CLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1625, 2 December 1882, Page 4

CLEANINGS.

Mvkixg it rathci'j J3ad for Sally.— Unsophisticated bpyYspI iUlllna > P a P :l i g getting vory viclijw|n*B l i nfy?" Mamma— "I don't know..; \ why*-* my child?'' Unsophisticated boy — "Cause he gives me so much money. ' Almost ev,e'ry niouinig aftei breakfast, when Sally is sweeping the pailonr, lit 1 gives, me sixpence to go out to play." Sally leceivud shoit notice to quit. Shakespeare .it fault, —A slukespenan was, reading ' Midsummer Night's Di win ' to tin; bailors ot a ship in w hich he Mas oiOssing the Atl.mtie, and they listened with pleasnie till he eaine to a passage which de-cubes "a mo. maid sitting on a dolphin's b.uk,"' wlk'n an old bait luust out, ''That's nonsense ! A dolplnn\ back ' io as bliaiw at> a ,ia/.or, find i|o met maid could lide one tdl she'd '•addled him. ' A won^-ii vn who biouyht a book showing how to live on > lifteui-cent dinneib and followed lib advice until he got t-o weak fiom the diet that he lost his place, and has, been out oi woik. has <hied the author ot thy book for damages. It this thing keeps on, book-writeis will ha\o to cultivate that habitual regard foi the ti nth which distinguishes newspapu.s paragiaphers. — Philadelphia New s. Hi. was a new member,and when a Congressman got up and doliverod an eulogy on a deceased brother the former indulged in loud laughter. When spoken to about the ineonguity of his hilarity, he innocently replied : "Weil, I didn't know All the Congressional speeches I've been in print were lull of 'laughter' and loud 'laughter' and 'upioaiious laughter,' and as this speech was about as funny as any of 'cm, I thought it was my business to adhere to the custom and bimle out loud." An ceceutne old gentleman who had man ied his* second wite, a hoidenish young crcatuie, enteitaineda party ot gentleman one aftei noon, and was much chagiined by the non-appearance of his giihsh spouse. Upon enquiry ho ascoi tamed that she was in the garden, and thcieupon united his guests to be introduced to her. As they io.se to accept the invitation, Ins son, a lad of fourteen <-\claimed : "Don't do it, dad ! ' "'Why ?" not he asked angrily. •• Because, " lotumed the boy, half apologetically, "ahe's-up a cherry tree." Moss on Rooks. — Moss on shingle roofs may be lemovod by the followin method : — Take a few pails of slacked lime, nccoidinp: to the size of the loof, and tlnow on the loof just befoie a gentle nun, or just after a shower, while the roof is wet, and in a few days the moss w ill all loosen, ami the wind w ill blow it clean oil the roof, leaving the shingles dean and white. The mos.s being of a spongy natuu. holds the moisture seveial day.s which causes the shinglf? to decay, and also causes the roof to leak. The lime also aetsasa piesoivativo' to the shingles. A Tloum-.miok for gi\mg horses a good gup of the &fcreefc luis been do\ ised by Herr Schneider, ot Berlin. The calks 01 studs aie of catachouc instead of n on, and they aic fitted into pockets cast into the inn of the .shoe, which is of malleable cast iron. They are fixed in the pockets by means of iod» ciossiug below the hoof ot the hoi se and bolted exteriorly. For houses with heavy loads to diaw leather maybe substituted for nidiarubber, and in time of host a bhoit screw calk may be added to the fiont of tiie shoe. TJr.rruiNii to the prospects of the cominy hop season, the Nelson Mod says those among local hop -growers who weie foiluiuto enough to hold tlieii last ytwi'b crop have good icason to eongiatulate themselves upon their foiosight oi luck, whiehcvei it may be, as there has been a lomai Lable and almoat unpicccdentcd lisc in the puce of hope. One glower, who had ics-er\ cd between '20 and 30 bales has pistpai ted with the lot at the highly • itisfactoiy piicc of os Id per lb. The accounts liom lilngland ais so disastrous that big puee-j a\e expected to rulo next yeai, and ->ome local buyeis have already .speculated to the extent of