CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1813, 19 February 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

The jockey Wood has purchased Heath Villa at Newmarket, from Sir J. Astlev. for £3300.

Old Gent.— " Ah Mis 8., did you keep a diary during your visit to the com.try V Mis B , indignantly— " No, sir, I didn't. The f.vmily bought milk from the neighbours." A votkr deficient in beauty said to a candidate, " I mean to withdraw my countenance from you, sir ?"' " Many thanks for the favour," replied the candidate, " for it's the ugliest mug I ever saw." Wk read in an exchange of a young lady having been made ciasy by a sudden kiss. This should te.ich young ladies to be constantly expecting something of that kind, and be prepared for it when it Comes. A ship is foolishly in love when she is attached to a buoy; she is prudently in love when she leaves the buoy for the pier ; she places her effectlon beneath her when she is 'anchoring after a heavy swell; she is desperately in love when she is a tender to a man of war. School Board Officer (to collier's wife) — I see Johnnies no at the schule the day. What hae ye got to say tae that ? Collier's wife— Aweel, Sanday's at the scnlc. It's no Johnnies day for the shoou. People who hail from Ayr will remember the old tower of St. John's Church, in the fort destroyed by Ctomwell. A movement is now on foot to reerect the church, which dated from the 12th century.

Making Him Smaller Still. — Deminutive Swell (hurriedly popping his head in a window of a third class compartment) — Any room here ? Chorus of Male Voices — No. Stahvait Female (who a is errrying a child) — Oh aye, jist come in, an' all tak' ye on ma ither knee, The Englishman insisted upon calling it " luggage." Fogg' wishing to be couiteous to both, remarked that there was much to say upon this baggage question, but he never carried any luggage himself. He did not succeed in conciliating either the American or the Englishman. A littlk story is told by Scalfax :—: — An aged Hebrew went one evening to the opera, accompanied by a Gentile friend. The piece was, Meyerbeer's " Huguenots." Suddenly he bin st out into a loud laugh. " Why do you laugh ?" inquired his friend. "Laugh! The beth game I ever saw. A lot o' Protethanth an' Catholicth a killin of each other to moothic wiitten by a Jew ! Ha ! ha !" Mk A. A. O'Doxnell's challenge to ride any bicychbt in the colony in a match of three distances has been accep ted by Mr Mackenzie, ex-champion of the North ot Scotland. The parties met at "Wain's Hotel on Friday evening;, and an agreement for a match of one, three, and live miles was drawn up. The stakes Mere fixed at £25 a-side, and a deposit of £10 was n.ade by each lider. The match will probably take place about the Ist of March next. Sik W. J. Cluiki:, of Victoria, purposes purchasing three or four of the cleverest steeplecliaseis lie can obtain in Australia as a present to his son in England. Negotiations have aheady been entered into by the Sunbury baionet with a view to the purchase of Blackthorn and Abdallah. More unlikely tilings may happen than the winner of the V.R.O. Grand National Steeplechase carrying the silk at Aiutree next season ; while old Abdallah will piobably figure with the hounds at Melton Mowbray. The careless use of keiosene lias caused another death at Sydney. A manied woman, named Mary Cassidy, who was confined of a son about five weeks before, incautiously, when lighting the fire for getting breakfast ready, poured some kerosene on it fiom a tin. An explosion resulted, and before assistance could be given the unfortunate woman was fearfully burned about the back and left side, both legs, and left arm. She was lemoved to the hospital and her wounds carefully attended to, but they were of such a scveie nature that, accompanied by the shock to the system, they caused her death the same day. Poor Edmund O'Donovan, who went to the Soudan for the Daily News, and about whose fate tlieie can be no longer any doubt, had a presentiment that he would never return to England when leaving for his last tiip. "Goodbye, Jack," he said to an old friend and countryman and brother spncial. "I feel that we shall never meet again in this world, unless, indeed, you aie sent to Africa on the same errand." One of his notions at starting was to attach himself, if possible, to the Mahdi, and possess himself of his ideas. He had a great ambition to tra\el in Thibet, and used to say that he would ieali»e one of the dreams of ln^ existence if lie succeeded in effecting an introduction between the Giand Lama and a bottle of real old Dublin whisky. Mil Ciiaiili:s RortLus, an old Ballarat resident, has ot late been woiUing on the Barnet-Falk diamond-fields, Bin«era, New South Wales (says the Ballaiat Star), and according to ,1 statement made bv him, he has succeeded in securing 4000 diamonds in return for 12 months' work. The diamonds range in size from half a grain to eight carats. He states that so far his success in diamond-finding has only been the lesult of swatching the surface of the gtound, but with the view of further development, Mr Rogers says that he has sold the lease of the diamondstudded ground to a company of diamond merchants, Messrs Falk and Co., and that he lias joined them in securing that portion of the distiict w hich is so lich in treasure. The value of the ground or property contained in the lease is estimated at X 1,000,000., 000, 000. Mr Rogeis has come to Ballarat for the purpose of purchasing suitable machinery for " rooting up " the diamonds in Bingeia. A J'KOsuoution in the Police Court of New Yoik has exposed an extraordinai v stoiy of gambling on board the Cuiurd steamer Serwa, and Heniy Rice has been compelled to refund to Robeit Sullivan a sum of 2750 clollais, of which Sullivan charged Rice with having cheated him. The other passengers say it is merely a quarrel between the two over thp division of their winnings from 20 otheis, who lost \arious sums aveiaging 200 dollars each. One passenger lost 1300 dollars ; two Englishmen, brotheis, lost 500 each. One passenger landed in a penniless condition. An Ameiican, returning from Oxford, ass.sted byothets, forcibly compelled the restitution of the money that had been won from a young man coming from India. The play was generally high, and frequently the loss of hundreds of dollars depended on the toss of a coin.

