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GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

The curious discovery, says the " Scientific American," is announced by Professor P. R Wilson, of Washington University, Baltimore, that minutely pulverized silica is taken up in a free state by plants from the soil, ami that such silica is assimilated without chemical or other change. The experiment consisted in fertilizing a field of wheat with the infusorial earth found near Richmond, Va. This earth, it is well known, consists of shells of microscopic marine insects known as diatoms, which, under strong magnifying powers, reveal many bcuuliful forms that have been resolved, classified, and mimed. After the wheat was grown, Professor Wilson treated the straw with nitric acid, subjected the remains to microscopic test, and found therein the same kinds of shells or diatoms that nri! present in the Richmond earth, except that the larger-sized shells were absent) showing that only silica particles below a certain degree of fineness can ascend the sap pores of the plant. This discovery opetn up a newline of research in agricultural investigation, from which important result* and mush additional knowledge inay accrue.

India has now began to rut out Thins u the supplier of tea. In 1815, for the first time, the Import of China tea to (beat Britain ceased to augment, while that "f the Indian product represented the whole increase. The same fact is true of the United State-, which U drawing its supply from Japan more and more e'verv year. This year (remarks Mavfair India will -end US very nearly 30,000,000 lbs., which maybe taken at •'- a pound all over on import. In 1875, the import from Calcutta was 25,000,000 lbs. The la-t session has been the most successful in the history of Assam cultivation. A London journal observes!—the prettiest thing'in London is to see the Turkish and Russian Ambassadors in the same room, which indeed may now be seen well nigh every night, the one j anxious, hut stolid, moving slowly, and talking politics earnestly, and as with an air of request, reproach, and warning to | the men, from under his fez; the other | beautifully niillinered, shining all over i with the art of the valet do chambre, and i dancing about among the women like a I boy eager for his first conquest, and who has never heard of such mysteries as State affairs. But to see them shake hands with each other is as beautiful a sight as the European concert of the alliance of the three Emperors. Something like a gun ("says "Coming Events") has been invented by sub constables Kevan and Patchells, of Waterford, and will, we are informed, shortly be brought over to the war office for inspection. It consists of forty chambers of regular rifle size, enclosed in a single cylinder. The chambers can be simultaneously charged with cartridge, fired, and cleaned out with such rapidity that the weapon tires KOO rounds per minute. The inventors calculate that if 10.000 men were armed with 1000 of those guns, they would fire 1,332,800 shots per minute*; whilst if 100,01)0 men were armed with the Martini-Henry rifle they could not tire more than 1,200,000 per minute. In other words, 10,000 men armed with 1006 of che "Irresistible Guns," as they are called, would be equivalent to 100,000 men, each provided with the ordinary British rifle. The gun is built on wheels, and is cased with bullet-proof steel: and in case of retreat the men could still fire about MOO shots per minute. A Nelson man has got a neat thing in wives from amongst the recently arrived immigrants. He took her to live at his mother's, and the old lady told the Bench the other day, in an action for psiault, that on the 14th July, the fresh inmate threatened to put her on the fire, threw coti'ee over her. shoved her out of the house, struck her with a brush, and afterwards with a stick, causing her hand to bleed, and tried to put her in a , deep ditch. The complainant had to • flee for her life. The daughter-in-law ■ was fined £2. and bound over to keep the . peace.—" Evening Star." We regret to record the death of Miss ■ M'Laren, a fine young woman, of nineteen years of age, and daughter of Mr. D. M'Laren, of the Western Suburbs. Ipswich. If the information we have ' received is correct (says the " Queensland ■ Times,)" the immediate cause of the . young woman's death was the result, of ; that larrikinism which, notwithstanding 1 all that has been said on the subject, i seems to be on the increase in this town. 1 It appeals that when proceeding into . town a few evenings ago, and when . passing along a lonely portion of the i road, some youths with a mask on , suddenly rushed out on the road before i the poor girl. The fright occasioned i such a shock to her nervous system that i she fainted, fell into a low fever a day or , two afterwards, and gradually sank and 1 died.

Mr. Henry Thorns, formerly a member of the Municipal Council lit' Sydney, and for many years carrying on business in Sydney as an undertaker, having been extensively advertised for in the British and colonial newspapers as the possible heir to a large property, was recently assisted by a well-known resident of this city with the means to proceed to the mother country to prosecute his claim. Advices were received by the last mail announcing that Mr. Thomas had succeeded in establishing his title to the property, and is now one of the richest men in Wales, being the owner of the Drununond estate in Glamorganshire, valued at £430,000, and the rightful possessor of the sum of £500,000 in chancery, proceedings to recover which have now heen commenced by one of the most eminent legal firms in Loudon. I me of the principal proofs of his identity was the copy of a letter brought witli him from his father to Mr. Thomas Walker, of Yarnlla, Concord, in 1823, fifty-four years ago.

William Suimll. Innst. late malinger of the Artisans', Labourers', and General Dwellings' Company, and Edward Saflery, and Tate, agents, are under remand at Dow-street, for defrauding the shareholders by appropriating £30,000 in the way of difference between sinus paid by the Company for the purchase of certain estates, and the sums actually paid to the vendors. The Company is one in which Lord Shaftesbury is interested, and owns the Shnftesbury Park Estate, at Clapham Junction, anil other properties for the residences of working men. —Mr. and Mrs. Morris, holding a good fortune at Ivor, whose committal for trial at the Aylesbury assizes for gross cruelty to a female servant created much sensation, have absconded, and warrants have liven issued for their apprehension, " lie's filling hi* lust envity," mournfully ■aid ii voting dentist, ai they lowered the coffin of bis dseeaied nartnerutn the grave.

\ rfngular breach of proßto e«*e ' i:is j,,-t terminated In »he Dublin CoßimM "tW Court in « v.r.li.t f.-r *2OU. Die plaintiffi • small butcher named Knowles, sued ■ lady na 1 Vcrecnoyle, widow of a captain in the army, and a mother "f a family, who u possessed ol £fiOo a year, and a handa >■ residence near Dublin, named Roebuck HilL Mrs. Verschoyle jilted the butcher, whom she first met in a Liverpool ateamer, as he returned trom a cattle market there. She had since married a person named Mulligan, described during the hearing of the case aa a cashier in the Dublin Post Office and a dealer in periodicals. Knowles, the plaintitf, got into a cab with Mrs. Verschoyle on first landing in Dublin, and on the same day visited her at Roebuck Hill. The marriage wits subsequently arranged, and would have taken place, but for the interference "f the lady's friends. They did not, however, prevent her from marrying Mr Mulligan. The trial was a humorous une. " Knowles had I n married twice before he met Mrs. Verschoyle. There was applause in court when the verdict for C2OO was returned, Mr. and Mia. Mulligan both being present John Williams, restaurant keeper, was fini"l £3O mi Sept. 12th at the Police Court. Newcastle, for selling a bottle of porter without a license.

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Bibliographic details
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 4, 27 October 1877, Page 4

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GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 4, 27 October 1877, Page 4

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 4, 27 October 1877, Page 4

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