A CURIOUS BEAR STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 19 June 1884, Page 4

A CURIOUS BEAR STORY.

(!i,oin,i, S\\ii«r, .'i im icliman in the (iiand Yalh-y, 1. 1 mi story which shows ' how unenwable is the life of the <*tocU nisei in that wilderness. Ashoit lime' \H<) Mr hwift lot his thici'-yi'ni oltl d.uightei lide upon lus hoisc, ,m<l aftei she had nddun about forty lods from home lie lifted hci ofFtho anuniland toM lici to run home. On letuining about mi lioui later he found that Hi" littlo one ha 1 not readied home, and, going to the place, where he hid List sclm liei, lie found bear ti icks on tlio sand. A posse was ioimed. and all night was spent seaieh ing for the lo^t olnld. In th' 1 morning, as the staichers weie parsing a swamjiy sj)ot >\'ieie the underflow th vas thick, they heal (l her voice I'licy odUed to the little gul to come out of ttie bushes, but she icplied that the boir would not let her. The men then ciept tlnougU the bush, and when near the spot lieaid a spla-h in the water, wiucii the cliild said vas tiie bear. They found her standing upon a Ing, extending half way across the swamp, and it bcemed as though the bear had undei taken tociossthe swamp, on the log, and, being put sued, left the child, and got away as lapully as possible She had leceived some su.jtehe-) about the face, aims and legs, and her clotlics were almost toui fiom lici bod), but the bcai had not bitten her to hint her, only the maiks of his teeth heni!,' found upon her back, wheie he hail taken hold of her clothes to cairy her. Phe child told her rescueis th.it the bear had put Ikm down occasionally to icst, ,md would put his nose up to her face, w heieupon she would slap him and he would han o ' his head b} her .side and pui and nib against her like a cat. Hei Uthci asked lici if she had been cold dining the liiglit, and she told him that the old bo ir lay beside her and put lib "arma"aiound hoi and kept her warm, — Con. (ll.i'-gow Jfeiald.

