MISCELLANEOUS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4831, 14 September 1901, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

Koresbanity is a new religion. Dr Cyrus Teed, its propounder, teaches that the inhabitants of this earth are liviog en the inside of an enormous ehell with the sun only 900 miles away. There are about 10,000 converts to this new belief. If Tattereall's sweeps are to die, ' they certainly are not to be allowed to Biiccumb without a struggle.* In several of the leading towns of Australia, petition forms have been placed in prominent places in the streets, and thousands of signatures have been obtained weekly. Photographs of the scenes at ihese places have been published in some of the illustrated papers, and in each case show a cluster of men waiting their turn to sign for the defence of Tattersall's. ' Look here ! ' said a housebreaker .convicted a few days ago at the Sydney Quarter Sessions, ' during my whole course of crime I don't suppose I made £20 out of it. I was given 5 years for stealing £4* 10s, and never got a copper . of the money, and the very next day a man got the same for stealing £40,000, and he bad the benefit of the money.' ' That's your luck ! ' the presiding Judge observed, before proceeding to sentence him to yet another five years. The Btory of an interrupted wedding was unfolded in the Court at Collingwood, Victoria, the other day, when Emma Salmon, a widow, charged Harriet Mills with using insulting words. The plaintiff's version was ibat as she was on her way to church to be married the defendant made some disparaging remarks to her companions in a tone loud enough for the | -intending bridegroom to hear, with the result tht»t the marriage never took place. The defendant, who said she did not mean any harm, was fined . £5, in default a month's imprisonment. S.-H. Dawson a convict serving ten years in the lowa penitentiary for. murder, has been released on parole by the State authorities. . Dawßon claims to have discovered the lost arts of making Gamascus steel and hardening copper. Before bis-imprisonment be had been working on the problem for years. Several wealthy men had formed a company to put the process into operation, and it was through their efforts that the parole was granted. Experts who have examined the results of Dawson's work declare that he has made an astounding discovery. Dawßon asserts that his Damascus Bteel can be made more cheaply than ordinary Bteelj and that it is specially adapted for armor plates, and will revolutionise the steel trade! _ In the tropics it is a .recognised fact that the duration of life among women lis much longer than- among men. A Lwell-known medical expert on the subject of colonial life maintains that exposure to fatigue, chills, irregular meals, and the frequent, taking of alcohol, account for men dying quicker than women, who avoid all these causes. And unquestionably the same reasons /have contributed to longevity in this country/ But the balance of. life will *be more evenly adjusted in another generation or two, since women are more and more entering into competition with men everyday. It ib very hard to remove miscon- ' ceptions about Australia, and one of the chief Btickers is that we are all black. This time the * Morning Post ' \s responsible for the following : — ' A gentleman who went out to Australia some months ago fell in love and married a squatter's daughter, and (as he informed his relatives in the North of Scotland), he wonld soon return home and introduce them to his charmiog wife. They were only, waiting to witness the Commonwealth celebrations, etc;' There came back from the said relatives a stern mandate forbidding him ever to bring a colored I woman to the ancestral halls :. ' Give her back to her tribe.'