GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1653, 8 February 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

!» /To be doing for^soino.o'mij else is the Ijgj of mo3l good wotrfenr— jP/mcAwy/y. 1.4 a certain, street am I^hree tailors. . TThef first W Set \tp shp(> ( lifjng tfut'lrfV 1 8i»n ! : "Here is the best tailor in town."' Tiie!no\l put up : „"Here is the best tailor in thtf -frm'ld." Tlid'lhi'rYl'-AlMply hart. tl\ib : "Hero is the best tailor in i<thW street." ! iTiik man who gpes fishing, and sits in ■a- ci.unp-invitiilg position on a narrow thwart from early morn to dewy eve, mul calls it "fine,"' is the same man. that never 'goes to church because the pews? are not comfoi table. ■ "' Irtliou seek rest in this 'life, hoiv wilt' thou then attain to the everlasting rest'? Dispose not tliyddf for much rest, but for great patience, heck true peace — not in earth, but in heaveu : not in men nor in any, other creature, , but in God alone. — Ihomtib A. Kviiipts. Thk Fiench scientific journal, "La Nature," gives tho following curious incident, showing the enormous power of molecular for.ces. — The Italtan ship Francesco, loaded with rice, put into port, on .May 11, at East London, leaking consideiably. A large foice of men was at once put on boaul to pump out the water contained in the ship and to unload her, but in spite of all the activity exhibited, the bags of lice soaked in water giadually, and swelled up. Two days aftei wards, on May 13; the ship w\s violently burst asunder by the swelling of her cargo. A Curious SununsTiox. — An American paper, speaking more joculaily than in earnest, .suggests that the wire fences which bound a multitude of farms might be turned into telephonic connections at small cost, to the gieat social advantage of lonely wives, whose husbands arc away fiom morning until night. The idea, howe,vcr, is worth the seiious consideiation of the station-owners in this colony. In our diy climate wood is a bad electrical conductor, and rail posts would almost completely insulate the wires. An extension of the telephone system would enable the squatter to ascertain m the morning what was going on at all paits ot the inn, and he could lidc to the place where his presence might bo most needed in the cuuisu of the day. — Jiovlhumptun Jittllvtui. In a tiial in Germany recently a cvi ions document A\as pioilueed, which was called forth by the m.uriage of the Count dc Sul/, a Roman Catholic, to Agatha, Countess of Hanan, a Piotostant, in the year IGOo. At the wedding the biidegroom solemnly swoie to respect his futuie wife's religious views, and signed, sealed and delivered n deed to that effect. It was couched in the following terms : " I, Rudolph, Count of Sul/, hereby piomise on my honour as a nobleman—or may the devil take me— that I will allow my fu tm c wife to remain in her religion, nor Avill I offer her any inducement in tho slightest to abandon it. I have at homo two Bibles ; if that is not enough toi her, I will get two more. Let her lead tliem l>ia\ely and industtiously. Moieo\ei, it is her body, not hoi soul, I take. I shall remain mmy religion, in which I have been brought up iioin my youth. I know that I am on the right load ; if &lie won't go to heaven, let her go to hell. —Signed, Rudolph, Count Sulz." A wr.Li.-KNOWN Melbourne critic, now in London, wiitcs from that city under a late date : — While at the West End we condemn the melancholy and metaphysical pastoral of Mr Tennyson, and find the ' Promise of May' faded anil futile, the East End is revelling in .i production which seems to defy competition, and leaves ' Pluck,' ' Drink,' ' New Ikbylou,' 'Youth,' 'Lights o' London,' and the 'Romany Rye' nowhere. 