GLEANIXGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1738, 25 August 1883, Page 4

GLEANIXGS.

A VERY precise msiidou — Ettio Qaetto. Whon you hear a man say the world o\ve9 him* a living, don't leave any ha-ns i 'lying around loose. It U.is been discovered that the firo which occurred ou board the Mart, training ship, stationed in the Tay, olf Dundee, ■ome weeks ago, and by which damage to the cxteut of about £4,000 was sustained, was duo to incendiarism. The Procurator-Fiscal for Fiteshire, who has been piosecuting inquires, lias discoveicd that three boys'im board set the .ship on fire, out of icvenge, it is stated, for some punishment they" had received. The result ot the investigation was reported to he authorities at Edinlu h. A tropedo boat ot novel and ingenious design is at present under consti notion at the works of Messrs Eseher, Wyss&Co., on. the banks ot the river Lnnnat, in Switzerland. The vessel in built entirely of iron, and will be propelled under water nt any desired depth, or may be used as an ordinary vessel on the surface. It will carry a supply of fresh air sufficient to last its crew twelve houis, and the interior will be lightened up by electricity.

An EiiKctrical Fou. — A most extraordinary instance of an electrical fog is mentioned by Mr. Crosse, of Bloomheld, England. This gentleman for the purpose of studying atmospheric electricity, had a long wire extended from tree to tree in his park. The wire being perfectly insulated conveyed the atmospheric electricity to the room of the observer , where one end terminated in an insulated brass ball, nsar which was a second ball connected with the ground. Mr Croshc's account is as follows : "On a daik No\ ember day I was sitting in my electrical 100 m, during a very dense driving fog and lain, which had prevailed for many hours, accompanied by a strong southwest wind. 1 had at this time l,6'oo feet of insulated wire, which, crossing two B>mall \ alleys, brought the electric fluid to my 100111. Kroni about 8 o'clock in the moining to 4 in the afternoon, the wiie n<i\e no sign of electucity, About 4 o'clock, while rcadiiii.', 1 suddenly heaid a veiy explosions between the two b.illb, which w< le an inch apait. Shortly, the explosions becime moie frequent, until there was an uninterrupted steam of discharges, wliicli gi.ulually died away and then recommenced with the opposite electricity in equal violence. The steam of lire was too \ ivid to look upon for any lenyth of time, and the discharge continued for fi\e hours without any intermission, and then ceased entirely. The least contact with the conductor would have occasioned instant death, the sti earn of fluid far exceeding anything I have ever witnessed, except during a thunder-storm.— St Louis GlobeDemocrat.

