SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4007, 26 May 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

In Tauranga the canning of peaches has commenced. The popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan is said to be on the wane. About 100 letters and telegrams reached Mr Gladstone on his last birthday. The best American cattle sell in England for fifteen cents per pound dressed. An Ohio woman has just been arrested for using , a hot poker to punish a child. Canadian iuventers petition for the adoption of the American patent law entire. The system of telegraphic money orders is soon to be introduced throughout India. The public schools of Paris arc regularly visited once a month by a medical inspector. The Suva Times sees in Tawhiao's mission home the hand of Sir Arthur Gordon. The 6th inst. was the anniversary of the first discovery of gold in Australia in 1851. The year ISBS has been announced Toy M. de Lesseps for the opening of the Panama Canal. Philip Phillips, the singing pilgrim has sustained a sad loss in the death of his son James. Sir Samuel Baker severely criticises the English Government for abandoning the Soudan.

There are 100 brewers in New Zealand, producing five million gallons of beer annually. Mrs Langtry, it is stated, is on the lookout for a theatre in which to re-appear in London at the beginning of next year. It is said that Sir Henry Parkes will make between £10,000 and .£20,000 by his successful floating of the Australian Freehold Investment Company. Tho Dunedin Herald, criticising Sir G. Grey's speech, says: "If he has cards to play they must bo up his sleeve, for he has carefully avoided showing - them." New photographs of Bernhardt, just produced in Paris, represent her completely clad in fur, with oven a fur bonnet and gloves. She looks as if she weighed 400 lbs. The old stocking superseded. At the sale of household furniture a few days ago, among a heap of cooking utensils, was a battered saucepan, containing 140,000frs. in gold pieces. Mr T. Spurgcon, when preaching his farewell sermon at Auckland, took for his text "I will arise and go to my father," so we may draw the conclusion that he has sown his wild oats. The Comtesse de Chambord has presented several sets of black velvet vestments, magnificently embroidered with silver, to the monks of Castagovnizza, under whose chapel tho coffin of her husband was placed. In 1882 the largest number of patents ever known in a single year were taken out in the "United Kingdom, namely, 6241. In Januaiy of this year, as the result of the new laws, 2258 applications were received for new patents. A Temperanco Colonisation Society has been formed in Canada, which proposes to fill a tract of land two million acres in extent with settlers who will engage neither to make, import, nor sell intoxicating liquors. The Countess de Clooheville, who has recently died at Tours, has left her entire fortune, amounting to three million of francs, to a convalescent hospital for children, with the condition that it shall continue to be managed by the Sisters of Mercy. The Town and Country Journal says 100 yards have been covered in Pfsecs., and is tho fastest time in the colonies, but does not give tho man.—N.Z. Herald. Probably the T. and C. referred to Hewitt and Han-is in 1870.

M. Mignet, the French academician lately deceased, ever 'wore a blue neck-tie with white spots, that was the pattern of the dress worn by his Italian love, when she jilted him. 05 years ago. And there are people who say men are deceivers ever. A bill has been introduced into the New York legislature, the object of which ia to enable a testator to prove his own will while living , . It proposes to allow the contents of a will so proved to remain secret until the testator's death, but to this many of the supporters of the main principle are adverse. The following advertisement from a matrimonial journal is not bad: —" Being aware that it is indelicate to advertise for a husband, I refrain from doing so ; but if any gentleman should be inclined to advertise for a wife, I will answer the advertisement without delay. lam young, have a good figure, am domesticated, and considered ladylike. Apply, etc." "If there were five pigeons sitting on that branch, and I should shoot at three, how many would there be left?" asked Crimsonbeak, who had a good opinion of himself as a marksman, to his young son "There would be live left, of course," answered the boy, whose idea of his father's ability as a gunner was not in the least biassed. James Newton, the oldest Freemason in England, has died very suddenly at Richmond, Yorkshire, in his 89th year. For 57 years deceased was " Tyler " to the Masonic brethren, having been appointed in 1827, when the Duke of Sussex visited Richmond. For many years he worked with the renowned Matthew Grcathoad, the centennarian, who died in his 102 nd year. The Hon. F. A. K. Bennet, younger son of Lord Tankerville, is about to take up his residence permanently in America. Mr Bennet lost one of his eyes when grousedriving a year and α-half ago, and he has been strongly advised that in order to preserve the sight of the other eye he must give up the Bar and live chiefly in the open air. Ho has, therefore, determined to turn his attention to cattle farming in the West.

