MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 270, 3 February 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Whon ii woman has a hon to driv<» into the coop, *he take.* hold ot her hoon» with both hand*, and shauos them quietly toward* tho delinauent. »nd sivy», ' B'iew there !' The hen t&^ca one look nt thoohjm-t, to convince hmelf that it's a womnn, an I then ttalhi majestically into the coop, in perfect dißgmt of thp sex. A man don't do that way. He corn out ot door* and *ayt, 'It it ainpular nobody in thia homo car. drivo a hen btttr*jtelf.' And, picking up & itiek of wood, hurls it at the offending bipod, and observes, ' Got in thorp, you thief! * Tlie hon immediately lo«es he:* roason, nnd daskes to tho opposite sido of the yard. The m&n (.trnightvMiy dneho-> nftiT her. She coined back again with her held down, her wing* out, and folio wt-H by an aitortment of «toTJ-»vood, fruitcans, and ooalclinkert, with a much pudin? «nd very irnd man in tho roar. Ti>en thy skims up on tho itoop, aiid under tho barn, nnd orcr a fence or two, an 1 around the hou^e, and back a£jnin to the coop, all the while talking a« on,!v a.i oicito 1 hen can tr».k, r..id ill tluwliile followed by things coin on ent fjr handling, and by a man whoso coat is on the f utrhii^k, and whoso hut is on the jfround, and who p pprspinti-Mi anl profinity appears to ha\ono llnnL By this timo the cthur bo.'^ hare coir.o out t<y Inlke n hand in the flebile, iU'l ho)p to do igo tho missiles — and the mrm aaya tliat trerj hrn on the pliico shall bo solfl m the morning, nnd pals on bit rlutigH and «or« down the street, nnd the woman -lona li**r hoops, ami utta o\ary one of thoxo lions hou»cd nnd contented in two xmmueo, and tho only sound heird o i tbo |,r«mi»oH id tlic hßiv^tnnj; of tha oldi'sl Lr>v us ho menda tho broken pickots. An cronomii'nl lowan hlio had hn.i a toothache, determined to reniovo Ins tooth m the Incltun faihion. Accordinuh, he bent down a sapling in the woodi, laj down himself, an l &'lr hod a etont 00-d to lis tooth »nd tha Hipimj T!'t>i 111 1 touched the ipring. and the next he knew ho Li pimi fd <nei a r.roro of 'ihont forty small trees, and wa-itrvma t 1 Ret -nl o» a s^mll jioi.U that he happened to

On November 10 u tar** merchant v^sel win & iiv n runninglor Kmjjstown Hirbour unier iull sa 1. Ai the approached it w ib observed that aho «as on fire, and no effort was JPing mid* by the crew, to »hortaß.S'iiL Tie haibjur was crowded mt\ «UhS«bjunJ *ci* Is* and t o eonstarn »tion created by t'» anTwwc/f thu burning ship wa» intens.\ Bjtb anchors wewiW gva* she entered tin- n&rooar, but tljej failed to ofttch, ondf theressol drifted. S'ie proved t-> ba the Nang [yoiv, an iron ship, bound from Calcutta to Liverpool with a curgu of cotton, jute, and saltpetre Slip had taken firn four days previously, and her comm.jtnd^r tried to malce forffiljheul, but owing to tlifi heavy gale he had to. run for Kingntown. The crew were so. exhausted in their efforts in keeping the fire under that they w«re unable to take in sail. T io ship drifted towards a heavily laden aehoon r anJ «-M-uck her with tremendous force, ami af'<-r a few lurches the •choonor sank. T«n« crew m>i'l th mselve* ty jw npins? rito tho rigging of the Nmgpoie. Coiitni-una n i c/iii'e, iiriu next came into coll mi >n with the schooner P lot ol Wedo<d, and in a few moments reduced li r to a uieck. D' fting farther, tho burning s'np struc'i the sloop Echo, carrying away her moo ■ mr , and th»> cip' im w'm r-;i ond'"k, wad blown overb iarl an! dr.iw.ied c r<i*> u^'it m - c c ula leuch him. Tho sloop was dr va "n U>>> i.ckioi t e tne< kwater, and became a total wreck. IW tmw c i !i -i >ne c"<" Kt 'l ihe process of the Naogpore, .md she- n as ultimately brought to opposite the Royal Irish tfacht Club House. The men of the revenue cruisers Fanny cud Victoria were then sent on boird, but it wa* evident there was no hope of saving the vessel, and, acting on the suggestion of the chief of the fire blende, the guns of the Victoria and Panny Were brought to hear, and the ship was speedily sunk. T>e fire-engines arrived from Dublin, a distance of seTen miles in 25 minutes after tha alarm was given, but owing to the position of the "*s-el they were uwlmj. The body of the captain of the •1 > >p ha* b en rcoo t ed. Professor Rutlurf.rJ, in Nature, gives an encouragir q account of the progie3s of p'tysiolo.; cai study in the schools at home. He says :— ' We anticipate