Cleanings.
Advancing years have one inseperable accompaniment, painful if we like to make it so, or soft and sad, as an ordinance of nature —a thing which bas to be, and must be so accepted. Each season takes away with it more and more of the friends whom we have known and loved, cutting one by one the strings which attach us to our present lives, and lightening the reluctance with which we reckon our own time approaching. Anyone at all that we have personally known has a friendly aspect when we hear that he is dead. Even if he has done us an ill turn, he cannot do it again. We forget the injuries we have received, because, after all, they did not seriously hurt us ; we remember the injuries we have done, because they are past remedy. With the dead, whatever they were, we only desire to be at peace.— Froude.
The island on which the Eddystone Lighthouse stands is the smallest inhabited one in the world. At low water it is 30ft in diameter ; at high water the lighthouse, whose diameter at the base is 28fft., completely covers it. It is inhabited by three persons. It lies nine miles off the Cornish coast, and 14 miles south west of Plymouth Breakwater. Flatholme, an island in the British Channel, is only a mile and a half in circumference, but, consisting mostly of rich pasture land, supports a farmhouse besides the lighthouse, with a revolving light 165 ft above the sea. There are about 100,000 islands, large and small, scattered over the oceans. America alone has 5,500 around its coasts ; there are 365 in the Bay of Rio Janeiro, 16,000 between Madagascar and India, and some 1,200 off the eastern coast of Australia, between its mainland and New Guihea.
The 22nd of February was the fortieth anniversary of the date on which the first troops were despatched to Malta en route to the Crimea. These were battalions of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards, who were sent off with much eclat. The Scots Fusiliers followed, their departure being witnessed by the Queen and Royal Family as they marched past Buckingham Palace. Other troops embarked from the provinces ; the 28th Regiment from Liverpool, the 33rd and 50th from Dublin. The ultimatum of England to Russia was sent on the 27th of February ; Lord Raglan, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expedition, and the Duke of Cambridge left on April 10. The first gun of the allied fleet was fired against the Russians at Odessa on April 22, their batteries being silenced or destroyed ; and the battle of the Alma, the first engagement on land, took place on September 20.
The North American Indian, it seems, does not like to be burdened with too heavy a tomahawk, so he sometimes proceeds in a very primitive manner to reduce the weight. This he does by laboriously cutting off a ■trip from the iron axe that he has obtained with the aid of flint flakes and water. An axe and a strip thus treated are to be seen in the museum of the Canadian Institute, and the amount of labour required may be gauged by the fact that the axe is 7|in. in length and l|in. thick near the eye. It gives a present day illustration of the manner in which early man must have worked.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 754, 10 July 1894, Page 7
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664Cleanings. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 754, 10 July 1894, Page 7
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