LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Mayor of Levin (Mr H. 1L Gardener) lias made such splendid progress that he hopes to leave (he hospital this week. Before returning home ALr Gardener will s])Cii(l some time with liis brother on tin' l'oxton line. Owing 1 to i In.- heavy rain on Saturday I he cricket match hetween Levin and ,Boston teams, to have been played mi the recreation re.scivr, did nut lake pJacc. It is not generally known that lhe stewards oJ' shows and exhibitions can grant the right to a private individual to dispose of an\ exhibit or I he whole lot of theiii by lottery. A clause to this effect was added to the Washing ( p Hill of last session. Swat that fly! The i yramid stick fly catchers with the hook for hanging up, are the best catchers of (hat dreaded spreader of disease, the common house flv. Price 2 for-5d at 0. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford-street. Poisonous Hy papers also on hand, if you prefer them.—-Ailvt. «lentlemeu! Next time you requite a Iv>m hat buy the u ll. and G." m.-'V ii will style and.comforl \ : ,."i Apply local'dra-

A resident in Napier has succeeded in growing some potatoes which are a cross between a lied Dakota and ;in Up-to-date. The potatoes are white, and have clearly-defined red patches on them.

Mr T. K. Koydhouse, latterly editor of the Sydney Sunday Times, and formerly of the AVairarapa and AVellington. has purchased the paper at Warkworth. "Pat, Pat," remonstrated leather Doolan, "this will never do! You must really go and take the pledge at once.*' "Then, bedad, yir reverince, I'll require to part with my old pony, for not a foot will he stir past a public house until I go in." fl A writer in the Christchurch Press recalls an unusual incident ii) the early history of Christchurch. A fire broke out in the Wcsleyan chapel in High street, and it was quenched by using the beer from a neighbouring brewcry. It is recorded as "the first fire in Christchurch," and happened in 1859. There was no water nearer than the Avon, but Packer's brewery was near by, and a lineof buckets was manned by willing volunteers, which connected up the beer barrels with the church, and which soon extin. guished the fire. George Lucas, of Maiden, Mass, •iullback on the Stamford Preparatory School football eleven, has gone home to recuperate from a queer injury. . Lucas received a blow on the back of his neck in a game which forced him to "swallow" his tongue; that is, •lis tongue turned backwards in

his •throat. He was choking to death, when a person who had seen a similar injury before put ;u his hand and pulled the tongue back. Lucas has been Very weak ever since.

A correspondent of a AVaikato

~;aper, writing with regard to •.\ hooping cough, affirms if parents would only take, say, half a- brick and put if in the fire fill quite !;ot and carry it on a shovel to the room occupied by the sufferer, and

just pour pure lysol on the brick, :md fill the room with the fumes il would bring certain relief when inhaled, «uid greatly relieve the severe convulsion of cough and hasten the recovery of the sufferer. A Wellington man just back fi-oin Auckland informs the Free Lance that Hammond's aerial flight in the Brittania caused a tremendous commotion among Ihe live stock up north. As the biplane buzzed along at the low altitude of 100 ft, the cows careered along their paddocks in the best Spanish bull-fight style, horses were bolting, roosters crowing, and hens cackling like mad. A.ucklanders had the sensation of 1 heir lives. Thebus, in the time of K a lueses 11, established and supported the first public library, and the records of the ,monument show tiiat its director was a high official named Amen-em-an. He appears to have been also a literary light, and corresponded with Pentaour, who was the popular author of the "best sellers" of his time. That physical culture was a fad with the "fashionable ladies of the courts of the Pharoahs is another phase of Egyptian life revealed by the rock pictures of the "'Mother of Civilisation." The more we moderns dig into the buried past of the Pharaohs the more moderate grows the estimation of our wonderful progress.

It is now believed that the ancients used telescopes for astronomical purposes. In excavations in Babylonia a lens has been found which was undoubtedly used in a telescope centuries before the birth of Christ. The ancients, both Chaldean and Egyptian, were acquainted with the planetary system, knew that tlie earth was round, could calculate meridians exactly, calculated the orbits of the planets; in fact, paid great attention to eclipses of the sun and moon, to occupations of the planets and the determination of their periodic and synodic times, to the construction of tables of the fixed stars and the mapping of them into constellations, and to settling the exact length of the true solar year. It is fair to presume, then, that they had telescopes to aid them in their work.

Margarine v. Butter is discussed in the annual report of the .New South AVales Dairy Expert (Mr O'Callaghan). He says: "I have examined some high-class margarine, which has been im-

ported from England, and 1 must say that 1 would prefer to use it rather than eat some of the stored butter which I also sampled. Does it not follow, then, as a matter

of course,- that this same butter, whieluis now lying m Sydney, will, when exported to England, compare very unfavourably with freshly-made margarine of the

besi quality? Tt is, in many instances, inferior to the margarine when the latter has journeyed from England; so that an additional six weeks on to the age of this second quality butter will increase its inferiority before it is placed on the English market. 1 ain not hopeful of much improvement until the classification of cream on correct lines is carried out by our butter factories: and I do mil expect that this latter will be- done until legislation compelling it has been passed. ' \o slipping aiui sliding on the floors when they are polished with TAX-OL. It'shines beautifully and preserves the floor-coverings. Applied with little labour.- Advt.

Believe me if all those enduring ol t hoots were brought, for repair. itig (o-day, Fred. Pink would resol • them with leather that suits an ! send you all happy away. ill- li'ithnr's as hard as the heart of a mif.T, and wears in a way that will fairly surprise yer!—

It is stated, says the Marlborough Express, that the news that a woman in Christchurch had recently given birth prematurely to four children, caused a resident of Marlborough no lit.tle uneasiness until he received a telegraphic message from his wife, then present in the Cathedral City, anticipating an "interesting event," io the effect that 'It was not me." Rabbits are now becoming a nuisance at Caroline Bay. They have eaten off two beds of phlox druimnondi, and they nibble at and partially spoil everything that is put in there. It would appeal- to be an easy matter to keep down this pest m such a largely patronised public rcsori (remarks the Timaru matter of fact the of so many people on the pecially children, makes cult to take remedial mWlures. The ordinary means of extermin-ation-shooting and poisoning— are both too dangerous.