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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 70, 16 July 1873, Page 3

A bit of fashionable gossip, in which it appears that New Zealand is specially interested is thus retailed by an English paper : —“ There hns been a mesalliance in high life which is causing no little talk. The bridegroom is said to be the son of a Peer of the United Kingdom—a mere stripling who left college only last summer; and he has recently married one of his father’s housemaids. In spite of the most rigid scrutiny by lawyers and others, no ground can be discovered for annulling the contract. The thing is being kept very quiet, and the young folks are to be sent off to New Zealand to engage in sheepfarming. The girl, though a housemaid, is well educated, and was at one time a pupil in one of the Edinburgh Normal Schools.” A southern paper says:—“We are suffering from an attack of Aurora Australis, and as * fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind,’ we give our readers the direct cause of our complaint as it appeareth in a late Victorian exchange : — * When the molofygistic temperature of the horizon is such as to caloricise the impurient indentation of the hemisphere by anology, the cohesion of the borax curbirtus becomes surcharged with infinitesimals, which are thereby virtually deprived of their fissurial disquisition. This effected, a rapid change is produced in the thorambumptor of the gympasticutus palerium which causes a convacular in hegogonial antipathies of the terrestrium aqua verusli. The clouds then become a mass of deodorised specul of ceremocular light, which can only be seen when it is visible.’ ” In feeding cows for milk and butter the followsuggestions may be acceptable :—Raise your own ■cows, do not buy them, strange animals are illtreated and often injured. If you wish to get all the milk possible, feed high, and in two years " you can drive all the milk out of a cow ” —on the contrary, feed moderately and many cows will hold out until they are 21. Several instances were mentioned. Cows treated kindly will not be vicious. No rule for feeding them can be of universal application ; their constitutions must be regarded as much as in the human race. Abundant testimony is given for fodder com, with a preference for sweet com. One herd had been wintered on it thus far—cut with a hay-cutter—-two quarts shorts and two quarts cobmeal added. After fodder corn, is well cured pack closely in the barn, as cows will not eat it if it is too dry. One milk-producer stated that he could not make it pay to use the highest-priced hay; he preferred a poorer quality and more meal. In reviewing some dozen experiences, no allusion can be found to the use of cooked food for dairy cows. Thb prettier the foot and ankle, the easier it gets up stars*. To Make Apple Trees Bear: Pick off all the leaves as soon as they appear. This is said to be the best pun ever made in America. Horace Greely, during the Scott campaign, declared that he execrated and spit upon the Whig platform. A Western New York editor remarked that if Greely spit upon the Whig platform he couldn’t expect-to-rate as a Whig.