MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 22, 18 January 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Co*s:iek young women |>op tho question. [( the men dnro to refuse, they are nnggod into nrurimony by the relatives ol their lovers, or toko to their heols anil away Dr Fiiit, nt the British Association, snid humanity on the whole, is iiioroasx me in tmml)iTs, but, is no wheremultiplying itself so rapidly as iv Kng* Innd, or so slow as in France Tho Catholic Coloniz it ion Association of St. Louis has bought 12.000 acres of Innd in PoUaivnttoinirt county. Khkis, on the line of tV r .ill road, for 3fi')d 'Is. on ticre. ntiil n l;irgo colony will bu ormnizvl on it iuimoliafolv. Tlio luVroloum trade of A morion h's nt'aincl to enormous pr ipor ions, sin. l there \* soure.ely i\ civilized spot m tho fu:e of the habitable globe to which this cheapest of ,\\ illuminators is not now shipped. The worst fears whi-*h M-oro evpros-<-----ed when the. December mnl lof; Vicforiii hnve been realised, mid the. Colony seems now committed nlm-st hojx'Wslv to ii crisis winch must st-siiiv the constitution nnd : ' lln!. »n injury upon the oomu.u»iiy, nnd i' cend of which cannot ho I'.u'i'si'imi. 'Lite 'iCi.isltt'vo (Council h,is l»vn driven to r. jet Ih" Adproprintion l?ill for tho yeir, »nd i\F. 11 1 -i -■ tors nro only nl»le to |>;ty the iiub'ic c editor by mo ins of v prior str»t>ly vo'e which i>i not, yet e\hm-<tod, nn I \\hioli will m'vir tlicm 'funds up to tin? < % n I of Mtrc't. After lb:\t period it dots not nono.-ir how tl.o civ.'l (,'overnment is to I* 1 oirried <»>, Tlio \vi|de-t ru-nours are i-urreni .-is to ih<»infcri'tonv of the Covenunent of tlio i'ny, mid .he n-til'v nl I'-niinu' snppo^'ioii is, th ;1 t Mini-ttoTs In vinu T opened i lie Ihod jintos, nnv not. bo nblo to stem tue curront, Kvo'its ni'V swoop them into positions whii-h nnv responsi 1 ],> rjovornnvnt in Iho first i stnnco would shrink from. Tn veh-'inei^ hnrnnirue nf. Ileech worth. Afr Hi-rrv hi"? inlininled th'»t. the milwnvs wnuld ecifo to him. lh"f 'ho m-»iU would be stopped, nnd tho public credit ->r would bo left unpaid: Soeio-iy. ho s;iid. would !»■» dissolve^ unMl t.ho ol^hu'le vvns swo:d; nwnv. Hot f»r »ll those threats nro morf vliod 'mo"ti\do it ii did! nit to say. nor yet h^w fir tho country vm'd bo disposal to tolen'e such outrMirrs if they wore seri. msy roMtomphito-l ; bii' the situntion undoub f « edly is e;il(Mi,nt"d to esinse uno:i-;ines<» \c*i tho oilonr should bf di«-_»Mieod nnd infurod by serious acts of ncliiiiii»slral>vo" fo'l'v. Tho Rnctlislv Artii? T'lsnlon'mr vessel' T^ii'id >n\ is to undertnlfo nuolnor ox • petfilion in the srtritn.', 'or tho piK^oso of nvtliin? nn nifempt to retieh tho Vole '<v wny of Sni'/rhor^on, insl.o:id of by Sinith'if Son'trl vonto. Th' 1 news thn X , tho Sir John Fr.-inl.lin relies nro hot li|{'->ly to b/ 1 t-eoverol, wilt bf ror-eived with tho deepest inlcrost in °M pnrts nf the wo'-hl. Jt. seems Mint Thoiiii 1 ' Hirrott, Ih' 1 m^to of n whnlmt; briu which wns 10-;* in ffudson's Biy. h:is discovered pnof of the existenco of tlu> records of tho ill-fnted A relic. "Krcnodilion, hieh wns conrivnlcd by Sir .Tohu FrnnUin. Tlio Nut.ivo«. it is report od, hnvo speoilled oT'ietlv who-'O tho books, &■>., nro to bo found, nnd Mr H;»rrot purpo^f! |o rociiYiT the.in by n speci.'il o^pes dition 'vhich is to bo organised, to leave JNViv Ynrß in tlio spring, Tho I\fe(b(vil Kxtuniner states t.hnt AF. Oininus lately mndo somo sensible, thouc;?