Gleanings

Kaikoura Star, Volume XI, Issue 85, 17 November 1891, Page 4

Gleanings

Two telegraphed statements in connection with the frozen meat trade are full of interest. One is that Messrs Nelson Eros are building a freezing store at Southwark, Surrey, capable of bolding 180,000 carcases of mutton. This shows the great strides daily being nr. de in the business. The second item is that a Victorian, who has been investigating the manner in which Colonial meat is sold in London, considers it inadvisable to send anyone from Australia to manage London sales of frozen meat, as there is no suspicion of any unfair dealings. He declares the existing system at Smytbfield is excellent. This appears conclusive, but what about the statement that inferior British mutton is sold as Colonial ? Would it not be a good thing to set up an establishment exclusively for the sale of Colonial meat ?

Telegraphy without wires is said to have been accomplished in England. Mr Preece, the head electrician of the postal system, succeeded in establishing communication across the Solent to the Isle of Wight and telegraphed also across the River Severn, without wires, merely using earth plates at a sufficient distance apart. It is now proposed to make a practical use of this system in communicating with lightships.

One little circumstance connected with the selection of the new Russian magazine rifle attracts attention. The Czar has decided that its calibre shall be "3042, while the French calibre is •3142. This difference will prevent either a friendly or a hostile use of French cartridges in the Russian weapon, and vice versa. Many of these rifles are to be made in France, and the whole of the Russian army is to be equipped within fifteen months. The finer kinds of coal ashes from domestic fires will, it is stated, make excellent cement when used with common lime, the cement being found to he 4 or 5 times as strong’ as common mortar.

Lord Wolseley entered the British army thirty five years ago. at the modest pay of 6s a day, and out of that he was compelled to pay for bis mess and uniform. >

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He: ‘Will you be mine?’ She, (curtly) : ‘ No.’ He : * Mav I be yours ? She (graciously) : ‘ Yes.’ It requires about three thousand pounds of rose-leaves to produce an ounce of attar of roses.

There are more physicians in the United States than in all Europe combined.

Rev Dr Talmage recently travelled 254 miles by rail in as many minutes to meet a lecture engagement. He is not anxious to repeat the experiment.

The Hon W. E. Gladstone receives £2OO for every article he writes. The following amusing elaboration of the “ one-man ” argument is by Al in the Sydney Morning Herald :—“ I take no shame at confessing mv adhesion to the new creed of nnitology, but perhaps I carry my philosophy deeper into the penetralia of life than most people. At present the gospel preached by St George, the greatest of all political apostles, stops at one man one vote ; but the genuine unitologist is logical and thorough. He begins by believing in one Deity and one life, one world and one death. He proceeds by necessary philosophical trains of ratiocination to the belief in one per cent, interest, one marriage, one household, one wife, one child, one newspaper, one policy, one party, one tax, one representative, one vote for him, one plot of land (6 x 4), one dotnesti. cated animal, one tradesman, one meal a day, one club, one bar, one drink at

it. one legislative chamber, one house of one storey, one suit of clothes, one pair of boots, one hat, one parson, priest, or theological censor, one medical adviser, one legal ditto, one insolvency, one judge, one juryman, one trial, one virtue, one vice, one idea of things in general, and one chance in life. If he could reconstruct himself anatomically, he should have one eye, one arm, one hand with one finger, nne leg with one toe, one hair on bis head, and to complete the ideal of one-ness he shonld only permit himself to write one letter of one line to one newspaper, which should be a journal of one page and one column, and published only once a year. Of course one cannot expect to reach this consummation of one ness all at once. Therefore let us be content if htihg year 1891 we achieve (1) one manyhsHe, and that vote for dnly one candidate, (2) one man one wife, (3) one man one child, and (4) one per cent jtqerest on overdrawn accounts ”

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