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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 October 1872, Page 3

Speaking of the diseases find complaints of cattle tlie Count >\u (ri)i//i')i:i!)i snys : —"There is one nirdi cine for cattle thai c:in hhtv do harm nud is rom 7)ionly beneficial ; th's is pulverised charcoal. Nearly all sick animals become so from improper online; m the lirst place. Nino eases out of ion the digestion wrong. Charcoal is the most efficient and rapid corrective. It' will euro in a majority of eases if properl v administered. An example of its use—one of the old mon came in with tlio intelligence that one of IVs finest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbour proposed the usual drugs and poison. The owner being ill and unable to examine the cow, concluded that ibo trouble came fr.im over-oat : ng, aud ordered a teacup of pulverised charcoal lmvou in water. Tt was mixed in a bottle, the 1 c<l held upward, and the water with its charcoal poured downward. In five . minutes an improvent was visible, and in a few hours the animal wa« in the pasture quietly eating proas. Another instance of equal success occurred with a young ho'for, which beemno badly bloated bv eat me; *in'oeiu>tuir. The blor.t was <o severe that the sides were almost an hard as a barrel. The old remedy soda, was tried for the purpose of correcting the acidity. But the attempt to put it down always caused coughing, and it did little good. Half a teacupful of powdered charcoal was next given. In six hours all appearance of bloat wps gone." Colonel Gorton has been (languishing himsMf once more. It appears that two coal scuttles issued to Judge Fcnton became unserviceable and were consigned lo the dust heap. Not shown in tlv- next return Colonel Gorton came down upon Judge Fenton " like a wolf on the fold." The scntt'es had been issued to the Judge ; he was respous bY tor them, and he had no right whatever to " expend " them on dust heaps. In consequence, of this, Judge Fenton had the scuttles fished out from their unsavory repository, packed them up earefullv, addressed the valuable package to the Native Minister, and forwnrde<\ t with a bil 1 of lading by steamer. The expense of the correspondence, freight, and • ther charges upon these scuttles, has been about twenty times their value as old iron. And it is to look after such matters asthe~e that Colonel Gorton is paid several hundred pounds per annum. — Post. The present bells of the Cologne Cathedral, which were east as early as any others in to uv'dlle of the fifteenth century, weigh—one 12,000 I bs, the other 22,4-OOlbs. The Kaisergloeke, which will shortly be cast, will he the largest swinging bell in the world ; for those at Pekin and Moscow which are larger, are fixed bells. The diameter on the lower rim will be 13ft, the height being 17ft, nnd weight 50,0001b5. The following' are the weights of some of the largest bells in Europe .—Vienna. 36.0001b5; St Peter (KomeV 3S,OOOIbs; Notre Dame de Paris, 34,0001b5; " Big Ben," 32.3401b* ; and Erfurt, 27,936!b5. Aecording to the German papers, the Emperor has made a "magnificent and truly imperial - gift" by sending 22 French guns from the Strasburg Park to be. molten into the " Kaiserglocke," which is to hang in the South campanile. The weight of these guns is 500 cwt. valued at £3740. Take the external (M t) from Majesty and wlaat *ie it? "-A Jevt; -

At MuiJhtano, before Baron Brarawell, a young <o!di«r named Bradford, aged 10, ha» been indicted for the murder of another soldier named Doriohuc, at Dover, on 21at May lust. Donohue wa-j in the same company with the prisoner, and they slept in the same room. On tho night of the murder they j wore, with other soldier*, preparing to go to bed. j Tho prisoner was noisy arid abusive, and the deceased j complained to t.V.o corporal, who rebuked tho prisoner j and threatened to confine him. The prisoner afterwards renewed hi* abuse and displayed much illfeeling against the deceased. When the men were all \n bed and the lights out, he took down hie | bayonet, and going to 'Donohue'a bod, -tabbed him in ! the abdomen, and in twenty minntei the unfortunate ! man was dead. Baron Bramwell pointed out that ■ if the "]\n-y were satisfied that the act of wounding : was wilful, then, however painful it might be in the fiisi-;of a mere youth, it would be their duty to convict the prisoner of the crime of murder. The jury found a verd-et of wilful murder, but several of their number wirsl e<l to recommend the pr soner to mercy on account of his youth. Sentence of death was then pronounced. Thikjlh and Livingstone.—Under this head tho Lα 'cot writes: —'"Whom the goda l<.ve die yoing' roc fives no confirmation from the two men who are probably most admired, reverenced, or talked of at present. Thiers and Livingstone, the one beyond the other a little short of the term of years allowed to man by the Psalmist, are striking examples of what wo have more I'ia.n once maintaine-i —the life-pro-k>nv;ing power of keen mental occupation and successful enterprise. The witty and accomplished author of the Hvcriib of Lnnr/ L'fe sees most chance for longevity in the 'Still-l'cbcn' of the country, with its gentle Iforatian enjoyments, moral and intellectual. We doubt this view. Hermits arc not long-lived, and if country gentlemen survive the threescore yearn and ten, it is by a mode of life precisely the reverse oft'ic lounging'dilettante. Town-life stimulates the brain and nervous system —the reservoir of vitality— fur more than rural, as is seen in the muck rarer occurrence of idiocy or imbecility in tho gamin of the busy street than in the child of the torpid village. And as with the child so with the man. Providence seems wisely to have ordained that life should be prolonged in proportion to the value of ita possessor as a man and a citizen."

ft was a young woman, with a* many white muslin flounces round her, as the planet Saturn has She gave the music stool a twirl or two, and lluflforl on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin, Then sho pushed up her cult's as if she wore going to fight for the champion's belt. Then she worked her wrists and hands t> limber 'em, I suppose, and spread out her finfers till they looked as though they would pretty much cover the'key-board, from the growling end to the little apui-aky one. Then those hands of hers made a jump at the keys as if they were a couple of tigers coin ng down on a flock of black and white sheep, and the piano gave a howl as if its tail had been (rod on. Dead stop—.so still you could hear your hair growing. Then another jump, and another howl, a* if° the piano had two tails, an 1 you trod on both of 'ein at once, and a clatter and scramble and string of jumps, up and down, buek and forward, one hand over the other, a stampedo of rats and mice, more than anything I eall music.— Court Journal. Sotne'Engliah ironworkers, who have been employed at Pittsbiirg, art; going home to Staffordshire. They find that, they cannot live as well here as there, despite the higher money wages. — Chicago Tribune.