* it is to bo feared— vain reni'iiks upon tho evil effects of Inch heeled boots, nfc n meeting of Iho Pnrisitm Medical Society. Since tho introduction of the narrow, obliquo hi^h heels on which ladies now endeavour to progress with a motion re* ■somblinfif that of a mechanical doll, IW". Ominous bus boon consulted by soveral youn.t women of fashion, who have sorely sufferrd from tho prevailing mode. It; is scarcely necessary to observe tint tho weight of the body is shifted by tlie hii»'t heol from tho enlcanoum to tho arch of tho foot, which was intended to distribute weight and not lo sustain it. Tho symptoms of which, the pa'ionts, if we may so cill tliom, complain, nro severo pains in the nuisles of tho logs, excited by walkinir nnd extending upwards from the solo of the foot, nlong Iho rxtcrnnl nnd nntorior border of the calf, to the inusrlos of the tliidli. Whon tho symptoms nre sovore, I oml givo riso, as they often do, to general disturbance they nre quietly sot down to incipent hysterics , but tho physiologist quickly discovers the cause, nnd traces it to tho work unnaturally thrown on cor« tain muscles. Mr Alexander, who recently took a Balliol scholarship nt Oxford, is tho first coloninlly educated man. who has attained Ihnthigh honour. Tho Argus Rives tho following particulars of his career :— ]l«> j )ined the Wesleyan College in 1871, nnd passed tho matriculation examination that nwful terror to our schoolboys — with credit before he was thirteen. In tho sam.) year ho was elected Dr.iper. scholar boming his seniors, Irving and Johnston, who afterwards distinrruishoJ tlieanelvcaat tha

Uniyorsity, nnd nft.nr an tinintermptod oircMr of Hiifionss nt. tho school, inoltrlincf tho L'lininc? of t,ho Artjm prizo, quittoil it in 1.874 as WnUor Powoll S«liolnr. In tho bo^innintj of 1875 ho obtained nil tho throf tjchibihion-i nt enfcranort. Afc tho ond of tlmt yt'ar, ho was pi need in the first clnsa in tho nrttf honour lint:, nnd had awnrdod to him bofh^ tho chifci' 1 '"! ftnd tho niiiHiemnliflfil exhibition, At the d\)(\ of 1B7(> liim nnmo npponrH mrn'n in t:lio firut clfiaw, and bo gained no finvor (linn thrfto exhibitions for clnflsios, for malhomatica, and for nulurnl Roionco. fllflftf), Dp W. A. Hummond says, mnv bo defined na Ronoral ronowo. Almo.it nil tho orpnns rosf, durin« sleep. U"' heart, populnrly suppled to bn in rrorpottinl motion, ifl nfc rertt six hours out of tho twcnly-four. tho r««pirnl,ory orcfnriH oif?li(;. nnd tlio otlicr organs more or losvTho brain- nlono iH conslnn-tly omploycd during Wttlififnlncsfl, nnd for it Bleep wm formed mid mnrlo needful for \\h prnserrntiofi. It i« tlirtt sleep does not jy'irc iho brnin n l;ot«l rcoanH from labour ; i«nnt;'inutirm nnrl memory tiro often vividly ftotivo during sleop, nny uneoriKcions oorobration liko wiso t-nkes p'anf, but, enough rest is obtninod for tho rcnovntion of tho bruin, nnd tlm.f, -which has boon torn down during wukofulnoaa is to n cortnin oxtonfc rebuilt. Kleop it fl mont, M'ondnrful power— often Htroinjor than tin* will, nf> in the diuo of tho slcepin« Holdinr — and inoro mighty thnn jmin, mh when sielf per«on« anil tortured priHonors sleep in tho iriulst of their huflerinj?. No torture, it is said, has been found equnl to tho prevention of sloop. Tho ninount of ulnen needed difforn o<'ConUn« to the coiifltituiiori nnd liabitH' J3iir bruitia ntul persons who perform much brain iitbour need a Ur^o amount of sleep, Children need more nloo|) l.hai\ thrown penpli* haeiiUHo oon«trußtion is moro autivo ihnn decay in their bruiuw. A your ni(o Ijriijham Younc; hid a •'resolution" thafc ho wndd live oiujht yearn loti«nr, but four doctors burst, up tho revelation.