CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1162, 6 December 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

CLIPPINGS.

An Indianopolis special to the Cincinnati Gazette says :— " Last night at 7 o'clock, Herman Roemor, baker, at 104, South Illinois-street, began the feat of drinking 1000 glasses of beer m 1000 consecutive hours. Roemer is to pay 5 cents for each glass as he drinks it, and 41 days 16 hours will be taken up m stowing away the beer. In case he wins, John Bernhardt, pioprietor of Marmouth Hall Saloon, where the drinking is to be done, is to pay for the beer, which will be even an 50 dollars. Thus, if Roemer wins^ he simply gets the beer, and Bernhardt loses m fact only the retail price of the beer, which, by the keg, will probably cost leas than 25 dollars," It is stated m Regal's Garten Zeitung, on the authority of Dr, Bretschneider, physician of the Russian Embassy at Pekin, that the Chinese raise weeping trees by* reversing their extremities. Dr Bretschneidef describes the operation, which he asserts he has himself repeatedly witnessed, as follows : — "To raise weeping trees of sophora japonica they plant two JoiHig seedlings side by side. The tip of one of them is then bent downward and inarched on the base of the other, tip downwards. As soon as the graft has properly taken, the tree that was doubled down is dug up, roots and all, and the roots denuded of the soil, turned uppermost, and the stem attached to the stake m this reversed position. The stem of the tree, which serves as stock, is then cub off at the point of union of. j lhe two, and the roots of the reversed tree from the crown of the artificial tree. In this novel position they require sheltering from the sun until they have formed some branches." In this manner, we are assured by Dr. Bretschneider, the Chinese obtain all their weeping trees. Owing to the small support to the Panama Company, the issue of shares was suspended and the subscriptions paid were returned. Searching for Pharoah's Army. — At a sitting of the French Academy upwards of five years ago, M. de Lesseps stated upon the authority of the reports made by his engineer, that " at the time the Israelites left Egypt under Moses' leadership the ebb and flow of the tide of the Red Sea reached up to the foot of the Saragaim, near Lake Timsah." If this be correct, it foi lows that the spot where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea was" not to the south, but to the north of the present extremity of its northern arm. In his paper, Les Mondes, Abbe Meigne has traced the course of the children of Israel day by day, m accordance with these new data, and he asks the whole Christian world, since the spot is now known where the Egyptians were swallowed up, with " the horse and the rider," chariot, and everything, to subscribe the requisite funds to enable excavations to be made, arid " the. relics of the army overcome by the Almighty Himself to be brought to light." The learned Abbe will undertake the work if he succeeds m getting together 300,000 francs, v because the finding of the remains of Pharoah's army would be a pow erful reason m favor of the truth of the Holy Scriptures." " Will you give me your hand ?' sternly said a country schoolmaster to a girl who hai refused to hold out her hand to be feruled. As she answered not, he tfaid : "Do you refuse to give me your haud V "I must," she sobbed, " unless pa consents." She was pretty, and the old man had a hundred and sixty acres, all paid for and well stocked, :?.nd so there was no difficulty -in adjusting