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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1579, 11 December 1885, Page 2

A simple practicable way of cutting off glass bottles for cups or jars ig to take a red-hot poker with a pointed end, make a mark with a file to begin the out, then apply the hot iron and a crack will start, which will follow the iron wherever it is carried. This is, on the whole, simpler and better than the use of strings wet with turpentine, etc. A Lnndon correspondent, writing 1 to the Auckland Star, Kays that at the first meeting of creditors of a man named George Smith, who appears to have blended the curious occupations of a vinegar-maker and bottled beer merchant, the debtor, m answer to the Official Assignee, said that he attributed his failure to heavy losses on consignments of beer sent to New Zealand. The people out there were absurdly particular : they would only drink the best Bass. Other brands were unsaleable. When a piece of salt meat is wanted m a hurry, there is a home method known as "hasty salting, 1 ' which is done m the following way : — Take a wooden tub or Ralting-pan and nearly fill it with fresh water. Take two thin laths of wood and lay them across the top; on these lay the meat about an inch above the water ; heap on it as much, salt as will thoroughly cover without wasting, and let it stand. The moisture from the water will draw the salt through, and m 24 hours the meat will be fit to boil. On a certain occasion W. H. Travera was m a stage going up Fifth Avenue, and his son, W. B. junior, who was then a very small boy, was sitting on his knee, the stage being verycrowded. A lady got m and .there was no seat for her. Mr Travera with his uanal gallantry, Baid to his son, " B-Billy, g.get up, and give the lady your seat.' 1 It is remarkable that * sugar works consuming daily 4,000 cwt. of beets furnishes as much foul water as a town of 20,000 inhabitants, and discharges as much organic iinpuritv as a town of 50,000 inhabitants. The waste water contains suspended matter, i.e. fragments of beets, dissolved organic matter, both nitrogenous and . nonnitrogenous, and salts, sulphates, ohlorideg and phosphates. Hence all conditions for energetic putrefaction and the multiplication of bacteria are present. The author recommends precipitation followed by irrigation, ex cept when the effluent can be conveyed into a large river, •' the water of which will play the part of the soil.'' The Friendly Societies Committee meet to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock to roceiye nominations for the various handicaps, and transact general business. A Now York Sunday, School teacher told her pnpils that, when they put their pennies into the contribution box, she wanted each one to reDeat a bible verse suitable for the occasion. The first boy dropped his penny into the box, saying, "The Lord loveth, a cheerful giver." The next boy dropped his penny into the box, saying, " He thatgiveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord." The third and youngest boy dropped m his penny, saying; " A fool and his money is soon parted."