great benefit to tlie community, not only from an advance of phyßiology, but from n diffus on of a knowledge of its leading lact» iraongst the people. Tins ia now bi ing carr ed out in our schools on a scale which is annually increasing. Thanks to the efforts of Huxley, the principles of physiology are now presented in a singularly palatable form to the minds of the young. The instruction communicated does not consist of technical terms and numbers, but in the elucidation of the prn.cipal events which happen witbin our bodies, together with an explanation ot" tho tnatment winch they most, receive in. order to be maintained in health. Considering how much miy be accomplished by those bodies of ours, it they be rightly attended to an 1 rightly used, it seems to be a most desirable thing that the possessor of the tody should know semethnig about its mechanism, not onl} because such knowledge affords htm much material for suggestive thought — not only because it » excellent mental training to endeavour to understand the why and the wherefore of the bodily actions, but also bbciiuie he may greatly profit from a knowledge of the conditions of health. A thorough adoption of Hygienic measurte — in other word's, of measures which are necessary to preserve individuals in the highest stat« of heal.h— cannot be hoped for until a knowledge of fundamental physiological principles finds its way into every family. Th.s country has taken ihe lead in the attempt to ditluße a sound knowledge of physiological favtt and principles among the people, and we may fairly anticipate that this will contnbuie not a little to enable her to maintain her" hiuh rank amongst nations ; for every step which is calculated to improve the physiological state of the individual inu6t inevitably tontribute to make the nation successful in tue geneial struggle for existence '" At the Oroydon County Court, on Nov. 3, Mr H. J Stoner delivered an impoUant judgment, which decides several very important points as to the righUof married women in respect to their earnings and property. The claimant, Mr* Laporte, claimed under the Married Women's Pioperty Act 1870, for property in which her earning*, as a lodging-hotiso keeper, had been invested by her, and winch had been seized in execution of judgments which had been obtained. Mr Stoner held that the secoud section oi t'.ie Act, which relate* to ' any money or property so acquired by a married woman through the exercise ot any literiiry, artistic, or scientific skill,' not merely restricts the moncj or pioperty in quest i n to such as m«y be acquired after tin- pas.-mg ot l\e Act (either separately from or jointly with l>er hu-bar.d), but that it i* to be further restricted to n>om!\ a qu red b,) hir separately from her husband. With regaid to tK- furniture, ho could see no reasou why it should not be included in tho term ' investment ' m legal con«tructton. As to the operation of the first section with regji.l to auch investment, he held th«t furniture was tested in bet hi luw, end was not mbject to her husband's debts. As »egnids £20 winch the claimant had received from her fistf a, «.nd i<u! out in furm'ure, the money not being earning or wage-- , it did not,, fall witbin the Act, and judgment tor thot amount would be in favour of the ere Itora, and f< r the balance in favour of the claimant. Mr Stoner called atli ntii-n to the extninely cnreles* manner in whwft the Act uv dinvvn, jiikJ also to the gH*»tJ»»vd«lup. imposed upon vt*dito>«, b,v the.Act If it umy be aasunud thut t he conMiinptioh.of paper aiforda a rough criterion oi the i. U'lltciual ilntus oi & countvj, stmtwtie* re<«ntly elaborattd b\ Di tybm s Rudii>, of Vienna, .are particularly inteieetr £. On an averu»e, he v\yfi, erery Russian uses one pound of paper annually. Spam uses one pound per individual , Aiexiuo, witi' C<ntial America, two pounds- nnd a half. In Italy and Austna the annual consumption is three poundt and a hail ; vi Bniwh 'America, five pounds- and a half Fiance Uses seven pounds and % half ; Germany, right pound* ; the United Statts ten pounds nn«l a q«nrtcr ; while G'eat Britain conßiimes elt yen pounds and a half, throughout the vor'd I^r Bud»l * ttimates the yearly production of pavers of aii k'nds — m-i ■». o*' hemp, wool, cotton, flax, straw, jute, aid the Bbiea oi tt, ai >o, rice, &c. — *t about 1800 million pounds. Oi this oi < Imi is for printing, one-sixth for writing purposes, and the lemaining third includes