GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 91, 28 June 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Tholtenk of England was started in I CM, with a capital of £1,200,000. A century ago. in 1775, its notes in circulation amounted to £7,000,000; now they exceed £:J!),000,000—and the mil lion has also increased from £2,0")i),00U to £21,000,000. Mr. John S. Wiles, a surgeon of Thomcoiiibe, Dorset, writes to thn Times that after two eases of malignant diptkerin, out of soino nine or tea he had been called to attend, had proved fatal, the lHotherof a sick childshowed him an extract from an American paper concerning a practitioner who used sulphur to cure the disease. Accordingly he used milk of sulphur for infants, ami flower of sulphur for older children and adults brought to a creamy consistence witli glycerine; dose a teaspooilful or more according to age, three or fourtimes a day, swallowed slowly, and application of same to the nostrils with a sponge. Result : he did not lose a case there or elsewhere, ami lie succeeded saving life where the affection almost blocked the throat. In a cave, in the midst of the liallyinoney mountains, near the village of Eecney (Ireland;,- almost a generation ago, a family named Cartin, apparently strangers in the neighborhood, came and scooped out a hovel, and there took up their abode. Time, death, and emigration reduced the number of the family which bad been numerous, to two girls who had long since grown to be old women, neither having ever been married They had no friends, and their only means of support was catting turf in tlie summer season for the tanners from tin: country around, ami also in the charity of their neighbors, who sent (hem provisions. They lived in their lowly dwelling until the younger of them hail seen twice forty summers. Both being in delicate health for sonic time past, they were offered by the relieving officer the advantages of "the Union workhouse, but on this point they wen: inexorable, preferring to live out their existence in their " aiu ailld liaine" rather than change it for the best house in the country ; and liero they dwelt. Oil Christmas night one of the sisters died, and the other survived only a few hours. Their remains, have been placed in one grave in the graveyard of Ballyrnoney Roman Catholic chapel. (Ine of the San Francisco papers gives an account of a new industry that has arisen in that city—namely, the manufacture of hens' eggs from inexpensive materials. The albumen is imitated by a mixture of sulphur, carbon, and fatty matter obtained from tho slaughterhouses, and rendered sticky with mucilage. T'" s yelk l! * uuule of blood, phosphate o! lime, magnesia, muriate of ammonia, oleic uml nmgario acids, and coloured with chrome yellow. The shells are shaped by a blowpipe from a mass of gypsum (plaster of l'aris), carbonate of lime, ami oxide of iron. After the shells are blown the ulbumeu is forced iu through a hole in the small end, and sticks to the sides ; then the yelk is added, and after being covered with more albumen mixture tho hole is sealed with cement; the complete egg is then " rubbed pretty smooth and laid aside foi packing." It is asserted that ninny barrels of these eggs have been nlrendy ih]ppOtl eastward lor consumption; and as A pleasing adjunct to meat from the "slink butcher " they will no doubt be gratefully welcomed by British bou ie> KeM»n in search of "cheap uud nutiitious" fool

The Paris cortstnoadeni of thy Morning Post writes: "The Clerical journal! niv somewhat alarmed at tin; fact of there being five Protectants in UtC Waddiugloo Cabinet, viz., tin) President of tiiu Council, mid MM. do l'Yeyciiiet, Leon Say, Leroyer mill Admiral Jum-cguibcrry. Protestants were often members of tho Cabinet in Imperial times. A Human Catholic journal observes:—'Catholic* are not mistaken ; tiny may rely on an iucrcase uf anluur in tin- straggle against tlio Church. Their rights and their liberties are henceforth menaced, and "legal" violence will ere long take place. But if the war against Catholicism is an important article uf the democracy, it is not the only one, ami the Wnddingtoii Ministry must hold itself in icadiuess to execute the whole of the programme or tu make room for others."

