CAMBRIDGE FARMERS' CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1033, 6 February 1879, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE FARMERS' CLUB.

The monthly meeting was hell at the Club House on Monday ovening last. Present : Messrs G. E. Clark (Vicu-Preside.ut, m the chair), Jas. Ruuciinau, F J. Brooks, J. P. Campbell, W. L. Martyn, aud A. A. Pantliim. Tiie minutes of the last meeting moi-e read and coufi- med. NEW MKMBERB. Messrs Cliarles Snowden, Jarncß Frew, and Joseph Cochrane were balloted for, and elected members of tho Olub. CORRESPONDENCE A letter from Messrs Carpenter ancl Byron, m reference*, to the shipment of American grass seeds, wub referred to the Managing Cora mitteo. A letter from the Secretary of tho Royal Agricultural Society of New Zoaland was read. The discusyiou on it was, however, on tiie motion of Mr Fantham, postponed till ne^b meeting.

fashioned Solomonic method. On a disc of the machme de icate indices were to record, one the exact time of the sound of the spank, the other the exact second the boy howled. The boy was a little suspicious at thiß point of the experiment, and, with his head partly turned, was glaring Bercely at tbe inventor. Mr Edison raised his hand. A piercing howl rent the air, followed by a sharp concussion like the snapping of a musket cap. And, . when we examined the dial plate of the machine, infallible science proudly demonstrated that the boy howled sixty-eight seconds before he waa slapped. The boy went downstairs m three strides, with an injured look upon his tearful t»ce. Mr Edison threw the machine out of the wind.w after the urchin, aud we felt that it was no time bo intrude upon the sorrows of a great soul writhing under a humiiia ing sense ot fail ire. We have never met Mr Edison since, but we have always thought he Oidu'c know much about boys, oi he wjuld know bow utterly unreliable tne best of them would be for a soittuiific experiment. — American Paper,