GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPEIS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 106, 11 October 1879, Page 2

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPEIS.

TUt lit* ynlluw f«v«r ttidomio in th« lj»it«a iStttos hts tott 11,0(10 lives and £40,000,000. • t■; . -S >n» or thiTpWto- (crMora) in tbo •»« "to UX>,QOO. nftliw in •Jiain«t«r, and one »ucli wouMVnsilv iwnDaw up tbo wfeolo of '•he planets, Jupiter WiiiteJf e-nly mukiiiK * mouthful, . j ,-, v , r' .

III I IMMIITH Inoperative masons of JBdinburgh have passed*rseolntam in favour of a grant of £2,000 of WOO hting voted from the tunoVof tie society to enable 1.000 men toemipet*. The §■* party of 900 out of 2,000 prisoners sii'setea in Moscow during the winter. hava started for Siberia. Hine thousand prisoner* will pass throagh Mono* dunng the summer '. Very UieJy .»-A li ttlogirl wee reproeed for playing outdoors witE beys, and in* fotwrf that, being etvea years Old, the wee " too big for that now." But with ell imaginable innocence, the replied, •f Why, the bigger we grow the better We like'em."

• A clergyman, in speaking of one of his parishioners, who was so given to argument that it was difficult to oonverse with him on any subject, said: " Brother l is m> argumentative that he will dispute with a guide post about the distance to the next town, and argue with a tombstone as to the truth of its epitaph.'' ■ An idle fellow, the other day, complained bitterly of his hard lot and said that he was born on the last day of the month, and the week, and he had always been behind band,' it would have been a hundred pounds in his pocket if ho had not been born at all. Possibly it would have bean many .hundreds in someone else's. < ' The Sen Francisco " Weekly Alt* " of Hay 31 states that Admiral Desey, of H. H. M. frigate Triumph, now in port, has' just purchased from Kohler and Chase, No 137, Post-street, an elegant Clough and Warren organ. It is sent from the Queen of England to her loyal subjects the Pitcairn Islanders, and bears the following inscription due silver plate: —" A present from the Queen to her royal and loving Pitcairn Islsnd subjects, In appreciation of their domestic virtues." it. will be sent to its destination on H.B.M.' fligste Opal. The two French convicts, Masonae and . Mon, who effected their escape to our shores by stowing themselves away on board the brig Sea Nymph, were again brought up at the Water Police Court on Friday for neglecting to pay for their passage. The captain of the vessel said that the prisoners had remained in ooncoalment for five days, during which time they subsisted on what rations had been supplied them by other passengers onboard. He ronumibiTxl seeing one of the prisoners loitering about the vessel some short while prior to leaving Noumea. Each prisoner was sentenced to pay a penalty of £lO, with the alternative of three months imprisonment. They went to gaol.—Town and Country Journal. The manifests of Count Chambord denies that in 18'l.k voluntarily deelined an opportunity of ascending the throne; He says that the conntry expected a King of France, .but political intrigue decided that it should have instead a "Mayor of Palace." The Count adds that he will never become king of a faction or party, but he will never cease to appeal for the support of all honest won.

