MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

The following (Attract from a letter from England, received by n gentleman in Tiinaru, speaks well for the future n; Colon al p*vserved meats. The letter says : " All the grocers aie selling the pres- fveil meats in large quantities, a; 7M per lb, Ti.e papers are writing it up, and be f ore a year has passed it will have become a regular article (if consumption. A good look-out for New Zealand." A tree -was felled the other day at Sandy Creek, Wagga Wagga (say. the Melbourne Argus)) for the purpose of procuring the honey which it was known had bsen collected by a rather large swarm of bees. When the tree was cut down, there' was fonnd in the hollow one of the most astonishing collections of honey probably ever known to have been gathered by one swarm of bees. There were several immense layers of comb, ten feet in length and of great density, extending along the inside of the trunk, and almost covering the hj »llo\v of the tfni entirely. After it had been carried home (having been wasted considerably by the fall of the tree and the primitive mode in which it was collected), the comb yielded over L'./olbs of honey of the purest quality. We (Melbourne Leader) hear so many complaints of poultry dying that we publish tho following hints from a successful poultrybreeder : —" Don't attempt everything the first year. 1 have had great success with poultry-, and if you will take live or si:c rules from me—-rule •? that cost me many a pound to learn—you are welcome to them. 1. (Jive i fowls range enough : all nv not less than an acre to a hundred. 2. Keep their roosts and j nests fre a from lice. This von can do with | sulphur smoke and carbolic, acid in the whitewash. '.). Feed high, and give them variety —wheat an I oats, and scrap"- as well as corn. 14. Make the good mothers nurses : give them ' largo families and a separate nursery,—the I yard sodded with shortish grass. .">. Change , roasters every spring. See that they have I plenty of dry ashes to wallow in, and uso lime-wash to keep the roosts sweet-smelling. Mrs Stanton, an advocate for " Woman's Rights," lately gave a lectu'-'e in San Francisco on 'Marriage and Maternity, which is thus summarised :— i( Tne idea that woman is inherently weak is a grand mistake. She is physically weak because she neglects her biths, because she violates every law of her nature, because she dresses in a way that would kill a mm. I feel it my mission to arouse every woman to b 'ing up her da igliter without breaking her up in doing so. I early j imbibed the idea that a girl was as good as a boy, a/ad 1 carried it out. I cor,] 1 walk five miles before breakfast, or ride ten on horseback. After 1 was married, 1 wore my clothing sensibly. The weight hung alone on ■ my shoulders ; 1 never compressed my body I unnaturally. Another idea :—it is of more importance what kind of children we raise, than iiow many. It is better to produce one lion than twelve jackasses. We have jaek- | asses enough ; let us go into the lion business. We must have a new type of womanhood. ;We need it more than gold. The old idea of the oik and vine is pretty, but it is merely 'poetry : the emergencies of life prove its fal■sity,—the lightning strikes them both alike."' The ants in Panama :u'e Hot merely mining | engineers,—-they build tubular bridges, A c >rre<ponding member of the Glasgow Natu- > ral History Society, wim has lately been in that c mutrv, describes the curious covered ways e instructed by there ingenious insects. In tricing o-ie of these covered ways, he: I found it led over a pretty wide fracture in the rocks, and was carried across in the air in the formo; a tubular bridge of half an inch in diameter, which was the scone of busy trafiio. There was nearly a foot of unsupported tube from one edeo of the cliff to the odier. Fancy the Menai Bridge lve-inj; only the result of transmitted instincts aft >v all, An amusing story is I old by a Victorian pap r. It runs tiius :—A Chinaman called at a station not a thousand miles from the ! Mitta upon a Sunday, and negotiated for tho purchase of a pig. The squatter wanted £V> • 10s. for the an'nine 1 : John p-otested that £'is i was the outside vahie. While tho ■ ransaetion was g.tvn ; on, die squatter suildenly espied a person who was to hold a service at the station that dav approaching in n buggy, and , incontinently bolted, to put on his Sunday ■ clothes. .John was rather astonished at tho sudden dis ippea an :e, and asked t'ue nien in an adjoining shed, who had heard the conversation, " Why he run away s > fast' \\h"> that ma i ;" Tipey, no! being in a proper Sunday frame of mini, informed the Celes- ; : till querist that the new-c >in >r was an aue- ; tioneer. who was about to sell the pig John : coveted. The business piMoeeded. All the ■ available people on the station were assemble,l, and the minister, fro-'.i an improvised ; vu'pb, began the e '-vi.v : but no sooner had i tho first words is-u dfr eh his lips, than the i Chinaman, determined not to lose hi« bargain, s eiiel out, "My nie": me pi.;. '.'. i J >s. ; ■£'> ; '.0r.." T:ie bme:i.-id tfi'-ets of that religious There is inching r.o b.mofieialb'oducaV-nq to ;i young man as the ec-.n-vvvonship of sis- ■ ters. Theylautyh him on *• of those little awk- • vvarduc.ses of manner which vo'ght otherwise i become habitual. Thev refine lorn in all mu t >V3 of taste and politeness. They nip at > the bid' 1 buds of puppyism, which under • other circumstances might ?iau">t their flower - i ing before less partial eyes. When brothers [ refuse to accompany their sisters, jrj order to i dance attendance unon oilier lad.es, let, them : remember who made them nreson-ible and • i arvoame to c: the other yonn-;: ladies." If is h-.ti.pr to be l.vr/hc-1 at st home thirl