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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1136, 3 October 1871, Page 2

"Is it possible, miss, that you don't know the names of some of your best friends?" inquired a gentleman of a lady. " Certainly," she replied ; " 1 don't even know what my own may be a year hence."

The new British man-of-war, J| Spain, on her trial trip, easily attainJß a speed of fourteen and a quarter knoj an hour. 1 A fate California n paper says;J " Chemists tell lis that theine is d peculiar principle which constitutes tli virtue of lea. "Without this element j wo ikl be valueless as a beverage. { may interest tea-drinkers who think tei is all right because it comes iron China. In California, we have soim security for the purity of home winel Grape-juice is cheaper than any m a terial which can be got to adulterate wine ; but around the tea-sh.ipping. porta of China, millions of all sorts of leaves are yearly gathered and made into' spurious tea, at one-third the cost o{ the genuine. These are mixed in varying proportions with genuine tea. They are known to. the trade as " cheat) Canton teas." They are rendered deleterious not so much by the substituted leaf as by the unwholesome chemistry', used to disguise the imposition. But! last year a new article made its appear.; ance in quantity in the London Tea; Exchange. It came from Shanghai and it was found to be made of willow' leaves so perfectly resembling tea as to, be detected only by experts. Halt-a-million pounds of this sham tea were 1 made at Shanghae in 1870. The leaves are gathered in spring-time, and treated exactly as tea leaves in the manufacture. It is all mixed with green teas, in varying proportions of 20 to 40 pet cent., according to conscience. The. former figure satisfies the Chinese factor, while the conscience of the Christian trader is said to have much greater elasticity. It should be known to teadrinkers that instead of theine, the active principle of willow leaves is. salacine, which has properties nearly the same as quinine. This is much more sleep-banishing than theine, and its habitual use will generate fatal congestions of the internal organs. Till we raise our own tea, the almost universal adulterations should tend ty. make us sparing in the use of knypriced teas." No execution of late yeai's (writes a New York correspondent) has excite J sq much attention as the hanging of the murderer Rulloff at Binghamton on tlia 18th of May. Binghamton is a thriving town on the Erie Railroad, 15Q. miles from this city, where, in the month of August, 1870, a desperate struggle took place at midnight between three burglars and two young shopmen sleeping in a shop which had been burglariously entered. One of the shopmen was killed, and the other severely, wounded. The burglars escaped, but the dead bodies of two. of them were, dug out of the Chenango river near by, days afterwards, and {me hue and cry having been raised throughout the country, the third was arrested prowling suspiciously about a barn. This man turned out to be a well-known, offender, who had gone under many aliases, had been on trial for the sup-, posed murder of his and child years before, and only missed the gallows that time through the non pro-. (1 notion of the corpus delicti. It could not be absolutely established that the wife and child were dead, and it has since transpired that he killed them afc midnight, and sunk their bodies with heavy weights attached to them to the. bottom of Cayuga Lake. When Rullotf was put on trial for the murder at Binghamton last winter he conducted his own defence, and thereby sealed his. fate, for the ingenuity of counsel and the fact that the evidence against hiffl was purely circumstantial might have obtained a verdict of " Nqt guilty ]" but the pitiable weakness of the cunnine burglar and the remorseless assas-. sin was to be thought a man of learning and culture. For the past four QX fiw years he had bean engaged upon a great work on comparative philology, which was to serve as the basis of a | universal language, and establish * or ' him a lasting renown. He made an appeal to Governor Hoffmann nqttQ cut short studies of such great dignity and importance, and deprive mankind of the blessings of his great discoveryj but the governor failed co see in < a Bacon or a Newton, and withhelq his pardoning hand from the murderous philologist, who died horribly blasphenh ing God.