Prinoe Jerome has stated to a Bonapartist deputation that ho would fulfil the duties of head of the dynasty, but he must be allowed the choice of time and action. lie would not intrigue against • Republican, which was a legal government for 'the country. A method of breaking horses by means of a galvanic battery was the subject of a recent patent in tut country, and exception was taken to it as being both iu•tfeatual and cruel It appear* however that when properly carried out it is not only effectual, but the reverse of cruel, and the anima'a aro so asti.aished at the power displayed by their masters that they quickly become docile and tractable. The experiment bas been tried by the General Omnibus Company of Paris, and the scientific exp#ri» appointed to report upon the methftd declare that it is more effectual and Jess cruel to the horses than the ordinary practice.—Echo. The " Times "think* the consequence* of the debate and division in the House of Lords upon the hill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister must he to girsji encouragement to such marmgee, ami thus to increase the pressure which is brought to hear upon Parliament in favor of an alteration of the law. The decision ef this as of all other mattors of legislation rests ultimately with the people themselves. Before the question is finally decided its full bearings ought to he olearly impressed upon the public mind, and people ought to he wade to realise all that the' nil! involves. It if quite impossible that its effect om be limited to the mere legalisation of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. It would be a necessary consequonco that marriage with a deceased husband's brother should bo legalised ; and it is not easy to see that the tine could he drawn evon thore. The practical offoct of the hill w tP mOse.a oompleto breach in the principle on which the oaisting law is founded. Thai; principal k that «la» ti<JW-ofasa«^«>»:te : 'regard»d in the •*••• ««ht; for the punusas of nprriI? that wbjS^sws^^Ktitsw r*° *" 5 ECS "—w *fcy »**»»

The Russian polico (says tl»: " Examiner''} seem, in spite of tfieir seal, to be the most indolent and incompetent in Europe. They ten move heaven and earth to catch some unfortunate cook who has travelled two miiw without a passport, while active Nihilist conspirators every where escape thorn. The following story, which reaches us from St Petersburg, well illustrates their intelligence. A few days before the attempt on the Visa, Dr. Eadian, an eminent physician, who distinguished himself greatly in the late, war, was. arrested on ah (as it proved) Utterly .groundless suspicion ; at the same time, after the whole rale fashion of the wiseacres of theSthird section, of arresting not only th«V suspected person, but every one who 'may have been in contact with him or her, bis sister, the principal of an institution under the patronage of the Grand Duohess Katharine Miohajlotvns, was marched off to prison. The same day the Grand Duchess came to inspect the institution; surprised not to find the lsdy-principal she inquired for her, and was told she had gons to the police, and would probably shortly return. H.I.H. waited is vain.- Growing tired shs despatched her secretary, State-Councillor fawlow, to the police to fetch the lady. Ths secretary want but he also did not return. H.I.H. sent her servant after her seoretary, but servant and secretary, alike mysteriously disappeared. The first thing the Grand Duchess did on returning home was to notify the mysterious disappearance of her officers to the police. The police hunted for two days without finding them, and reported to H.I.H. that the servant and the secretary had probably been murdered by the Nihilists. At length they were discovered securely locked up in the police-office itself. The minions of the law had arrested each of them on suspicion, the lady-principal because she was sistei of the suspected dootor, Fawlow fur inquiring after Fawlow. How nice it must be to live in Russia!