A contfimporaiy states that Judge Molesworth was present at Pentridge, in Melbourne, recently to witness three prisoners flogged. He was desirous of observing , the severity of the punishment, and drawing his own conclusions as to its deterrent influence upon the recipients. He has expressed himself in favour of short sentouces with severe corporal punishment, and not burdening the State with keeping offenders for any length of time. He also appeared to consider that the solitary sj'stem of punishment, carried out in its integrity—viz., lib of bread per day and no chance of any communication with any person—would be even more beneficial; and in this he is borne out by old and experienced gaol officials. The great fifty-ton hammer in Krupp's works at Essen gained its name, "Unser Fritz," and the inscription it beai's, "Fritz, lot fly ?" in the following manner: When, in 1877, the Emperor William viaited Essen, this steam hammer attracted his attention. Krupp presented the machinist, Fritz, who, he said, handled the hammer with such nicety and precision as njt to injure or touch an object placed in the centre of the block. The Emperor at once, put his diamond studded watch on the spot indicated and beckoned to the machinist to set the hammer in motion. Fritz hesitated out of consideration for the previous object, but Krupp urged him on by saying : ' Fritz, let fly !" Down came tho hammer, and tho watch remained untouched. The Emperor "•ave it.to tho machinist as a souvenir, and Krupp added ],000 marks to the present. In his Echoes of the Week in the Illustrated London News Mr G. A. Sala says: —"Miss Genevicve Ward rivals the late Madamo Ida Pf eiffer as a traveller; but then the much wandering Teuton did not have to play Lady Macbeth, Queen Katharine, Forget-me-Not and a score more arduous parts in tragedy and comedy in her travels. When in her early youth, she was domiciled in St. Petersburg. Some years after I found her a prima donna at Tacen Theatre, Havana. Afterwards I met her at New York, subsequently I was called upon to admire her at the Theatre Eoyal, Drnrylane, at the Adelphi, the Lyceum, the Prince of Wales and the Olympic, and now it is from Colombo, Ceylon, that she hails, and by the time these lines are in print she will, be playing in Melbourne.' Her Cingalese experience moved mo to such a pitch of_ enthusiasm that I began an ode in the Gallic tongue to her, begiiiing—"ll.n'y apjint do gal sur la terre' —when I timeously remembered that Point de Gallo is not Colombo, that < gal' is not French for young lady, and that I am no poet, so I gave the ode up." _ Anew process of preserving inuttou is described by a London correspondent, who says: '' There is now on view at the Society of Arts in the Adelphi an exhibition, a description of which may perhaps be of in-

terest to your readers. It consists of a whole sheep, which was killed aboiit six weeka ago, and has been treated with Jones's antiseptic process. To all appearance it is ad, fresh as when first killed. Mr Jones is a medical man, practising in Gloucestershire, and his antiseptic method consists in making use of the circulatory system, after the animal has been rendered insensible by a blow on the head, to diffuse over the whole system, previous to finally killing the animal, a preservative fluid consisting principally of boracic acid dissolved in water. A sheep weighing about 70lb, requires an injection of 16 ounces to secure preservation. It is contended that by Mr Jones's process the meat becomes tender by keeping, all the juices are kept sweet, and the boracic acid imparts no flavour to the mutton when cooked. Some carcasses treated in this way have been hung up for j several months, and after the expiration of that term have been foxind as fresh and sweet as if only just killed. It is quite possible that this method of preserving meat may be found preferable to and cheaper than the freezing process."

The scence was tho comfortable interior of a tram-car, on a bleak cold foggy day, with the thermometer run down near to freezing point. The hour was half past eleven, the car was one of the red-hued chariots of the Hampstead-road and Highgate , Line, and the interested parties a pretty girl of about ninetean summers, with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, and a young man of two or three and twenty. " Are you cold, Amelia ? " came in gentle tones across the car. "Yes, Charley," was the halfwhispered reply. And Charley snuggled up close and took Amelia's hand in his. He then glanced at her in a loving way, looked across at tha reporter, who was apparently asleep, noticed that the conductor was entirely occupied in keeping his feet warm, and, after giving , one or two coughs, said with a smile, '•' Do you recollect what I told you the first time I met you, Amelia,?'' "No, Charley. "What?" "Why, that I had never been in love, and that it would bo a cold day when I'd ask a girl to marry mo." "Oh, yes, but why do you ask?" "Well, this is a very cold day. Amelia, isn't it?" "Yes, Charley; but why?" and she blushed as she glanced up at him, and his face drew nearer hers. " Well, will you?" There was a silence for a moment but for the jingle, jingle of tho bells, and the shuffling of the conductor's feet upon the icy platform. Then she slipped her hand into his, blushed even rosier than|before, and whispered "Yes." " Bless you, my children," exclaimed the delighted reporter; and as the lovers half started up abashed at the unexpected discovery of their secret, the scribe shot out of the doorway and hurried away.