CLIPPINGS

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1776, 22 November 1883, Page 4

CLIPPINGS

Tiikrk .ire IIJ surviving officers who took p.irt in the battle of Wateiloo. lv Kngl.iiid over ,">OOO bicycles are uscil in tlie mail service, and tlieie are at least 2">0,000 English wheelmen. Drnivc the hst decide 13 mon hsive died in trresit Hiitain, each ot whom left a foitmio of £1,000,000 or more. A srou\ is in ciioiil.ition in Wall sheet to tlio < (IWtt'i.ifc John W. Muclviy, .John W. (l.iriL'tt. Rolicrt (Jarrett, and J.imi-b iioidoti Bennett, lia\e pledged themselves to subscribe four million dolI.us out of the 11 vo millions required tor laying two cables across the Atlantic. AI. (> \kdkv, one of the tutois of the Sultan's onidien, having the rank of captain aide-de-camp, was drowned a few weeks ago at a boating party. An inpobing fiiiUiial took place, at the expense of the Sultan, who commanded all the high officials of the Palace to be picsent. On August 19 Miss Anna Arkwright. 02, of Mai k Hall, near Mai low, Ks.se\, a lady much lespeoted in the district, died fioiii the sting of a wasp which had got into her pocket. She received the injury on her little finger, and died from" the pain in halt-an-hour atteiwards. Tin: now paib of the University at BlooniiiiL'toii, Indiana, was lecently set on lite by lightning during a thunderstoim, the electric fluid travelling along a telephone wire which scrvid the institution. The laboratory, museum and library were completely destroyed. The museum contained a collection of fishes, made by Dr Jordan, which was thought to be the largest and most valuable in the United .States. There were 1 ."5,000 volumes in the library, besides the socalled Owen collection, the loss of which is believed to be nrcpaiahle. The general loss is estimated at 200,000 dols, ot which only 30,000 dols is covered by insurance. An inventor of a flying-machine, who claims jiu-cess, has at last appeared. The appaiatus is described as a steam machine constmcted of light wood, and shaped like the frame of a four-wheeled carnage, with two huge wheels in front and two behind. The inventors idea is to piopel the machine by steam on land until it attains a velocity which will be sufficient to lift the machine from the giound, when it will be navigated by sails. At the lirst tnal the machine was lifted fiom the mound. Tnoii. who wiite to the paper* have lately a-^attd much th.it the Volunteers can t shoot. A l.uly l elated to the Speaker is able to piove to demonstration that they can. While Miss Rose Humd and her governess were walking in a field near Durham, lately, the former suddenly found herself minus n finger, and a hand much shattered. The cause ot the iii|tni"-, was a bullet filed by one of those w hose shooting ability had been doubted. It it, right to bay that the bullet was .uined at a. taiget, ,md not at Mit-b Biand. L\i.<.' cm hi has the following story to tell about cigarette smoking : " It would seem tli.it 40 pel cent, of the cigaiettcs sold in the United States .lie smoked by ladies. In Russia the percentage i-5 even meatei ; nhilstin Fiance, (lei many and Italy the peicentage consumed by the fair sex must be considerable. And why not ? It men find pleasme in tobacco, why should women be aibitianly excluded iiom the enjoyment ot the -siiMie pleasiue ? When, many jeais ago, I \\,\h living in the United States, the young ladies of Washington^ ere given to what they termed "digging," 1 .i piacticc fai nioi e objectionable than smokiiiL'. A digging party consisted ot d number of girls squatting on the ground lonnd a howl, in which tliete\vci3<i thick mixtinc of snulf and watei. This they used to put into their months u ltli sticks, and nib it on their teeth— the theoiy being that it whitened them ; but this of course, was a mere excuse for w hat was equivalent to chewin',' — The Hour. Tin. (JuiM.si. Ahmv.