MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, 13 January 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr Vogel, in his speech at the Dunedin High School, snid — " [ hare been spanking of inte lectml acquirement*, but there is to be a< quired in the schoosboy's career anot her most useful brunch — I call it knowledge, for that is Hie be 4 mime — Wiiicli is eminently u-eful in after 1 fe. If I were to describe it in one word it might se>*m as if I weie nttnc'nng 100 much importance to it, and perhaps the convention-il meaning attached to it is not sufficient to meet its full menning. You will find in nfter life that mere knowledge often does not obtain its real r wnrds and merits if unaseocmted with a pleasing manner, and I am one of those who believe that a schoolboy's education is not complete if, besides a large knowledge acquired, it does not carry a pleading find genial manner. Now that is a tiling I m«y be told cannot bo learned. It may be said that you cannot have ael aw to teac'i manners. If you had, no doubt mann-ra would degenerate into mere affectation ; but wi it I mean to describe as manner is that self-respect which teaches us to feel nnd know that we have thoughts and aspirations to be proiifl of Self respect teacliea 113 a pertain amount of selfassertion, but not that amount o r ("elf-ni-ertion which has no res ect ft r the fe. 1 np», and no defi-renoe to the opinions of others Depend upon it that a genial m inner — which after all is an e\i erce of a good heart an r l good feeling, an evidence of satisfaction *ith one's self and of a desire to be pleasant towards other*— is preeminently useful in evert stngr of 1 fe, nnd should dlwhts be joined with the pursuit of absolute knowledge* Know Mge is said to be power but depend upon it knowledge combined with a pleading manner is still lan:er power. I >ay th's much beeau-e I believe one of the great means of acquiring a pleasing manner 11 a ■ urit nf (I scinline " We 1 .mt'ientica'el in*tnnce§ of poisoning resulting from wraung fibru s coloured by some of the dye* in common use are by no me.mi unusual. An highly intelligent gentlemen, 13. P , Esq ,of Byfield, Was*., called a few weeks neo to consult us regarding i.U own case, which was of so serious a nature as to cause much alarm, not only to himself but. to his family. He had a lew days previous purchased some new undershirts of cotton, colored with various tints, among tnluc'i aniline red predominated. In a short time after putting on the garment, a peculiar eruption of an irritating nature appeared on the portion of the brtdv covered bv the cloth. The effi cts were not merely local, but to a considerable extent constitutional, pain and uneasiness being experienced in the b'»i k iitul lower extremities In proof that the eruption was caused bv the dvc colors, it may be «tatnd that a portion of the garment under the 11 per part of the chest »ih lined with linen on the under side ; and wherever this came in contact with the skm, no eruption or redness appeaied. 'J he gentleman had worn cotton stockines. upon tlio upper portion of which Ibere was woven in the- fabric a n now line of red. Beneath this band if red, aromd the lep, appeared a corresponding band of irritated skin after weuiing the ho*e one day. The poisonrus influence of the dye colors in t\m onse cannot be rti-puted. It i* not probable that the number of person* is large who posses* such idiosvnciacies of constitution as to be easily poisoned h\ d\e colors, but that there are «ome does not admit of a doubt. — Boxton Journal of Chemistry. Printers have more than n, common interest in Dr Kenealv The name of the learned gentleman, famous as it is, has n. higher title to fame even than nis defence of the retnirknhle m.an who is now on bis trial before the Court of Queen's hench. The Claimant's counsel it a profound scholar, an accomplished poet, an-l a meritorious, author. Two of his published works are respectively entitled "Poems nnd Translations" and " a New Pan'omime," both of which have been favourably criticised. The transl itinns are most remarkable as evidence of the wide and varied learning of the author. They are piitly from foreign tongues into English, partly from English into other tongues. Th> foinier include ren lerings from the Ore k, Latin, Swedish, D.inish, Spanish, Magyar, Italian, French. German. I'ortu gese. Irish, Guipuzcoan, Breton, Arabic, Bengali, and Persian. I> addition to these transl itions the books of poem* absolnte'y hristle witii type of a^unwontad cha acter, such a3 Peisian. In the Ifmt pages "are Himlostanee Birney Brallagan finds himself rebcusing his L>\ea in G'B^k, in cnmpanv wi h the King of the Cannibal Isl.indg, while, in return, I iah typogrApbival characters are used as a mudiuia fur some choice poetry, shirintf the honour wit li German black-lettet, in which a voision ot the bime lines are printed. "On the whole," an one of hk eritios grace full\ observes, " 1 rcruaikable book, and the work of amost rtm.ukablt) man." The Times of India »ay» , that Miss Poueon hat been offeiod the appointment of uiii^ut to her f»tUfr, tilt; Government antronouer.