GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1654, 10 February 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

*— — - J W lira lack knocks at the door it often fjr.ds the men insiHctfoo'lizy to lift the Match. . '/ - » ' ' A GjiXKALOGiSTHsIike a grammarian in one respect ; lie is always looking up the antecedents of his ZeMivW ' ' ■ - ' ' • "lloxKSTvis the'Medt policy." But you ha\e to pay the premiums in tins wOlw 01 Id, and realise on ' yoiu J insurance in the next. ' Whkn Brown complained of a rfish of l)lood to the head, Jones endeavoured to oase hid mind by reminding him' that ljaturc abliois a vacum, and Brown's lilood rushed to hfs head worse than ever. , Tun Russian Gowrnment is compelled to adopt precautionary measures, in donswjuence of a large concentration of Chinese- tioops on the Amur. Tin: Manchester Unity of Oddfellows now nnmbeis 347,909, and the total cauital of the order on the Ist January last was £5,221,890, nearly £9 15s per member. Within two months of the opening of St. Gothard Jtaihoad the exports of German coal, which had been ml, rose to 40, 000, tons, and many other expoits rose similaily Italy, on tlie other hand, is finding a market for all sorts of garden produce and wine. Ix the season of 18S1-82 moie than 3,000,000 tiees were planted in Gieat Britain, out of which number Scotland claims about 2,000,000 ; England 000,000 ; Ireland, 300,000, and Wales 40,000. Wkll, my dear, are you getting on nicely with your music '!" "Oh, yes mamma ; last month when I played tour-hand pieces with my music teacher I was always a couple of bars behind. Now I .im always three ahead." A Vkkaiovj.' farmer is said to have placed such a very ugly scare-crow in his fields, that the birds, when they see it, not only reftain fiom touching .the corn, but even return what they may have alicady stolen. Tni;Ki;aie no less than 334 deer parks south of the Tweed, in England, 31 of which contains red doer. Elide Park, .Sussex, is the oldest ; tho largest is at the Cheshiic seat of Lord Egertoii of Tatton. The extent ot this p.nk it. 2000 aci cs. It is said to be n peculiarity of Norwegian l ail ways that they have au aversion to night tiasclhng. You an no ut a station at ten o'clock, ami aie told that the train will not proceed further till ne\t morning. A.n aiclntectural curiosity may be seen at the corner of Eighty-seeond-strect and Lcxiugton Avenue, in New Yoi k City, where two houses have been erected ona plot of land measuring five feet on Eighty-second-stieet and a hundred iect on Lexington A\ cnue. '' Wh\t did you say the conductor's name was?" " Glass —Mr Glass." " Oh, no !" " But it is." "' Impossible, — it can't be." " And why not, pray ?" " Because, sir, glass is a non-conductor." Deafening applause from the scientific passengeis. — LouiivlUc Com it') Journal. Puortsson to classical student : " If Atlas suppoLted the world, who supported Atlas V" Student — '• The, question, sir, has often been asked, but never, so fai as I am aware, satisfactorily answeicd. I have always been of the opinion that Atlas must have married a uch wife, and got his support from her father." Somk thirty thousand oysters have recently died in New Haven Harbour. Theie's no telling what developments a Connecticut coroner's jury might uncr.ith m connection with this mortality among bivalves, but the fact that they died in their beds would scorn to indicate I that death resulted" from natural causes. A\ exchange innocently lemarks :—: — " A blacktcllow at Thorn borough, Queensland, recently tomahawked his gin." We have heaid ot a man quarrelling with his whisky, but tho gin destroyer gives him points. Tun final adjustment of the accounts of the City of Glasgow Bank shows the following figures : —Total amount received in rc&pcct of calls, £.">, 991, 7(56. Of this amount £194,03(5 has been used for the pui poses of liquidation, and the remain-ing-Co, 797,729 has bean required to dischaige ti|c bank debts. Mr G. Mi:tuu>, a resident of Palmerston Not th, recently went