MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 215, 14 March 1872, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

The establishment of a School of Journalism as one of the departments of Yale College, is one of the newest Yankee notions, and is quite liked. A leading American journal regards the undertaking as eminently appropriate, in view of the rapid growth of the influence of the press in that country. It points out that many more millions form their opinions from the dicta of the press than from the pulpit; that the extension of the means of conveying intelligence by telegraph and otherwise has carried with it an increase of these influences, so that the capacity for good or for mischief of a great journal can hardly be over-estimated. Having so recently emerged from the shock of a great conflict, it is scarcely surprising that doctrines subversive of society and even of government find more readily than usual a wide hearing among bis countrymen. At such a time the intervention of a conservative element in the thorough education of the rising generation of journalists iv social and political ethics, us well as the o\*tlines of law, history, and literature, should bo hailed with satisfaction by all who have at heart the true welfare of the community which these writers must so largely influence.

A Mrs. Catherine Dickens has communicated to the committee of the Melbourne Hospital a new mode of treatment for burns and scalds. She says : — " Should the whole body be burned or scalded ever so severely, by entirely covering the same with common table salt, coarse or fine, taking special care that the whole of the injured parts are well covered, the fire heat will be extracted, and the intense pain will cease in the sp ice of from two to three hours. The salt, must remain on the patient for several hours after the pain has ceased, in order to prevent the skin from peeling off, and also to prevent the flesh from being scarred." Tho remedy has at least the merit of simplicity and safety. Should it do what Mrs. Dickens says it will, the lady may fairly cl;iim rank among the benefactors of humanity.

A late " Chicago Tribune " sij^s: — "An idea of the number of teams and men employed may be had from the fact that 5000 loads of debris are emptied into the Lake basin daily, and this work c:m continue all through the winter, giving continuous labour to the thousands now employed.. So great is the demand that hundreds of boys from fourteen to eighteen years of age are hard at wor " wheeling, cleaning, and piling bricks. />ll boner to the brave men who have met misfertune by resolutely beginning the work of reconstruction, and all honor to the men and boys who have gone to work, preferring to earn the bread and shelter they enjoy than to compete for the same with'the sick and helpless at the churches. The man who thinks Chicago has been destroyed has only to cross the river into tho burnt districts to be undeceived. Labor and skill, directed by energy and enterprise, arc working like bees in the hive ; and when the spring comes the desolate places will be desolate no longer, and from the ashes will have arisen new monuments of industry and faith."

Twenty-six thousand two hundred and eighty pounds of \ utter were shipped to London from Auckland recently.

A gentleman rejoicing in the name of William F. Apstead, has inserted the following advertisement in the " Gray Argus." — He returns good for evil, and blesses the " patriots" who kindled a bush fire in dangerous proximity i,o his residence: — "My thanks to those gentlemen who so kindly assisted to put on a bush fire in the neighborhood of my house. My blessing on the land speculators and patriots who set it on fire while a strong wind was blowing*"

An American newspaper, entitled ''The People's Pictorial Taxpayer," is realiy quite a curiosity of literature. Tho paper is the size of a small tablecloth, and the inner side of the sheet is occupied with a caricature of Horace Greeley, around which are grouped pictorial illustrations of the fact that the American farmer rises iv the morning and puts on his flannel shirt taxed at 65 per cent; then his trousers taxed at 00 per cent: vest. 60 per cent; overcoat, 60 per cent; draws on his boots, taxed at 3.5 per cent ; places coals, taxed at 60 per cent, in a stove, taxed at 55 per cent to cook his breakfast ; eats his moil from a plate taxed at 45 per cent, with a knife and fork taxed at 35 per cent , seasons his food with salt taxed at 108 per cent, and pepper 120 per cent, puts on his hat, taxed at 70 prr cent, &c, and finally, "This is his end: — Sis fate is recorded on marble taxed at 70 per cent, and he goes where there are no tariffs, the inscription on his tomb-3tone being, 'Here lies the American farmer, taxed to death by monopolists.'" The mintes of a respectable public house in town got a scare last Saturday.

On getting up and looking out into the yard, like Tarn o' Shanter, they saw "'an uncosicht." ■ No wonder enrh, hair on their heads stood on ent], for there, before their eyes, su^peirh -1 from a troe, was the body of a griivhaired old lady — evidently a sad c;isi> oifelo de se. One. in an aged to articulate that some person should go for the police; another took heart of grace and determined to cut down the body. The dred object was aproached with fear and trembling; on a nearer inspection the dread lessened ; and cloke quarters discovered a bundle of straw and rags, — a poor practical joke, by some one who had much more time than brains to spare. — " Wanganui Chronicle."

The Melbourne "Argus" says: — "Wondrous reports have been received at Sydney regarding Paxton's claim at the Tambaroora reefs. A regular vein of gold appears to have been struck between the casing, 80 tons of stone yielding 4,400 ounces of gold. £25,000 worth of gold was obtained from chis claim in a fortnight. Trustworthy news from Tambaroora states that the vein of gold through the claim appears as a regular pillar of gold between the slate casing, Old miners say that nothing was ever known like it. There is scarcely a bit of quartz to he seen. A dividend has been declared of £4,800 per share as the result of the seven days work."