eTr.ry other description For the production of the total 1800 millions there are 39G0 factories, affording employment to 90,000 male and 180 000 lemHle operative*, besides which there are 100,000 work ng people occupied in collecting and sortirg tags. At prtstnl the United States nnpon only three million pounds, their own manufactories turning out obout 374 millions. One of the oldest and best ol the Victo, ian cricketers received an unusual presentation lately. Every Victorian has heard of Dan Sweeney, the hero of a hundred riphts, who has captained Ballarat trams to victory for ever so many years. In one of the mutches for plnces among the twenty-two to play against the All Eiglam', S^erney wei.t in vid was bowled for a duck's egg, which has nut hnppencd to him since he has been connected with Ballarat The club could not allow such an extraordinary event to pass unnoticed, and a leather medal, about 8 inches in diameter, and bearing the following inscription, was presenled to him in the afternoon :— Presented to Dan Sweeney, our mmnstay, in commemoration of his gn.nd score in the match, first Kleven v. next Eighteen, Nuv. 29, 1873" Round the nm are the words. " May hti shadow and score never grow less. Medal struck t)eo 1, 1878." Mr Sweeney made a suitable acknowledgment. We learn from a late number of the Melbourne Age that about 100 of tho emphes of Mr Learmouth, of Ercildoun, met for the purpose of'bidding farewell to Mr Learmouth nnd family Several presents were made to Mr and Vrs Learmouth, on behalf of the male servants. Mr John Hether, who has been in the employ as shepherd for upwards of thirty years, presented Mr Learmouth with su elegant silver double inkstand, supplied as a token o esteem and remembrance. The testimonial, which was subscribed by the em plot is, bore the following m-cription : — ' A souvenir from the employes on the Ercildoun E-tate to S. Livingstone Learmouth, 20th November, 1873' The company snt down to a dinuer provided for the occasion, and after it had been done every justice to, each person «n presented with an appropriate gift, each viirymg in make or texture in proportion to the ages and sexes of the vauous recipients. An extraordinary project has been submitted to the United States' Senate Transportation Committee by Mr Cheesebrough, of New York, who proposes to keep the Erie Canal open all wmrer by means of artificial beat. His plan consists in running hot wa'er pipes on each side and along its entire length, floating the pipes a little below theeuif«ce, nnd oupplying steam from boilers pla<ed at half a mile apart It hat b°e'n found, he tayi», that the bent obtained irom one ton of coal, properly applied to the suiface water of a canal 70 feet wide and half a mile long, will prevent roneelation (or one day. In the winter (of the State of IN'ew Yoik) there ar? not more than 60 full dajs on winch the tem| t laturo i* below the freezing po nt. On this basis of nihuliitmn, the Ene Cans', 850 miles long, voi'kl nqune 42X10 tirs per annum, but double it and mil it li ur lon-, or e\e> t i^ht tons per mila pc annum, and even then the tost is as nothing to the magnitude of the results obtained. Mark Twain cannot '•■ > pre»t his humour even under the most un humorous circumstances. He writes to the JRovil Humane Society, recommending for re«aid the c ptain and some, of tl c crew of a ship on board which he wu« a j ast-t-n-gcr, for lescuijUg some jailors fiom a wreck, and concludes w ith the following obeervntions :—": — " If I have been of uny service towards rescuing these nine shipwrecked humnn beings bj staud ; >ig aroumi the deck in a funou* stoim, without any umbrella, keeping an e>c on things, and seeing that they were done right, and jelling wlieiie\er a choer iccmed to bo the important thing, I am glad, and I am tatisficd. I »sk no reward. I would uo it again under the bavae circumstances." Notwithstanding no mention was made in the Empeior's speech of a Bill to betul'iriilttd to the Piuf-ian Parliament | making chil marriage obligatory, peibon..l fiitm.s of Dr Falck, the Cultus Minister, assiue the public that fcuch a measuie is not only piojected, hut actually diciwn up for proposition. Ihe ita-on why the Prussian Go\eirimuit displays tonje hu-'W<i, u m bihi{.inp it fotuaid is that in his youth Pnu<.<; i lMnTek violently dec jnuuri agaiUbtuul inairi.igc, and it ib fearetl that hia antagoniststs will look up , l)]^ fciui'i bpcn In - ami quote them againat him.