-lii an aiticle tic.iting upon the milit.iiy sticngth of Chin.i, the Moiniug Post says : — "The Chinese held foices are divided into time ,n lilies of opeiation, each from :U),000 to 40,000 stiong, to -which must he added a foiuth army of a strength of about 120,000 men, which furnished the garusons for the various cities. It N not '-.lying too much theiefoie, that China would be able to oppose an invading auny appearing between Tientsin and I'ekin by 100.000 f.iuly well dulled tioops at uiF>d with modem weaijons. As a matter of fact, the Chinese aimy is at piesent in a state of leoiganisation. The new army is to be systematically ie-constructed on an entirely novel basis, the existing army supplying merely human material. The basis includes the selection, purchase, and introduction of a new aim both for the infantry and artillery, the le-organisation of the existing factories for the nmnufactiuc of the new arms and ammunition, the di.iwing up of fresh regulitions, and finally the establishment of mihtaiy schools for the formation of militaiy cadres. The questions of the Aveapons to be adopted for the Chinese aimy was settled in 1880, when both the Mauser lille for the infantry and the Kiuppgun for the artilleiy were introduced. In that year laigc contiacts for the supply of the Mauser arm were entcied into with the German manufactuieis and partly eflected, and continued tlnou^h ISBI. Krupp's gun factory furnished in 1880 no fewer than 130 siege and na\al guns and 27") field guns. They weic all delivered in China the same je.ir. The Chinese army is being reoiganised on the German pattern, and seveial (lei man regulations and military handbooks have been translated into Chinese through the direct agency of the Chinese Ambassador at Berlin."' A Durvicuin's Diary. — On the person of . i sti anger picked up drunk, the other night, the police found a diary of the affair, reading as foMows : — '' Wednesday morn— Ar'd in Det. Fine town Had a ]<\w with a hackman." — " Later — Town impr\esasl look at it. Took a drink. Cum near having a fight. Took anther dunk." — " Still later— Seen the P.O. and City Hall. Fine strucktures. Had a dispute. Took a diink. Town impr'ves. Saw a runaway. Had some beer. Saw a dog fk'ht." — "Yet Later — Seen all the opera h'ses. Took a drink. Saw the liver. Treated a man to the beare. W'nderful how much bizn's is cirried on here. Fine town. Took a drink. Feel good." — "Afternoon — Town improves on me. Took a drink. Had a low. Biz'ss rushing. Big g'sses of beare f'r five cts. Feel jolly nice."— "Later —Great rush biz'ness. Took brandy this time. Seen 'er m'rk't. Seen 'er wheat el'vat'is. Feel good. Fine town." — "Still later — S'nice town. Fleel gooz. Took 'er drik. Shaw 'er p'leocemen. Whoop. Took a 'er—"— " Very latest— Shaw— .shaw— s-h-a-w a b'leecetnan. All i ']/,. Feal happy. Feal zif I c-o-u-l-d — could — '' — But he couldn't. He made for an alley and went to sleep. He was so di unk that they tied his legs up in a knot and carried him down in the shape of a ball. Kvts and Mice.— lf you wish to destroy them get a packet ot Hu i 'sit vote Vkrmin Xiii i k in p.w-ktts. (id, S)d, and Is, to be obtained ot all stoiekeepers, or irom T. J3. Hill by enclosing an evtra stamp. Os'fc iSiiitu\(J. — Francis J. Shortts' Popul.u Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Paintings by ccleln.itcd mtists. SiOOO tickets at Is. The pri/ps arc magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will have tickets by rctuin post. Enclose stamped envelope for replv.— Fkancfs J. Shokii, 140, Queen -street, Auckland. — [Anvi.] Lii'K ix the Busu— Tiiex and Now.— It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and piivations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. 11. Htix, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Kaucb gives to them a most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improvfd Colonial Raking Powdkk makes' the very best bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior and more wholesome than, yeast or leaven. Sold by all storekeepers whoc^n ob. teiu it fropt any werghaut in AucWaudi.^ . I ,