A child naturally ones when it is hurt, and it it cruel to try and hush its criax by threats. A thousand times better it is to soothe by kindly stories, by explaining piotures, or by providing it with dew toys. We have many, tune, says a famous doctor, in our professional experience as to sick children, found more benefit to be derived from a beautiful or interesting toy than from a duae of physio. The greatest humanity a mother can exhibit in respect to her aiok child is to divert it, in all pleasing ways possible, as we ourselves, who are larger children, feel sometimes really sick when a cheerful face and much loved friend has come in, and before we know it we have forgotten what is the matter with us. Al«out. —" What are about there?" said a gentleman to a boy, whom he found in his orchard, disposing of a few apples to great advantage—viz., in bat .and handherchief, for, pocket he had ' not. " I'm about going," said the boy. Messrs. John Elder and Co., the celebrated builders, have lately constructed another splendid vessel of mammoth proportions, and from the following description given in Mitchell's M. Register of May 30, she must bo a magnificent ship: —" The Ariaona, Wit and engined by Messrs. John Elder and Co., -went on her builder's trial trip on May 23. The steamer is 460 feet; long, 46 feat in breadth, and 37 feet 6 inch** deep, with a grow tonnage of 5500 afd WO register. In her construction many new ana improved appliances havt been introduced. She has no fewer than tVe cargo hatches, to which are attached patent etejua winches, the total being 167,000 cubic feet, and her deadweight cargo, exclusive of 1200 tons of coal, will reach 2000 tons. She is fitted with four masts, the first and second square-rigged. Besides her groat carrying capacity for goods and general cargo, the) passenger accomodation has by no maans been overlooked, as there is ample room for 140 first, and 140 siojnd, and 1200 third-class emigrant*. The ship's water condenser and freshwater casta arc the largest ever fitted info any vessel, condensing at the rate of two gallons per minute, or about 3400 per gallons per day. These, together with cooking rang*, &&, have bean supplied by Messrs. A. Brownlis) and Co., Glasgow. She is fitted by Messrs. George Forester and Co., of Liverpool, with Macfarlaae Gray's patent steering gear, and the large wheel for regulating it is ,5 fc*fc in diameter, and constructed, in such an improved manner that it can be easily rectified in the event of a sea striking the ship voile in a gala. The appliances for lowering and raising the anchors, which are four tons «*oh, have been fitted by the builders on a saw principle. Instead of davits projecting from the side, the anchors are raised with a steam-crane, and suanlidty. In case of an outbreak of fire, pipes are' fitted all round the deck to which .twonty-two jets are placed in order for working, and the ship has Sir William Thomsons doop-esa sounding apparatus on board. Messrs. Robert Tfouug an* Son, Glasgow, supplied tho compasses. Tba engines-said to be the Isrgottof the kind aver constructed—are co. what is known- a*- the compound itr«*te* JWeyttuo** jwnriphy <" WO SfflOMirfil ihs4 4wfr irdi - boreo power. Innate towotajtha* with ease it has tn.iiifi dissnwl naisstiiij tohnunolf doubts' and boWantS thirty nin» furnaces, the tap.botts; bait two funnels, and is aha 6tted- with steam windlasses forward.

- The Arieoea has her bulkheads nm up > in any; of Mjer i tight compartments 1 collision or otherwise she'would'still be :. seaworthy and her soantlings are classed iin the Mtf** grade;«t Lloyds. She Los a crew of 160 all told, including 7 ungiueera and 82 firemen. When running the light* from Curabroe to the Cloch tfeewne* went remarkably smooth : and she Utahed the speed of-17., knots ; FrboUT. ; 6«7, «f : M 7 oi ttf,'poww re- ' Par. . liaxuent^-that • tke; AfeW-Wawal.- (Sir Julius VqMV'ia* a'liltfefl 'jo -gentle- ; man in AuckUnd; (tt&.lasfc mail strongly urges the .advisability D f gfl£og • in for rttn milliefl-Wtt; instead «f any smaller raro, on; the. jpouhd tim (lie presnut period is. thtuuost favoriffife