Wo have retired a copy of a Terr tueful cbmrt, prepared by Mr W K. lit. tt, V T1.8., bii 1 con' nning plain directions what to cl-» in sasoaot p...--iin,j. <»r-owning, «ccident, and the like , until mescal .ud dime*. I tarte'of » •ronlar con•truotiou iuvc v > «su ,i -e% iou»ly con itrn*ted, »nd some of them are hichh n'mile, butthitnfM. Ilvctt differ*! iom all othera m n. ng mt.-ely divest.-d ..f i. c».i..orii««. so t •it it 11 intelhpbl. to unv -xrion wh> car. nd \nd uii.u)^ k <»d common wcr Is.. I.k- ml iop «■£*." it »i 'lino ail jiuuuld be patted on cwrao-mrd, an hum; >p co-.spiejou,!v «*»d loosely, ready t« send on 1 ia-» mou.ent, u. 0011:11 r) »< l.ools or vestries, dock or iail«vaj office, fa<- ories, and private hou«es ; and he says that its fir*t oh,ect. ia to prevent the : frequent and, perhaps, fatal mistakes 1 it > which, before the a-riviil of a doctor, th 6 inexperienced are apt to fall; and that its second object, in ca-es where life may dopend on an i n no 1 at* remedy, is to point out such as are mo3t usually at hand. The emergencies enumerated include hanging, drowning, stillbirth, suffocation from foul air, lightning stroke, injuiy from intense- cold, sunstroke, choking, bleeding at the no«, broken bones, severe wounds, burns and scalds, Ac, and the eiFecU of almost all common poisons — among which carbolic acid, which has lately proved fatal to several persona, receives full notice. The directions given are throughout sound and trustworthy, and are calculated to renJer good service on the occasions to which they refer. The chart is published by Tuibner and Co, and is sold for the bwfit ofthe Gloueester*hire Eve Institution.— Times The. f llowing story gives a good idea of the drinking stylo ofthe last century. This was what our grandfather* took humour. Two young English nobleman were paying a visit to Lord Panmiire, at Brnclnn Castle. Ono day ho wrote, a letter to Piinlathie, a tenant of his, to come and dine with him, and at the same time he ordered linn to bring a sum of money. Punlathie was aware when he received the order that something was to be done. After dinner Lord Panmure gave the first toast, which was, 'All hats in the fire, or £20 on the table. Four hats were immediately in the fire. One of the English noblemen gave the next toust, ' All coats in tht fire, or £80 on the table." Four coats were committed to the flames. The other English nobleman gave the next toast, • AH boots in the fire, or £100 on the table.' The whole of the boots were committed to the flames. Panlathie's toast, ranie next, which was, 'Two fora»teeth in the fire, or £200 on the table,' when Paulathie pulled his teeth out and I threw them in the fire. Tlie English noblemen looked I amazed. He had false teeth unknown to them, and PanKathie went home without hat, coat, or boots, but witli £600 in his pocket. Lord Panmure thought much of his tenant after that. ' in tho Atutralatian, says : — • By a late P. and O. steamer a gentleman not altogether unknown in the colonies took his departure from Southampton. Through fiome curious lapse of memory be had forgotten hii own name, and being a person of ready adaptability to circumstances, he took the first that came handy, and called himsell Cavanagh. He wasn't at ull a bashful uvin uud after a few day§ at sea he introduced himself to Sir Andrew Cl«Jke (once our Surveyor-General), who was on his way to Lis Governorship of the Straits Settlements. 'You probably,' •aid tbe pseudonymous travellei, 'Knew my father, Mr Cavanagh of the Melbourne Morning Herald V 'Oh yes,' Sir Andrew, ' I remember him very well. How is Mrs ? ' • Mrs Major ! I don't remember having had the pleasuie of her acquaintance.' 'Not know her? ' said Sir Andrew. 