Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY. MAY 2. 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 131, 2 May 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY. MAY 2. 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr Simms says that a "lass of water as hot H8 it can be borne, drank just before sitting down tit table, will cure the worst case of indigestion oh earth. There aro only four of the old soldiers of Napoleon First left at the Hot«l des Invi\lides iv Parw. Their respective ages are ninety-two, ninetytwo, ninety- four and ninety- five years. A Melbourne newspaper prints the following :— ln Auckhiud the tradespeople have a list printed weekly containing the names, occupm,ion9,and places of resideuce, of those who tlo not pay their debts. At Wagga (y .H. W.) the othei day, two women, iv order to evade the provisions of the Vagrancy Act, married before the summonses which had been issued against them were returnable. They were accord, ingly discharged. By the Bench. Whale's milk is now recommended for certain bodily ailments. There is pro* bably but one article that is less easily procured, a hen's tooth, and dealers m the cerulean product of the domestic bovine need fear no competition At present. A boy about ten years of ago was picked up at Timaru th« other day m a stf>te of itjpenbibiUty from drink, having it is smted been lying on the ground about 6 hour*. He waa removed to the hospital for treatment.

The writer of the ' Rambling Notes,' m the Napier Tele(ir.iph, reforrmg to the attempts made to exterminate tbo rabbits m the Wainuior Seventy Mile Bash district, says :— •' The locality m which the thirty ferrets were turned out was formerly int'esfced with rabbits, but it v said that at the present time not one is to be found, bunny evidently considering th>it discretion is the best part of valour.' At Waldebridge, Cornwall, one Sunday evening lately, a large congregation m the Methodist. Chapul we«« startled during the sermon at hearing a loud noise m the tjallary, followed by a whirring sound. The congregation instantly became terrified. Women were hurt m the struggle. Cries were raised of ' G,is' and the • gallery falling.' The preacher was blind, ami, being forgotten, remained m the pulpit until the people, recovering their senses, returned, and the officials ascertained that all the commotion resulted from the slips pins? of the mainspring of the clock. " Mr R. A. Proctor has a theory that the waters of the sea are withdrawing into the interior of the eirth, hfe says : — ' tinter any cavern, such as Kent's Hole m j Devonshire, on the driest and hottest day, or even after weeks of dry weather, aid you shall Hud the roof wet with the waters which have been slowly making their way from the surface, where they fell m the tortu of rain months before. Throughout the whole crust of the earth, except m a few spots whore rain never falls, the same process is going on all the time. Only a portion of the water, which thus falls on the earth, ever returns to the surface m the torm of springs.' A curious experiment has been tried by Margelidet, a French naturalist. Five years ago he placed a toad m a hole made m some granite, and covered it with im« permeable cement, and recently, m the presence of several spectators at the Paris Museum of Natural History, he released it. The animal, although m a torpid state, was alive and healthy. At the burial of Dr Strain, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Edinburgh, a pageant was witnessed ouch, as Scotland had never seen since she Reformation. There were 150 priests, and the multitude of Franciscans, Benedictines, Redemptorists, Vincentians, acolytes, and nuns made a picture that was irresistibly suggestive of some mediaeval days.' Here is an anecdote of Monsignor Capel from the other side of the Atlantic. He is aaid to have declared that what struck him m America was the precociousness of children, and to have given the following illustration. While he was m | Baltimore the Archbishop took him to call on a lady. When the visit was being made, a boy, four years, caaie into the room, and his mother observed, 'My i son, speak to the Archbishop.' He obeyed readily, and holding out his hand, said, ' How do, Arch.'