home to France to claim some money. To prove his identity, he had to surrender himself to the military authorities, and, it appearing that he had left France at a time when he should ha\e joined the army, he received 124 hour's notice to rejoin the 28th Regt., where he should have served his time. In a letter to a friend in the Manawatu, Mr Metard says that being a soldier in Paris is not so pleasant as it was in Capt. Lcthbridge's company in Fielding. A ni.w kind of asphalt concrete has (says an exchange) been patented by an Oamaru fiiin, which should prove especially useful in localities where earthquakes aic frequent. The concrete is prepared first in a pulverised form, and in its manufacture liincstoue, sand, gravel, or clay, maybe equally well used. It is then reheated, and amalgamated with a certain amount of coal tar, and in tliis condition may bo cast in moulds ot any si/o or form, and is eventually turned out in blocks of great hardness and firmness. Thogianular substance of which these blocks are composed is of an adamantine haidness, and peifcctly impel \ ions to any liquid, however insinuating, and at the same time possesses a curious elasticity and toughness. This elasticity may be imagined fiom the fact that if a brick be made horn the concrete in a curved from, a sufficiently heavy weight placed on its curved side, will press it flat on the ground, and if the weight be removed the bricks will resume its original curved from, The toughness of the material has been tested, and found to sustain a strain of 15001b. Pkinck KitAi'hTKix, who has just been Ivied a.t Lyons foy being concerned in the recent revolutionary outbreaks in that city, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, has long been one or the principal leaders of the Russian Nihilists. He is described in a remarkable work recently-published at Milan entitled "La Russia Sotteranea," by "Stepuiak," a norn deplume meaning the "son of the Steppe," as an admirable orator, "a distinguished savant, a, rigid and impracticable theorist, a poor conspirator, and "au .incomparable agitator." The Standard of Nov. 3, gives the following communication from , Berne, with reference to the movements of this notorious conspirator : — The authorities of Vaud and Geneva are unable as yet to furnish the Federal Council with information relative to' alleged anarchical conspiracies on Swiss soil. Prince Krapotkin, no doubt, is often at r Geneva, to visit his Russian friends there; but his visits would not' bet observable by the police, as he lives at Thonon, in the Haute Savoie, whence 'he could readily run over either by train or 1 steamboat. The French Government, it. is suggested, might easily watch > his, movements by prohibiting him, from faking him from taking up his abode on the Irontier, and requesting him. if ho lives, in France at all, to keep in the interior of,, the country as Switzerland did in regard to Nazzini in 1869 and Don Carles in ',187,3. I The government pi Geneva has, moreover, requested by tlie Federal Council to see that ' the decree of expujsion, Prince Krapotkin is'duly enforced. „ Whore, shall I buy, my, f urni,ture , and carpets ? You cart not do better than, purchase from Garlick sind 'Cstrriwoll, 1 who J hive' 'n'owa very large assortment Wf iron bedstedsf ■ Varying in pricq from 16s, 6d to to ton, pqundv,and*keep in stock bedding o| t all sues and; kinds. , Their larg'6 factory is co'mnleted, and machinery iri full swing, enabling; them to turn out- furniture quiqkdnand.l cheapen* thanj jbithgrtok p. ,& iC. always have ready a largo variety of ,d«win' (and dining-room, suites. Speplal' attention * is* paid to, bedroom 'furniture/ suitable to all, classes. Groat iiVariety,i|Qf(,,;jcarpett, , Kidderminster, Hrussels, and tapestry from '2s Cd per yard. Linoulcm and oil cloth for balls,, of ., Manchester tfoodii Sheefings'icalicdes, holtandfc.HoWluiM lVwP9J«.^linK^»lP«rMtPl»ti4rAt9nneihi^maft; &o.j &c. Book catalogues sen t/po*t.. free;/, Lad ici W ell, % J$J Arj^e, 9»#j|^»i»M