'Why, she is your own sister!' The impostor thus accidentally detected, had ample opportunity for resrospection the rest of the voyage. No one spoke to him.' In the city of Cotoohin (Hindostan) and iti neighborhood live nearly 2000 coloured Jews. They are not quite so dark skinned as the Ethiopian negroes. They are Israelites in the full sense of tbe word, and faithfully worship the God of their ancestors. According to their own statement their origin is as follows : — The conquest, of a portion of the East Indies by the Euiopeans opened to tho commercial world the road" to unlimited wealth, and the prospect of getting rich attracted adventurers from all parts of the world. Among these were many young Israelites from Bagdad, Bnssora. and Yemen, who came to seek their fortune. After establishing tnemselves they purchased female slaves from the natives — a number of whom married their masters after they were converted, and from theso intermarriages tbe present population of Cotochin is descended. But on of their color they are under a ban ; neither tho plsraelite of Bagdad nor the* white Jew of their own locality will intermarr/ or otherwise associate with them. Jonah's whale h«s been the cause of a very lively incident in Ihe Aoademy of Science* of Brussels, which has greatly exercised the political press of Belgium. M. yon Brneden, the eminent zoologist, bad pointed out in the course of an address to tho Academy, that the tradition which describes the dolphin as bringing to the shore human bodies wth which it meets' is very ancient- and widely spread, and that it bore resemblance to " tlie fable of Jonah." This inadvertent intimation owthe part of the eminent zoologist that he doubted whether a human body swallowed bv a whale would be itt * foo£ condition fehree-tW» *ftenmtd*tti»*, rawed a tbeokfjcal rtorm. 1W ot the Catholic TJnrvefiitJ of Lauvaio demanded in a violent letter that the Academy should formally censure Si. yon Beneden, and ' the having, with one dissentient, refused to do so, the ™'wo professors of Louvjiin have sent in their resignation. The debate has excited great interest and very various comment. A stirring sermon, was preached at St James' Church, Notting Hill, the other Sunday: — "The subject was 'Death.' Gradually, and undoubtedly fluently, he had nearly disposed of every inrinber of different families, when a lady, who ap eared to be a widow, about 60 or 70 years of age, went into hystoncs. She fainted, and was with difficulty removed into the vestry by three or four gentlemen, some churc'i burdens, and othera, including the curate in his •urn'ioe, daring which the vioar ceased for a few moments, then continued his sermon. The lady slightly recovered, an<l no doubt on the sight of a man in white was much ter_rifled. S'ie exclaimed, ' I cannot bear this.' The excessive caused another recent widow lady much suffering. Tnen a young married lady, who might hnve lost a dear child, streamed, fainted, fell in the middle aisle, and was also earned into the vestry, after which the service was obliged to be close*!, otherwise there is no doubt there wonld have been some danger of an accident occurring, as the peojlo had risen from their seats and were getting very eteitel " Sjne important experiments as to the effects of the beverages popularly known as " bitter*," have recently, been described by Dr Decaisne, of Paris. He finds that while tlie co 1 position of tfiese beverages is not uniform, they generally contain eitner vermouth or absinthe, in combination with the inferior qualities of alcohol. Concerning the effect of the essential oil of absinthe on organism, he finds thnt. quantity for quantity, a few drops of it dropped into a vessel of water containing fishes destroy life sooner than prusnic acid. He. adduces the evidence of various and careful experiments to shew that vermouth and absinthe produce epilepsy in animals, and believes that epileptic fits in many cases supervene from excessive drinking of bitters. A horrible murder was committed in Limerick on Nov. 10. Mr Corbett,t t, a music-seller, of George street, was dining oute ffcid on Ins return found some papers scattered about the 71 all. His suspicion being aroused, he proceeded to the kitchen to look for his servant, Ellen Sexto ■, whom he found lying in the area quite dead, with her throat cut from ear to ear. About £5 in silver was carried away. The Limerick police have arrested a woman, named Maenwiarn, (who preceded Sexton in the service of Mr Corbett), together with a. man named Mo'loy, on suspicion of the murder Stains of blood are stated to have been discovered on Macnamara's dress. A logician and a swimmer, says a Persian story, were in a boat toge her. Said the logician to the swimmer, ' Hate you ever learned logic?' 