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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1189, 5 December 1871, Page 2

A dogma is defined as an opinion laid down with a, snarl. In actual waste of energy, one hour of mental labor is equivalent to four Jiqurs of physical exertion.

The New York Tribune, discoursing on Chinese devotedness, say?; —"Wo Jba-ve always said that the Chinese in this country would easily adapt themselves to the situation, and do well if they were not persecuted. The facts prove it. In Massachusetts, Chinese go to the Methodist meetings with edifying regularity. In San Francisco, we are told there is a Young Men's Christian Association with forty members. What better immigrants can l>e desired than such as these—hard-work-ing, thrifty, manly, sober, and moral and peace-keeping and willing to belong to a Christian Association ? The selfish American mechanic, who how]a indignantly about cheap Chinese laboi, and the wrong which it does him, if he will keep steadily at woik and join a Christian association, will find himself in a much more comfortable frame of mind."

The Fiji Times, Ist November, says : —Much excitement and alarm waa created on Monday evening in the neighborhood of the " Little Wonder Store," when it became known that the inmates were lying prostrate—evidently the result of some virulent poison. Dr Michel 1 immediately hastened to the scene of woe, and at once initiated most active measures for the restoration of the sufferers. Mrs Norris and Mr Page 'vere found in a state of collapse, whilst Mr Norris was powerless from exhaustion. All exhibited the well-marked features of poisoning by elaterium, the active principle gained from the expressed juice of the " Echbaliuin oificinaram." This is more or less met with in the unripe cucumber, of which the sufferers had partaken; and this climate, with its luxuriant vegetation, is favorable to the deposition of a large percentage of the active poison elaterium in that refreshins fruit. The knowledge of this fact should be a warning to the residents of the kingdom; and whenever—in spite of this notice—persons are resolved to indulge their apperites for cucumber, they should be prepared for table in the following manner :—Cut in thin slices and well sprinkled with salt many hours before ea'en, and placed iu a plate considerably raised on one side. as the juice or water accumulates to be poured off, and, when no more juice can be obtained, add a profusion of pepper with a free supply of •■ iuegar and salad oil. We are happy to add that under Dr Micheli's judicious treatment Mr and Mrs Norris and Mr Page are pro"resting favorab'y, the alarming symptoms having speedily subsided; and, notwithstanding the acute nature of tho attack, their rapid recovery is anticipated.

One great source of want of prosperity in this community is, that too many boys are brought up to a town life, and too few to rural pursuits. One of the surest methods of attaching a boy to his father's farm is to let him have something upon it for his own, ■Give him a small plot of ground to cultivate, allowing him the proceeds for his own use Let him have his own steers to break, or his sheep to care for. The ownership of even a fruit tree, planted, pruned, and brought to bearing by his own hands, will inspire him with an interest that no mere reward of wastes can give. In addition to the cultivation of a farm life, which such a course will cultivate the practical knowledge gained by the boy will be of the highest \alue. Being interested he will be more ob&ervaut, and will thoroughly learn whatever is necessary for his success. Another and equally important advantage will be the accustoming him early to frel responsibility. Many young men, though well acquainted with all the manual operations of the farm, fa\l utterly when intrusted with the management of an estate, from want of experience in planning for themselves. It is much better that Ydsponsibility should be gradually assumed than that a young man should befirst thrown upon himself on attaining his majority.— Southern Cross. The people of Pittsburg are indignant because a committee of ladies and gen. tlcmen in attending to the erection of a soldiers' monument there have not displayed the name of a single soldier upon the column, but have ornamented the shaft with their own cognorneus instead.

One of a party of Eastern, men offered a miner a half-dollar for showing them through the Nevada silver mineH. Helooked al the money a moment, and then turning to the Easterner said, "May I ask you how much you are estimated at home to be worth % " "About 25,000 dollars," was the reply w Well," said the miner, " I guess X won't take your half-dollar. 1 made a quarter of a million here last month," A good story is told in a book just published- ihe Life of Young the comedian—of a farmer's wife whose pond had been used by some Baptists for the immersion of their converts. Hearing of it, she was very indignant, and vowed that the intruders should be kept off in future, " I aint no idea," she said "of their coming and leaving all their nasty sins behind them in my water." The sense of moral property in a pond,, and of its being rendered unfit for its normal uses by such contamination, is very finely brought out in this saying. A cyclone recently devastated Illinois. The effects of ihis storm on a prairie were singularly striking. It made a pathway for itself of three miles in length, and from twenty to eighty feet wide. In that pathway not a spear of grass, not a stalk of corn or wheat, not a shrub or particle of vegetable, was left alive, while the ground in many places was ploughed up to the depth of ssix inches. Messrs. Caird and Co., of Greenock, nave taken a contract to build a very huge steamer, of great power, for the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company (Tnman Line X This steamer will be fully 5,000 tons Customs measurement, and, with two ether boats building by Messrs. Todd and M'Gregor, will make an aggregate of 15,000 tons in hands of builders for this Company's mail service.