A New Electric Railway. — A light railway system, driven by electricity, and running at high speed, has (according to a Home paper) been devised by Mr F. Halm Dauchell, C. E., whose objects is to effect the rapid transit of letters and parcels by electiical means. The distinguishing features in its construction is that it has only one rail for the train to run on, instead of two, and that it is balanced by another rail overhead, which at the same time performs the function of conducting the electric cm-rent, which also prevents the train leaving the metals, as it is embraced by side-friction pulleys, placed in pairs, and connected with the roof of the carriages. The railway is circular, and about Bft in diameter, the motor being about 12in long, Bin high, and deriving its current from an ordinary bichromate battery. The motor or engine has a pair of grooved driving wheels of large diameter, and placed in line with each other. The object of this construction is to reduce the friction to a minimun, and thus facilitate the production of high speed. Sir Dauchell proposes a speed of from 150 to 200 miles per hour, the ( railway being specially designed for thVtransistpf letters, parcels and light goods, tiwtf appealing to the necessity of our postal system., Experiments on a larger jspalfehave been carried *olty by Mr Dauchell:, jat , Maidilpne,' ,», whjch . have den)ositi*tea the practicability of the

" Gi:oegk, dear,' 1 don't yon think it rather cvtiavngant of you to eat butter with that delicious jam ?" •' No, love, economical. Same piece of bnad docs for both." Tjif, French Cabinet is said to be divided upon the Egyptian question, Ferry thinking the present a good time for France to regain her position in ICgjpt, while some of his colleagues depiecate any action in the matter. We think Font's colleagues are right. Fiance will never regain her position in Egypt without having trouble with John Bull, who has taken that countiy for his own pastuie, and will not bo found willing to share it with any one elbe. A skv.svtio^al shooting cat-e occurred in a train in New South Wales on the 22nd. Constable Hoilgkinson and arrested a youth named Albert Deeneen, of Sydney, chaiged with horse-stealing. While conveying his piisoner to Picton, Doeneen having requested io have the handcuffs removed, suddenly drew a revolver and fired four shots at the constable, all of which took effect. The constable, however, was fatill alive at latest dates, some of the bullets had been extracted, and hopes were entei tamed of his recovery. Guard Watson, in charge of the train, displayed great coinage in rushing into the c.uriage and seizing Deeneen, wlio also fired at Watson but missed his aim. The family of Mr E. C. Brewer, of the Bank of New South Wales, residing at Bondi (N.S.W.), wcie consideiably startle lone morning recently, when the infant son, aged 15 months, toddled into the house with a young whlpsnake, 16in long, and alive, in his hands. The little fellow had hold of the snake in the middle, and was shaking it about to his enjoyment, but to the horror of the father, who at once seized the reptile and killed it. It was thought the boy had been bitten, as there was a small spot on his head, but no blood. Mr Brewer opened the t-pot and sucked the wound, and afterwaids took the child to Dr Creek, but no symptoms of a poisonous snake-bite could be noticed. Wk are accustomed to hearing American newspapers predicting fearful things for England when the Fenians get " good and ready '' to tackle her, but it is something new to hear the French papers taking up the same cry. Tolandier's paper, Republique Dcmocratique et Sociate, shites that it knows that, in a few days, numerous reprisals against the English will occur in It eland to avenge the execution ot O'Donnell, and adds that the Irish revolutionists -will burn London, and that the Ameiican Fenians have studied minutely the operations to be can icd out by them. Yeiy lenible, tiuly, but somehow or other we don't think that the liish will burn London. They don't seem to think &o o\er there, either. TjtK practical loality and and petmauency of the giip which the British Lion has laid upon the Egyptian Sphynx is illustiatcd by the r-ie^ent aspect or the Soudan situation, with more abiuptness, perhaps, than is welcome to Gladstone and his colleagues. The pol.cy of the English Government with icgaid to Egypt has hitheito been ot a \eiy fast and loose older, so far at least as outward appeal anccs wont. We weie continually being told that theßtitish tioops would gradually evacuate Egypt, and leave the countiy to its otigiual owneis. Of couise the troops did not go, because it was never the intention of Gladstone & Co. that they should, but this was an example of the transparent hicks by which the Government bought