Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1619, 27 January 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

. . ' ■» What ■ constitute* the offence kiiown as compounding a felony? One fellow cats another fellow's throat.^aud a third fellow witnesses the deed, bat, for a certain consideration, agrees to say nothing abpuj; it. That's compounding, I Should think. Or a: bright and shining social light forges a cheque, is detected; and is arraigned biTthe charge, but at the last momeut the prosecution receive money to coyer the value of the cheque, and so agree to withdraw proceedings. Is that compounding feloniously? 1 should think, bo. Take- another case. A fellow who must live, you know, m bis own style, robs his employer's till, and is caught iv jlagrante delicto. The ; catcher, however,- takes tip, ami holds 'his tongue. That's compounding, anyhow., Another individual, let us say, misappropriates money entrusted to him, is taxed with the offence, undergoes prosecution, but m the despair- ', ing hour, when , hope seems to have ffed, the exact sum misappropriated is forthcoming, is accepted, and the misdppropriator retires without; a stain, upon his character. As m the forgery case, a good many people are mixed up with this lant one, and which; of 'em has escaper^the charge of compounding a felony I want to know, you know ? Is there no Supreme Court Judge to enlighten me ? I should: not care much for the opinion of any lower^pffieial. I also want to k^oAifi*' 18 stiir,pbßsibie to obtain premiums on rascality. — " Asmodeus" m New Zealand Mail. An .^raerican contemporary states that itJelli has reontly called attention to curative properties of the albumen of hens' eggs m severe diarrhoeai affections. . .In a discussion before a iuedical society of Rome he advocated its use, and related two cases'of chronic enteritis and diarrhoea which; having resisted all treatranet, speetlilv made complete recoveries under the use of ogg albumen. The whites of .eight •or ten eggs are btiatenup and made into an em ul- ■ sion wiih a pint of water. Thi«« is to be takon m (livide'd quantities during the da'yl" may be given if desired . The insipid taste can he improved with lemon, aaise or sugar. In case of colic, a few drops of opium may be added. An interesting paper waR lately read at a meeting of the Saxon Economical Society m Dresden, giving an account of the introduction of the j potato into Germany and the gradual spread of its cultivation. In 1585 it was first brought into Germany from Italy. The iiist seed potatoes m Saxony were a present m 1591 from the Landgrave of Hesse to the Elector of Saxony. In 164^ fc^ ev were g l ' own as -exotics m gardens at Leipzig. Swedish soidiew brought them into Western Germany about; the conclusion of the Thirty Years 1 War. In 1717 they were reintroduced into Saxony from Brabant, and within 25- years they began to be regularly cultivated, their use being much developed m the famine period of 1770-71. In the year, 1882 over nine million acres were given up to the cultivation of potatoes m Germany, the produce amounting to 23 million tons.