ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A CHURCH.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 138, 27 March 1873, Page 3

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A CHURCH.

The following method is strongly rccommeuded for keeping ripe grapes tresli for a considerable length of time. Let tin- gr.ipes be well ripened, for tins is greatly important to their long-keeping, and then having a good dry well-ven-tilated fruit or seed room, procure soi no ordinary soda-water bottles, one lor each bunch, which fin in a rack of someway at an angle of 45 deg , so that the n eck of the bottles may pvoject Borne little way from the sb elf or rack-. Fill those bottles with clear water, and place a. little piece of charcoal, in each. Cntjour grapei, leaving six inches or moro ef wood at cither end , place the end of eacli spur, with tho bunch on, into the neck of tho botl les one in each, and fix them bo aa to keep them from moving with a piece of cork. Koep tho temperature ot the room af. about 40 deg. Fahrenheit with a dry atmosphere, and as much as poisiDlo in the dark, — in fact, in such a condition 84s is most Uvorablo to the keeping of applos and pears. Ex.-nn ino thorn frequently, as you would if tbey were on t'lo vm< s. Willriponed grapeis u -.av to kept &"

The Amatkcr Moucnfh -Mr L was a gentleiv.au of independent fortune, which lie exhausted m tlio course of a fow years in gratifying one of the odJwt whims thut- could ever enter the inuid ot a rational being Ilia sole enjoyment was the attending of funeral*. When he heard of the death of any great man through the channel of the papers he immediately uinde the whole cucuit of the town to know who had the job, and then prepared to accompany it He had often been to York and the confines of Scotland to be present at the interment of a nobleman or gentleman ■ and iv this respect lie- was no way biassed by party or religion ; it was the »anio to him it ho wus Whig or Tory, out or in ; whether a Human Catholic or a Protestant, a Jew or a Presbyterian, they equally commanded his respect and attention, provided the funeral was magnificent. His highest ambition was to obtain one of the little escutcheon I*,1 *, which he considered as bo many trophies of his glory, ait i being known to most of the undertakers, lie was seldom or ever rehisod this request. .Being eutirely unatteutive to his own affairs, he found himself m a state of distress when he did not expect it ; yet, reduced to almost the want of the common necessaries of life, his pa^ion for death-hunting still prevailed, and when he cor Id not ride he walked on <oot Hut whenever the journey was any length ho bribed tho hearse-driver to let him be an inside passeugcr withthocornsc In this doleful state hi- traicrsed England mote tnan once ; but unfortunately fell a martyr, at leugtli, to his strange whim. Being an inside passenger on one of these solemn occasions, in very hot weather, and there being no air hole, aa there unusually is, in the hearse, when they took out the corpse they found poor Mr. Ldeed ftotn suffocation. Professor Davidson, of the Utiited Btates Coast Survey, is experimenting near Snmmit Station, on the Sierra Nevada, at an elevation of 7200 feet above the sea, to determine the relative importance of great and small altitudes in the vie of the telescope for investigations of physical astronomy. Tt is understood that lie has been completely successful, and will recommend a spot about 10,000 feet above tho sea, near the line of tho Central Paciflc Eailroad, from which it can be readily reached by a short and easily-constructed waggon road. Professor Young, of Dartmouth College, has been experimenting with larger instruments at Sherman, on the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 8242 feet above the sea. The results of these observetions will be presented in reports that will probably lead to tho placing of tho 27-inch rofractor at one of these elevations. The lenses for these telescopes are being ground by Messrs Clark, of Cambric! goport, Mass., for tho United States Government, at an expense of £50,000. With such a telescope,, and the high magnifying power of which it will admit tho use, there are not tnoro than one or two nights per year on the low Atlantic coast whero it could be used with the highest magnifying powers. On the Sierra, with long freedom from clouds, many more favorable opportunities must exist for observations, and we may look forwerd for marvellous revelations iv physical astronomy.

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