which has; or is likely Witf for som years to float a- loari : f6r ptiMic. *otk| there btjing a large auiouut' of cm--1 tal idle for-lack Ri.ehflilile invertmMt. A cricket match "wm plated at levuia ' on the 18th of September: last, in whSi Mr. Walliuu'ton distinguished Vrflflft , Aj that gcutleinou contributed teragg t'y the success of'tlis tetitn" from S£b3 Covmomnt in the ityitob. agahilflßmi ' some little time back; the following, report of the game at Levuka, from the Fiji Times may be interesting, to many, of our local readers-—The cricket match, Eugland and India * Au«tr*l'e*it, duly eventuated as arranged for, on lut Saturday afternoon (13th September); and terminated in a somewhat easy victory, decided by the first innings, for the AngloIndian team. The weather was all the moat enthusiastic Criok#t*r could have desired; a cool, refitjfitovßßuth-east wind rendering the cocfltsarjr exertion more enjoyable than sr usual in tropical climates. Both tasmalwfre of those generally ranking is Bracks, and » more than avert** displaY, 'st cricketing skill being confidently anticipated, ' drew a number of intorestid npectators to the grouud.. Thd' Auitr«|stalii *erq captained by Mr. ■ th*: iiigloImlians, foitr: Ideal/playeis and seven of the Cormorant's 61 uo were, officered by Mr. Walliugtoa.. The. local team won the toss, and their captain, with a distinct recollection anes wholesomo dread of the sticking capabilities of the Cormorant cricketing Achilles, dotermi* ned to have at least one innings and son,t his men to the wickets. Sal3bury and J. H. Groom therefore appeared to the bowling of the dreaded Wellington and Bennison, and with tho flm ! o**r Use disasters of the Austmlamaea Began. It almost appeared at if a definitefunk had been established by the visiting eiptaic, whose well pitched and underhand balls were, either dropped' into ready and cartain hands or declined t*'do otherwise than accept bail for a future appearance. The result was wiekett fell fast andscores mounted slowly with a terrible per centage of duok eggs amongst them, till the' lent player wa* fof ft; dotal of' thirty-four. Throughout the ini'ipgs thp. fielding was excellent, -few chances were lost, and every man who retired was either caught or bowled by members of. the Cormorant club. Wellington and Wood then faced the bowling of 0. Groom and Garrick, and the really excellent batting of the former' kept the field alive and gave employ meut to the scorer for a'length of time;- until, after six; wiokets had fallen, the champion succumbed to a shooter to the off from Groom which sent him to th* pavillion amid hearty applause, with a well-earned 22 to his credit. The other wiokets had fallen slowly until Moray replaced Garrick, when their disposal followed fast, and after the retirement of Wellington the Australasian team took heart of grace and then soon distiatched'the. rest)'not however before fifty 1 -three notches' had been put together, leaving a majority of nineteen. The fielding of the southerners waa not nearly so good as that of the opponents, and many scored could be fairly debited to that most objectionable cricketer known as Butterfingers. A totally different state of things obtainod on the colonials again going .to the wickets. A freer style of play waa adopted with such happy result that, bad time permitted of ootfe innings being finished, the question at victory would hat* bean a very doubtful one indeed. Thompson, Groom and Bmart thoroughly retrieved the reputation of the local players and whan time was called, aftsr the felt of oairr Iror wiokets, the orediable total el «ghty-fiv* appeared on the Ukgmab. Decided *t the first innings the victory remains with the Abglo-In-disss; yet it U probable thai want of opportunity to play the match out may be considered a fortunate circumstance for tha viaUots.

A BmolUu tmmldaimk of the New York Herald (rive* an appalling. aceouDt of a eoriee of terrible vi*atitio*» which afflicted tYlara* treat ef B«»| einoe March, 1877. The eowie of theeet dke*. ten ie the region known m the Beitao,r wlijoh Htretchoe away inland towards the south; behind the coeet rangea u far dowu as the latitude of Jiio. It cornea •lowMtothe'eeßintbeneijhboiflrhood of fcort#|9fK «, w»4itea4 on the northern Vm Sttlvif) n Hp Auiw'Df ■ 4M pufUO^ of Oivsrefioairnlch ww to he*ewffeted aMwi'itytt* jwiooo of

ary to June j- hut early in 1877 a drought £t\ny a aud_already iu March of that year Things became' worser-and" a regular, exodus ensued from- the interior of the coast. Thousands, perished by the way. Over 150,000 strangers- were at one time hi-, vouacked outside Fortalera, whose usual poputeHpßiis about 25,000. Over 200 a diywere dying among these' last May. lion' eatti-pernicious favers, cholera, yellow few, and small-pox. Over 1000 died'on December 10. ; He gives a terrible plctnre of the. burial grounds. Finally a mysteHous.black-spotted disease has; eppeared, from whiob people die in a few hounfi Th* correspondent ends his awful tola ttius:—There is nothing in history that ift-ill compare with it. God grant that|here lievor may be again.. ' :. •; ■