Mrs. Roberta, in the Washington Capital, Very truthfully remarks!—". Marrying a man to reform him is like being measured for an umbrella. It may or may not be satisfactory ; but you might as well try to make a politician honest as to talk to a woman who loves a man. Xo mutter how worthless lie may he, she will brave everything fur him, and I would not give a snap for her if .she didn't, Not long since in the avenue, I saw a respe:table-lookiug man in a helpless state uf intoxication, and a policeman on each side of him also his wife, a young, nice-looking, well-dressed woman. She paid nut atten.ioii to the rabble following, or the wondering looks of the passers-by, but stuck to him, trying to pacify and quiet him. 1 could not help thinking how little a man would stand by a woman. Man is of the nobler sex and a superior being, but he will get a woman in trouble, anil L'ave he to get out the best way she can. Lord Bcaconsfield, it is rumoured in London circles, is luoking about him fur an heir to his fume and peerage. A Loudon journal remarks: The Premier's only surviving brother is not a very lordly personage, and, besides, is the in--01 tnbeiit of a lucrative position in the Upper House, which could not he held by a peer. It has even been accordingly suggested that the litness of things and ail the interests involved might best be consulted by pissing over the impossible brother ami going at once to tin: nephew. It loir- even been proposed that he should at once be styled Lord lluglmnden, jnst a-- tie- Comte de ChamLord, in his joy over the fusion of 1873, us,d to call Comte du Paris " the Dauphin." However such details may ho settled, the main object must he attained, so that the desired prospect of a long line of Beaeonsiields may be kept open. A Now York paper publishes the subjoined incident, with some appearance of self satisfaction :—The Princess Victoria of Dadcn was at her recent confirmation requited to write a short autobiography and pioposed plan of life. Among other statement* the young Princess advanced the following Republican theory—that Princes must not conceive that they are placed iu their high position because they nave greater rights than other human beings, but that they may maintain an elevated standard of obligation, and set an example of fidelity to duty to the whole society of which they are members.

It seems that about twelve years ago a deputation from the committee of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute waited upon Mr. Disraeli, who was at .Manchester on

some public event, mid invited him tu preside at the next aunual soiree of the Wis Institution. Mr. Disraeli pleaded numerous engagements, ami declined the invitation. ilo was then asked if the following \ car would suit liini, the deputation pressing liini lianl to visit Leeds. To this pressure, however, he declined to yield, and in order to rid himself of his tormenting deputation, Mr. Disraeli exclaimed, " Well, I'll visit you this time ten years." The ten veal's having elapsed, an interview with tin.' Premier of his promise, ami asked him to lix the day when he would attend the annual soiree at Leeds. Mr. Disraeli was taken by surprise; he win in a quandary. Dut he laughed at the idea of- being expected to keep such a long promise. "HuppOSO," said he "1 hail been made Viceroy of India instead of Prime Minister of England, would you lmvo expected me to come back from that country ? The reply was, " Hut you are not viceioy of India. You aro m England, and you can visit Leeds if you wish to keep your promise." This was a poser, and the Premier tried another tack. " Did you really," said he, in his blandest manner, " expect when I made the promise, nearly ten years ago, that I should keep it }" " Sir," said Mr. Dawson, ill a severe tone, "I expected you to keep your word at the end of ten years as fully as though you had promised to visit us at the end of ten weeks or ten days." Pausing a Utile, the Prime Minister, with a twinkle ill his eyes, said, "Dear me! Another proof of tin: faith in me that exists in this country."

" Lu LibertM " bus found out nil about the Zulu war; it is tho oonwquence, it seems, of tho pertinacity of the Knylish itesiring to impose on tlin oiuialilusavages thv lovo of rosbif. No allusions miwlu to tho jilum-i)Uililiiiß. It is another Sepoy afl'air; the English, aware that tho Hpoyi bated moat lileo a vomtaiuit, not the less wished to accustom them—ax thu Zulus—in iniiiitul l.n.ii. mid to produce on ilii'iu tho " acquired taste," inula the up in DOrtiotia of the inteslines o! .» .|i !;.-. |i. r; K. s. \.<-., tlillN fut'i:ing thetu, wheu bitina the caitridgo to (ante ibt accurttd thing.

