CLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1633, 21 December 1882, Page 4

CLEANINGS.

Foot-rot is reported to have Tjroken out among the new flock of sheep just purchased by th&l&kSOMifKdlfibiu'gh, who has lately bfcgumfftittiingttt Park. The attack is saul to.be a bail one. Now that there i* p. pjiWie flimooutor in Great Britain ft is not easy to withdraw fiom a charge "after it has bean once (brought .'/-At the Bicntford Putty Sessions on the 12th August a youth of IG, charged with stealing a purse, containing £13 10s and some., memoranda, the propoi ty of his aunt, and seh'tincod to three months' imprisonment! with hard labour, despite the fact that tiie aunt desiious of withdrawing ; the charge, and objected to give evidence against the prisoner. Dr. Siemens, President of .the British Association for the- Adwmcement ot Science, predicts,that before ;nquy- , years have elapsed we shall hnd in our factories and on board our ships engine's with a fuel consumptionnot exceeding 1 lb. ot coal per effective horsepower per hour, in which the gas producer falßcs the place !> of tlidl somewhat complex and dangerous steamboiler? J Tho 'ad veh't 1 of m'ah anCugiijc and of the dynamo machine must mark a new ere of mat6i'iarprogroas,afcrletts{r,fCHi»l,. ! t*r that proHu'cd' by tile ■mtrd'flfiefidn *dL steam power in the early part of our century. • * ' A Dairy in Blok China.— At the loft wing, of Sir Henry feck's nearly completed liouse at Rousdon, Devon, says the Lioe Stock Journal, is situated the dairy, which for beauty, solidity, and originality of design has never been surpassed and cannot be matched in all Kngiand. The floors and shehes and central tables are all formed of slabs of the purest maible ; and in the centie there is a fountain the water of which Jends a delightful coolness to the air and Arcadian beauty to the scone. There is depicted on blue China tiles, arranged in a continuous chain all round the apartments, scenes from every phase of rmal life. There is also a magnificent maible fountain in the large yard beyond. MfeEHSCItAUM Pil'RS FROM PoT YTOIX — A discovery is reported in the Agricultural Gu-tlti of Vienna which opens up a new career to the potato. It seems that the humble tuber can be transformed into a material for the manufactiue of lnceischauin pipes of the veiy ' choicest quality by tho simple operation of boiling it for th.iity-si\ hours in a eeitain chemical solution and squeezing it atterwaids in a piess till whatever moisture it may contain has been extracted. The residuum i& then declared to be ' a haul block of a delicate etCiimy-white hue, in every lespeef as suitable 'to the manufacture of ornamental and artistically executed pipe-heads ab the finest clay."' And not only so, but the potato thus tieated is found to be an excellent substitute foi i\oiy in the manuf.vcturo of such ai tides as brush and umlnoll.i, handles, f.ms.aud chessmen. Mr. H. E. Wiigley .said, in a paper before the Amencm Institvite of Mining Engineers, that most of the oil wells in New Yoi k aud Pennsylvania v, ould g'n c out in four yeiu->. He calculates that only 11 squate miles of sine available | territory die left, and 370 square miles ot possible, but still uncertain " oil land.' 1 Filty-iour miles of actually worked tenitory bus yielded 108,000,000 ban els, aud according to this computation eleven miles wiHy icld 22, 00Q, 000, while from the nucei tain territory, judging fiom the yield in similar soil, 7-1,000,000 bairels may be pioduced. About 25,000,000 bands aic used each year, and, as the futiue yield is to be 96.000,000 bairels. it w.dl bo used up in between three and tour yoais. There is of course the possibility of discovering new wells, or •sonic ot the old ones may fill up ; but the price is bin cto use as the petroleum bo comes exhausted. (Xne of the most touching tilings, we ha>e load m ii long tune is (says an exchange) that stoiyof a lubber and a poor lone w oman near Oban. Tho robber camo to hci hou^eat night, and demanded lici money oi lil.l lill. She hadn't much nioii' y oi'lito cithci, but she pietorrcd yiMny u |> the luimer r.itlicr than the l.ittoi ; so she In ought hi l littio stou-and placed it m In -. hand. He looked it o\ei uuelull} , to sec that she didn't palm oil two shilling pi eu.