CLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1645, 20 January 1883, Page 4

CLEANINGS.

Tins is tlio present, coward of ,vn;!juous conduct— that no" unlucky ' conioqitcnec can oblige u*tu regret it,. - Cati\\iS j Underwood it i.s stated leaves the Union Company to join tiic Now Shipping Compauy. Tjie £ytte!fcon Harbor Board is negotiating with Vogel re lighting, the port with the electric light. A Pbxx.syi.Vama man lias one thousand parrots. The poor nnn wants to hear his out-talkdd once in aj while. / The exportation of Aberdeen , polled ! cattle is ,, still briskly proceeding from Scotland'to the United States. The American Humane Society offers a reward of 500dol. for a painless brand for cattle. A ma*\ iv. Lcavcnworth, Kansas, who married and buried three sisters, is about to commence on another iamily , Bi: frank and explicit. This is the right line to take when you wibli to conceal your own mind and to confuse the nimda of others. A Du/rcir engineer is applying for a grant from the Pru&siau Government to draw up plans of a canal uniting Cologne and Antwerp. The Chamber of Commerce of Cologne is supporting his application. The Tunes Geneva correspondent sa>s that goods trallie on the St Golhard .Railways is increasing so fast that the rolhngstoek is proving (iiiitc inadequate to tho'deniands upon it. I'l' is said to have been demonstrated that if whisky is poured down the tliroat of fishes immediately after being caught, they can be carried a long distance and then lesuacitated by placing them in water. Whkm-a mi cream, on or oiV the mUL, is forced below 43 degrees, there is dantier of debtroying the grain and nutty ilavour of butter, and the best result will always be found in a temperature between 45 and 3.1 degrees. Arx'OKDfM! to the census of horses in Paris, made in 1880, there were 14,551 proprietors, and 57.129 hoises._ The census of carnages was last made in 1878, when there were 13,880 proprietors and 2(5 102 carriages. Tin; latest incident in the Hereford i. Shorthorn competition is ,h challenge to champions of the latter bleed to compete at the next fat stock show in Chicago for lOOOdol., half of the prize money to be coutiibuted by each interest. OnL of Arabl's tenth at Tc-cl-Kebir was lined with ciinison danubk sdk ; the other was embroidered with forget-me-nots, poinegianates, and other fruits, in a manner which would put bomu hue ait needlework associations to the blush. Pur.r and Kin-side says:— Our bobt wheat ciops have come iiom ploughing caily and tlccp, allowing this to settle for .several weeks, and then piepaung a shallow seed bed with the harrow immediately before .sowing. In Scotland the Shoithoin bull is being used with Ayrshire cows to produce daily animals, and the result ib said to be very encouraging. The ilow of milk is not lessened, while the calves aie of much better quality, and bring moie fiom the butcher. A sm vi,l portion of kerosene throughly shaken up witli the castoi oil is even better than the latter lubiicant alonefor gioasing waggon axlos and othei similar bearings, being k'os liable to gum. Su; J. ]J. L v\\ in lias found by experiment that sheep well fed under co\oi will oonMime about 701b of loots, i , 1L» of hay and -I |ib ol oilcake per head per week for eveiy 1001b of their live weight weekly about t\\ o per cent. It is generally believed that a Spanish hen will not remain thice weeks on eggs, but an experiment made has pio\cd the rc\crse, Tin cc hens of tho Spanish breed were placed in a room out of w hich they could not escape, ami biipplied with food and water, and each hen brought out her chickens. A ii\iu-i< tieo on a, diy .sumuiui'b day iluou's inl<; the air many barrels ol water. This isioicibly pulled fioin its attachment to tlic p«u tides ot soil and lifted to the ONh-enuties. .10 to 1 00 ft. .abo\e, using in this fully as much ioicc as would bu icquiied to raise the same by mechanical means. [n tlic States the milk companies require farmers to whitewash stables and nnlk-hoiisca once a year. Jsut any one who has once enjojed the luuuy of a whitewashed stable will not bo likely to discontinue the piacticc. Aimed with a .small foicu-pumpand a ban el of whito--uash, more whitewashing can be done in n lew liotns than can be (lone m a Meek with a brush. A M'j.t'iM. mission is to be sent to dapaii by order ol the I'Yonch Minister ot Agiicultiuc to study the cultivation of the vine. In Japan the \me grows almost up to the region of "now, and it is to be hoped that the Japanese plant would iloiuish in Kianct. At the time ot the disruption of the Church of Scotland, DrChalinets ventured the prediction, legaidcd by some as rash and enthusiastic, that the annual income of tho Free Church would l each £300,000. Last year the lcceipts ot the Kiec Chuich for its various objects" were £007, 008. TuonsvNJ>s ot small hooks aie bi ought by sugai refiueis ior ratting purposes. Tlio hooks arc baited with small pieces ot beet on each, and then distributed about the building. Tho lats swallow beef and hook — the iirst is digested, the latter is not— death, of couisc, results. The remedy is said to bo infallible. In India- and Ceylon the missions were ncvei so prosperous as now. The spirit of caste is less bitter, and converts of diU'uieut eastob including the Brahmin and the Tamil, sit together at tho Lord's {

It is said by a Fiencli journal that M. (( i levy hdb established a telephone between the Elsyee, Pans, and his> country house at Monl-bous-Vaiuliey. The distance between the two places is about 1217 miles, a greater distance than has ever been connected by telephone tip to the present time before. Thk Piotehtanl mission ■work in I'or.sia ib earned on chiefly by American Presbyterians. Some English ladies carry on an independent educational w 01 L at Orooniiah. This city ia the most impoi fcaut centre for the evangelisation of the Nestoriaus, and the native element ib being intioduced M. LI.NOKM \M, the Well -kllO^H writer, i* exploring Calabiia and Uasilic.ita, and has broken ficsh ground in arcli.i'ology. He lias aheady disco\uied "200 Litiu and liO (iieok unpublibhed inseiiptions, as also the nuns of .Medina, with the spring spoken of by Straoo, and a theatre. He has likewise ascei taiued that several of the Greek colonies weie impoitant stations in the polished stone age. TilK Princess Beatrice has become au Jionoraiy members of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Her sister, the Crown Princess of Germauy, lias already been a member for some years, and has sent pictures to more than one of the society's exhibitions. Beyond the very benutiful Birthday Book, published from designs by the Princess Beatrice, her Royal Highness' ability in art is not knowrl by the geneial public, but hexwork will now bo slioavii at the forthcoming exhibitions of the Institute. As old Oriental story relates that one day Moolla M.useerodeen, in a mosque, ascended the desk, and thus addressed' his audience :— " O children of the faithful, do ye know what I am going to say?" They answered, "No." "Well, then, replied he, " it's of no use Wasting lny time on such a stupid set ;" and, saying this, he came down and dismissed them. Ne^t day he again mounted the desk, and asked, u 0 true Mussulmans, do ye know what lam going to say ?" " Werdbi'* said they. " Then," replied he, " there' is^ .np .need for me to tell you.,;" and, again he le^ tjiem go.. £he third' lus audjence thought' they should catch him : and, on his putting the usii^l- )f questijo^j ;,,th,ey.. answered, " Some'of us ao,'and some.'pf'uB do not." ." Well, then," ' replied 'U, *«« let those