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Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6033, 1 August 1903, Page 4

* NOTES

—» jo world's coffee come 8 .drazil. There are eight white men to one white woniaif in India. A person can now take out a special policy for appendicitis at Home, for no fewer than 15,000 people were operated upon in 1900. Five shillings a year guarantees the expenses of illness and operation up to £IOO.

The Waikato Argus absolutely guarantees a better return from money invested in its advertising columns than can be obtained by spending the same amount in advertising in any other paper in the Provincial district outside the City of Auckland. A concert) was given a few days ago in a small up-country town. A prominent and popular tenor vocalist delighted the audience with the aria: 'Sound the Alarm'(Handel). He was shocked to read in the local paper the following criticism :—' Mr great taste and expression a fine song by Handel, entitled : ' Maria, Sound the Alarm.'

A Melbourne paper, commentinj on the spread of swine fever in Vic toria and the neglect of the authori ties to cake the necessary precau tions, estimates that it will now cos about £IOO,OOO to stamp it out In New South Wales the diseasi has also caused great trouble .through failure to take precaution! ary measures. The Queensland Go vernment has prohibited the impor tation of swine from Victoria for a further period of three months. Mr James Dods, late of Pouawa, writes us from East Lothian, Scotland :—' Sir,—l think the following will surprise some of my old friends in Poverty Bay. A gentleman in this neighbourhood took me one day last week to see his sheep. His ewes were all of the Leicester breed, and he had 220 per cent of

lambs. He had no deaths, except one ewe. There were no single lambs, so a number of them had three, and some four, and they were all alive. He was grazing four sheep and eight lambs per acre, and tbey can't have been starved, as ho told me yesterday he had sold the first portion of the lambs at 36s each. They can't have been so forward a 9 some that I saw had been sold the previous week at 41s 9d each.'—Poverty Bay Herald.

1 "While restrictions have been placed upon the importation ot apples affected with the codlin moth, it is felt thas the Government should extend the embargo further by preventing the disposal of apples so affected from any orchard within the colony. At the present time no power is given to prohibit their sale, and thus the fruit passes into clean districts, with serious results to orchards. It is hoped by those interested in the eradication of fruit pests from this colony that something will be done in the direction indicated There might be a loss to the grower in not being able to place his bad apples on the market, but the jam factories, it is pointed out would doubtless take the fruit pulp, so there would not be so very much loss incurred by prohibiting the sala of the moth affected fruit.

j A word of warning against the toilet ammonia now commonly used . for the bath or for removing grease . stains is uttered by the 'Lancet.' 'We have nothing to say ( 3 ays the ' Lancet ')against its employment for either object, and certainly the use of a few drops of ammonia in the bath is harmless, while it is both

invigorating and cleansing. It must be remembered, however, that ammonia gas is, after all, a poisonstrong ammonia vapour being fatal to both animal and vegetable life. In most cases the examples of poisoning by ammonia vapour that appear in toxicological records have been the result of an accident. There is an instance on record of poisonous effects resulting from the breaking of a bottle of ammonia, and the sudden evolution of the powerful gas from the spilt liquid. In the bath-room such an accident might easily happen, and the public should bo enjoined to use the liquid with great care. A warning, it seems to us, should be printed on the labels of all bottles containing ammonia for

domestic purposes, that the vapour is poisonous in large quantities, and that speciai care need, therefore, be exercised to prevent the wholesale escape of the contents,

The Vienna correspondent of the •Morning Advertiser' reports an awful tragedy, due to a discovery of jewels. A peasant named Theodor Russikan, residing in the Lusider district of Siebenpurgen, went into the forest to fell an old oak. After felling the tree he sought to dig up the roots. His pick came upon a hard substance, wich, on being dug up, was found to be an iron casket. The peasant hurried home with his find, and on opening the casket, found that it was filled with costly jewels. He took two diamond rings and a bracelet, and

went to a jeweller at Fogarosch in order to sell them. The jeweller, concluding that the peasant could not have come honestly by such costly articles, would not purchase them, and after the peasant left the

shop be informed the police. When Russikan returned home, he found two gendarmes awaiting him. The peasant declined to give up the casket,and the gendarmes sought to take it by force, whereupon Russikan picked up a kitchen knife and stabbsd one of the gendarmes in the back. The other plunged his bayonet in the peasant's breast, death taking place immediately. It appears tnat the casket had been buried under the oak by a Hungarian family j n

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