MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 28 November 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A marriage lias lately taken place at Ohio, in the United States. The Springfield Advertiser reports the marriage of Colonel Joseph Lail'el to Miss Eveline Beasley. The Colonel is forty-five inches high, weighs lifty-five pounds, and is 38 years "old. Miss Beasley, now Mrs Laffel, is five or six inches taller than her husband, weighs about seventy-four pounds, and is 23 years of age. Colonel Lail'el, though diminutive in stature, is remarkably active and vigilant in business, so much so, that by earnest attention he has amassed a considerable fortune. He is one of the " bee kings " of the country, and his success in the management of these industrious insects has rendered him the object of envy to all bee-fanciers. His iaee is described as manly, and his features strong. The marriage" service was most impres- [ sively performed by the minister of the English Lutheran Church, and the happy pair departed for a lour to Kentucky, bearing with them the best wishes of a host of friends and relatives. It is rumoured that ou their return home from the honeymoon, they will take up their residence in a large and beautifully furnished beehive. The Y. F. Tribune says that occasionally the public hear through the newpapers and medical journals of " skin graltin"." This is a curious surgical operation, but is now not uncommon in the hospitals and in private practice. Professor A. B. Mott, of Bel lev ue Hospital, has introduced a novel practice. Some time ago. an Irish woman in this city was severelv injured by the explosion of a kerosene lamp by which her clothing was set on lire ; and her right arm, and her right breast down to her stomach, were frightfully burned. She was removed to Eellevue Hospital add placed in Dr Mott's ward. Her case was under treatment for months, and the patient appeared incurable. At the same time a man named M'Clenham was in the hospital, whose leg had been amputated at the thigh. Dr Mott considered that he might use the healthy skin from the limb in one more effort to cure the disabled woman. He resolved to test the opera-

' I tion of " grafting." Eighty-nine pieces of integument, each about one-sixteenth of an inch square, were cut from the amputated limb before the natural warmth had passed out of it, and by gentle pressure applied to as many points of the great open sore on the women's breast and arm. Of these eighty-nine pieces, eighty adhered and became a part of her system. The cure is now perfect, and the man who gave ol his body to heal the woman's is also well. We have probably all of us met with instances in which a word heedlessly spoken asrainst the reputation of a woman has become dark enough to overshadow her whole existence. To those who are accustomed —not necesarily from bad motive but from thoughtlessness —to speak of women we recommend these hints as worthy of consideration :—Never use a lady's name in an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions about her that you think are untrue, or allusions that you feel she herself would blush to hear. When you meet men who do not scruple to make use ofa woman's name in a reckless and unprincipled manner, shun them, for they are the very worst, members of the community —-men lost to every sense of honour— every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman's character has been for ever ruined, and her heart broken by a lie, manufactured by some villain, and repeated where it should not have been, and in tho presence of those whose little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and bragging report. A slander is soon propagated, and the smallest thing derogatory to a woman's character will fly on the wings of the winds, and magnify as it circulates, until its monstrous weight crushes its poor unsconseious vicli n. R'spect the name of woman; and as you would have their fair name untarnished and their lives embittered by the slanderer's biting tongue, heed the ill that your own words may bring upon the mother, the the sister, or the wife of some fellow creature. Gibbon, the historian, wa3 short in stature and very fat. One day being alone with the beautiful Madame de Cronzas, lie dropped on his knees before her, and made a declaration of love in the most passionate terms. The astonished lady rejected his suite, and requested him to rise. The abashed historian remained on his knees. " Rise, Mr Gibbon. I beseech you, rise." " Alas, madame," faltered the unlucky lover, " I cannot." He was too fat to regain his feet without assistance. Madame d; Cronzas rang the bell, and said to servant: " Lift up Mr Gibbon." A Mystery Explained.—" How is it," said one swell, who never could please the ladies, to another who was immensely popular—" How is it that all the women want to waltz with you, and say that no one can equal you in that respect P llow do you manage it ?" To which his friend replied, " Why my dear fellow, I just hold them and let them kick! " The Application.—A lady hearing the remark that the storm signal was set, inquired what that meant, and being told that the Signal Department now watches the weather, and telegraphs in advance all over the country, replied, " Now isn't that convenient for the washerwomen ?" It may be interesting to know that, in the encounters (not unfrequent) which take place between the New Zealand hawk and cock pheasants, the latter prove the victors.