j The London - Week " has the fotlowf ing paragraph upon the Glasgow Dank failure: " A mora aotrowful story than ! that of the Glasgow Hank shareholders has surely never been told. If it could be brought home in all its horrors to tho nation generally, we cannot hut believo that some little pity would be shown for tht« numerous families who are now being driven from their homes to undergo absolute want ami beggary. Had nil ' tho misery boon brought übotit by a ' steamboat accident or an explosion in a coal initio, thousands of pounds would have ben subscribed. A kindly-hearted scholar, Mr. Ralston, gave a reading Inst j Wednesday, at St James Hall, for the i benefit of the sufferers, but the proceeds of that can lie only a drop in she ocean Already men and women have been sent ! prematurely to the grave, children are turned adrift in the streets, tho very beds havo been sold from under the aged and the sick. And yet this appaling suffering hail only begun, for the second call of the liquidators is to amount to the crushing sum of £5,000 on every £IOO share. What nonsense it is to say that this is justice: Holders of £I,OOO of stock are liable to pay £'io,ooo. Why should the creditors not lose some of the money ? The heart-breaking proceedings now going on ought to shock tho whole nation ; they seem to be passing over almost unobserved, and are far less the subject of conversation in London than the Sale of Lord Lonsdale's collection or the cold winter. To see all the misery going on without an effort to relieve it is a scandal to our eoinman humanity."

There is no necessity for stating from what part of tin's sublunary sphere the following '• veracious " paragraph comes. The nationality af its author is obvious Here it is:—An intelligent farmer in Dos Moines County has invented a heneuhoue, on the principle of tlio telephone I by which one old reliable hen, occupying a central position, sits on all the nests about the establishment, leaving other fowls free to lay eggs, scratch ami crackle. As fast its a new nest contains the full complement of eggs, it is connected with i in- central oHieo l>v n copper wire and the business is settled. The only trouble with the machine is that it sits so hard it hatches out the procclain nest eggs along with the others, so that urn- chick in every nest is born with glass eyes, and tho" farmer has to buy and train a dog to lead it round. This makes it expensive. The following,report given by " Galignnui" of the judgment of "the Civil Tribunal of the .Seine on Wednesday, in the suit brought by the Empress Eugenie find thel'iinee Imperial against thcFreiieh State, to recover property alleged to have formed part of the private domain of the Imperial family:—" This Court decided as follows on the different claims : —l. The Chinese Museum : Although that collection was given to the Empress hy the officers of the expedition to China, was a homage renderod to the Emperor in the personof his wife, and consequently, to France ; it was a trophy and a prize taken in war, and possessed a national interest, it therefore belonged to the State. 2. The museum of arms at the Castle of l'ierrefoud.s. The collection contains curious specimens of arms which, from motives of public and national interest, should continue to belong to the State. I'ierrofonda is, besides a dependency of tho Palace of Compiegue and when the Emperor installed there his cabinet of arms lie did not express his intention to reserve it ; the verdict must, consequently, be the same as for the Chinese Museum. :i. The pictures and sculpture: The State offering to restore fourteen paintings belonging to the Empress, also those of a private character, the tribunal orders them to be given up to the plaintiffs ; the other works of art which do not fulfil those conditions are acquired to the State. •1. The productions of the State manufactories of Sevres, the Gobelins, and Ueauvais : All those purchased by the Emperor belong to Ins private domain, excepting those placed in the palaces as ornaments, and which belong to the State. ">. The furniture of the private d ain destroyed at the Tullcries : This right is not contested. An account will be taken of the cost of furniture, to be reduced live per cent, foi each year's use, representing the annual depreciation; the remaining value to be paid to the family, with interest. U, '1 he buildings of the Emperors' quariors at Ohalons: These are proved to have been constructed by tho State. If the Kuiporor introduced modilications they were mere mutters of taste, mid the cost cannot be reimbursed. 7. The arms of the Emperor found at the Tuilerics: Claim not contested. 8, Articles of tho Statu domain missing on the 4th of September : The offer by the Empress of a sum of 700,000 francs is accepted. !). The domain of Chataigneruie : —The proposal of the Empress to relinquish her claim for n sum of 1>5,720 francs is agreed to. The State on its side claimed reimbursement of a sum from civil list received by the Emperor. Tho payments were made monthly in udvancc. Tlmi for September, 18/0, hud consequently been received when tho Empire fell; tho .State now demanded restitution of tho portion lielongiug to tho period from the 4th to the end of the month. That claim was not admitted. Tin- tribunal also appointed a judge for the settlement of the m-coiuits in UKwdnnM with the nbovoludgmcut."