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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1245, 22 June 1880, Page 2

Here is one of the best of tho recent sayings of Dr. Talmange : When we find a man contemptuous of labour, and acting as though he never worked at all, and as though his ancestors had never worked, we make up our mind that if we go a little farther back in that man's ancestral line, we will run against a scavenger's cart, or upset a soap-boiler's kettle. Bee-stings. — Any absorbent will give relief from bee-stings. But perhaps nothing is more effectual than lean raw meat. The sting of a bee or wasp may be almost instautly relieved by it. More than one-third of all lads of 20 are married m Russia. This accounts for the rapid increase of the population, which is expanding at the rate of one per cent, per annuam, aud at the next census in 1880 is expected to exceed 90,000,000. Watercress — The Lancet has discovered that watercress may be most hurtful, unless it is " scrupulously washed — nothing less than the most painstaking brushing under water cau effectually cleanse it. If this is not done, " the impurities with which cresses may be defiled will probably act as vehicles for the transI mission of parasitic diseases, not merely disgusting, but dangerous." Curing Blindness by Electricity.— Becent American papers report a ca.se of cataract in the human eye having been cured by the application of electricity. A Dr. WUliam B. Neftel, of New York, subjected the patient— an old lady 63 yeais of age, with incipient cataract — to repeated applications of electricity in the neighbourhood of the diseased eye, with tho result that the cataract lias been entirely dissipated. To keep part of a bottle of porter or~ stout quite frenh and brisk. — Put in the cork, and place the bottle upside down in a tu-nbler ov other vessel of water. The i porter or otout will op^u as fre-h t) c ne^l day or any number of day- nfkv f a^ whon iuvrt uucui'lcod. '