GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1681, 14 April 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

\k a voluino of 'SSonypnirs" the autobiographical papers that he Ims been conA ,\kw weekly naner is to be startea tten t of ' l a¥tj ' mcrituit, • ''attfr igduiral* dpMil: ' fJI - »'•' '" :" '"" ; " !(!t ' ■ TJir.ClarendoHi Pr'cM' wilt publish early 'f'l'lic'OoMier'of S^Mttl'k 1 ' ilf Uothio', fflccoidink'' to' 'tlftV Viariftlati6ii • maflb Iby Ochtuiy<". etlited Hy Piofessor Skcat. ' ■ Tiffi'iieW'Wckly bnfp'cvtxJb'o started in ftew York"^"c\lle(l'./u/J'. 'If < 'is to be fhitnorous anrVsatifical 1 , ttnd'its uiai'ri &>n'tiibutois ,uc to bo Robeit Grant, Or. T. Lani'Mii, and'AHliilr'Perin. J • ■ W. 11, Van, LaUJJ hag been long ona.i"od oil a'hibtory of the literary" exiles m Hii«;l.uHl-tl»Q*p .who , tro.iUjthe use of then pens, h.l<l to le.'i« their country for,tl)ifir epuntry^s good, as, the govern•]lE^",i Sam'A-! Lo\v ' vtm hf' the pnblrsh'ci sofMr At c&il).ikl ( &. Colqir'hoiii'» s nanativc of his journey of oXploiatioiv through the South ' China boidorlancU from Canton to Mandalay." The ( title choson by the author is "Across Chryse." Thi: Chevalier ' Ernest "Yon HesseWarteg has written a new .bpoJc which will soon be pubhalipd in London. Its titlp ie, -"The New, SouthjWty" pad, ,it, contains' travelliui? sla'tohesjrom Ifnhs.ia,^ New Mexico, Arizona, and Northern Mexico, »;i',. . L r 'v/. Ho-hy Gbby has a "key to all the Waver.lcy.fNovcls in Chronological Bequcnce," ' wlii'dh Griffith and Farr.in, of .New, Yoikj issue mphainplilet form. The lefi<iing ch.ir.iOteia in caoh stpry are given, tt'ith a coudtUseil suin^nilr); o,f the plot / , ' , ' Wmliv tlic twelve years that have passed, jsiuce Dickens,', de^th, about 4,-23(), 000 of hi? works have been sold in England alone. "Pickwick" heads the list in popul.inty, while stiange to say, that most di.imatic ,and .uistio of all Ins books, the "Tale of Two Cities," takes alniobfc the lowest place. ! ' ' Tmcjih aie 32,503 monks and nuns in Italy, lccenin-jr pon.sions .vinounting to iJ27,88(i. This nninbci of ponbioncrs is di>-ti United in the principal piovmces as follow b:— Koines 2f)02 ; Naples, 2-11 (i ; Peni'n.i, 21 H ; l'.iloniio, .1717; Baii, 1(514: I-'loienuo. 1 127 ; Catania, 1824. In all the other (12 pio\ incus the number of pen.sionois does not leach 1000, deeieasing gradually till, in the piovmce of Sonodiio, tlieio are only tlnee whose pensions amount to C 23. Ro^si.T'i'i, instead ot seeking health and. consolation in ti.ivel', in company, and mi exeicise after his wile's death, shuthimself up amongst meditu\al iolic& in , a large, gloomy house. Tie , sought lelief from grief and sleeplessness in chloial, and, as the London Daily jS'cws dechucs, this drug at last became his familiar fiend, and distorted nis ideas and his sentiments oven about about his fvieuds. Home magazine ciitici&m, which a healthy man would have turned at and foi gotten, led him to the belief that he was the victim of a conspiracy, and "that way madness lies." " The lesson of Ro^&etti's life," says the i\'<«s " is one that Scott, Wordbwoith, By ion, and Shelley knew untaught— the lesson that poets should live iif tho open air, on horseback, on the riveis, on the sea. Genius becomes morbid when il is cooped up indoois, as Ro--sctti was cooped up, partly by his pi o Won of painting, partly by indolence." , , _

Population of Eueopkan Oities.— The following statistic of the number of inhabitants of some of the principal cities in Europe have been recently issued by 13ohm and Wa-nior. There are 92 cities in the whole ot .Europe, each containing a population of more than 100,000, but only four which have moie than a million, \ i/ :- London, 3,832,410 -.Palis, 2,225,910 8.-rlin, 1,222,500 ; Vienna 1,103,110. Of the other capitals, St. Petereb irjr pompesses 876,570 ; Constantinople, 000,000; ■ Madiid, 367.280 ; Buda-Pesth, 36»,580 ; Warsaw,- 300,340 ; AtnuU-rdam, 317,010 ; Eome, 300,470; Lisbon, 210.340 ; Copenhagen, 234,f150 ; Munich, 230.020; Stockholm, 108,770 ; Brunei-, 161,820. Tn addition to these, Moscow ooumius 611,770; Naples, 103,110; Humbmjr, 410,120, Lyons. 