TRANSCRIPTS

Kaikoura Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 16 February 1904, Page 7

TRANSCRIPTS

Mr Carnegie has given a fund of four million dollars to the Carnegie Steel Company for pensions to workmen injured there, and to the heirs of those killed at the works. Dr. Samuel Smiles has just entered his ninety-second year. A quarter of a million copies of “Self-Help” at least must have been sold by now in England alone. The farmers of Germany are noted for their adoption of scientific methods, particularly in the cultivation of potatoes, which is their great speciality. To avoid the effects of inbreeding the German farmer rarely plants seed potatoes from his own fields. He either gets new varieties from the experiment stations, or exchanges with his neighbours whose farms possess soil differing from that of Ips own farm. An interesting statement is that potatoes grown on high hill slopes produce best when planted in valleys, and that potatoes from the heavy, wet land make the best seed for use in light, dry soils. The 25,000 acres near Hawick which the Duke of Buccleuch has sold to the Government for £400,000 will hardly be missed from that nobleman’s landed possessions. His greatest holding is in Dumfries,' where he had some years ago 253,514 acres. Next to this came his Roxburgh estate of 104,487 acres, and Selkirk 00,428 acres, but he also has estates in Bucks, Hunts, Lancashire, Northants, Warwick, Fife, Midlothian, Kirkcudbright, and Lanark. Up to the earlier half of the last century the Buccleuchs had no great territorial importance, but for a long time now fortune has continued to heap wealth and honours upon them. One Duke married into the family of the Duke of Queensberry, and that dukedom and its estates ultimately devolved on the Duke of Buccleuch. The greatest accession of land and wealth, however, came 1 by the marriage of the present Duke’s grandfather with the eventual heiress of the Duke of Montagu. The favourite gossip of Roman drawing-rooms, both Italian and foreign, are the anecdotes which centre round the Pope’s simplicity and's weetness of character. A few flays ago Mgr. Scalatrini (who is chiefly interested in Italian emigrants) was introducing a small party of Italian noblemen to the Pontiff. During the interview the Pope took out his watch and looked at it. It was an old, much rubbed, much battered nickel watch, attached to his waistcoat by an ancient leather bootlace. One of the noblemen present who noticed this humble time-piece could not restrain his horror at the thought that the head of the Church should have so poor a watch. He instantly took out his own watch- a valuable lever 1 with a monogram in jewels on the back —and begged the Pope as a great favour to exchange -watches with him that he might carry away a personal souvenir of the visit. But the Pope refused the offer with great vehemence. “My mother gave me this,” he said, caressing the old nickel turnip, “ when I was a boy. I fastened it on with this bootlace, and vowed that I would weal 1 it so long as it would go at all. A vow,” added his Holiness, returning his watch to his pocket, “ which I always believe to have been the cause of the admirable time that my chronometer keeps to this day.” Authentic Medical. Opinions Worth Knowing.—Dr. Osborne says : “I use Sander and Sons’ Eu calypti Extract as a spray for nasal catarrh, low fever, asthma, etc., with great success. I find this E reparation superior to others.” •r. Stable: “I have used various preparations of Eucalyptus, but I get better results from Sander and Sons’, as I found the others almost useless.” Dr Hart: “It goes without saying that Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract is the best in the market.” In Influenza, all fevers, throat and lung trouble, diphtheria, diarrhoea, dysentry, kidney complaints, rheumatism, wounds, sprains, ulcers, etc., it is invaluable. See that you get Sander and Sons’, and reject spurious preparations which are sometimes supplied by unscrupulous dealers.