Tin, ]e\\ollcis of Tin key, bo ate ino-«llj Auuomaus, aic said to lia\c a singulai method of ornamenting wat'-h cases, k, w ith diamonds and other picuous stones, by simply gluing 01 ( iim iitnig them on. Tlie stone i-> set in ami aihci, ami the lower part of the metal made flat, or to conc-spoiid \\itii that pait to w Inch it is to be fi\ed ; it is tliui wanned gently, and tlie glue applied, which is so \ civ stiongthat tlie pait-3 thin cemented uesei sepatate. '1 his cement, which will fninly unite bits of i^las^, and e\ en polished -steel, and may ot eouisC ho applied to a gieat \ain_t\ of useful purposes, is thif made : I)is-ol\e li\e or m\ bits> of gum mastic, caeh tlie M/e of a laige pea, in a-^ much alcohol as will suffice to lendei it liquid ; in anothei \ cssel di •»■,!<. ea> nun h is nglavs— pie\ iou^ly a little softened m watci must be used— in good biauiK 01 nun <is will make a two«un c phial of \i iv '-tioug glue, adding two small bits ot gum g.ilbunun or amniomaeum w hich must be nibbed or giound until they aie dissolved ; then nn\ the whole with heat Keep th" glue m a phial closely stopped, and u hen it is to be u>ed c -et the phial m boiling watei. 'lo a\oi<l the eiacUmg of 1 \iep\iuil b\ espi>Miie to such sudden lie.it, use a thin giecn glass phial, and hold it to the '-team loi a tew seconds, l>ctoie li'iineisiiiL' it in Iho hot watei. 'hi\r "Chinese" (.Soidon is a man of deep lelu'ions coimctioiis the following incident (ni\,s Vanity Kail) lllustiatcs in a \eiy lemaikable way :— 'W hen the ■it my authonties had tauhly decided th it" in the e\ent ot his accepting the Ijt'gMii mi won to Congo, (Jcneial (ioidon need not icMgnhia commission in I foi ,Ma|city'-> seiweo attei all, he was summon' d to the Wai Olhee. A- Loid JLutingtor could not wait to icccne him, I 'if Adjutant (Icncial did so, and eommuiiu ated the decision of the (}o\ m.inent Then seizing upon an oppoi tunity thatpiobably seemed fivoi,ible foi picking up .i useful hint or two, Loid Wolsely began to .speak of alTans in K^\pfc — "• have got into an aw af nl me s about the Soudan," "aid he. "It mil all (..lino light in the end," answpied (ioidon confident!}. " lwisli I could see in whatwii}, "-aid liv loid-hip ; "matters appeal to be going fiom bad to woise " (ioidon lephed . " You needn't wony joiii^elf about that , I know it will come all iiL'ht in the end." " l[o\v so," asked tho othei "It you want to know," said (ioulon, " lead that' I—and1 — and lie handed his loidslup a book. The Ad | u tint < !( nei.d took it, possibly e\ peeling to find that it contained an claboiate scheme foi the defence, icfoini, and »o\ eminent of the Egyptian ten ltory. Xothin^ of the soit ; it was the l)e Imitatione Clnisti of Thomas a Kenipis. fv is stated tiiat the United States O\stei Commission leeeived 21,000d01. Li-it year fiom taxes and the t-ale of L'lonnd-. Xibc thousand dollars of this inn will co\ci expcnces, and 12,000 dolhts ic<> to t!i<j Stite- 'J'leasmy. The G'omlMissioneis ha\e staked out to pnvate owneis about 1.3,000 aeies of oyster beds oil i>i idgepoi t and Stiatfoid, Conne'liout, ot whidi 4000 acies aie aliLid\ mulct cultivation. Up \\ aids of ■-200,000 buahcls of '•eed oysteisliavo been planted this summei. This busine-,s was iemaikabl\ piolitablu w eie it not foi the -In fi-h, which, it appeus, have done mule damage dunng tlie past season than t\ii betoie They flestioyed one man's ti.'ekof 100 acics of Stiatfoid in three week-. t -|)oilmg a 2">,000dol, h.avest. One diedgei took no less than thiee hundred bushels of staifish in seven horns, and 1000 staihsh aie reckoned to the bushel. " Ci\ :s " thinks that it is a fine thing lo bo a contiactoi for (!o\ eminent Life 'iiiuinnce, a much bettei thing than it is to lie a eontiactoi loi any other kind of ui'dei taking Vide the e\|jeiience of Mi (ieoiu'e Thorn", |un. He had no nsks. Jhs mission was .simply to gather eoniniis^ions foi himself by gatheiingpieii'iunib foi the depai fcmenfc, and the whole colony was his Tom Tuldlei's mound. Toi tlu 5 labour, w, tliewoik of obtaining and pocketing, X 2,300 per annum, ho was ]>aid a salary of ,£4.">o, using Ins jeaily stipend of something veiy comfoi table indeed. Something a gieat deal moie comfoi table than the wagrs of a Cabinet Minister or a Chief Justice, and with veiy much less lesponsibilily entailed. But the most pulling piit of the ariiingement is the mutual l elation of Mr George Thorne and the official head of the department. Mr Luekie, with his irodcst CSOO a year, was, we iindci c t,uid, the poison upon whom it devolved to conclude Mr Thome's engagement, to induct him unto this rich living. And with pi eat self denial he did it. It is something like Major Atkinson knighted by his own cleik or pnvate seuefruy. Weielin the Chief Commissioner's place I should most certainly have —in schoolboy pailanco — "swopped." I would ha\e decended fiom in} lofty pedestal and myself assumed thegaibof humility— and £3000 per annum. It is no wonder, that under the eiieumstances, Mr Thorne was zealous. Many of his detractois would 'ia\e been uncommonly realous in his place His schemes against the travelling agents of ii\al companies were, no doubt, Machiavellian, but they were clever. With the same \er}' impoitant interest— a poibon.il interest — at stake, I might myself have condescended to place a bankmptcy placard in a railway caniage, and to " woik the pump-handle judiciously." Eats and Mice.— -If you wish to de siioy thorn get i pickot of Hill's Magic Vermiv Kn n k in packets, (id, 9(1, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeeper:., or from 1. ]J. Hill by en- ( W s.nff an e\ti'i sf.unp Lipk in thkßumi— Titkn and Now. — It is pfincrally supposed that m 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. H. Hfir, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Cot on ial Saucu gives to them a most delectable flavour, niakinjr them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Impkovi n Colonial RAKihG Powder makes the \ciybest bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far ■.upeiior and more wholesome than Yeast or leaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can obtun it from any merchant in Auckland.