Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 49, 11 October 1890, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

An. M extiraordinary discovery was tnade in. a/aalt "mine at Hermanstadt, lluujjjur^y, which was visited fretj[ueht/ly''by- touriats on account of its great f depth and its repeating echo. Heavy- rtiins 'caused the Water in the mine- t<i ; rise to an unusual height, When »^^considerable number of dead "bodies appeared on the surface and were -recwered. They were fouud to lie tttei/odies of Huuga'ridn Hon veils, 500 of r whom fell in the Battle of Viz Akua, ci'u February 4, la4y, and lusiuiid* '6t' y kte\ng b.aried were thrown' into the salt lake of the mine. The bodies' are so well preserved tba,t the wouudd'wnieh caused death may still "be seen "quite plaiuly. Two of' the Tjodiea'a'riL 'headless. . „ .^ Eld^^oWers ? inf used in bdi ling watetv'Wr^an huur ,iv _the--pro'{iojrrio.n l of an 'olitice to ' half a pint of Kbiiihg •\vater^_HUth-half an ounce of glycerine added] ti* t<hjß iufusioril makes one of the rnq^l/ I cooling Motions that can be Lad fpr-jftUJi^urns; eto,, . As the elder treesfcargvpow in f ull blooui, thisiteni is worth attention. ■ . Dr Charles W. Dulles, a prominent physifeiaa, ;of ; Philadelphia, b bids to tue ojjJnjimrthatytQere is hope for oon«umptiveß,«nd that medical science will soon he-able to control the diß•ease. .Ulnla recent paper on the subject be;-pointed oat that ' W hile in En feland hklt M^efotury^ ago there were 55,000 —^eath^ annually among 15,00^00^ people, t%re are. , J at present J a?»ilaiion;;of 40,0i30,0i}() *ut l¥,b9iDl "dektn'a '^ue to phthisis, , Extrame— ugliness -as a disqualify ing (ttus£ seems- intelligible ■in a «andidttkßjf i» -matrimony, but is -certainly less so wheh^heHquestioa is one of fitnem^or;jfiiiMtary T BervKe. This howeV^' 'onet. -on I jhs Jist of dis--q uali^tionf 1 laid down , by . the head , of thtf fifedical department in^ .the nfanual just Jssed on "Conscription in i%ncf»? > . if; ..jl?ait.e|^y / r -;thei French; authojyti^^jfleem - ,to j be .much:): more - liberal jfii; ., admitting ihe claims of » men who do not wish to serve;- - ' The rejectiou8 1 &r i e. ,5 per- . eeat -more numerous tKsinpat the^revio^^ conscription . The E^%cli; J a%^ok/ng^orie^o tji ? . quality ;^r;jtheir.,Ajm^., e tj(ifin^to..;tne i number^of^Me; Teliru(tß., . .^lxcessiyeJ ugliness, says this 'military doctor, makeat a I ttanr^i^Tni&usJ him frpmih4^ipg Authority' over his a^Ldileares 3iim morbid and -Beoßiti«-ft,v ,nl hi-:---;S ■• -i ; ■; ■' '• '■ '■' •A gagsgage^ in 3 1he Tekapo from iLyttelton to Sydney in a letter to a friend, in] thjßA Times «ays :— ■ One incident of the voyageLJß ( worth, xecorditfe'. 9 ,^ A i! greenhOTn %as,|) ; ut on • the lo^k^fut at i 2 p.ai M -^ith ii^struct«ions tt^^i^ '4xf. ''^jjos&fl qn.ijhe. bridge anything that should seem to fehim wortir reporting. rW"el^7 about '~~2 a.m.;/tM 'lively craft began Jheavy B^ap%otH s^des, portV^nd st^rn"iW I ha,t li 'd6!aß that' ' wqrtW do bat ring^he Veil 1 ll&1e 1 otdNfijk £ The I among,, the number, crushed ideck (must ! a fire,,but lo arid Ibehold ! he had ; left hiß.post, and goae to the Officer *• on tfle^T»ldge^"afil j.n his ..b/oadest . EiberniaV" 'thus addressed- "him. -^ tV Whaf $fo r deVjl wilf i; c^ now.? v Surely tto 1 God water is running right over and "througfi the jfince, bad lack to it." The fool did not know the bulwarks of a ; . ship from a gorse _fence. UA)CH^-: c ; - .... .■■ Smokers may be pleased to learn "that Dr Gautrejlet,(.of Vichy, claims to lave discovered a method of rendering tobacco ha^nlja^tp moutb,< heait, and. serves, without i -diriment j, to, its aroma. According to him a piece of cotton wool -steeped Jn a solution (5 to 10 pj^gentji.of^pyrogallio acid, inserted in th^^ipe or cigar j.hqlder, will neatrause' any possible effects of the nicotine. f; In, jthls way, not quly may the generally admitted /evils -of smoking. f be : prevented, but carinosis of the Irtrer, wliich in Dr Gautrelet's - experience ris- somatiiaea causer by : tobacco a^4 such slighter penpiliies of •over indufge > nce*'as fieadache arfa^furlingof the tongue,, may be avoided. Oitno acid, which was recommended ly Yigier for the same purpose, has the serious disldjran tafge. of spoiling ?the taste of the tobacco. Denmark 78^1^8 aii exchange, has -organiPßH^ a ? new ■ system ft ' State Butter Shows. The scheme includes -a coutinutmß- Butter 'show at the expense of the Btate during several months in each year, ' where fresh samples of butter will be received every fourteen days, the rj udges decisiou to be>gi«:en on the butter as received, and its condition at the end of the fourteen days. The samp es are to be sent immediately on the receipt of a letter or telegram^ so that the dairymen will not be able to iimke a special exhibition, and the samples pie to be .repeated as often as required. Cotnpetiug dairies send in a return , of, the feediug -and (system generally^o'UyA'eti on the i'aruii with special reference to the week, during which Ch&'t&ih'ples are scut in. At preseut.theiuuuiberiof dairies entered is 360. Niue judges have beeu selected and these act in - groups of three each," eafch group recording an indepeudeiit opinion «>u each s»m pie, which is checked hythos. of theother two groups. Each g oup m 1«. usmt of two butter -merchants a'uil <»ne dairy expert. ,; The; exki bit ors a>eipaid the usual market rates ior their exhibit*. The shows will be held at intervals of a fortnighjj^diiringOaighti mouths of the year. . ;