ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 4 August 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Cocaine, the new anajsthetic, is a colorless fluid not unlike glycerine, Under its effects a patient at a hospital, not long since, submitted to the hall of his eye'. being punctured by a delicate spear-heail knife,,and in its place a small suctifl? pump inserted,' which' brought out some pus from a sac which the knife had . punctured, and all the while the patient,, mentally conscious, chatted pleasantly with the operator; as insensible of the operation as though it were being performed on his hat band. A remarkable case of reformation through the exertions of the Salvation Aimyhas occurred at Newcastle (N.S.W.). A notorious woman, who has beeu drink- • ing in the district since 1837, who has been convictod 250 times, and who lately received a sentence of several months imprisonment for smashing a pierjglass in a railway station waiting roomjfeile t mad with drink, addressed a meetif/at the barracks lately, describing her. past career, and exhorting others to repent. She has been reclaimed for ten weeks. " Pretty barmaids," remarked Mr Sala, when interviewed on'the subject' "form, with us in England a social institution They are very well conducted, sprightly girls, as a rule, and many of them get gog££ husbands, if they are only sensible ?n®fy ] —and most of them are—toTieep virtuSL : Spiers and Pond, the eminent refreshment caterers, and who own hotels in • many parts of England—iare hotel n;illpapg, in fact—introduced the system of employ ing barmaids. Spiers ais Po,ns can\a from Australia. They were the tft revolutionise the English system o.{ to!' way refreshment rooms, They established a service of prptty, cheerful barmaids at all the various byffets with whioh they are connected, Their barmaids are not only reno,wned for their good looks, civility, and smart business abilife, b«fc also for %rr very, decorous dciWW and virtuous reputations., 1 '

Twenty-.tyfQ daughters. at, the,present moment. liy« \yith their father, weorgo. Riddle, in Carrpllcpupty, MisaoupAlsa oisjlit widows of the nii\c dec.eas|j[' of the la,te Captain Geo.rge Co.ojc of ford, stiil suryive.

We occasionally lieav of extraordinary yields of butte? fpn American Jersey cows tfta| almo,st oweed belief if they were npt for by persons jpf reliable character. The latest in this line ia the remarkable production of 461bf1, Ita, of unsalted butter, rhe pro* duae of one cow for seven dayfl, - out of 299ybs. of milk, being at the rate of one pound of butter .for each (v 4-10 pounds q{ milk, The cow is a Jersey named Prlii-; cess 11, weighing 112511)?,, and to Mrs Shoemaker, of BatyWorei' matter is .to pne extenlj' explained by.' the daily, ration I ,' She" is stabled, o| course, ili a cpihfortabio, well ventikw stable, is milked three tinp a, day-i; and fed at regular intervals, during'tlio day with a, portion pf the following, viz, 22 quart?grqundoats, 15qnartsp$a meal, 2 quarts linseed oUcake, 1 quart bran, besides carrots, beets and hay. If we estimate the cojt of the oatmeal' : at one penny per quart, the pea-meal at three half ponce, and the linseed meal at twopence,'we obtain a total for'the meal ration of four shillings and twopen-jtflaily, leaving, out the carrots, beets-,./aW hay, This would be, say, f 19s per week,' and, as butter here cannot be said to realise oii the average over 9,d per ppUnd, 'the,'result 1 would hesl 13a, lekvirigcredit 'balance of 4s to pay for, the other fgM, In America,' where meal food is butter double the price,, thevcqw' would give a good profit' and pay fpj; generous feed. In tiu} feeding, stuff high, better, different mu'slj be. adopted by farmers in 'order to m,a|e dairying remunerativebu?iheps.,.',it shpwa,' ho.\y* over, gopd stpek, combined with good feed, is capable of producing under suitable conditions,—Taranaki Herald.