LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1870, 18 June 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A small boy reaching for a high oloset-shelf makes an excellent strainer for jelly, All efforts to organise the supporters of Henry George at Now York have proved failures. The death of Bismarok would cause more oommoiion m Europe than the death of all its crowned heads. A Philadelphia oculist declares that the use of opera glasses atraina the optio nerveß and injures the eyesight, Horace Greely arrived m New ¥ork with his worldly possessions m a handkerchief, oarrifld on a atiok over bis aliouldor. The Emperor of Japan has instituted » new orde* for vrojfren, J.t is to bo called the Order i of the Crown, and will conoist of livo olassei. i u KouaH on Ixou."— ■«« Kpngh on Itob,"i oure skin humors, eruptions, ring worm; fetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, ohUblaine, Utob, iyy poison, b» bera' jtoh, B p

i Snowdrops, lataly all the rage m Paris for , dressing dinner tables and decorating feminine garments, have been Buperseded by yellow flowers. In Russia a young woman has been imprisoned four months beoause she disobeyed her father m marrying. She also loses her share m the paternal estate. Some scamp recently decorated m (he night the great door of the Sing Sing, New York, Prison, with the legend, •• Hair out while you wait." la Augusta (Georgia) a tree felled m early morning was before nightfall of the same day converted into paper, and sent out bearing the current news. A company has been formed m Berliu to manufacture eleotrioal watohes. .Two small cells and a small electric-motor take the place of the ordinary movement. The substitution of wood pulp for plaster of Paris m the manufacture of all kinds of building ornaments is constantly increasing nnder the" new method brought forward m France. The principal Masonic lodge m Italy has oommunioated with the leading lodges of Europe, praying all Masons holding high state positions to do their utmost to bring about a general disarmament m the interests of peaon. The " Bangitikei Advooate " Bays : — Major Steward's Educational) Franohise Bill was passed by the Lower House, but the " Lords " kioked it out. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. According to tho latest issue ot the "London Directory, 1 ' one of the new streets of tho commercial metropolis of the world is distinguished by the name of New Zealand avenue. At a meeting held at Sefton on Friday evening it was deoided to establish a dairy faotory at Sefton. A lengthy and interesting paper on factories were read at the meeting by .Mr Harding, of Flemington. We have reoeived a communication from Anti-Humbug re the trial of the digging plough the other day. The writer endorses the remarks of Ploughboy, but no purpose would be served ,by publishing the communication. Muoh has been said and written of late years on >"the immorality of the stage." Suppose we give the stage a rest just for a change and investigate the morality of the audienoe for a little while. Will the audienoe please stand up and be sworn.—" Burdette." A Cleveland, Ohio, steel mill has put up a big " magnet " extended on a ohain from a orane whioh, when obarged with eleotrioity, < does the work of fifteen men who were formerly employed m lifting billets to railroad oars. A boy oan run the new labor saver. ; By way of making the Morgue more terrible the Pareian authorities have begun to light it by electricity, It is said that the effact of the new light upon the bodies exposed for view (is ghastly m the extreme, but that the result is a large influx of visitors. " Fenians " is the common name of the " Irish Republican Brotherhood," instituted m 1857 by James Stephens, whose attempted insurrection m 1867 was easily suppressed. The name Fenian itself is an assumed name from the Irish Fionna — a raoe of superhuman heroes m Irish legendary history. The Salvation Army of London has established at the East End a oheap food depot, where for a penny an adult receives refreshments and "a night's lodging or soup and bread ; for o half-penny he receives soup or bread ; and children are given a basin of soup for a farthing. In the newest London dwelling-houses a large use of oast-iron mantelpieces and ornamentals is made, the carving and general appearanoe of wood being well imitated m these elaborate castings. The eastings include bevelled frames for