GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 90, 21 June 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Every boy and girl, man anil woman, wants t<> know time Hen is Mr. Emerson's brief recipe : " There is no beautifler of completion, or form, or behaviour, like the. wish to scatter joy, and nut pain, around us." Bo you suppose that reoipe will work .' Think of the most beautiful people you know. Ah, 1 knew some one would say, " Mother." Do you think these people are those who, try very hard to make others happy ( I know very many beautiful people who would have remained very plain had they thought only to please themselves. The famous Italian actress, Madame Eistori, has made her first appearance in Barcelona, coming direct from Lisbon. This was the first appearance Madame Histori has made for twenty years in Spain. It appears that nearly a (quarter of a century ago the famous actress was sentenced to death in absentia by the Spa-ish courts for acting some piece wuich the Inquisitionary Government of the country deemed revolutionary, for the purpose of her appearance in Barcelona a special pardon Imd to be obtained from the present king, who, to his credit be it said, at once granted it, and in the most unconditional manner.

An American correspondent of tlie Otago Tunes Bays:—l perceive from tlie JJuily Times that you have the plague of leprosy in l'uapeka. Leprosy follows tin.' Coinage everywhere. it is congenital. Experience demonstrates thut it is infectious, but it is no slow in developing, tlmt the ill etl'ects of contact with one uf the diseased is not apparent for several years. When it does develop its progress is rapid. The Sandwich Islands bid fair to le depopulated of the native inluibilunts by this Chinese, plague, and Europeans are fast becoming victims to its iravages. Especially is this the case with children j>i tender years, owing to their handling by Kanaka nursegirls, and quite a dornumJ has arisen for European female servants in consequence. Leprosy is in every city, town, hamlet, and milling camp in this State, and nothing will get hd of it but strict isolation and tire. Yon cannot be too careful or too watchful against ils ravages. The popular niedical idea is that it is not contagious, hut, as I have said, facts incoutostibly prove the reverse.

Lonl Harris is not popular in Melbourne and Sydney. In the recent match at Melbourne there had been an agreement that the stumps should be drawn at 0 - 30 p.m. At 6 p.m. Lord Harris's team were at the wickets with four wickets down, but as it was dusk he refuted to allow his men to play longer. An angry nltercation ensued between him and Boyle, and the crowd booted because tho game did not proceed. In Sydney, on tho other hand, they hooted because the game did m>t stop. In responding to the toast of his team at a farewell dinner at Melbourne, Lord Harris complained that in the colonies his team had been treated " more like •trolling players than gentlemen crioketers," upon whioh the Sydney " MoraHerald " remarks:—" His lordship will be rotncmbeiwl hereafter aa an excellent oriokuter, but he can hardly ibe remombervd as a large-minded I man."

! The numerous member* of the medical profession, raiding in til* vicinity of Hyde Pirk. Sydney, have, during the past day or two, been »u4t*d hy a retpttct- , ably dressed patient whose ooinplaiui hoi ' caused tiieiu mors than tire usual amount lof anxiety. The"individual has gone the 1 round of the square, describing tiie symptoms of some alarming illness to each medical man in turn, who, of course, received and treated him in the usual way. "Ah ! I see it now. You'ii have to uo careful. But I hare hopes of bringing you round. Take this twice a day,' at the same time bunding him a prescription. The patient iu each case tendered a cheque in payment, and received cash in change, less the medical fee. Une oi the victims was given a forged cheque for £$ 10s., to wilich was attached ttie name of Bradley, Newton, and Lamb, and drawn on the Bank of New .South Wales. Another medico leoeived one drawn on Messrs. J>nlgetty, Blackwood, and Co. The other gentlemen were similarly rewarded, and the police now have the matter iu hand, and hope speedily to provide a perfect cere for the forger's complaint. As it is not often bo many medical opinions are taken Upon a case, it will be interesting to know how many, 'or if any, of them agree as to the malady. It is uardly necessary to say that the tellow is iu perfect health. Still the doctors' opinions are worth having, and, if possible, must be published fur the benefit of sutt'ering humanity. The maniref in which criminals are favoured here is very remarkable (says the Culiforuian correspondent of the Auckland News) money carrying the day. Mr. VV. Duncan, the embezzling banker, of whom 1 spoke in my last, is now on trial. Mr. Duucan occupies two apartments in the county gaol not intended as a place of confinement, and from which escape would be easy, —in fact the sumo apartments in which Laura I>. Fair was formerly incarcerated during her indictment for murder. Mr. Duncan is permitted unusual privileges. He drives out every day in the park, attended by an officer, in a splendid teutn, and be dines at the most fashionable restaurants. These opei.-uir exercises are mainly to allow the honourable (?j prisoner the privilege of calling upon his family ami a few lady friends, whose sensitive natures could not endure the slwck of calling on their friend in a common gaol. On Christmas Eve Duncan dined at the Maisou Doree, our most, fashionable and costly restaurant, with his entire family. These are the privileges accorded to " delicate Duncan,' while in the next cell a poor, lifeweary, fellow-criminal, who has neither money nor friends, drags out bis existence, lacking air and even decent prison | surroundings ; ami the poor, robbed vic- | thus of the said Duncan are houseless and without food about the streets of the city. Such is our justice in the Golden City.

