MR GLADSTONE AND THOUGHT READING. (Daily-Telegraph.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1895, 28 August 1884, Page 4

MR GLADSTONE AND THOUGHT READING. (Daily-Telegraph.)

SiroKTLY after eleven o'clock last night Mr Gladstone and neatly 100 mi'inbets ot Paili.imout of all r.uiks and parties were present at an amusing and on the whole successful exhibition of " thoughtreading" given in thu smoke-room of Hie Hmi<=e of Commons by Mr Stuait Cumberland. Mr Cumberland's first tequest was for the co operation ot a sympathetic gentleman, and after a pause Mr Coleridge Kennard piesented himself in that ohaiacrer, explaining that if not sympathetic he was at alleventsimpartial. When he had by icquestof the performer concentiated his thoughts upon an unnamed article, and thought of some person to whom it should be taken, Mr Stnatt Cumberland bound his own eyes, and taking Mr Kennard by the hand rapidly led that gentleman hither and thither about the room. Eventually Mr Cumberland lifted from one of the side tables a turn bier nearly filled with what appeared to be. biandy and water, which, still leading Mr Kennard, he handed to Mr Waddy. A f though right in the object selected, for Mr Kennard had been thinking of the brandy and water, Mr Cumberland was wrong in the person to whom it should have been given, as Mr Gladstone had been thought of as its recipient. Mr CumbeiUnd next asked whether any gentleman present had a pain. One member amid great laughter, suggested aloud that perhaps Mr Rj lands was in pain ; but that gentleman disclaimed the suggestion, and it seemed for a few moments doubtful whether any member in the room could fulfil the awkward preliminary condition. At last Viscount Lewisham stepped forward and said that he had a pain, an intimation w Inch excited instant sympathy on his behalf, and coupled with friendly liopos that he was about to be instantaneously cured. His loidship was asked to fix his mind intently ypon the ex-act spot where he felt the pain, and then Mr Cumbeiland, blindfolded, umleitook to guide the sufferer's hand to the precise spot where he felt the pain. The sympathetic anxiety of the onlookers was intense as the hand was guided to the forehead, next to the hi east and side, then to the back, and finally to the small toe of the right foot, whereupon Loid Lewisham iclieved the mmds of his fuends by admitting that Mr Cumbeiland was successful, the pain being nothing more serious than a corn upon that particular toe. Some members had jocularly suggested in pi ivate conversation that, perhaps, the operator could read the Premier's thoughts about the Anglo-French agreement or the ultimate fate of the Fiancliibe Bill. Mr Gladstone did, however, himself take part, amid cheers, in the ex-penment. The right hon. gentleman, who vowed himself not a sympathetic, but an impartial subject undertook to think of three figuies. Theieupon Mr Cumbeiland, again blindfolded, went through the same pieliminaries as before, and then slowly guided Mr Gladstone's hand several times across the printed low of figures, In this case on the fiist attempt he correctly guessed 366 as the nutnetals which have been thought of. Mi Waddy lemarked that Mr Cumberland was probably one of the first men who had been able to find out figuies winch Mr Gladstone did not mean to tell. The immediate success ot the last experiment was greeted with cheering. Mr Gladstone seemed to be much amused and interested by the experiments, anA neither the division bell nor any attempt to " count " in the House intenupted tho unusual seance.

In the course of the 52 weeks that ended on Dec. 29, theie were 133,656 bilths registered in London, the popula- . tion in ISS3 being ebtimated at 3,9<J5,514. The birth rate for ISS3 is the lowest one that has been given sinep 18(50, when it was taken at 33 6. Tliore w ere also 80,578 deaths recoided in London in 18S3, against 52,905 in 1882. The death rate thus falls from 21 -4 to 204, the lowest one yet given for the metropolis. Only 13i fatal cases of small-pox were recorded in the year. In ISSI the number of fatal cases was 2307, and in 1352 it declined to 431. Snow of Polled Cattle. — The inducement to a grand display of polled cattle at the centenaiy show of the Highland and Agricultural Society at Edinburgh in July aie especially great and attractive. A sum of £182 is oiFered by the society for Polled Angus or Aberdeen, which is supplemented by the Polled Cattle Society and the breeders of the Polled Abeidecn-Angus by £ISo 10d, making a total of £366 10s offered for the black Polled cattle of the noith-cast of Scotland. The £182 assigned in Galloway Cattle Society and the bleeders ot the Galloways to the extent of £202 10s, showing a total ot £354 10s to be distributed in pi i/e money for the ancient blacUskins of the south-west, which is the laigc&t amount offeied for any breed of cattle. JNloi cover, a special class has been provided for three-year-old Gallow ay cow s. The career of Dr Stiousberg, who has ju&t died a pauper at Berlin, was more curious than edifying. He came over to England as a stowaway, and obtained employment as a compositoi on a provincial journal. He was next heard of as the keeper of a sort of night-house in London. Returning to Beilin he was employed as a tianslator at the British Embassy, .An English contractor had obtained a concession for a Piussian railway, and had expended considerable sums in pieliminarv suncys, etc. He came to Berlin, and was recommended at the Embassy to employ Strousberg in investigating the real value of the concession. Strousberg reported that it was valueless, and then obtained contuxcts to nuke raihoads in Roumania. Cci tain bonds were to be issued with a Roumanian guai.uitce as soon as the railroads weie completed. The bonds were printed and placed in a strong box. Strousberg and two trustees each had a key of the box, which could <snly be opened with tho three keys. The intelligent financialist caused two false keys to be fabricated, opened the box, abstracted the bonds and sold them. A number of Prussian grandees were compromised in this swindle, and to avoid exposure Prince Bismarck forced the Roumanian Government to arrange the matter. Stronsberg had a huge house in Berlin, and entertained largely. A few years ago lie came over from London and took a house in Grosvenor-place, with a view of shining in London society. In this, however, he failed. He then engaged in some Russian speculations, which ruined him. — Truth.

The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of t*he highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family ~ medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steai the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed ' the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money or the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with various devised names in which the word " Hop " or " Hops J? were used in a way to induce people' to. believe they we¥e the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name' is,- and especially those with the woi^l " Hop " or '"'Hops ;'; ' in their name oritf any w,sfr connected with them ■6v their name, arc imitations or. counterfeits. 'Beware iof them. Touch none of them;' iUse .nothing: but genuine American' Hop'Bittdrs,<swithj a bunch 'or/dlu'sffir of green Hops on tW ■tthite laßel, and Dr Soule's name blown*in the J glassJ.< Trust nothing else*! Drug-Sista-aud Chemists, are warned against ealing in, imUa||on« qv C9Hnterfeiss. '"v '