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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 December 1879, Page 2

An argument in favor of the Chinese for tha next discussion of the Debating Society, as showing their tender and self-sacrificing nature, may be gleaned from the following extract from the Tuapeka Times -—While submitting our editorial head-piece the other day to the kindly and skilful manipulation of our old friend and neighbor, Mr. H. F. May, our eye rested on a Chinaman's " pigtail" dangling on the wall in front of as, and regarding which oar tonsorial and loquacious friend told us this tale. A certain Chinese resident of Tnapeka (name unknown) having < become enamoured of a white girl and "sought her for his bride," she consented on the understanding that he would tow, by the pledge of hit beautiful v pigtail," to renounce Confucius and all his ways. This John had reluctantly agreed to do, and had engaged the services of the baircutter to be the executiouer of the contract In our Gazette notice elsewhere we record the naturalisation of a couple of local storekeepers ; one or other of these is doubtless the happy man in question. A writer in the Hawket Bay Herald says : — " A moat singular fact has beau brought under my notice. A year ago no intoxicating drink ever went to Norsewood, but cases and casks labelled • vinegar ' by the score went up the railway line. When the Working \ Men's Club was opened some spirits were sent there, and the import of vinegar proportionately decreased. Since the hotel has been opened the Norsewood settlers seem to take no vinegar at all, though they get plenty of spirituous liquors." A Yorkshire lad who had lately gon« to service, having had salad served up to dinner every day for a week, ran away ; and when asked why he bad left his place, he replied : " They mak me yeat grass i' th' summer, and I wur afraid they'd make me yeat hay i' th' winter, and I could no stand that, so I war off."

Quite a discovery in tbe treatment of diph- ' theria has been made in New York. A young man whose arm had been amputated wa* attacked by diphtheria before healing took place, and instead of the matter incident to that disease beipg deposited in the throat, the greatei portion appeared on the wounded arm, and the diphtheria was very light and easily managed. Dr. Davis profited by this, and in his next case of diphtheria blistered his patient's chest and on this blistered part the chief dep-sits appeared. This Tai also an e«Uy cure of the disease. The tkeory of Dr Davis is that diphtheria usually appears in the throat because of tbe thinness qf the lining of the throat. Hence, when the blistet breaks the akin upon any other part of the body, the disease appears there. In a recent issue of the New York Herald to band by laat mail, we find the following paragraph, which will tend to account for some of th^e agricultural depression which is now prevailing in Great Britain {—"Yesterday was a glorious day for America. Vfe did not win a victory on field or flood, but we exported to Europe from New York alone, two hundred thousand bushels of grain, twenty thousand barrels and bags of flour, twenty-five hundred bales of cotton, and thousands of tons of meats, cheese, bntter, and other provisions." The following resolution was passed at the half-yearly meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club:—" No trainer «hall engage any lad or other stable servant without previously referring to his last eniployef, and receiviog a satisfactory reply in writing. Any trainer infringing this ru e, and continuing to employ such boy after notice haa been served on him by the Secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, shall not be allowed to train or run horses where the Canterbury Jockey Club rules are in force; and any lad leaving his master before the terms of his engagement are completed shall be disqualified from riding in any race; but any boy prevented from obtaining employment by this rule shall have the right of appeal to the Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club, or the stewards of any meeting run under the Canterbury Jockey Club rules." In the year 1860 the United States produced 22,000,000 quarters of wheat, in 1878 the production of tht States amounted to 50,000,000 quarters. In 1880, 104,000,000 quarters of Indian corn was raised; in 1870, there were 262,000,000 quarters. Cotton increased from 4,800,000 bales in 1860, to 5,200,000 in 1870, notwithstanding the fact that free labor is now employed in that industry. A still further application of atraw is reported from San Francisco, which will largely affect the cooperage trade. Straw pulp is made by pressure in a machine into the form of barrels and kegs, which with their wooden hoops only weigh about 161 b. The cost of a barrel or pail is exactly the price of a wooden one, and one man only is required to attend three machines, which can turn out 750 barrelsjper day of 10 hours. An English writer on the "Charms of Cookery " gays:—" What a contrast between the average bedrabbled English cook, with her dirly apron and an apology for a cap, surrounded by black saucepans and greasy dishes, perspiring hugely over an enormous fire, and the nimble-fingered, immaculateskirted French artitte, wearing ber snowy head-dress, and brilliant copper saucepans oi ber profession ranged methodically over a comfortably heated charcoal or gas stove ! The one, like a Juno, reigns supreme iv hei sphere, and is mistress of all ghe surveys. The other, when she is not too drunk to ignore altogether responsibilities, is perpetually engaged in an ignorant warfare with her tools ; red in the face, and smoky as the dishes she concocts, she lays about her heavyhanded and furious, and cannot understand why, with the very best intentions, her productions remain so unsatisfactory. The basis of all good cooking is cleanliness. This, alas, is not much considered in oui cottage homes, our hotels, and middleclaaa habitations. With the most admirable materials we contrive to produce the most miserable resolts. The range of culinary investigation and thirst for knowledge, which within the last few years hare acquired such proportions in England, must therefore work some good results."