The sensation of the week, says the Narandera correspondent of the Wngga Express of April 5, has been the elopement of a, young lady of the mature age of 13i years. It appears that about twelve months ago the fair damsel's heart was conquered by a jockey not much older than herself, who was the hero of tile time, having accomplished the magnificent feat of winning some hack race. Since that time an amatory correspondence in the gushing style familiar to readers of the Yonng Ladies' Journal and other similar periodicals, has been clandestinely carried on between Hie youthful lovers. The affection of the lady at last became so ardent that she could not stop longer away from the winner of her virgin charms. So at the end of lost week, ascertaining that a gentleman and his daughter were going to Wagga Wagga, she cajoled them into giving her a seat in their trap, and with all her Worldly possessions, which she managed to abstract secretly from her parents' house, she started for the arms of her jockey enslaver. But sad to relate the flight was discovered before the fair fugitive was ball way to Wagga Wagga. The pitiless telegraph was ytit iuto requisition, and, although she is in the same town with her lover, the young lady is under the dragon-like supervision of an elderly aunt, who will nut let her go out of her sight, nor permit the horsey swain to come within " cooey " of his inamorata. The pair console themselves. liy warbling " Thou art so near uud yet so far."

That it does'nt do to have a too confiding belief in human nature has been learntd very thoroughly by a Now (Juinea trader just returned to Sydney. Off'one island ho visited he discovered of pearlshell, worth £l5O a ton ; and as none of his boys were divers, he resolved to run down to Tanna for some. On the way he fell in with the brig of an Anioritun trader, and in the space of a few horn's tho two captoi is became so intimate that the Australian told his Yankee acquaintance why he was off to Tanna. \\ ell, he obtained his Tanna men, and ran with a free sheet back to tho tlicll bank; now, alas! not exclusively his. His surprise was far greater than his delight when he saw tire Yankee brig at anchor mid a dozen dusky divers working busily at tho pearl-shell. The ' cute American had gone back on his friends tracks, r.nd, by " pumping " the natives, smell out the valuable bank. from which he had secured ten tons of shell. The discoverer thought himself lucky to get half a ton, and has determined to Iceop his next disoovory to hintself.

The total Value of borrowed paintings, by the great master), to do sent to the Sydney International Exhibition, by tho London Commission, will be. 00,000.

Dr. Pooteres mixes a table spoonful of cod liver oil with the yellow of an egg, and adds to these, when they are thoroughly combined, a few drops of the spirits of ininf, and half a glass of sugared water. In this way he obtains a sort of mulled egg, which differs but slightly from our ordinary mulled egg, whioh presents neither the taste nor the characteristic odour of cod liver oil. This mixture can be token, without rcpug. nance, by the most fastidious patients.— Union Medicale. Chtistchurrh must be A little K1 Dorado for bailiffs, sheriffs, and all of that ilk. The'"New Zealander" finds it tejegrapl.el that 10' JO summons issued in one day is nothing unusual there. The inhabitants seem proud of the magnitude of their busiuess iu this way, and hasten to inform the reft of the colony of their preeminence, just as they exult over the amount of wool slid grain they raise. Perhaps that is the secret of Canterbury's large contribution to the revenue, for it is evident that 1000 summonses ocaassionolly, at an average of 10s. each, must amount to a respectable sum. in the course of a year. The mind is lost iu amazement when trying to calculate tho number of ofhoers necessary to issue and serve 1000 warrants a day. Bui in such an enterprising town, it is probab e they bring the resources of science to bear ou the matter, and do it by machinery.