-. hn halt oiowns "ll.iwnt l ,ou anything else of value.'"' inqinud ilif bold, bad burirlai, looking about I In; •-, aii(il\ luinUhcd apai tniouts ; '• a o!nld\!»i.K' 1 'L, nng— anything will he tli iiil.iulh uccivtd "I !i,t\c notliiny moil, KpbtA the woman, with a sigh \ tlioiitihi -fiiul lviii " Vonj Illiquid v. a-, i inldi i \\a-, hu not :" ho 11141111 cd. .-.la 11 know iti'yul ili.it. In was, aiiil killed „1 liiit't " Tiun he iuu>t li.no had a i-i, ,1 >i,'h^ eontinin.'d, si'inching hoi (.DUiituiiam c. " A'i, you giow coniused, >oa -t.iiin.it . ; M»iu m.uiiiu bcti,ij->jou i_ict ih it H-vol 1 01 ut oiieo. and i.'i»o it to l.ie. 'Jn v.i 1 1 1 tin 1 woiii.in imiiloicd him to .spaic frit haimlc""-, tunlcct,, almost tin sole .in inoiinl oi tho husband she had lo,i. f-ii' had piwued many things when distressed, but had r.hvay.i clung to that. Buttheio) liei was umelenfing. bittcrlv. -he ■went to a buieau diawei and ieiiio\cd tho piecious lelic, mound which clusteied so n.any tender recollections. " i\Ai<?t yon have it?' said she. as she advanced tow aid the iobber. " Yes I must. ' ans»\cicd the iobber, extending his hand. "Well, then, take it' she said, gently piewng the trigger for tho last tune. Theio A\as a loud lepoifc, and tho iobber tumbled o\er dead. Tlr j counti> ought to jiensiou that woman. A pvkacirai']! in a recent issue of a London journal says : On Wednesday afternoon one ot the most astounding sales ot colliery pioperty ever known took place at IJarnsley, w hen collieries situate at Dodworth and Iligham, belonging to the Dodworth and Wlkstone lion Company (Limited), woie 4 sold by auction at the King's Head Hotel to Mr PiobtMt Wl'.itwoitl), oi Manchester, foi £2,000, having been floated in 1873 with £100,000 nominal capital. Tho sale took place by older of the Court of Chancel y. There being no resene bid they weie knocked down for.thlit sum, to the astonishment of everybody present. At one tune they cmploj od two'thonsand hands. It was stated by the auctioneer that theie wore 1,824- acres of coal, and in addition tho \m\ chaser would have the benefit of £11,000 money oveipaid foi coal lents. Theie wcic 82, engines, of I,OO'S horse-power; 25 boilers, giving' ],000 horse-power; 131 colve-o\ens, 50 miles of tiamw ays and sidings, and one ot the iinest collieiy plants in Yorkshire. Xovkl Application of Electricity:— We learn fiom a Glasgow jjapor tliat Mr W. H. Akester, F.S.A., Eldehieiail to the Universal Electric Company, has not only eflectually applied electricity to ihe scaring of buiglois, but has just consti ucted an instrument, which operates by electricity, for gathering apples, mowing lawns, reaping cereals, hairing hides, singeing hoises and shearing .sheep, It consists of a telescopic bamboo,' vyhichi can be lengthened to the height, of any. ordinary tree. There is a calico shoot attached to the en,d' of this' electrical appaiatus, into which the, fruit operated; on falls} and theieby is ,transmitted into, the basket or other \ es&cl provided for its leetption. the latter being placed ;it iiny convenient ]wsition either at the ( root of the tiec or elsewhere,.. In fack. tjio whole appaiatus, when denuded/|of; ,ijlie nccctsa^, connecting \j7jscpr tp.thp baljterj^. dynr»ino or Vet.wi,tiir^, , .simply..^cs^xifplcs an ordinary walking-sticK. 1( „( Jesides>li^vi- lng his .family se\v^g'Wp§uio, drivie^ by a ljgtyitijgl 'fti_otor ? t Mr, Al^es^has^l^tly, though not least in ingenuiAy^uQqn^ructed an electrical4y ( ic^9hej, w^gCm cpQ|ectionary and other JiUjetL, establishments ! where " flies n|OB|) $p .fiypgvefgfye," must Jju. invaluable.'" J^,po^Js,m a series of plaA«st.«<^e^ig^tl^f^^tnp|i"»apgrt J '"i#ie; SRaci?B betjveen being.filled witL,a,.cojtu--i