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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1738, 19 June 1886, Page 4

The leading novelty m London exhibitions this year will be as near a rejicsentation as is possible of ah Indian jungle. The wood* and the underwood are to bft imported, and everything that has life m an .Indian forest is to be illustrated. Stuffed figures of birds' and beasts are to be placed iv position. The Quakers are, perhaps, the wealihie.it class m Euglund,' They , are well represented m the .Lesrisla-. tore ; but while " Friends ''have reached the Privy Council and a.baronetage, a Quaker peer has yet to be created. They number^ s. ooo, General M.C. Meigs writes .to' the" Sanitary Engineer as follows m reference to an article on deafening sounds: — "The voice cmnot be heard through two sheets of oitlinary French window-glass separated by seven-eight of an inch of air. Intuit, 'l. think; may be found a hint for shutting off sound." In some tests made with small squares of various woods buried 1 inch m the ground the following results, says the Garden, were noted j: Birch and aspen decayed m three years; wil|ow and home chesnut, m four years ;jmaple and red beecb, m five years ; elm, aeh, hornbeam, and Lomburdy poplar, m seven years; oak, Scitcb tir, Weymouth pine, and silver fir decayed to a depth of half an inch m seven years; larch, juniper and arbor- vitse were uninjured at the expition of the seven years. A touching incident is reported m connection with the last hours of Captain Marinow, adjutant and friend of the Prince of Bulgaria. Marinow had been mortaHy wounded m, the recent war, and 4f& lying at the poiut of death m Sofia, >when a niessenger arrived from theElapperor of Russia bringing the militar^'cross'of honour. The dying man's mescal attendants would only admit him.. on condition that he did not speak a 'word to agitate the mind of the putieni. , The envoy entered tl-e room m reverent silence and softly laid the cro«s upon the' pillow of the bed. Mariuow stretched out a feeble hand, carried the cross to his lips, kissed it, and then laid it on the fatal wound m his breast. A tender smile lit up his emaciated countenance for a his eyes closed, and he fell asleep m death. ■* ■ ■ ■ ' A startling illustaation of wifely devotion was shown m a Richmond (Virginia) Cort, where ayonng woman, after being convicted of house breaking, told the following story: — -" I was born m the West Indies eighteen rears ago, and went to Philadelphia While m that city f l>ecame acquainted with Wm. Hicks and married him. my home m Cnba. Some lime elapsed before I could obtain any tidings of my husbant's wherebouts, but I h'nn ly learned that he was m this country and m trouble. I immediately left; Cuba and landed m New Yoik. Prom New York I went- to Philadelphia and Boston and diligently searched for 'him. At last I heard he was m .Richmond and m prison. T came on to. Richmond; . passing through Washington, where I put on male attire, when I found that^ my husband was m gaol 1 set to work to know how I could get to him. £ concluded to commit theft that I might; be sent to gaol where I could lie with him."