'The Ruling P.ission,' at the Standard Theatre in Shoreditch, introduces us to cabs, an omnibus, bicycles, the Salvation Army, a Foiesteis' letc, two minders, a woman tin own downstairs, and then hung up by her thumbs in a piivatc madhouse, and another woman firing several bullets into a man until he is ' perwailed on,' after the method of Dick Turpin, in the famous ballad sung by Sam Wellcr. The hcioinc, who i.s perpetually encountering e\traoulinaiy perils and adventures in sheets and public places, makes her final escape from her persecutors in a balloon. Ascending from the Crystal Palace — admiiably put on the stage — the balloon falls into the sea, and she is rescued by a boat. As her husband is led off to meet his deserts for murder, this injured lady promises to many tho lover of her deceased sister. A leal shower of rain, and the real wetting of some of the personages, are ' great attractions' of this performance, which is a genuine curiosity in its ■way." "It is only fair," writes the St Jaws Gazette, " that a person meditating a great i eform likely to shock those wedded to tho old unreformed ways shoald give duo notice to the world at laige of the character and extent of the refoi in which he or she contemplates introducing. This is what has been considerately done by a Mrs Scott, who is dfsciibed in <\ jSTcw York paper as a 'San Fiancisco dress reformer. 1 This lady is an advocate of what is euphemistically known at the ' divided skirt' or the ' dual ganncnture,' though, for her own part, she scorns any such periphrasis. Mis Scott, then, has given public notice to all whom it may concern that on the Ist of January next ' she v, ill begin to wear trousers in public ;' and she has accompanied this startling announcement with a lequest for police protection in case the street crowds should insult her. The chief of the San Francisco.police has, it is said, informed her that it will probably be his duty to extend to her a larger measure of protection than she will quite appreciate — that he will, in fact, have to take her in charge. On the other hand, she has had legal advice to the effect that California has no law under which she can be prevented from dressing in, the manner she pioposes. Mrs Scott has spared the world any idle, speculation as to the shape of the new garment. ' 'My trousers,' she' informs 'us, ' are made with a plait, and descend just to the line of beauty in the calf of the leg where the dresses of young girls come, and if young girls wear their dresses so, why should not old girls adopt the same fashion?'" TItEATMKXT OF FAIXTIXG PeRSOXS It is suprismg hpw everybody rushes at a fainting person, and strives to rise him up, and especially keep his head erect. There must be an, instinctive apprehension that if a person seized with a fainting or other ' fit falls into a recumbent position, death is more imminent. 1 must have driven a mile today while a lady fainting was held upright. I found her pulseless, white and apparently dying, and I believe "that if I had delayed ten minutes longer she would really have died. I laid her head down oh a lower level than her body, and immediately colour returned to her lips, her cheeks, and she became conscious. To the excited group of friends I said : Always remember this fact, namely, fainting is caused by want of blood in the brain ; the heart ceases to act with sufficient fordo to send the usual amount of blood to the brain. Restore the blood to the brain and > instantly, the person recovers. Now, though the blood is' propelled to all parts, of tho body by the action of the heart, >yet it is still under the influence of the laws of gravitation. In the erect position the \ blood ascends to the head > against < gravitation and the supply to the brain i{s diminished as compared with the recmbbenfi position, the heart's pulsation being' equq.l. If, ' theii, ' jfoii' place ! a person ; sitting w ( hpse heart has neatly 1 ceased to beatjjkjs^biyun will fail to receive blood ij Whjle^ij.jou^ lay him' down, with/the head^lower, ,tfyan the hearty blond will' run into , the ( ( pra n, 'by thfe'i'tiiere f6rfce;'ofigray^tyi w fu^dlj :n faintin f g,"in BufflcienfciNluaojty^]rssjjp :e consciousness, Indeed, na^e^.^Qnes us hoV.fid 'ifi&tagft ftlie/, fainting persors, fbr'flie.y, always falty and frequently are at pnee .restored, "/bjr^t^,? ra^mbeafc position into,;whioh they 'are' 1 $nroyp,«-^ Jjfqffo^/WHNfjf ,',' ' , ;.')<:' ///^,',y H • ' ' ' " . *' - ' * '' '-**'> "•'/"' - ; 'j V ik& »i'A