mirrors without number, and are supplied at about a third of tho cost of the fashionable mantelpieoes carved m bard wood. ||The weight of the rain that fall m the British Isles m the course of a year varies, of course,*with the amount of the rainfall, but it is generally considered to averago about 3000 tons to every acre. As there are 77,143,938 acres m the United Kingdom, this computation shows as that 281,481,814,000 tons of rain falls on its surface m the course of a year. It has been ordered that no engineman of the Great Northern Railway, England, shall be allowed to go on duty without having had an interval of at least nine hours' rest. This is a wise provision, and one that should be gffierally enforced, not only for the good of the mon, but for tho safoty of the travelling public as well. Movements m the same direotion are also bepg made m several States of the Union. Some industrious statistician has been inquiring into the wordly Btatus of the sweet girl graduates of the Amerioan Union. This is the result of his labours. Out of a total pumber of 2619, the large proportion of 949 have, as might haye been expected, betaken themselves to the profession of jtoaohing • 133, are engaged m other occupations, 639 young ladies livo at home neither toiling nor spinning ; while a thousand all but two have forsaken the Muses m favour of Hymen. The Chinese have already made preparations to evade the Anti-Chinese Treaty m caße of its passing, A " Bureau of Convenience " will be started to acoomodate Chinaman who wish to return to the United States and whose entrance is denied beoause they havo neither a wife nor £1000. worth of ttvoperty here. The bureau will furnish them with temnorary wives and £1000 worth of property for ationßideratfp.n, and thus enable them to pomply wjth the requi'remenits of l the law.— " Philadelphia Times " Tho fame of Southland cheese is going abroad. Here is a paragraph from the "Strathearn (Perthshire) Herald" : — Wo were shown this week a sample of cheese sent from New Zealand, the quality of whioh is far superior to anything produced either m this country or m America. Its taßte is superior £o hect Cheddar, and it is admirably ooloured. The cheese, whioh weighed 401bB, was manufaotured at EdondalVFuotoi-y, Southland, and waß sent homo to Councillor Gow, 'Grio#,' by i his son. If the people m New Zealand can supply suoh an excellent article m large Quantities, they will hav9 no difficulty m Ending a market m this country. ft appears tfrat gambling ha gram fe not; confined to America ; it is also spreading m JSuropo. Several Adstrian millers are stated to havo latply joined jm a" 'petition to the Government of that Gp.ui}tfy asking that means may be taken to put down the Rambling m grain, of which the Vienna Corn Exohange is said to be the theatre. Tho petition sets forth that this gambling is not only injurious f.o pub||p morality, but that it inflicts direot injury on the pftljhig jtradp by subjecting their staple raw material to ' sudden and artificial m valued A Puluth newspaper, telling of the power of the magnotio iron ope of the vicinity, says that the miners have to wear mopoasins, beoause the iron draws all the tacks from their boots ; that houses near the mino have to be built with wooden pins or bolts, beoause the iron draws the nails ; that a wild duok that had inadvertently swallowed a few hairpins was Btopptd m its flight over the mines, drawn earthward, and made a prisoner; and that persons with too muoh iron m their blood are so magnetised that they sleep m a trance

The population of Franoe is decreasing, mu tWI 4 8 °ODBiderable immigration. The Belgians are coming m m considerable numborß, and Italians next. A late estimate places the number of Sunday-school soholars m the world at 16,447,990. This explains tho wide Bale I obtained by E. P. Rod's novels. The oitizens of Larkhall, Scotland, are about to present a testimonial to JVliohael I Smith, who is said to have reached the great age of one hundred and eleven years. m Notwithstanding the amount of labor and time expended on the unearthing of the ruins of Pompeii, there are still two-thirda of the oity covered by debris and unexplored. At a meeting of the Cork Trades Oounoil it was proposed to hunt the Jews out of the city on the ground that they are ruining honest trade. There are about three hundred Jews m Cork. The Bank of Franoe was established m 1800, but it is only since 