MISCELLANEOUS.

West Coast Times, Issue 2324, 8 September 1876, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Miss Braddon, having sold Belgravia, to Chatto and VVindus for £12,000, is said to. be contemplating a lecturing tour in the States.

The Jews of England constitute three distinct bodies— the Sephardim or Spanish and Portugese Jews; the Askenazim or German and Polish Jews ; and the West London Congregation of British Jews. It has been found to be a successful method to freeze beef tea, and administer it in lumps to children or patients to suck durine fever.

The first cricket match of the expected An-Eugland Eleven will take place in Melbourne on Boxing day. The team will be captained by the renowned James Lillywhite.

An American papers says, that there is a benevolent gentleman in Boston who gives 25 cents for religious purposes every time he swears! He has already sworn a new steeple on the Presbyterian Church, and is now engaged in "cussing np" a donation to the Home Mis'tionary Society. It is stated by the Sydney Herald that Mdlle. Jenny Claus, who, since she left our shores, has made a tour through China and Japan, ending with a series of brilliantly successful concerts at San Francisco, intends to pay a flying visit to these Colonies, en route for Europe, and may be expected in Sydney by the next San Francisco mail.

On June 24th a terrible railway disaster happened in Spain. The mail train ran off the line at Turrega, in Catalonia, killing seventeen persons and injuring thirty-seven, others.