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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 24, 25 July 1868, Page 5

Trees cut in summer give lighter wood than when felled in winter time. During the last seven years Great Britain has spent seven niillions on seventy, one forti yet undefended by a single gun. One of the oldest women in America is k Mrs. Porch, who lives in the mountains of East Tennessee, and is aged 123 years. Her memory is unimpaired. It is a safe rule to wet your wrists fc'efor* drinking cold water, if you are at. all hefflrefl; The effect is immediate and grateful, and very often the danger of fatal results may be warded off by this simple precaution. It was the law among the ancient Jews that every man should learn a trade. He was not bound by any obligation to follow it, for if hi* inclinations afterwards prontpted him to seek other occupation, he was at liberty to do so; The wisdom of this law commends itself to every mind. The ancients said, if sea-water passed through the sides of a ball of wax, it would reach the centre perfectly sweet. When navigators wanted water, they used to boil sea"* water in brass or copper Vessels, and suspend a large sponge over them so as to receive all the vapour, which, afterwards expressed, would be perfectly sweet. Lampers. — The symptoms of this supposed disease are, the horse quids his hay, or refuse* his food. It is common in young horses. The groom looks in the mouth of the animal, when perceiving the bars are on a level with the incisor teeth, he pronounces his charge to hate the lampers, and takes the p" 00* creature to be burnt accordingly. It is true the animal has recovered his appetite by tha time the effects of the burn have passed away, but so it would have done had no hot iron been cruelly employed. The fact is, the young animal is then cutting a molar tooth, and, a day or two having elapsed, all fever and pain occasioned by the process would have been over. No man should allow his horse to be burnt for the lampers i it is a torturing, an idle and a wanton operation, and tends rather to do harm than good. If an old horse be reported to have the lairipers, examine his mouth, and something may be found wrong with his grinders, or, to a certainty, the cause is to be sought in another part of his body than the roof of his mouth. Distance of the Earth from the SmL — To make the distance of the earth from the sun intelligible, M. Guillemin states that a railway train leaving the earth and going at the rate of thirty miles an hour . wduld require rather more than 347 years to reach it ; so that if such a train had started on January Ist, 1866, it would be A. D. 2213 before it arrived at its destination. ! Rogues. — A matt-who cheats in short measure is a measureless rogue. If in whisky, then he is a rogue in spirit. If he gives a bad title to land, then he is a rogue in deed. If he gives short measure in wheat then he is a rogue in grain. If he cheats he can, he is in deed, in spirit, in grain, a measure^ less scounereL If he cheats at all; he is a tall cheat. " There now ! " cried a little girl* while rummaging a drawer u#t bureau; "there! gran'pa has graje to heaven without his spectacles I