ITEMS FROM EXCHANGES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1379, 25 October 1886, Page 3

ITEMS FROM EXCHANGES.

RUSSIAN JUSTICE!

They have queer ideas in Russia of the relative gravity of different offences. Two peasants at Kaletz recently disinterred the newly buried corpses of two Jews, cut off their hands and cut t'>eai up into mull morsels for medicinal purposes, For * liis crime they were sentenced to 6 months’ Imprisonment. About the same linn three other peasants were tried by as< cm court martial at h iff! for insulting a priest andsciffingat Chnrrh images and other religions emblems. They were condemned to 15 years’ hard labor, bur ih's sentence has been commuted—mark this satire—o the loss of all civil rights and deportation to the farthest confinesf if Siberia. The authorities evidently consider a live priest of more consequence than any number of dead Jews, SKIM MILK CHEESE. There is a great scarcity of cheese in Taranaki just now, (says the llerjhl) and the few farmers who held on their st cks are realising very aatisfso’ory prees for that required by storekeepers for local consumption. In reference to cheese it is said that one maker in the district sent away a quantity of skim mJk cheese, and got 6d per lb for it, the fact of it being sk m milk not hi ving been made sufficiently clear. FncourageJ by this succe-s another cons’gnment was sent away by the same maker shortly after, bat the

article was known, and the account sates showed the shipper, indebted to the consignee nearly l£d p?r lb, after being credited with the am unt which the cheese had brought in the open market, MANNERS At HOME. 1. Shut every door after you without si; naming it. 2 Never stamp, run or jump in the hi use. 3 Never call to pejson - ups‘airs or in the next room ; if yon wish to s eak to them go quietly where they are. 4 Always-peak kindly and politely to tbe servants, if you would have them do the same to you. 5. V' hen told fo do or not to do a thing by e ther parent, never ask why you should or should i o: 6. Tell of your own faults, bnt n't th- s of year brothe: e and sister?. 7. Carefully clean the mud or snow from your bunt? or shoes before entering the house. 8 Be prompt at every meal. 9. Never interrupt any conversation, but wad patiently for your turn to speak. II Never reserve your good manners for strangers, but be equally polite at heme and abroad. 12 Avoid slang.

A DRUNKEN DOG.

At the Solihull police court the cube - day, John Connor, laborer, was summoned for keeping a savage dog without having it under proper control. Numerous complaints had been received respect ng the eg. Defendant: The dog’s ell right nn’il people give him drink. On the day he bit the man some one bad gives him a quart of beer, aud when he’s dru - k he’s always savage.—Mr Chat'.rck ; Do you mean to say the d. g gets drunk ?—Defendant : Yes, sir. People are a’ways making him drunk. He’s very fond of a drop of beer. (Laughte r .) The dog’s as right i s he can be until be get’s drir k. (Laughte r ) He’ll bits anybody wb n he’s drunk (Renewed laughter.) D- Kimbell (to 'ln defendant) : Ate you in the habit of giving the dog beer ?—Pefendgnt : No, sir, but peopls in the public-house arc, for it always makes him iike to bite peop’o. (Laughter ) The Bench ordered the defendant to keep the dog under proper control, and to pay the costs.

THE NAUGHTY BUSY BEE Some revelations have just been made which throw a disagreeable light on the habits of the busy b?e, -whose bright example has been the theme of so a’an.i moral discourses. The bee is fumd to be neither more nor less than a downright drunkard when he gets the chance, preferring the easy delights of cordials and spirits to toilsome fl-ghta o’er sunny awards and honey laden flowers. There is a swarm of bees no further away than Kennington who persist in improving the shining hour by gathering honey from spirits and cordials. The bottler app ied to the Magistrate for protection, but the Magistrate remarked that they evidently preferred those insidi us liquids >o flowers, “It was impossible to muza'e the bees, ferocious though they were, ar.d bir Charles Warren has not yet issued any edict defining control,” so said Mr Chance. He might have added t- at if they were intoxicated or disorderly he would be willing to grant a warrant for their apprehension. However, this view did not strike him. If the awful example of the Kenningtonians spreads, bir Wilfrid Lawson may find in bees a more powerful agent than all the formidable and extensive organisations of the Alii ance. If bees once begin to lay slega to public-houses, gin palace’, breweries, and distilleries, why the landlo. ds may as well shut up shop.

PRIZES FOR YICTOEI IN FARMERS. TheTlctorlan Government have decided to expand £l5O in giving pr'zea for the beat n “§>-0 i-.nis in that colony. The first prize will be one of £SO. Th> competition is to be restricted to freeholders in occupation and to Cion ntenants. In deciding the merits of the respective farms inspect'd by tha judges, attention will befglven to the following directions : —The beat system of cultivation, rotation, e 0., pursued on each faim inspected ; the best system of saving stable and other manures on each farm ; the bert an't cleanest grown crops ; the best system of laying down the land in artificial grasses ; the best and most profitable class of live stock kept on each farm ; the best Implements and machinery kept and used on each farm ; the best and greatest length of live ferces ; the best system and larges; extent of nudergr und drainage ; and the b at kept, kitchen garden and orchard. The Minister of Agriculture is to appoint three judges to decide up n iho merits of the farms entered for competition and a decision of a majority of the judges will be final. Hie judges will bo required to report on the merits of the whole of the farms selected for competition. HEAT HOLIDAYS IN GERM ANY. The so-called Hitz'erien (heat holidays) which are now established by law in Germany and Fwitzarland (remarks a Homepaper)deservelmitato; everywhere. "When the thermometer reaches a ceitain points lessons must cease Throughout Prussia the observance of this regulation 1b compulsory In all private as well as in public schools. Indeed the private school In Prussia Is fast becoming public, since no director or proprietor of a privn t school is allowed to employ as teacher, either male or female, any unceitficaud person, while even the btok« used in private schools are bound to be legitimate schools editions. The Basel Government has just issued a new regulation for the Bitzferien in the Baslet school?. When the temperature rises to 20'eg. (1 eaumu 1 ) In the shade at 10 o’clock in the mern'n.', holiday is to be proclaimed to the scholars until the afternoon. Two such 1 olidays were recently proclaimed during one week, to the no small de’ight of the boys and girls, wh-'se jubilant greeting of the announcement could fee beard from tht open windows of the gymnasium,