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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 148, 9 September 1876, Page 2

No animal ( observes the Medical Preen and Circular ) works harder than man, and as a working' or domestic animal man may be valued. Dr. Farr lias made some curious and interesting’ calculations as to tlic value of the agricultural classes. The calculations arc not made to correspond to the working years of man, but allowance is made for the Infant and child, who, not able to work, are valued prospectively ; and so, again, in old age, when the labor period is passed, and, as an animal, he consumes more than he produces, his value is considered a minus quantity. The calculations arc based upon the Norfolk agricultural classes, in which county the infant laborer is worth at the time of birth, £5. When he has survived the first dangers of infancy, and lias advanced five years nearer the time at which he will become a productive agent, his price rises to no less than £56 ; and this, again, in five years more is something more than doubled At the age of 25 years he has attained his maximum value, £246 ; and he declines afterwards stadily but slowly, clown to £l3B at fifty-five years of age, and at £1 at the age of seventy. After this age ho produces little or nothing, but still he consumes, and when lie is eighty years old is valued at minus £4l

The World gives the following as the last new notion in ladies’ drosses .--—The Paris papers announce that it is considered that silk, velvet, and so forth, cannot he made to fit close enough to the female form divine, and that we are shortly to be by the sight of cuirasses en peau do chcvreau , or in other words, bodies fitting very literally “ like a kid glove,” as they are to b ; made of that material—as if kid gloves were not dear enough already !; Ladies, I suppose, will be heard at Ascot, betting so many “ cuirasses” to one against Kisbcr or Petrarch for the Lcger. ‘ There was a ratepayers’ meeting the other night in Mudborough (says Angles in the Australasian. An over-worked reporter, who had looked in just at the opening, and who thought the room would fill up, took the rest on trust, and stated that “ a large and respectable meeting washeld,” &c.—the usual formula. Ho was brought to book when it subsequently appeared that only one other person beside himself had , attended that meeting. But he did not lose his presence of mind. Ho insisted that his report was literally correct, for,; said he, “ I was large, and the other man’ was respectable.”