CLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1627, 7 December 1882, Page 3

CLEANINGS.

Hanlax recentl^ejiyered a brief address iv the Grarid)^Opera s House at Toronto, in the course of^w^ich he referred to Rosa and^bw^bg matters in the following terms t-^l^havfe been ill this Summer, and I shall not be fit to show > what I realty can do. I will neither row the best nor 'the' poorest s'cutter' till next | year, I am* .now prepared to /make 1 as many matches, as there are scullers in^the world. I have never yet had the pleasure of putting forth all my strength hi a race, and I want to get one big match on with Wallace Ross for 5, 006 dollars, .or as much as he can raise. When n'ekt I row a man, if he should beat me, I want to be able to take him by the hand and say 'You are a better man than I am." Hivnlaii concluded by remarking he might go to Australia, as they wanted to see the man who hail beaten TricJretfc If he had a lot of matches on with Trickett ho would soon be able to build many hotels on the island. Tiik Soy Bean. — A recent number of the Agricultural Student* GazHte (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester) contains an article by Prof. E Kinch on the Soy bean {Sojn hii>pi(l«). This bean, of which there are a dozen or more varieties known in the East, is very largely used as an article of food in Japan and China, where it is manufactured not ouly into soy, now exported in considerable quantities to Europe, but also into bean cheese and other foims of food. The soy bean in its proximate composition approaches more nearly to animal food than any other known vegetable production, being singularly rich in fat and in albiiniininoids, and it is therefoie a valuable .adjunct to th« food of the almost vegetarian Japanese of iatc yeuis, especially .since the Vienna International Exhibition many ellovts have been made to acclimatize this bean iv various parts of the Huropc.au continent, chiefly iv Hungary and Germany. France and Italy have also attempted \t and some of their e\peiimcnts have been successful. Piof. Kinch is trying to grows onic of the varieties in the Botanic (i.udcn at Cirencester, and though our climate is piobably to uncertain, and the teinpemtuic often too low for most of the \aiieties to attain perfection, still, U any of them could be acclimatized, a valuable leguminous cross, would be added to our picscnt li.st. The paper contains detailed analyses of tho bean as grown in diflerent countries, of the foods made fiom it, of its straw, w hiuh is a usehil fodder, and of the ash ■ of the bean and straw. A Jai'Ujkm; Max-oim\ak.— On August 2S was launched at the national dock -y aid and naval station at Yokosuka the Hiat man-of-war built by the Japanese. This ship has been constructed by native workmen and from the timber of the country. She has been named the lvaimon. Her keel was laid in 1877. For a long time little has been done towards her completion, but since the Corean dillieulty renewed activity has manifested itself, and it v, ill be but a short while before this specimen of Japanese workmanship will be fitted for sea, Her displacement is 1352 tons ; tonnage, 923 tons ; horse-power indicated, 12.30 ; nominal, 250. It is believed she will steam at the rate of twelve knots an hour. She will mount six 12- centimeter and one 17-ecntimeter Ivrupp guns. Many of the principal ofh'ceis of the differedt departments were assembled at Yokosuka to witness the launching of theKaimon. Theie were also preeeufc some of the membcid of the Japanese imperial household. There was much enthusiasm over the event, which passed of in good style, the launch being in every way a grand auec&s. It is worthy of remark that at Yokosuka every department is entirely in the hands of the Japanese, there being no foreigners employed in any capacity. Theie are two large dry docks there, and a third is being constructed that an ill piobably equal iv capacity any dry dock in the world. It is being built by convict labour, consequently not at very large cost. The consti notion of: other ships is contemplated. The Kannon is a fine specimen of na\al architecture, and leflects great credit on her constvnetois.