to conceal its teal pin po^e. The success of Xl Mahdi has suddenly changed all this, and compelled Gladstone to show his hand, for it is no longer doubtful that England is to take Egypt's tiouble upon her ohouldcis as completely as if the couutiv was om' of heic colonies. And this state of aftaits appeal t> to meet with the entire appirnal ot the Egyptian dignitaries, who doubtless are glad to be lehevi'd fioni the heavy lc-ponsibihly which would olhctwtsc devolve upon them. For instance, N.ibarl'a&ha declaies that Eg}' pt can piospcr only by a union with England, and states that no time will be lost in carrying into effect the policy imposed upon the Egyptian Government by the English, w hile the Khedive, speaking in the same key. says that he is convinced that English alone helped him in the hour of hisadversifcy.at Alexandria. I Dlcexcyin TUB Datkv.— The following account, fiom Ihe Daily of an lowa farmer's clean and careful method of milking is an agieeab'e contrast to the slov ely practice of many keepers of cow s. If Ins conscientious and wholesome plan could be geneially adopted it would result to the credit of agiicultuie, in the imptovements of quality of dairy products. A piesent it is safe to say that a view by city consumeis ,of the filthy practices pievalent in many places, especially wheie large herds are kept, would occasion a lapul and permanent decline in the market for milk. For instance, the sight of a hired man just out of bed squirting milk into his unwashed hands and driiiping it into the 1a 1 ficm a di.ty udder is enough to sicken a dog of average perception?. But let us turn to a pleasanter pictuie. After a remark about the application of the Golden Rule to dairying, the w riter ret'ened to says :— " At 5 o'clock I am in the cow s stables. The feed prepared the night before is put into the feed boxes, which are first cleaned out of all remnants of former feed, and, if sour, they are scouted out with water and a broom. While the cows are eating, they arethoughly caidcd and blushed, as well as any well kept horse is — and all over fiom head to switch. The udder is sponged if necessary, and wiped with a clean towel, and not a dungy iag. The gutters are then cleaned out, and the stalls a common road broom being used to finish after a broad scraper, which draws the manure down to the trap doois and into the cellar. The floor aud gutter and then litteied w^-11 with saw dust, w lien we have no straw. For fifteen cows this takes an hour. Theu Igo to bieakfast. At halfpast 6 the cows are milked, and each milker has oveialls and an apron made of striped ticking, with which he can milk in his Sunday clothes and slip] ev-s, if he likes ; and any lady may go in vit l a silk diesson and not hurt it. As the milk is drawn it is strained at once into the deep pails wliich stand on the platform and are kept eovpred ; the milk pails have strainers, and a double strainer is kept in the deep cans, so that the milk goes through three straineis. But this is not really necessary, as I would cheerfully dtink a glass of the milk ditect from the cow as i milk it. But out of consideration for my customers who buy my butter and milk I put the milk tin ough three strainers. As soon as the deep pails are full they are closed aud carried to the milkhonse and handed to the person who sets the milk in the pool or the creamer}', or, if it is put into shallow pans, strains it once more. Now, there is nothing hard to do about this. It is so easy after having begun it and got into the way of it that it would be hard to stop it. And I don't see how it is easy to be clearner than we are in our dairy. If you can show us a way we will certainly walk in it.''

One Shilling. — Francis J. Shortts' Popular Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Painting's by celebrated artists. 5000 tickets at 1&. The prizes are magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will have titkets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. — Fkancjs J. Shoktt, 140, Queen- street, Auckland. — [Advt.]

Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to cle stroy them get a packet of Hir i.'s Magfc Vermiv Kn i I'R in packets, Od, l)d, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Iln l by enclosing an extia stamp.

Lifk in the Bumi— Then and Now. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now. thanks to T. B. Hill, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food docs consist chiefly of tinned mrats his Colonial Sauce gives to them a most delectable flavour, making 1 them as welt of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improved ColoniAl Baking Powder makes the very best bread, ,sejppes, cakes, and pastry far ' superior tnd mpre"- wholesome than iveast pr : i 'caven, S,ol4jAyMßJi?«>lcepperi r who ' can :oh. ;