1848 that it has had the oxolusive right of issuing bank bills. The bank oooupies the old Hotel de la Vrilliere, whioh was built by Mansard m 1620. Advioes from Bokhara Bay that tho Grand Vizier of that state has been murdered* by a native. The Ameer ordered the murderer and his accomplice to be executed, and they were hurled from a tower 180 feet higd. Prinoe Bismarok likened Kaiser Wilhelm to a olook that wanted winding up every day ; also to a horse that must be well spurred before he would leap a fence. The Chancellor himself carried the key and wore the spars. A petition for the olosing of public houses on Sunday m England, presented recently to the Home Secretary by Mr Phillip, of Liverpool, measured 11,263 yards m length. It was signed by 1,132,000 women over the age of sixteen. Two Gorsioan women, Franoessa Fortunati and Benoita Pasqualini, a few days ago had a dispute, and thereupon indulged m a duel. They flew at each other like furies, and Benoita Paequaiini fell, stricken to the heart by her adversary's stiletto. Rev Watkin Davies, of Ooedkernew Reotory, Newport (Mon,), was fined 40s at Westminster Police Court for chipping pieoes of stones as relioa of the oredence table of St. Erasmus Chapel, Westminster Abbey. The fine was paid. A _ vigorous prosecution of Mormon poly* gamists baa been commenced at* Provo, m Utah, and 16 Mormons have been sentenoed each to six months' imprisonment and 500 dollars fine for living with more than one wiffli contrary to the Edmunds law recently passed. Six members of the Ashburton Cyoling Club took a run to Waterton yesterday. Although the roads were rather heavy the trip was made m very good time. The Club intends to have a moonlight run during the week, and a good muster is anticipated! At St. Stephen's Gburoh yesterday morning reference was made by the Rev E. A. Scott, the inoumbent, m his sermon to the death of the Emperor Frederiok of Germany, and also to that of Mrs Harper. At tho morning and evening services hymns appro* priate to the oocasion were sung. One pound of bananas contain more nutriment than 31bs of meat or as many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it is, m every lonse, superior to i.the best wheaten bread. Although it grows spontaneously throughout the tropics, its yield is prodigious when oultivated, for an aore of ground planted with bananas will return as muoh food material as 33 aores of wheat or 100 aores of potatoes. It is' not generally understood that bananas fried, baked, or roasted, are vory appetising, and that sliced and placed m a di&h with slices of orange, they make a most delirious dessert. At the Skating Rink oh Saturday night there was a good attendance of spectators aa well aa Tinkers, the stags being well filled with the former and tho hall with tho latter. There was no doubt about the wheelbarrow race being an amusing one. Three boys entered for it, and after a fair start had been effected, the efforts of the youths to get round the course without coming to grief were of the most ludicrous description. Each barrow was supplied with a score of potatoes, and when the vehicle was overturned all those had to ba gathered up before the competitor could proceed. The race was nbt7therefoK>, to the swift, but to the smartest at picking op hig load when his oonveyanoe waa overturned. The audience oheered most heartily, and there wa3 no one present who could look on the exhibition with a serious face. With the exception of the competitors everyone simply roared, and the contest seriously threatened the ribs of the liege assembled. The smallest charioteer was declared the winner by a lap. A very exoellent exhibition of hurdle-jumping was given by Mr Bass, and then the floor was given up to tho skaters. HoL&OWAY'B Pir,L<3 AND OINTMENT. — Travellers to and from distant climes would do well to bear m mind that these changes and the altered diet and ' surroundings of their lives entail manifold risks to health. .Ocoasiohs are sure to arise m whioh they will need a remedy suoh as these renowned PJUs and Qintment, and ho traveller by land ojr spa should ever fail to have a supply at hand. Thon he may truly be said to ha.ye a physician always at his call for thp various emergencies of travel. Chills and fevers Bhould be promptly treated, and the printed directions Bhould be carefully studied at the oommenoement of any illness, for Holloway'e remedies can be safely used m all climates.