SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4114, 27 September 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

The total number of Australian fishes now 'amotuit3 to 1,291 species. During last year Queensland paid assessment on 11,230,720 sheep. The minaret of a mosque at Cairo fell on July 3, killing a dozen persons. Railways and Public Works arc occupying attention in Western Australia. Mr Belt who took a a cast of Sir Michael Costa'h features after death, has accepted the commission for a bust of this distinguished musician. A terrible accident has occured in a sawmill in Bridgefoot street, Duplin. A man named Stepheus fell across a circular saw, and was cut in two.

A bridge across the Vistula, at Warsaw, Poland, which cost £400,000 to build, has been carried away by recent floods. According to a German scientist's experiments, the healthy eye is able to perceive about three hundred differences of color. Ostrich farming appears to bo on the straight road in South Australia. The Malcolm Ostrich Company held a meeting a few days ago, and the report was considered highly satisfaotoi-y. Trying on bad tea in Brisbane. The Government analyst finds that several of the samples recently condemned contained sand and clay, starch, chalk, and catechu. Enough to make a fellow sneeze. A photographer at "Versailles is paid to have invented a method of taking photographs which retain all the colors of the scene reflected on the lens. Similar discoveries have previously been announced from Germany and in England. There has lately been constructed by MM Chalbiot and Gra'toit of Paris, a new tool to ■which they had given the name of the biradial drilling machine. The arm is jointed or hinged in the middle ho that the drill can bo brought to any point on the table without shifting the latter. Bevel gear transmits the power. Krupp, the great gunmafcer, has produced a new kind of powder, called the brown powder, which is very likely to suporcedo the ordinary black powder. It is stronger than the black powder, explodes only in a tightly closed space, burns slowly in the open "air, and is smoke is much thinner than that of black powder. The Wine Trade Eevicw hears that the following are about the quantities of the ISS3 champagnes bottled this spring at the leading houses : —Moet and Chandon, 4,">00,000; G-. H. Mumm and Co., 3,000,000; Terrier, Joiiet & Co., 2,000,000 ; rommery, '2,000,000; Heidseick, 1,300,000 ; Rocderer, 1,000,000 ; and Cliquot, 000,000.

Truth Ahat tho property left by the late Duke of Albany turns out to be by no moans so large as , was stated in the papor.s immediately after his death. A great deal of money was spent in various ways during the last few months of the Duke's life and ■when everything is paid there will not be a balance of'more than £10,000 at the outside.

Tho Great Western Railway authorities at Paddington are so satisfied with the experiments they have made with the electric light at that station that they arc about to illuminate all the offices at the terminus by the same means. In some of the offices tho work of laying tho wires has commenced. The company by this new departure hope to save a largo amount of money. Hero is an odd advertisement which is taken from tho Glasgow Herald: "Royalty Theatre.—Special Notice—Ascertain Glasgow papers have expressed their disapproval of the Gentlemen's Evening Dress worn by tho Ladies who impersonate in the Slashers a 'Silver Gait,' Mr Cowper begs to announce that ho has procured some Kilts, which will be worn in addition to the trowsers complained of."

During the last 16 years there have been 10 divisions in the Hou.sc of Commons on tho question of the enfranchisement of "women. The following record of tho results will be interesting at tho present time : —

In 18G7, for woman's suffrage 81, against 202; IS7O, 119 against 244; 1871, 159 against 22S ; 1872, 163 against 244 ; 1873, 172 against 239; 1875, 170 against 205; 1876, IGI against 248; 1878, 155 against 235; 1870, 134 against 245; ISS3, 103 against 179. On June 17 (the Times relates), while a case was being tried before Mr Justice A. L. Smith and a common jury, the Court adjourned at about half-past 1 for lunch. At 2 o'clock tho jurors and counsel had reassembled, when to their astonishment, Mr Justice Stephen, whose court also had adjourned for lunch, entered the room, took Ids seat on the bench, and was apparently about to resume the trial of an action which had been begun by Mr Justice A. L. Smith. Mr M'lntyre, Q.C., evidently somewhat embarrassed at having to open the case for a defendant before a judge who had not heard the case for the plaintiff, ventured to ask whether, amid the intricacies of the new building, his Lordship had not lost his "way, and come into the wrong court. It appeared that this was so, and Mr Justice Stephen retired amid some amusement.

We always have to laugh at Boothman. He plays Malcolm, and rants around like a locomotive engineer that once sat down on the spout of an oil-can wo had inadvertently left on his seat. The poor fellow nearly died of asphyxia, but las illness didn't keep him from blessing us after a fashion. Boothman is a child of thunder. He was conceived in an earthquake, and born in a tornado. Every time he opens his mouth, the building quakes and the audience trembles. He is about the best looking man in the profession in Australia, but there is more rant and roar in him than a lion with his tail under a fallen tree. We have tried to euro Mr Bootlunau of this by telling him how bad it looks, but he doseu't seem to heed our cackling. Some day he'll overhear somebody saying, "les, he's a dashed nice-looking fellow, but he can't act a little bit," and then he'll begin to ponder over our words, and wonder why Nature hadn't blessed him with sense enough to observe them in time. We are satisfied that Boothman hah got a patent •wind-factory inside of him somewhere, and ■wo mustn't prick him too sharply for fear of precipitating a storm. —Sydney Bulletin.

lleport on our cricketers, by our special medical man : —Murdoch's eye still very bud and iullamed. Must keep to tlio slitide for some timo to come. Bats on crutches.— Bonnor's head healing - fast, chin bones knittiny ■well. Allowed v spring mattress to field on.—Blackham's arm will bo out of splints in a fortnight, and his breast-bone is fust regaining its normal shape. Finger nails growing fast. —Midwinter's nose still in. plastcr-of-Paris mould. Ley doing- well, beginning to pick up flesh.—SpoiforLli's arms going- on grandly; Loth leys doing well too. Sack getting on famously. Head nearly well. Has to be j>ropped up still to bowl.—Boyle comes out of the hospital in tho morning to play and goes back at night. Still in great agony, but puts a lot of devil into his bowling , .—Palmer has taken his Load out of the sling, and feels better now. His artificial limbs fit him wonderfully well. Ho takes his left arm off when ho goes in to bat.—The gap in Scott's head is healing up, and his now set of teeth havo eomo home, and also his glass eyo and artifiicial noso.—Bannerman's moustache is growing again, and his new arm with the hook at tlio end of it, gives him tlie appearance of a cricketing Captain Cuttle.—The rest of tho team are at present reclining on air beds in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, with a coroner aud jury in attendance, ready for any emergency.