LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 312, 31 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The " Taranaki Daily News " will not , be published to-morrow (New Year's I j ' Mails for the United Kingdom and ' Continent despatched from here on Nov- , ember 20th, arrived in London on the i 25th iiist. We are indebted to the district agents of the Royal Exchange Assurance Cov. ; (.Messrs. 15. Griffiths and Co.) for 'a very useful and tastefully got up almanac and blotter. The Chief Postmaster wishes to warn . the public that tinselled post cards and postcards bearing u facsimile of Now . Zealand postage stamps must be enclost cd m envelopes. a this is not done 5 they are detained and scut to the Dead . Letter Offiec. ! Ollicial returns lately published in •Japan contain remarkable statements on i the subject of divorce '„ that country. During ]<)()« the number of divorces r registered m ,]„p iUl IV us 03,500. This i is si daily average 0 f nearly 200, and ; IV/,. per cent, of the marriages. < No more Angora goats are likely to r be procured from South Africa for a , time (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). - All the colonies there have passed lems- , Latum prohibiting the export of goats. I I'lie industry is considered so valuable - that they want it all to themselves, and I the annual crop of mohair is said to oe ; worth, more than £1)00,000. - People who had forgotten the presence of a warship were puzzled last night to account for the powerful li-hts ' Hashing now and then across the landit dawned upon them that __ the immiinnlion original,-,] ~„ l )oa ,. ( ) THre~Srarfew*. whose ,„„,,', 7,,,, entertaining the shore foik'a,M getting a nocturnal peep at the country "hi the 1 glare of her powerful searchlights. Uishop Wall is, who returned In- the \Va-rrimoo, states that the machinery ' has been set in motion for the ■„„,„,. 1 lion of the big mission that is to come ■ to New Zealand next year in conncc-l-ion wi(h the work of the Church \ ' strong committee lias been formed', ard the Archbishop of Canterbury is taki.T an active interest in the project. While m England Uishop Wallis arranged to bring out six new clergymen to tak-. up parish work.—Press Association

.Sir Lauder Bruntou, in an address ■ on •■Exercise and Over-exercise," says: tor the development of the chest there is perhaps no exercise better than that which .Nature has pointed out as relief to iatiguc-nnniely, yamning-for in this action the chest is expanded to the utmost both by the ordinary inspiratory inii>clcs and by the accessory muscles connected with the arms. Iu eases where chest expansion is deficient, either from arrested growth in children 0 r from disease of the respiratory passages or pleura, the movements of yawning repeated several times tend to increase the chest «apacity. Care should be taken, however, that this is done where Uie air is clean and fresh and free from genus. Movements like those of yawning, though perhaps less extensive, occur when a skipping-rope is used hackwards, and 1 do not think there is any better exercise for children with imperfect expansion of the chest than skipping backwards. The movement of skipping forwards is not nearly so good, as the inspiratory muscles are not used to the same extent, and the action tends rather to contract the chest than to exI pand it.

■Salt can almost he regarded as a panacea, so many and varied are its uses. The "Eauiily Doctor" enumerates a tew. We are told that it cleanses the palate and furred tongue, and a wle of salt and water is often efficacious. A pinch of salt on the tongue, followed ten minutes afterwards bv a drink of cold water, often cures a sick head ache. It hardens gums, makes teeth white,

and sweetens the breath. Cut dowers may, he kept fresh by adding salt to the water. Weak ankles should be rubbed Willi solution of salt, water, anil alcohol. Bad colds, hay fever, and kindred allections may be much relieved by using tine dry salt like snuif. Dyspepsia, heartburn, and indigestion are*relieved ' by a cup of hot water iu which a small spoonlul of salt has been melted. Salt and water will sometimes revive an titi-

i conscious person when hurt, if brandy j ■J or other remedies are not at hand. j Hemorrhage from tooth - pullin.. is stopped by (illji,;; Hie mouth with salt 'and water. Weak am! tired eyes are refreshed by bathing with warm water mid salt. Many public speakers and singers use a wash of salt and water before and after using the voice, as it strengthens the organs of the throat. Salt rubbed into the scalp or occasionally added to the water in washing prevents the hair falling out. Feathers uncurled by damp weather are tjui-.-kly dried hy shaking over a fire in which ' salt has been thrown. Salt always should be eut.cn with nuts. and n desert '' fruit salt should lie specially made. ' xu ir v '

