CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1869, 28 June 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

W i^^HP 7 York p r ' B°ns8 ° ns asfc y ear em " p RW^WpHB cbnvicts on contract work. ffl AmOmpthese wore 1750 on boots and F f *no»i^2iß on stoVes and hollow ware ; jPs{p<i)ii^ad<ttery hardware, harness, &o. ; rs*%csstAt goods, and 376 on clothing. <** J?HK ttoy. S. Hudson Taylor, addiessin|:|i.inoeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, the othj|r clay, atattd that the China Island - Mmion, which was started by himself th|?t§rT' five years ago, has now 120 nnjftionaries, who have preached throughoupjthe whole of the forty provinces of , th|l)Smpire. In response to his appeal, *•* sOHwirtbritha ago, for seventy additional '"' O^jftonaries up to the present he hail procured thiity-five. Prof. E. F. Morse, in a lecture in Boston on Japan, said that the rich _ send their children to school p'Tn'iiiferior garments, in order that the 1 Children of poor, who can get no others, „. may not be ashamed to wear their own "Hlothing. The annual literary prize of 25,000f., instituted by the King of the Belgians, ;Svfll for 1885 be granted to theauther of " the best work on means oi popularising the Btudy of geography, and developing it in the different educational establishments. It is stated that John Morley having, in one of his books, persisted in spelling , God with a small g, a reviewer spelt Morley with a small m. i John Harris, the late excellent Cornish poet, was a poor miner who from his boyhood spent his leisure in writing verse, which was at first scratched upon broken tiles, or written on grocery paper, with ink made by the poet from the juice , of blackberries. The white ants that thi eaten the stability of the Boston State House work inside of the wood they attack, no sign l of themselves or their operations appear- " ing on the outside. They have been 1 known to honeycomb a long wooden pillar without giving any external indication of their presence. On account of several recent cases of death in England among children who had been fed on wheaten biscuit, a Shysician states in the British Medical onrnal that infanta under six or eight months should be fed with nothing whatever but milk. Lady Ruthven, whose interest in Greece dates as far back as the war of independence, has presented he collection of Greek vases, terra cottas, lamps and coins in all more than 3000 object?, to the Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. The Bee's Work. —The honey bee has long been a type of the industrious worker, but there are few people who know > how much labour the sweet hoard of the hive represents. Each head of clover contains about sixty distinct flower ? 'tubes each of which contains a portion of sugar not exceeding the five-hundredth part of a graiu. Some apiarian enthusi- >, ast, who had watched their movements, . concludes that the proboscis of the bee must therefore be inserted into five hundred clover tubes before one grain of sugar can be obtained. There are 7000 grains in a pound, and as honey contains three-fourths of its weight of dry sugar, each pound of honey lepresents 2,300,000 clover buds sucked by bees. A Minister's Pony. — Our minister was learned and warm-heaited, but somewhat erratic and absent minded. He had a pony that had a great aversion to donkeys, and it was with great difficulty that it could be got to pass one of these animals on the road. One day when tiding to Forfar lie met, near Quilkie, an itinerant earthcnwaie inei chant, w hose stock in trade was drawn by a donkey. The pony reared, and backed, and kicked, and was only got past after a great struggle. The minister at a turn of the road a little further on and before his mind was quite composed, met the Provost of Forfar. " A fine clay, Provost," said the minister. " Yes fine, Mr Allen," replied the Provost. " Do you think, Provost, I'm likely to meet any more asses ou this road ?" The Provost used strong language in reply, though there was no cause for it. Jamks M'Leavy, a native of Alexandra, Dumbartonshire, and well known in the pedestrain world as a long-dis-tance runner, died in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary a few weeks ago. He was for a number of years the champion mile rnuncr of the world. A couple of years ! ago he went to America, where he reJ mained for some time. He returned to I Scotland in unfcebled health, and gained admission to the Infirmary. v " " The occupants of the Russan frontier station Alimta, on the Chinese border, were recently muidercd, and the station burnt down. An investigation showed the outrage to be the result of a joke. The station manager had two grown 4 daughteis, whom in jest he sold to a >jkDle. of Chinamen, forgetting that k. in China was both com- «> n^ Hl3H 13 visitois took the Mtji?^ Spriest, and paid a part of the J^^^noney down, promising to re4nli the rest. When it was too HJP^ne father protested that he was not " in earnest, and went away. Alarmed *\ for his daughter's safety, the station / master sent them to a neighbouring military post, and when their would-be owners returned pretended that they had disappeared mysteriously. The Chinamen furious at what seemed to them a breach of faith, fell upon him with their knives and killed him. A Cossack, who was the only other person at the station, Bhared his fato, and the murderers burnt the building. On demand of the Russian authorities they wcto afterwards seized and executed. From New York the death from apoplexy of Mdme Anna Bishop is announced. This well-known singer (ne'e Ann Riviere) will lie remembered by some as a visitor to the Australian Colonies in the year 183G, together with the harpist Bochsa, who played a most iin-, y portant part in her career, and who died* r Shortly after their arrival in Sydney, pun Riviere, when only fourteen years of age, married the conductor and composer, Sir Henry Bishop, then a man of forty seven. The Fiench violinist and harpiest, Bochsa, himself fifty years of qge some years after completely triun pled over the heart of his young English pupil, and organised two professional tours over nearly the whole of Europe, and subsequently extended their pilgrim- „ age to America and Australia. Six or n -seven years ago Mdme Anna Bishop returned to England and sang at the Agri- : - -cultural Hall and elsewhere, but her %& voi<Jeivas completely gone, and she soon iiiiMfßi'wned her second husband, M. Sclniltz, New York. !y A French journal gives an account of oorne curious experiments which were re!\,ceritly made in connection with the rails //'of the railway between Marseilles and Rognac, Fiance, by a professor in the y,jFaculty of Sciences in Marseilles. All rails laid down for some time past f have been transformed at both ends into , r i powerful magnets, capable of attracting ; even large pieces of iron. It was found :, that if the rails are removed they still - retain their magnetic force for some | time, losing it gradually. The magnetLssm r is noticeable only after the fish ■ plates are remo\ed, and is accounted for wythe friction produced by the wheels running over the line. On the whole, it :„ is considered that the magnetic force a beneficial influence by in;r~cteasing the adhesion of the wheels to r tbe rails. &%3g,^ATS and Mice.-— lf you wish to de i^itrpy them get a packet of Hill's Magic Vermin HgCjIXBR in packets, Od, 9d, and Is, to be obtained NgfOMH storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enHrajcwinfi an extia stamp. MHffiipß in the Bush— Then and Now.-— HHff "^generally supposed that in the bush we have KiMgßgiftfwith many discomforts and privations I^EanKftUpe ! oi food. Formerly it was so, but RHMKpAnks to T. B. Hill, who has himself bush, if food does consist chiefly of ■HHmraneats his Colonial Sauck gives to them flavour, making them as well enjoyable, and instead ■nßHaiHSCuits aad indigestible damper his ImBaking PoVvdek makes the j»cones, cakei, and pastry far wholesome than' yeast" qr HHffiSffl^s tyf aJ). rtowkfftperi whoscan'ob.