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Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1896, Page 2

The Act of last S-ssion makes Sheep dipping compulsory between the Ist February and the 30 h April. If you want to fatten your duok9 don't give them the run of the pond. The highest permanent astronomical observatory in the world — on the summit of Mont Bland— 'ia at last, completed and fully equipped with instruments. In ancient times the cake eaten at wedding festivities w.is invariably made by the bride, who was thus able to show htr show her skill in cookery. Fortunately they are not now. Government have paid the Natives £2.000 for their interests in the Wairarapa lake. The idea of hatching eggs by electricity may appear somewhat far fetched, but electric incubation is not only b ing carrie I on in Grmany, but is growing up to a large industry, according to au English paper. A Sirasburg electrician, who has been experimenting for ihree years has found that, with the electric incubaior ninety chickens can ordinarily b« counted on out of every one hundred eggs dealt with. Oae of the most famous log ohutes (a chute is a shoo;) n the West, at La Grande, Oregon, is to be out up for cud* wo id, all the timber immediately tributary to it having been cu 1 . away. The chute is one and a half miles long from tup to b >t on, and during its period of use more thun 8,400,000 feet of logs have coasud through i down the mountain aide. A fir.-t class railway carriage has 16 coats of paint before it is fit for service. Lord Tenoyßon us-d to complain of being stared at when he came to Ljudou. ', Bui what could h ; exptc y " said Toule, } " going anout in a cl ak and a slouched hat like a brigand of the Alp-*." 1 Th- L. 6i N.W.By. lua a revenue of £1300 an hour. A first-class railway carriage costs £800. The largest thea'rical building is the I Grand Opera' of Paris. It covers three acres. Mr John Bagge has forwarded to the Masterton Museum a cast of the footprints of a baby moa, which were discovered by Mr William Bagge in sandstone on the banks of the Tutaenui River. The print a of a full-grown bird w«re also discovered, but a case of this has not yet been taken. Oae toe of the oast forwarded, says a local paper, is nine inches in length, and another eight. Perfumed butter is becoming fashionable at breakfast and tea tables in New York. The butter is made into pats and stamped with a floral design, and is then wrapped in thin oheese cloth and placed on a bed of rossß, violets or carnation^ arrang'd in a flat-bottomed dish. Over these id placed a layer of flowers, ho that the butter pattiet are embedded in flowers. They are ih«n placed on ice, where they are allowed to remain for several hour 9. This hotter is eaten with crisp Vi-nna rolls, aooompanied only by a cup of chocolate or delicious Mocha. An eminent Austrian physician declares that rheumatism can be cured by a plentiful diet of ripe fruit. M. Meyer, of Paris, has invented a paper which is indestructible by fire A sppcimen of it, which was subjected to a severe te^ — 148 hours in a. potter's furnace — came out with its glaze almost perfect, while the body of the paper had not suffered in any way. Up to the prespnt time Messrs Harpers have made ov.sr £G0,0i)0 oui of ' Trilby ' ; and from royalti s on the volume and fees from the play Dv Maurier reckons his i g un-i at £20,000. I Th- L. & NW.Ry. (London and North West' m railway) has a capital of 119 millions ! - Aji advertiser wants an 8 h.p. portable . engine. '

Johannesburg, which ten years ago was a place of twenty native huts, Is flow a town of 100,000 persons, 60.0U0 Europeans, and 40,000 natives. The cemetery already has 4,000 occupied graves, mostly the graves of young men. I The export of diamonds fiom Kimberley has ria n from a million and a half sterling in 1876 to five millions in 1895, while the production of gold has risen from 1,470,000 ounces in 1893 to 2,290,000 in 1895. It is predicted that within the next five years the gold fle'ds of the Transvaal will yield an amount equal to twenty-four millions sterling. The Times' correspondent at Antanana--1 rivo has sent home a me'ancholy account jof the Christianity of the Hovas. Their cooVei'sion, be says, is little more than skin deep ; many of them, under the stress and disappointment of recent affairs, are already discarding it in favour of their old heathenism. In consequence of the refusal of some Maoris at the Bay of Islands to pay dog tax ten have been arrested. They will be taken to Auckland. Warrants of commit- | were issued for 12, but the polio have been ! unable so far to seoure the other two. A women's Association in favour* of peace has been started in Paris. It is proposed that the women of all Europe and even of America should be united.- Small centres have been formed in many countries. The | approach of French women to G«* nany, and the cordiality with which they have been received in one of the happiest signs of the tinle3. Tho French ladies say in their manifesto to tho Germans, "Oar p'anet is too small for men to slaughter one anoth- r in any corner of it*" . It has been inconvenient to take the cenpus of the co'ony on the date originally intended, viz , Sunday, sth April, that being Easter Sunday and the date has therefore been alered to lay night, 12th April. At the Che'msford Assizes last November ' Mr Justice Hawkinssaid he was sorry to find hat in the criminal li c t containing not more than thirty cases 50 per cent of them were of an inlpcent nature. Offences of this sor. seemed to be more and more cornWon dn.j by day. He found the same thing in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, ! and did not know how it was to be checked. A Napier doctor pronounces the disease which laid low so many people on board th' 1 barque Lothair, now at Nelson, to be the Eastern coinp'aint known as beriberi. It i* a micro-organism and is acquired hy residing in an infected house or in a locality where the soil is saturated wiih poison. It also prevails where people ar<> crowded together or in prisons or barracks, and it frequently breaks out on board ships. .Next to cjio'era, beriberi is regarded as the most fatal disease to which Europeans in India are liable. The Borough Council had a special meeting yesterday to receive fresh tenders for metalling the Moutoa road. Four tenders were received from Messrs >tewart, Doherty, Anderson, and, Mathers, and that of Mr Stewart's was accepted. Mr and Mrs Gibson returned from their trip on Saturday. Mr Edmund* Osborne, of the Centre of Commerce, has a new advertisement on the front page of much interest to his customers. Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold a sale at Colyton on Tuesday. Foxton races to-morrow. Has anyone forgotten them? Mr P. Guerin has a stray dog which the owner can have on paying expenses. Mr Forsaith wants six teams for metojling at Shannon. Certainly the most effective medioine in .he world la Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns* scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— -Ud swellings— no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, &c, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys and Urinary Orgaud. In use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at, International exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and ejeot all others.— [advt.] One of the drawbaoks of country life, at least to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price he has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason oftlhe extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done away with under the new parcel system which has been inaugurated at Te Aro House, Wellington. Under this system any of the parcels advertised will be s nt to any addr ss in New Zealand, post free, the prices charged being exiotly :ne same as hose at which the goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be imagiu d, however, this liberal offer is only extended to cash customers, aud ail orders for advertised paresis niu:t bu accompanied by cash for the amount, before the order can be executed at Te Aro House, Wellington. ADVERTISING BLOCKS of all descriptions made at the shortest notio < by McKbe & Gamble. New Z -aland Pr«B8 Agency, Custom Hous-> Quay, Wellington. In illustration of the system we will give an exanp c. Take for instance No. 7 parcel, whioh conains 7 yards of double width stylish fancy check tweed ; 2 dozen buttons and silk and twist to match ; 2 yards of body lining and 4 yards of skirt lining. This complete parcel wiil be sent, post free, to any address on receipt of 15s 9d, from Te Aro House, Wellington.