliminary totals of which were Bent oat in April last, is now complete, and gives a grand total of 1,527,224. The analysis shows that the total ' European population is 367,987; Malay, 13,907 : Hottentots, 50,388 ; Fmgoe8 t 229,680; Kaffirs, 608,456; and all other colored people 247,806.

Archdeacon Farrar, of London, offers LIOO for the proof of any one case, either in the church or out of it, where drunkenness has been cured without total abstinence.

The experiment of the killing of cattle by electricity will soon be tried at the Aberdeen abattoirs, where the electric plant is now being installed. If tha experiment proves that this manner of killing the cattle has no bad influence on the quality of the beef, the application of electricity will hereafter be general.

When the milkmaid is awkward and fretful the cow generally turns pail, A Philadelphia burglar left a vest button in the house he had broken into, and it led to his arrest.

A man with a statistical turn of mind has estimated that only one couple in 11,500 live to celebrate their diamond wedding.

All over the world we find that women are less addicted to crime than men, notwithstanding that at first sight they might be imagined to be exposed to greater temptations. Why this should be the caße is the question Signori Lombroso and Ferrero have set themselves to answer in their book about to be published. The latest available statistics are perhaps those compiled lastyear by Herr Foeldes. They show that the proportion of women to men condemned was in England 20.0 per 100 ; Geimany, 19.7 per 100; France, 16.0 per 100; Austria, 14.8 per 100 ; Hungary, 11.65 per 100 ; Italy, 5.81 per 100.

Professor Lombroso, an Italian scientist, who has been making some very astonishing discoveries recently, now tells the world that he has ascertained that women are almost insensible to pain— that is, physical suffering. He says the male sex suffer physically nearly twice as much a 9 women ; that a woman can undergo a surgical operation without much pain. Similarly, women do not feel joy, sorrow, or love so keenly as men.

It is calculated that every ten days of London fog casts 25,000 people on beds of sickness, and kills 2,500.

A snake-charmer was summoned for assaulting a bearded lady by Btriking her in the face with a live snake after a performance in a menagerie at Shrewsbury. During a masked ball at Covent Garden Theatre thieves made off with valuable diamonds and jewellery, which they arc said to have cut from the ladies' dresßes.

An extraordinary artesian spring is re ported from Sleaford. At a depth of ISO feet in the limestone beds a spring was struck which yields a tun of water a minute.

The Queen, saya ' Woman,' ia an omnivorous reader of fiction. A new novel beguiled the tedium of the long journey to HyCres. Talking of Her Majesty's literary predilections, a story i 3 told in connection with " Mr Lewis Carroll," known to fame aa the author of ' Alice in Wonderland.' The Queen, charmed with this weird production, gave instructions that all his works were to be procured for her. Great was her disgust to receive a parcel, largely made up of mathematical text-books, Lewis Carroll being none other than the Rev. Charles Dodgson, lecturer on that subject to Christ Church, Oxford.

Citizens who miss the last street cars at night can be distinctly heard to think.

Disappointment first comes in life to the baby who has a horn given to him for a present, and then finds he hasn't wind enough to blow it.

Most people ask advice in order to secure some confirmation of their own decisions.

"It was all very well for the poet to talk about 'a perfect woman, nobly planned,"' said Mr Arreere, sadly ; " but the trouble is that it takes such a lot of money to carry out the plan."

An average man of fifty has spent 6,000 days, or nearly twenty years, in sleep. Air of importance. — One's first breath.

Reciprocity is all very well in its way; but when it comes to your wife wanting yon to reciprocate to a pair of 50 cent braces with a SOdol ring, you've got to brace np and figure out just where the reciprocity hits you.

Mr Wickwire: "What are you diving into my overcoat pockets for? There is nothing in them you ought to see." Mrs Wickwire : " No. But I thought there possibly might be something or other I oughtn't to see."

A good figure head. — An arithmetician's.

We are told in a poem that " the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." This is, no doubt, a pretty sentiment; but the author ought to know that about eight women out often rock the cradle with their feet.

" Well, I would have been engaged now if it were not for my chaperon." "Did she interfere?" "Yes; she became engaged to him herself."

The world is too full of babble, I hardly ever yet saw a man who did riot rather prate too much than speak too little. — Montaigne. "Shall I play you thi3 little Spanish faudango ? " she asked sweetly. (l I—lI — I beg your pardon," he said, turning red ; "but the fact is I don't understand Spanish."

Mabel : " Did you hear that Bessie Willis was married yestesday to Tom Guzzler?" Maud: "Really? I thought she would be the last person to marry him. " Mabel : " Weil, Bhe was, wasn't she ? "

" By Jove, old fellow, what has happened to you that you smile so all the time? What was so good ? " " Ob, nothing at all ; but you see one never knowß nowadays but somebody may be photographing him." "We judge oureelves," said Longfellow, "by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge U3 by what we have already done."

If religion and science are to be reconciled the basis of reconciliation must be th deepest, wildest, and most certain of all facts. — Herbert Spencer.

" What do we learn from the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins ? " wan recently asked in a Sunday school. 41 That we must watch every hour for the coming of the bridegroom," a blushing girl replied. ftlrs De Milton : " And you thought I married you for love ? What did you take me for ?" De Milton (mournfully) : " For better or for worse."

Twelve average tea plants produce one pound of tea.

One pound weight of cork will support in the water a man weighing 1401 b. Some months ago it seems a temperance revivalist, who is suggestively called " Sledgehammer " King, held a series of meetings in the county of Peru, Indiana. So effective was the movement that the town oi North Grove abolished its two liquor saloons. A week or two since a new saloon was opened ; but the people, finding protests of no avail, destroyed the building by a dynamite explosion.

At parting. — He : " And you can only ibe a sister to me?" She: "That's all." fle: " Then please kiss me good-bye ; my sister always does."