WHY ts SAM)EU & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalyptus product? Because it ie the result of full experience and of a special and cartful process of manufacture. Jt it always safe, reliable, and effective, and the dangers attending the use of th 9 irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off as "Extracts" are avoided. A death was recently reported from the external use of one of chese concoctions, and in an action at law a sworn witness testified that he jufiered the most ernc\ 'rritation from the application to an uteer of a product

which was sold asV'just as good as SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT." Therefor*, beware of sijlch deception. Insist upon the preparation which was proved by nxperts at the Supreme Court of Victoria, any by numerous authorities during the past 35 Wears, t;> be a pre-

paration of penumtj merit, viz., THE ! GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PIIRV i VOLATILE EUCALtfPTT EXTRAOT.Chcm'Vcg and Sloif.-.-Ut.dvt. , There was an obi party from Hay, j Who had tried many ((ills in his day, Put his trouble was (chronic, | ■ Tin lie took Laxo-ToMi.-, ind now bo is hapnv, io'oo-ray!'-' 1 CAXO-TONIC PILLS, 1 OVid and la CJ. (

A blacksmith of Wildbergcrhuette, "a the district of Arnsberg (Westphalia), surprised four Croats attacking his wife, lie killed two on the spot •with lus sledge-hummer, and left tiie ■others m such a state that their recovery is despaired of. j "You have to be very careful on ■these steep hills," said Thomas Hutch, ■a carman, indistinctly, 'when he was asked by an amazed policeman on Ealing Common why he was pulling back vigorously on the shaft of Ilia van m ■addition to having the chain on the ■wheel and the skid-pan in place. As ■Ealing Common happens to be as Hat as the proverbial pancake at this point Hatch was lined t'l at Acton.

An extraordinary burglary has been committed at the mansion of Mr. C. E. 'Tayntor, a wealthy resident of Brooklyn, who was a member of the revolver ■team representing America in the Olympic revolver contest. During the ■night three masked men entered the ■house, and, having locked Mr. Tayntor and his wife and children iu a bedroom, proceeded to ransack the other rooms. They got clear away with jewellery and other property valued at £2OOO. Arrangements are well in progress for holding the first International Exhibition of Airships and Aeroplanes at Brescia in August and September, IIKIII. The committee of the Italian Aero Club has already received oilers of prizes amounting to ;tMOOU. The exhibition ■will not consist merely of Hying machines on show, but will include practical experiments and competitions, in wliicli .Messrs. Farman, Defagrange, the •brothers Wright, and other renowned aviators are expectled to participate. I "I gathered this money with great dilliculty, hut, having 110 relative who ■is in absolute need, I make thee, whosoever shall read this Bible, to be my heir." Naturally a Heme Hill gardener named Wallace, recently thrown out of ■work, was pleasantly surprised to find (when seated reading to his family from a Bible he had bought before' his misfortune from a Cainbenvell second-hand ■shop) a couple of ila notes carefully •pasted between the leaves. The inscription was in red ink. ■ An extraordinary defect in a man's tain was described lately at the inquest into the death of Joseph Mencarini, a. printer, of Clerkenwell. Mencarini had been subject, it was stated, to mysterious giddiness and general feebleness for the past six years. Dr. ■McGregor declared that the postmortem examination revealed the fact that there ■was a hole in the left frontal lobe of ■the man's brain large enough to hold a tangerine orange. This curious defect had caused the illness, which had clti■miaatcd in paralysis and heart failure. The North-Western Steamship Company's steamer North-Western has just ■made a successful wireless message record for the. Pacific when 1100 miles 'West of CaCpe Flattery, to Cordova, Alaska—a distance of 1200 miles. The message, which, had to go over two ■mountain ranges, as 'well as 1000 miles of ocean, was Hashed from the steamer to the new Government wireless plant ■iu Alaska. The system will he most cll'ective in maintaining co.mmunicafTbn during the spring, when it is almost m■posshle to do so in any other manner, owing to the snow and floods, which (makes the country impassable. The Signal Corps has 150 men stationed in Alaska for the maintenance of the stations.

