GENERAL NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

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I have brought mi sell by long meditatio iO the conviction that a human being with • settled purpose must accomplish it, and tl:a not him; can resist a will thai will stake eve) existence for its fulfilment.--Lord Heacaiisfield

Tin: Custom ok "Toasting."—The custom of "toasting" our favourites appears V. have had its rise in the reign of Charles II Dr. Johnson observes that the meaning u the word at its first use was " a celebrated woman whose health is often drunk aiuthe reason ol her lining so termed may be found in the " Tatler," which says:--" It happened that on a public day a celebrated beauty of these limes (Kin;; Charles II.) was in the Cross Math, at Math, and one of the crowd ol her admirers took a <;lass of the water in which the lair one stood and drank her health to the company. There was in the place a fellow hall-fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast. He was opposed in his resolution, yet this whim nave foundation to the present honour which is done to the lady we mention in our liquor, who has ever since been called a ' toast.' "

Tin- Casi'ai. Action' oi- Di-sigx.—Design is a cause which is made know n to us in our consciousness as possessing a peculiarity which sharply distinguishes it from ever) physical cause known to man ; for it calls the liitlire and the non-e\istent into an idea existence, and then selects and adapt; present phenomena, so shaping them that they must cooperate for a result which as jet has no local habitation in nature. Out nun experience thus us a clue to ex '.lain the enigma, "H<>w can a future which lues not yet exist influence the present?" i lie explanation being, that though it doesn't yet exist plnsieally, it has already an de.'il existence in the mind. Now. natine teems with complicated adapt ions, in whk'i t appears as it the future had in this way influenced the present. The eye, with its iv; .icierftil niachinerv, with its innumerable mil exquisitely delicate adaptations for the i - ( ception of li.yht, is " made in secret," and far-hit'iied in darkness, where no ray of lit;h-

ran as yet come near it. The ear, while i: 1 cinn shaped ant! moulded, is quite cut Til bom the vibrations of air for the recep '.ion of which its complicated machinery a n process of con.stniction. These are btr imi'.h.u' millions of the processes of natuic. \hicrli reveal the same characteristic.--Siihmil Thti'loiin 'tinl .\!utit'ni Tlio;i</lt. My j. Houghton Kennedv, !i. 1).

Tkeat.mhnt ok Siii.ki' Scaj;.—A favourite u scnical dip in Ft am e is eiven by Neumarr \r i nic, it Alb : sulphate of iron, 221b.; w a .e;. ;:allons. I'xiil lor ten minutes. Yhi-. iii .:tire is enrin.h (or u>o sheep. The siil .■mate ol iron is used on account of its astiin action preventing I lie. absorption ol ih" ii:' nic. 'J'he iron imparts a rusty colour to the wool. An equal quantity of alirn. •iilie used in place ol the it jn, if an Ist: indent is thought to be necessr.ry. Aloes \s also arlded in some to discourage '.he slice]) from biting or licking the: skin, and :Iws Kt-'ttinf! 'lie arsenic into tjie digestive ;ystem. Carbolic acid dips are made by jii.-.ins the acid with soap, or gelatine, or an alkali, as soda or potash, to cause it to comline readily with water. A useful preparation is made by dinsolvinj.' soap in common

;arbolic acid, about nib. to eacii prallun ul acid, and then adding p. pint ol turpentine This mixture may be used in the proportion d( one in litty of solt water, and il properly made it should foim a milk}- fluid with *>ater, without leaving any brown scum on .lie top. Salving or \\ith diluted meicurial ointment i.s by some preferred to jipping, and for in-latnb ewes that treatment

certainly more sale. Some skill is requited :o divide the wool and distribute the ointment equally, so that a sheep prop";l> sahed should show very little trace ol ih.. Eminent on the llcece.—The V••(id

Transmission ok Kr.c.s koh Hatciiino.— An eccount appeared in the Stt>rl;l:r,']ifr not Jon}* since ol an experiment in whi. h twei iittings were forwarded to Sydney Tie system of packing adopted was thai the were greased with mutton fat, and tin r. v, rapped separately in sheets oi ti; sue |<;q e. r, jlter which they were firmly embedui ;1 ;i. sawdust in a wooden case, which aitiud

raiely, not one bein.e broken. 'I he e'.ere placed ir. an incubator inm:edi..it.-, ..c. •■nival, and though several cot'naiui i! 'j,:.u|ons when te.->ted, none hatched, t liu

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