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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1372, 11 July 1872, Page 2

New York Society, in an article on the hardships that are perpetrated by the health officers of that city upon the unfortunate victims of that dreadful disease the smallpox, gives the following example of the cruelly practised by taking them from f.]n-ir homes, and sending them to the pest-houses ; —One morning at the breakfast-table, Mrs complained of a headache. Her husband advised her to send for a doctor, but she refused, saying it was not worth while. The gentleman want to his business. On his return home he found that his wife was absent. By dint of diligent inquiry he succeeded on the morning of the third day in discovering the physician who attended his wife. He was informed that Mrs had been found suffering with small pox, that the Board of Health had been notified, and that they had probably removed her to the hospital. Frantic with apprehension, he rushed to the office of the Board, but the records had been so loo.sely kept that it was after infinite trouble that he succeeded in tracing her, only to learn that she had been buried two days before in the Potters' Field, where it would be for ever impossible to recognise and secure* her body.

A terrible calamity has befallen the village of Somei set, Pennsylvania A fire originated in a stable in front of the Keim Foundry at four o'clock in the

afternoon. In a few minutes the two adjoining stables were in a blaze, and the unusu-.illy violent wind blowing at the time carried sparks and burning shingles over the business portion of the town, and the fire became general. The origin of the fire is by some attributed to sparks from the Keim Foundry falling upon the stable. A gentleman who was; on the ground at the time says the three adjoining stables burst into flames at the same moment, and unhesitatingly attributes it to incendiarism. Every business house is destroyed except Holderhaum's grocery, every hotel except the Barnett House, both the printing offices, and the Presbyterian and Lutheran churehes. The total amount of insurance is placed at $60,000. The loss will not be less than $1,000,000 in all These estimates are rather below than above the mark.

A late English paper says :—•"■ There is now every prospect that the getting of coal by machinery will be more generally adopted than has hitherto been the case. At present it has only been adapted at a few places, but a new machine, patented by Messrs Gillott and Copley, has just been tested at WharnclifFe Silkstone Colliery, near Barnsley, in ihe presence of a number of mining engineers fiom various parts of the kingdom, and with most satisfac tory results. In 136 minute* a bank of coal, 58 yards long and four feet thick, was cut to a depth of 3ft. lin. The quantity of coa! so cut would be about 80 tons in the time stared. Tn connexion with coal machinery a hydraulic coal breaker, patented by Mr Clubb, of London, has just been very sucecessfuily tested at the Oaks Colliery, Barnsley. It brings down the coal in vast blocks, effecting a gieat saving by making little or no slack, as wedges and gunpowder make from 25 to 40 per cent. The owners of the Oaks Colliery are so satisfied with the machine they have given orders for four of them."

A distinguished German agriculturist publishes in a Bremen paper the following recipe for preventing rust in wheat. Its value may be ea*ily tested—" Some hours, at the longest six or eight, before sowing, prepare a steep of three measures of powdered quicklime and ten measures of cattle urine. Pour two quarts of this upon a peck of whoat, stir with a spade until every-kernel is covered while with it. By using wheat so prepared, rust of every kind will be avoided. I have often noticed while in the neighboring fields a great part of the crop i* affected by rust, in mine, lying close by it, not a single ear so affected could be found." The same writer says he takes the wheat sheaves and beats off the ripest kernels with a stick, and uses the grain thus obtained for seed.

There are few more striking features of dreams than that they, while reproducing the past, restore the feelings which we had in connection with any particular phase or event of the past. If we dream of our childhood, »ve have the feelings of our childhood ; if of our youth, we have the feelings of our youth. Awake, we can call the past by memory, but. not by feeling; so that in truth, we cannot awake be said to renew to ourselves that season of enchantment at all. Asleep, we roll the years back, and have again, when dreaming of days long gone by, the emotions of youth or of childhood. It looks as if there were a profounder, a more potent memory than the memory of the mind, and as if the soul never forgot what it had once felt, though the mind may often fen.get that which it has surveyed *ith the keenest attention.

A Maryland paper tells the story of a marriage under difficulties, where first the bridegroom failed to appear at tie appointed time through bash fulness, and was discoveied, pursued, and only "brought to" with, a gunshot", the bride then became indignant, and refused to marry so faint-hearted and finally the clergyman settled the matter by threatening to have them both arrested for breach of promise unless the ceremony was immediately performed, which it was.

A Burst of Eloquence.—An exploded idea*

NEW MODE OP PROPELLING SHIPS*

(From the Liverpool Albion.) A number of gentlemen interested in. shipping .recently- met at Canada Basin to examine a new mode of propelling; ships, whieb has been invented and patented by Mr J. J. Allingham, oH Hamilton-road. Everton. Mr Ailingham's idea is to make the waves, acting upon the hull, propel the ship;, and this he proposes to do b>' a very novel I contrivance. Beneath the keel of the vessel he would fix two oblong steel frames each fitted with two sets of" blades to open and shut crosswise. One: frame he would secure to the forepart,, and the other to the stern. Both theframes would be fixed at an angle. When the vessel rises in the sea thepresence of the water upon the frames would of necessity force her forward;. and when she sank the blades opening* would form the opposite angle, and the onward motion would thus be continued. The apparatus would also have the effect of steadying her. When sherolled over to the right, the blades on, the left sides of the frames would tend, to bring her back to the perpendicular;; and when she rolled to the left the closing of the blades on the right sidewould have a similar effect. The angle of the frames would have to be increased or lessened, according to thestate of the weather. To stop the vessel, it would be simply necessary to close the blades in the frames. ]t will be; seen that the action of the appliancesdepends entirely upon the motion or waves ; but at sea it is rarely the easethat there is not a sufficient motion in. the water to raise a vessel several feet.. The imentor believes that the apparatus would be a sufficient propelling power for ships not required to traveL at a great speed ; but would supply ships with a limited quantity of rigging as an auxiliary power, and to provide again.-t accident. The working of the invention was shown upon a model* ship seven feet in length. The littlevessel held its way against the tide, and even in comparatively calm watertravelled at a considerable speed. Theopinion of the spectators seemed to be that the invention is in a somewhat ciude condition ; but that it U fouuded. upon a sound principle which, skilfullyapplied, would be of great value to themercantile marine.