CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1860, 7 June 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS .

The result of, Mr Gladstone's new electoral reform will lie that upwards of 1,300,000 additional voters , will ,be ; enfranchised in England. ' 200,000 in Scotland, apd 40M,00 in Irehnd,. ,It will, therefore, ' adil ' hearly £,OOO,OCO voters to the 3,ooo,ooo "already existing. Vessels arriving lately at the various ports on the Canadian coast report having passed large quantities of ice, as well as icebergs. An iceberg of huge dimentions was passed by the telegraph steamer Minia. The Minn, on February, 2S, saw a large steamer in the ice. The steamer was under Fail at the time. The Minia herself encountered very heavy weather the same day and hove to under the lee of an immense iceberg Al though only 70 feet high, it was estimated that the iceberg in circumference was at least four miles. The luvalaide Russe reports the invention by a Russian officers of Sappers, Lieut. Krudinow, of a portable apparatus for intercepting telegraphic and telephonic messages in war time. The apparatus is a small square box weighing a iittlc over two kilogrammes. It contains mechanisms for transcribing a telegram or making a telephonic message audible. At the top of a box is a small battery for returning the enemy false messages. Bee fctings should be scraped out with a knife or the finger nail. The poison sac is pulled away when the bee stings any one, and is left attached to the barb, and if this is taken between the thumb and finger the poison is pressed out into the wound. After extracting the sting blow some smoke upon the place, if an onion cannot be at once obtained. A slice of onion rubbed upon a place stung by a bee or wasp will at once allay the pain. Ik Germany the following method is employed for making sacks stronger and moie durable :— Take a ptoportion of 21b of wood ashes to 2\ gallons of boiling water ; let the mixture boil for one hour, and pour off the liquid, in which the sacks should soak for 24 hours. It is claimed that this process tans the vegetable fibres in the sacks treated in this way will last more than twice as long as if not so treated. Skim milk stands at the head of artificial food for young pigs, and when there is plenty of this they need be no fear about results. Cooked meat may be advantageously added in small quantities to the milk, provided there is plenty of milk, as it is the milk that will furnish th«» albuminoids and mineral elements. The proportion of, say about one pound to a quart of milk, is very desirable. The wearing out of tools and farm implements is, as a rule?, due more to neglect than use. If tools can be well taken care of, it will pay te buy those made from the very best st°el and finished in a perfect manner. But in careless hands the bad are as good as the best. As soon as you have done with n, tool or implement for the season, clean it and put it into a dry place. If of metal, oil it and put it under cover. In Pennsylvania, United States, two wondeiful wheels luve recently been manufactured. The combined weight is 124 tons, and their cost, when in place will be not less than 50,000d015. One of them is to be stationed at the Hecla, and the other at the Calumet copper mines in Michigan, These mines, by the way, arc the greatest copper-producers in the world. The output, so far, has been delibeiately reduced so as not to interfere with other copper-mining companies in this country. The great steam engine used at the Centennial was the largest ever made in the world up to that time. It is now in use in that wonderful town of Pullman, near Chicago. Gold ix Ancient Times. — Gold was in excess in ancient time?, and mostly taken from the rivers in Asia. The fables of Poctolus, of the golden fleece of the Argonauts, of the gold from Ophir, the history of King Midas, &c, all point to an eastern origin of this metal. Accoiding to Pliny, Cyrus returned with 34,000 Roman pounds of gold (about §10,000,000). The treasmes exacted from Persia by Alexander the Great amounted to 451, 000 talents, or §400,000,000. Gold also came from Arabia, and upon the Nile from the interior of Afiica. Pliny calls Asturias the country in which the most gold is found. A table bearing the following inscription was found iv Idanha Velha, Portugal : " Claudius Rufii3 returns his thanks to Jupiter for having permitted him to find one hundred and thirty pounds of gold." These sources of wealth have ceased to (low, and the endeavour of several Englishmen to re-open them have been unsuccessful. Bohemia, Mahren, Silesia and Tyrol all have produced gold, and the receding of the glaciers has caused old mines to be uncovered, while upon the Italian side, at Monte Rosa, Val Sesina, Val Ansasca, gold mines are still worked to-day, although with indifferent success. The only works of any note are tho3e of Kiemnitz, Hungary. It may therefore be safely asserted that Europe is completely exhausted in this respect.—-Popu-lar Science Monthly. The Garmoyle Episode.— ln accordance with the custom that is becoming quite common in England, the Garmoyle Fortescue episode brought out several "interviews" with prominent people more or less connected with the case. Amongst others, Mr George Grossmith, the popular comedian of the Savoy Theatre, was dragged into the contropersy. "Mr Grossmith," said the interviewer, " you knew Miss Fortescue intimately. To whese influence do you ascribu the the rupture with Lord Garmoyle ?" "To the iufluence of the Duke of Richmond," said Mr Grossmith promptly. "How was the Duke of Richmond conceired ?" "As a friend of Lord Cairns, and as one of the Conservative leaders he wrote to Lord Cairns, saying that no actress could ever be reeched at Court." "Is that a fact?" '"Certainly not. Lady Martin is received at Court. Lvdy Martin is the wife of the Queen's most intimate friend. Well, who was Lady M.irtin but Helen Fd ucit, the actress ?" " Then you think the Queen would have received Miss Fertescue ?" " The Queen gave a distinct intimation that Miss Fortescue should be presented atthefii stdrawing-room afterher wedding." " Did Lord and Lady Cairns seem to approve of the engagement ?" " Unquestionably. Lord Cairns wrote to Miss Fortescue commending her charms and virtues. Lady Cairns wrote from abroad saying that though her principles forbade her to see Miss Fortescue on the stage she would gladly welcome her at home." "And did Miss Fortescue go ? " asked the correspondent. "Yes; she went to Lord Cairns' place in Scotland." " Was she well received ? " " Warmly. The house was full of nobles and notables, who made much of her." " Did her visit increase Lady Cairns' palpitation of the heart?" "I never heard so," said Mr Grossmith. "Then Miss Fortescue was surprised at Lord Garmdyle's excuse ? " "Exceedingly." "Did Lord Garmoyle seem sorry ? " "He wrote that his heart was broken, and that his case was in the hands of his solicitors." " Was his heart really broken?" "I believe so," said Mr Grossmith;, "but he managed to carry the pieces to Connie Gilchrist's birthday festival." "Did Lady Cairns make any effort to console Miss Fortescue for the^ loss of Jher. son?". " Yes." " What did she do"?." Klf&he gather a Bible." Rats and Mioe.— lf> you,wish to de, stroy them get a packet of Hill's Magic Vbrmin Killkr in packets, 6d, 9d, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from' T. B. Hill by enclosing an exti a. stamp, , , - , LIFK IN THE BoSJI—TkEN AND NOW.— It is generally supposed that in 1 the bush we have in the shupi »k'f6bd*>£orWl]P<SPwW WnJut now, thanks to T. B. Hat, who has himself dwelt in thcbuih, if food does consist chiefly, of troned'meajs his Colonial Sauce givesj Jo.' them; a ni6st' Selectable flavour, WiWnir them /swell of the pUinGstifood most enjoyable; and" instead as hard bjicuifc anjdiindigejtiblejdajjjpeiamlM^ prove* Colonial Baking Powdkr makes the, very best bread, scones, cakes, and paitry far superior an| n^p>eu w^Jiwm^jffiWwVeasilof lo^vcn. Sold pya.l[stojeke?p«ri, who canpbtttiH jt xroip my i morch tilt in *^A_wftitf^m n i^ , *