GLEANINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1276, 12 January 1883, Page 3

GLEANINGS.

r\ I - !< )i '! c ;• 1 Amojng the many articles of food winch) Have been proved as pre-eininanfc [foyj antagonism to alcohol .are lnacoroni haricot beans,'dril-d ppy aiiil ienlils all of which should ho well boiled,, and flavoured with plenty of butter or olive oij. | ! KThe beer duty paid during the last financial year was £58,591, being 3d per gallon on, 4,680,077 i gallons, : Ac[hording to this each man, w.oman, and child in tlio c6lony (not including Chinese! and * Maoris) would consume on an averago rather more than 9| gallons each in the course of the year, and contribute 1 about 2s 5d to the ireyenuei . The bishop of Peterbourgh,' speaking 'at sbid he believed that -finder a proper caution and.reservo the opening! of reading rooms on Sunday would jdo a great deal of good. Ho coulci go library on Sunday and :-,r&d,:and why, in'the naiheofconimon i sense,"''should it j-be ~'\yick?d,:..an,d miscliievjona 1 lor a poor man to do in :H B i hibraiyi reading -rtfom what' .was harmless, in' private fooriis? He sii# more'than' drio good'reason for, | readings' rooms if .care was j Jaken.-ihat; they did not rival church service,' or degenerate into thingswhich, wotild'riot do ; for Sunday; . , )V ,t wfessor Callftdon a arid little'known experiment, •showing the, of;the air• under ; certain circumstances to tlie motion of jbullets.jin guns. It reSombles V.'feat that:AWfts" sometimes, performed. : by. soldiers; with the-old; Swiss carbines. M. Calladon fully charged with coinpreyed air the hollowed iron'breech of ,an._air r gnii, sei'ving-as reservoir., Having sorewjed up the gun, ho introduced a round dead ball, running, freely, but 'filing the ! bore';'then placing Lffie/guiv vertical-he '.seized the j upper.; end and placed ' his • thumb Vigorously oh the . mouth! The tliQ'Jhiimb- remained in .position, and the ball :Was heard to fall back in "tlie j bore,' 'rhe'reupon, after recharging the breech with, the same ball, he shot the latter at.fi pine board about 4in thick ora-pane of glass, and it passed through. Tlie Calladon says, is Without 'danger] if the operator is quite of .the < strerigth of his thumb, if the gun is more than'32in long, and if the ball is! spherical, and nearly fills the gun, iri which! itrimst act'like a l'k^O-i ""

The widow of Dr. Tanner, of fasting celebrity, ; was separated from ' her husband and the cause of the divorce, if we are to trust the ..account that has found its way into some of the French papers, is not a; little durious. The doctor held,.. among other curious 'tlieories on the'subject of diet, that a riian's, character ym largely influenced by. nature bf the food.which he partoolc. French beans,, for instaco, .produced, he considered an irascible tendency; carrots 'reiiclerpd people ; timid and sullen ; titrnips" made them kind arid amiable. To, test Hisj theories he put his wife on an exclusive-regimen<o£:French■ beans, with'the result of exasperating that ■lady's temper verymuch after a week of it. ■ The docter, proud of .this confirmation of his theory, now proposed to correct the effects obtain e.d by employing an exclusive dietary of turnips; but tho lady, objecting to be made the '.sjibject'Of any father experiments, and perhaps eiitertMning ; dpubts : '.of;the do'cter's sanity, applied for a divorce and obtained it.