372,8'J0 ; MaVheilleH, 3*57,.3.'30 ; Milan, 3*21,840 ; Boideaux, 220,060 ; Unreel* olia, *2 1 .*>, 9(30 Odessa, 103 ."HO; Genoa, 17!),.llO; Floicncp, 109, C00 r Antwerp, 1.30,620 ; Lphimp, 1 19,08 : Ghoiit, 1'27,(i-3O ; Hanover, 122,810 ; The Hague. 113,460. . Thk London Stninhml says : — "Tin 1 Conservative party of the, future will be ncithot Democratic nor Ob^fcmctive. Its nnh&ioii!in(l:its policy will be to withstand nil attempts which may be made to abolish the existing order of society. Tins, we mean, 'will be its final cause. Of course the administration ot the country' will 'require periodical adjustments, as it always has done. But these need not touch fiisfc principles, and aie, indeed, almost sure to be failuies in piopoition to the political element intioduced into them. They mean, if they can, to secure such administrative changes as . the progress of society demands, without undermining the foundations on u hich that society exists. Theie is a pait in the country which hone&tly desires to overturn the 'ancji^nj; system 'of English pi ogress, and to, use reform l.itlier as a .stepping stone to I evolution tli«n «■? t\ie siuejfc> pjccanbion against it. This political party is pei feotly frank, and possesses leaders of equal oour.igo and ability. To which' Of these iv. o pai ties Lord I Jartington believes himself to bclortg we do not undertake to say ; but^hoy arethe only two partips in the country with which practical men need concern themselves, though our Farlianje'ntaiy system has^ given rise to many cross-divisions, which to some extent obscure the truth. Tl\ere is plenty for the Toiics to resist, without resisting w hat is inevitable, and plenty of piogiess to be made without coming •nearer to Democracy," , , , . Ovkim'ed Pigs. — There has never, been a time when the question of over-feeding ljvo stock of every character has received so much attention at the hand£ ,of bi coders as is now the case. < Pig breeders are at present < considerably exercised , op account of the fearful lodges sustained by! cholera, and it has slowly dawned upon the minds of many of the 'gentlemen that perhaps the evil practice of over fattening has something to do with these continued losses. 'Science has as yet faildd'.tp prove the truth of this assumption, but practical feeders and breeders are coming to that conclusion, and in many localities are governing themselves accordingly by discontinuing the practice of crowding then 1 stock. Of the domestic animals,: the goes it upon his cheek, and at the oidinary< fair orfat < stock) bh own his very fulness of cheek is apt to govern the awards. Consumers, however, do not endorse these, paunchy, round, over-fed, and stuffed / porkers, knowing that, good pork ' cannot 'generally be 1 found < v hlfr| animals are, see-mngly . fed (J for lard put poses and that' aloiie! What is required, and demanded, both at.Home and abroad, W\U loAg-bßclie^fe.^wM-affords a 1 d'efep sliouTde l r/; ( Idhn l ' r Ha I ni, and sides upon which meat instead of fat }& the rule. ■. There has been a growing dis; position to stop the practice of over-feed-ing hogs, 1 and so general had the 'demand' become for good lean, pbi-k that, not'tfith 1 -" .standing the universal practice to feed to the utmost capacity, breedcrs'ai'e'ne-vv' changing their views, ah'd 1 ' sending' '£o market pigs thai w,ill .guarantee good!paying block*) ,.' qualities*. /It is very reasonable tof suppose' that- an animal overloaded, w,itl) the igi;eat ; masses sot absolute fat and grease cannot be/ ap ciently led, is not bi|rdened with a mass that is only profitable 'to the lard manu- , fwiiWfpt' ,j^9,««JP dealers, iu) [Am jsripan P9j:k 4o npVhesitp,te tp sassetj^^at.^he/BtoQk.Qf this, ( «jpft,,i|i is t ,t9 t^e'^Rortera that $•£ ! Amgridi breedeys.a^ tor; m^mm,ffim .caunbt ' bu^r,esu|^fp,the. . honefit bf tm