'I never heard the name before,' wns the reply. • Ala« 1' ssid the logician, 'then half your life has been drowned in ignorance!' Just then a jqiifill came up Suys the swimmer to logician, ' Have •you over learned anything of swimming?' 'Nothing but logic,' was the reply. 'Alas!' said the swimmer, 'then the wbolt* of your life is drowned. 1 A lady took )/er son, of $ome five years, to chimm. After the minister had been preaching about half an hour the little fellow grew tleepy and began to nod. 1h» mother roused !>>)» i»to attention several times by pushing ; but as it seemed a hopeless oust, she concluded to let him sleep \indisturbed. After a wi»l» t»» little fellow bud his nap Dut, and saw tlio minister still holding forth. Hi> looked up iv In* mother's face and immediately asked, " Mother, is this Sunday night, or is it next Sunday night?" The following tender missive wk picked up in the ladies' sitting-room at a railroad depot : — " Dear Charles, do you love me a-» much a* you did *t a quarter to twelve last night? Say you do, dearest, and it will give spirit to go down and tackle those cold beans left ovtr from yesterday." The Fonda Democrat is responsible for the above paragraph. Probably by next week Mr Loadwick will be prepared to give Charles's answer, wnich will undoubtedly run ion ewhat in this wuu: — "Dear Susan, I do. Tackle them beans." The Prairie Farmer say* :— A recently patented improvein d< vices for musical inatrnction consist* of m. blackboard on which are p imted, in large characters, the nmal notes of the musical scale. In tbe centre of each note is *. rui.ve.ible key, which roimects behind the board with an organ. The arrangement is auch that when the teacher, with rod in hand, points out a vote dud touches itr centie, the organ sounds tLe cerresponrliag tone, and thus both eye and ear arc instructed. Dr de Breyne highly recommends tbe following treatment in L' Union Pharmaceutiqui : — flydrate of lime (newly precipatod), forty-live grains; glycerine, tive ounce*; fc chloric ether, forty-five drops. It makes up a transparent, colourless liquid, with an agreeable odour, aud *u alkaline reaction, according to the dose of hydrate of lime. It caima tlie puin, aui prevent* or abates inflammation. Tim settles of Blue^kiu (Otago) ha™ formed a Company, with a capital 6f £400, in 80 shares of £5 each, in order to purchase tucl bring from England a first-claw draught enlm boii>e

I A Southern editor rarely ventures mto his composi ova I room, and when obliged to do st>, arms himself to the teeth and leaves on Ins desk ai- ob t.unry , .me. of bin «p\t appropriate to the event pf a AiuMm <U itli. 1m t ou u>k v>hy? Hib handwriting ia such u% 10, .ivae v o c- je iro'U llioso by tbo sweat of whose brow it if «: ci ; >b- •• d 'id st)» up The following udverfi-^m-aj' "P w >nd,i 'i nor nL 1 f3ue nt the Tablet.— 'The Tints -A .ouhli > \ n.-t will si_ r Ma** once a week for the 'mum -on < 1 any >ne vrho will i« •end him the iftna* ue« ipu w *co k' 1 h:i> i. on the day 0/ publication. Addrcis, Q <»*«i^ Q.au«ni JhLlet o'll *.' Jack and Gill were coming ''loftii tin? hill tl c ot'ier ujorjing, *hen Gill flopped heavily ou her. back. Sa.vn Jack, 'Now yoa mind me of a goose.' 'Why ? ' inquired IGhH: 1 Because 1 was the exasperating reply, 'you've got down- on your buck.' The acreage of Jbarley gr.»n n m t'te northern diatrtoLiof Cantfrbury this year, and the Mul eaf nnaled yield in bushels are reapeatiTcly (aays tlie LytteUon, Times ol Janun'y 16j 1504 acres anl 33,315 buain-ls. Mi* William Henry Husking, L.S. A., of Hoss, New ZeaLind, has been admit. cd a member of the Bjyal C/'oltege ot Snrgeona of England. It is Micl th*t one-third of the present Parliament of, Canada, cou=L»ting of 200 members, are now or havfS been editors of new»paperi . ' ' The cutting of early-sown oats baa commenced on the Tokomairiro Plain, OUgo.