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Temuka Leader, Issue 2086, 16 August 1890, Page 3

Sweating in Milbotjrne. The Chief Inspector of factories in Victoria is extremely innocent on sweating. He says the difficulty of obtaining any reliable data upon which to form an opinion is so great that "very little is known about it." "Sweating" appears to mean, he says, working outside a factory at a lower seal* of prices than can be obtinsd inside under log prictß. He has come, however, to the conclusion that many famtlea prefer working at home, even at a lewer rate of remuneration ; whilst mmy people, both male and female, work in a faotory in the day time, and take work home as well, the inducement to the employer being that they will do the outside work at less than log prices. " These people are oftsa the best workers in the factory, and if they prefer speuing the evening in this way rather tban in idleness or amusement, tbey surely cannot be blamed for it." One of the means propoaed to prevent sweating—namely, the prohibiting of all outside work —he entirely codemns "Tbis weald not only be a croel hardship to many deserving people, but would also saddle the State with the support of many who at present are able to earn their own livelihood.' This official is backed up by another inspector who reports that he " has not been able to discover that sweating exists in any proportion of the Melbourne district." The officers evidently have a notion of their own of the meaning of "sweating," and do not see the evils which the system tbe chief commends is bound to lead to.

A young school teacher, near Tenterfield, N.S.W., named Fairly, while opening, a letter containing a report of an accident which had occurred to a friend, was shotdead by the accidental discharge of a revolver which he had In his hand. The bullet lodged in his throat, causing instant death.

A remarkable case of death from selfimposed fasting has just taken place at Ramsden Cray, a villiage in Essex. The victim was Miss Mead, a middle-aged person, and it is reported that she took nothing but water for six or Beven weeks. She could not be induoed to take food, and died from starvation.

In France, when a young man's extravagant follies reach a certain limit, he is pronounced to be incapable of managing himself or his affairs, is put in charge of a guardian, and treated as a moral lunatic.

Darwin estimated that worms by swallowing earth for the sake of the vegetable matter it oontains and forming castings bring to the surface as much as 10 tons of earth per annum on an acre. Worms are great promoters of vegetation by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and Hindering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and moat of all by throwing up suoh infinite numbers of lumps of earth c«lled worm casts, which form a fine manure for grain and graßS. The earth without worms would soon become cold, hardbound, void of fermentation, and consequently Bterile. This has occurred in many cases where the worms have bean accidentally or intentionally destroyed, and fertility of tht soil has only baen restored when the worms had again collected and resumed their fertilising work.

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