MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 113, 7 April 1870, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Yankee Editor's Eabivy Experience. — Never will we forget the' 1^ the time we met our sweet Kitty in the \ centre of a vast wilderness of briars in the old Buckeye State. Her eyes were as black M ih% berries in her basket* and as brilliant as those of the catbird; • chattering over her head; her lips were ruby red, and her cheeks lily white; except a broad of purple 1 fruit stain reacting from ear to ear. Hea^ yens ! didn't she look lovely! Our' own basket was full, and we volunteered our assistance to fill that carried by Kitty. Often while plucking the melting fruit from some glorious cluster, her curls — Kitty had curls, glossy and golden — brushed our cheeks, we thought, very often; but still it seemed, s'dniehfcra, to be accidental. Somehow, too, we were always at work upon the same clusters, and Kitty's lips were very close to ours when she turned to speak. At last Kitty^s lips pouted; Kitty's eyes flashed, and she almost succeeded in coaxing into her smooth white brow one or two indignant wrinkles. ""Will you believe," she said, " when I was out here alone — just as we are — with Ned Jones, the naughty fellow up and kissed me ! " We didn't like Ned, and we were ready to say that he was naughty." "He just catight me this way, and " — here her lips almost touched ours, and we felt a violent thumping in the region of our heart, but she didn't quite do it, and the peril was soon over. We felt all over that we were on the verge of being just a^s naughty as Ned, but our bashfulness saved us. Still pouting, and, we thought, worse than ever, she placed both hands on our shoulder, and turning her sweet young face towards ours, said, " You are a dear good boy ! you ain't going to be naughty, like Ned - was ? " Heavens ! how our heart fluttered ! We seemed losing our breath ; and a moment after Kitty was saying, "You are a very, very naughty fellow ! "

A New Method of stopping a Leak. — It is reported that at the collision on Thursday of the ferry-boat Man* hasset and the tug Phoenix, the steam wrecking boat Truxton, Captain T. A. Scott, happened to be passing quite near the scene of the accident. Captain Scott not being able to get the Truxton alongside or the ferry-boat, sprang into a small boat, and made his way through the cabin window of the Manhasset, arriving in the engine-room just as the bow of the tug was being eA tricated from the ferry-boat. As the ho\v - was withdrawn the water at once began to flow into the aperture with great force, and in such quantities that the boat would have gone down in a few •* minutes, had not Captain Scott, who is a very large man, weighing about 250 pounds, placed his body in the hole made by the tug, and, calling for blankets and. clothing, succeeded in keeping out the rush sufficiently until the boat was got into the slip, and afterwards planked up the break so that the pumps of the ferry-boat kept her comparatively free until she was placed on the dry dock foot Pike street, where she now is. This is the first record of a leak of this size being stopped by a man's body at the risk of his own life. Possibly several hundred lives were saved by the bravery of Captain Scott. — " New York Herald."

The Scotch have an enormous energy of life. The marriage rate in Scotland is smaller than in England. In 186716.72 per 1000 living were married in England, but in Scotland only 14.20 per 1000. Yet witli a smaller proportion of marriages the same result is observable in so far as the increase of population is concerned. The Englishman marries earlifer than the Scotch. In Scotland 7.46 per cent, of the men are 21. Yet the marrying a year or two later in the life does not appear to diminish the number 6£ children. On the contrary, whilst in Scotland there are 4.45 children to a marriage, in England there are only 3.84. In education the Scotch are quicker than the English. Of the children examined in the day school 10.09 per cent, failed in reading in England ; while in Scotland the proprotion that failed was only 5.55 per cent. And in arithmetic in England there failed 25.28 per cent.; in Scotland, 21.22 per cent. The mortality is also less in Scotland than in England. In 1867 the number of deaths was 21.98 per 1000 living in England, and 21.77 per 1000 living in Scotland. Ilolloway 's Ointment and Pills. — Surgeon is generally too ready with the' knife and the saw. The eclat of a " brilliant operation" ia a great professional " card ;" but the mutilated subject who has all the pain and none of the glory of the cutting and slashing, is by no means to be envied. We have a little doubt in more than half the cases where the knife is used in hospitals and private practice, Holloway's inestimable Ointment would render its employment unnecessary, by reducing the inflammation, and precluding all danger of lockjaw, mortification, or gangrene. We advise all who are suffering from wounds, fractures, tumors, cancers, diseases of of the bones, etc, to try this healing,cooling, disinfecting preparation, before they suffer steel or caustic to come in contact with their flesh. The Pills should be taken to purify the blood, while the Ointment is applied externally.