People hardly realise the sort of work that is ceaselessly going forward on the Panama Canal zone in Central America -—until it is found that it has a weekly and daily paper more or less of its own, and is a circuit of the Supreme Court of the United States all by itself. The

"Canal Record." the weeklv newspaper, says that 3,318,t!!ll cubic' yards were dug out in August alone;' that 10'/ 2 miles of new railway were laid; th.it 3.' i B: J 4 tons of explosives were fired; that on any day the average number of men pushing on the work is 13;254. On the great dam and locks at Ualiui—on the other side—loo.ooo cubic yards were dug out; .31,000 dredged up; 27,000 cubic yards of earth dug from the lock and dumped on to the dam; not to speak of 3.".,0(«) euliit yards of rock and 41,000 of earth from elsewhere. The work M\ the Mirallor.es lock and dam on the

Australian side—we shall (says the Sydney Morning Herald) know all these names like household words within ten years—is about half as big. During August over .Uiu',ooo in money orders alone were sent from the canal to the

United States. Tin; very in-west machine at use in the canal i's ii rum which crushes rock instead of blasting it—imported, barge mill nil, straight from Renfrew. Scotland. Tenders had just, been asked lor i'/, million barrels of L'ortlaud cement, delivered at tlio rate of between 20011 mill 1(1.00(1 barrels a ■ lay. Tin: (leatlis <m the work used to be as astounding as everything else, but the mihoalthiness of Panama lias been absolutely done away with. The death 'Mte fur August in 'tile hir-t four vencs (-+*«. .-01110 down this ladder: ;15, lio, 27, 11. Two other r'ar-ts :ire of interesl. l-'irst, they have found out Hint the. „...; level of the Paeilic and Atlantic are the same; second, there is a town called i Empire in the zone, where on "Labor [ Day" they had a dance in "Kangaroo" Hall. *

Some of the English municipalities are commencing to take an interest in the Shiemann electric railless trolley cars whi.h arc in use in several Continental cities. The system has been approved at Manchester after investigation, the corporation of Liverpool' is making experiments with it, and the London County Council proposes to instill it in the Blackwall and Rotherhitho tunnels. Electric tramways on the ordinary trolley and conduit system have been permanently established in most of the Loudon suburbs, but it is believed that in districts where the roads are narrow and the traffic eonbested tile railless ears, being somewhat more mobile, will produce better results. The installation consists simply of the overhead wires, which can be' erected at a moderate cost, and the cars, which run on broad wheels over the ordinary road surface. A line of electric cars can be established in a few months where electric current is available from municipal and other stations. The outlay on tracks, a very considerable item of the. expenditure in the ordinary system, is avoided, there is no charge for maintenance to bo met, and the road surface is not broken up. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald suggests that iu view of the comparative cheapness of the Sliiemanu system and its adaptability for experimental purposes, it would probably suit suburban areas in some of the Australasian cities. It has been adopted for passenger traffic at Lyons, Ahrw-eiler, ami Mulhausen, and for goods traffic at Wurzen-Saxouy. Monheini-Langenfeld, and other European cities, and after five years' use is still giving satisfaction. The weak point of the svstem. of course, is the danger of damage to the roads by the heavy Iratlie. A good road surface, preferably of wooden blocks, is a necessity, a lid most of the colonial cities would'fail in this respect.