American Aristocrats.— If this republic ofoms is not in clanger, says an Ameiioan paper, it is not because of any lack of claimants to royalty among our eiti/HMis. Aecciding to a highly illuminated book that h being suuietly circulated among tlie wealthy chides ot New Yoik, the descendants of King's Htenilly swium m the Umpire City. The Van (Joithindsof New 'Soik ,\ie said to be descendants ot Jlobeit pi nee, the lieio of Bannock burn. Tl'O family ot iluthurfnid, aftet some indecision as to w nether they weie "finds" or " foidy happily adopted the v, w hich now entitles them to legard themselves as descendants of Charlemagne, to say nothing ot Scoteli kings, English lords and Fiench duUes, whooe glicteung splendor adorns tlie family tico ot the otheiwise piosaic JRutherfoid. The Lawienccs aic .shown to have descended fiom Alfred the Gieat ; the Claiksons claim descent fiom St. Louis; tho Hydes fiom Edwaid 111. The Lloyds ti ace their pedigice back to the Husband of Lady Godiva, and the Lamsons come in a. stiaight line fiom Queen Eleanor. Theie aie so many " Kind's clnldien " in New York tlmt it tho Royal laceb should di« out in the effete Old World there will be no difficulty in supplying the deficient yield of kings, &i the breadstuff, by inipoitation from across tlie Atlantic. A sad accident occurred dunng a temperance fete at tlie Botanical Gardens in Sheffield on July '2. Thcie were thousands ot school clnldien on tho giound, tind a mimhui of them cliincd on a dtay, when the hoise, becoming f lightened, ciusi'd a panic .among tlie little ones, two ot whom weic killed, and over twenty injuicd. The Duke of Mailborough died of cardiac syncope on July oth. He was found dead on the floor of his room. Conimentinir upon the last New Zealand budget, Mdiki/. ot the 4th instant, lnakos the following appreciative remarks :—" It is clear th.it estimates aie carefully framed ; that the expenditure is carefully controlled ; and that the revenue is elastic in the better sense. Large as tlie total of the public debt of New Zealand may "com, it is yet pioved she catefully piovides, year by ye.ir,^ not only for its service, but for its extinction. To .--how how wise h.is been tlie action ot the colony, and how tabu have been tho prophecies that it was gome too fast, we may \ oint to the fact, that whilst her revenue shows a fair increase year by year, expenditure lias been largely reduced and bi ought within bounds: anil thia at ii time w hen huge sums ha\ c been unstintedly spent on the de\ elopincnt of the country, as .shown in the increase ot •foreign trade ; the latter is, however, we should leinaik, but a small indication of the actual nnprosement of a country where, within thu last h'\e years, the laud uudor cultivation has doubled m extent.. , These are facts, we think, which prqve to dcnoinstnitiou how thoioughly sound are the seciuities of this colony.'" (treat ox'citement was caused in London on July 1"), by the report that several cases ofcholeia had occurred in the East End of the city. Tlie panic at Alexandria was icnewed on the 1 5th, nnd the people left the city in huge numbers. At Cairo, on the same date, the cholera raged, paiticulaily in the Arabs' quarter. The Sanitary Committee CHilciWonvert to punfy the place, ;\ml to isolate infected houses, bub, if the disease takes a livra liold, the piobalnlitics were it would be allowed to take its course, and that gic-at precautions will only be taken to check its piogiess. By Baker Pasha's advice, cordons aiouud infected distiicts weie abandoned as useless. Despatches from Caiio agiee that the number of deaths there tar exceed that given in official report. 'Sixty are known to have occurred on Monday, July 1(5. A despatch from Alexandria, July 17, says the cholera is spreading generally throughout the country, and the Sanitaiy Commission had isolated the city named. A despatch from Marseilles, July 17, says seveial cases had developed at Talma, Majorca, and many families had fled to the mainland of Spain. The Spanish Government ! had appropriated 1,000,000 pesetas to defray the cost of all possible measures to guard against the introduction of the epidemic Into Spain. The Egyptian Government finally, on July 19, accepted the offer ot England to send twelve doctors to the infected district,

The Pakckls System. — Great reduction in bcwtnff machines. Prices, carriage paid with all extras : Home Shuttle, L' 2 15s : ■\Vcrtheim, L 4 ; White, LJ 10-, ; hintrer, L 5 2s ; Fristcr aud Roosman, \A 10-. — with co\or, L">; Knitting Machines, L 7 ; Howe. L 3 ; Standard, Jores, &c, Kilting Machines — D S. Chnmber-;, Queen and Koit Streets, Auckland. No canvassers. Cash or defened. Repairs to .ill machines.

Eats and Mice.— If you -wish to destroy them jrct a packet of Hiix'sMagiC Vkrmin KiM.i'K in packets, Oil, Od, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extra stamp.

Lifk in the Bush— Then axd'Now.— It ib generally supposed that in the bush, we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape ot food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Hill, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of .tinned jne<its his Colonxal Sauce gives to them a. most delectable flavour, making 1 them as well of the* plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improvbd Colonial Bakino Powder makes the' very best bread, icones, cakes, and pastry far superior and mom wholesome than ye»st or Jeavth, Hfi\d by hH )i e tore?fecpers who can .9^