purchasing glowing ciops at prices langing as high as l.s lid. With anything like a favour able season, the coming season's hop ciop in the Nelson district .should be woith C lOO, OOO at the \eiy lowest estimate. Asi i,kt committee of the House of Commons lias passed a bill which gives power to the Maiquis ot Bute of constiuct, at his own cost, another dock at Caiditt A\hich "will cost about half a million, will be '2 1001 1 in length and ()001t in width, and a\ ill be so designed <is to afford aeeomodatiun to the laigest eki'-s ot vessels frequenting that poit. It is stated that the late Maiquit, and the present one have expended no less than t'2. 500,000 in t!ie constiuction of docks at (Au did. Tnr use; of tobacco is said to bo unfavorable to longevity, but it is "\cry doubtful whether this asseition is founded on fact. The New York Ili'iald publishes an intciesting account ol i seru sol visits paid by one of its icpoitcisto a laigc number of vciy aged pei sous in that city, alleged to be nonagenaiiiPis and eentenaiians, and w lio figuml as such in the last census H'Luins. ]t seems from tho details given of the habits of these old people that many of them are inveterate smoKcis. One case especially is woith tlio attention oi the auti tobacco associations. It is that of Elizabeth Nolan, one of the alleged " noiuccnaiians " living at 309, East Tlmty-ninth Street. She was, w hen a isited by the rcpoi tcr. too bn&y at Kitchen woik to spend time talking about the insignificant question of her age, but heuleaned fiom her that she was. born in the country of Wicklow, Ireland, and while she has no way of lixing her age, remembc'is the binning of the houses ami the cabins' thatching in the rebellion of 'OS — specially remcnibeiing her own climbing of the laddcis in use by the woikmeu lepaiing the cottages. She has been tluee times widowed, and has had fouitcui oi fifteen children — pieeisely how many she cannot .say. She is a great-grcat-grandmothci. And heie comcs> the lamentable part of the story : " She has been, and is, a most inveterate smoker" and uses a biand of tobacco so strong that her great-giandson, a working man, is made sick by its fumes." This infatuated old woman ought, accoiding to the doctois, to ha\e died more than half, a century ago. Tin: Hor.ie Guards and the Life Guaids htivc never been in action from the Battle of Waterloo to the recent campaign m Egypt. We may here recall then gallant deeds in tho eventful days of Qnatro Bras, Gcmappe, and Waterloo, as shown by their losses as killed and wounded. On Juno l(i, 17, and 18, 1815, tho lsti Life ) Guards lost 83 men; 2nd Life Guards, Io 4; Horse Guaids, 120; Grenadier Guard.", Ist Battalion, 438; 3rd Battalion, 504 : Coldstream Guaids, 2nd Battalion, 308 ; Scots Guards, '2nd Battalion, 2-iG. Total loss of officers and men in the Guards' regiments, 18G0. Tuk reputation of the Black Poll bull is, we know, world-wide, but it is astonishing the keen domand 1 which has sprung up for this breed of late, audit is probable that within the past eightqen ini6nths more than 600 specimens halve been shipped to 'Australia, ' South America, and the United States. The cryiof the United States is still for more Polls; 1 and' it! would seem' thai "if all ultimata of the breed'now 1 in tliia country weie sent across to them,' the Wants of our'Trausatlantic • coh'sins'Would ''Still 'be unsatisfiedi. ;,Xbig i gt'(Jat expansion, ml the demaHd ' fpr^hji-j , nbjrthern/ PpUa <hjJs oij course brought, f^rj^h a corr ) esppndin.g in-, crease in theft market value. "About twelvei mouthfe^ol good Polled* f Q#s, ,with ordiaary i pedigueeB 1 , would Jlralve «ol(ln afcf^in 180 guineas-! toi4s guineas,' while others of the t better /breed: lane more distinguished families' sold fronu sG guineds to 100 guineas an aveipfee Since then prices have risen.byi.atjleasi 50 pr c6nt,'ah'd killh'MeV.fi'gure^'fcbuW b'^ oKMned '&P cHBi T c:eferaM-5w5? owners could be indutfed^ part l ?Mth them/-'. Ti K \'A\v yi ii ,;■{, , / , , <"\,,.',;l