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Southland Times, Issue 737, 16 October 1867, Page 3

Sleepikg-Eooms. — The rooms we sleep in should never shut out the fresh, pure air. A sleeping person consumes two hogsheads of air in an hour ; that ia, deprives it of all its oxygen, and replaces it with carbonic acid gas, which is a negative poison ; leaving it so destitute of life-giving property that the person breathing it will die in a short time, in an hour sometimes, It follows, therefore, that unless the room be larger than most of those found in dwelling- houses and hotels, there should be thorough ventilation. Currents of air, says the correspondent of an American paper, must be avoided. Hence the bed should be so located in the room that they may not pass over the sleeper. • If there be a single window, it is often well to raise the lower sash a few inches and lower a little the upper sash. In this way the current is confined to the window, while it keeps the air fresh: Pauperism. — A return appeared last . week (reports the " Q-lobe") relating to ' poor rates and pauperism, which completes the series for the parochial year 1866-7. In England and Wales the last week of the parochial year was higher than the last week of the Christmas quarter by 75,085 paupers. The paupers in receipt of relief on the last day of the last week of March were— in 1865, 959,903 ; 1866, 907,201 ; 1367, 982,477. The paupers in 1867, as compared with those in 1866, have increased 75,276, or 8.3 per cent ; : but compared with 1865, the increase was 22,574, or 2.4.. per cent. According to the last returns for the month of March, in the three years last past the number of paupers in the metropolis was —in 1865, 105,988 ; 1866, 107,864 • 1867, 147,756. In 1867, the increase in the paupers as compared with those of 1866 was, 39,892, or 37.0 per cent. ; but on a comparison with 1865, the increase was 41,768, or 39.4 per cent. The Archbishop of Canterbury stated at a recent meeting of the BTawaian mission, that he knew few English ladies who could bear comparison with Queen Emma, of Honolulu, in a ; knowledge of the English language and literature. No doubt English ladies are wanting on this point; but perhaps English gentlemen for the most part, are not conspicuously better.