CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1901, 11 September 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Motiikr : " I am afraid Mr Ciossly is not serious in his intentions !" Daughter : '• He is awfully bashful, jou know ; but h ; is ollemig himself piecemeal. Last night ho wanted me to take his aim " An impioved fishhook lias been in vented by a Souther n ••poitsman. About midway up the shaft of the hook he pi, ices a small crossbar, which .serves tlnee pm poses. Fust it presents the jj i-~.ili -~.il ftom swallowing the hook ; second it uicie.ises the chance- of capture, for the te.ison that when a fish strikes its nose against the piojection it involuntarily closes its mouth and so is securely caught : and thiid. it prevents flic bait from slipping up the hook. To Di.M'itoY Siak.s. —Take one ounce rnnosivc sublimate and dissoKe it, in a elo-e vessel, in a quart of boiling water When thoioughly dissolved, add to it sik gallons of cold water, and with a rose watei ing pot apply it to the places infested. It v\ ill have still more effect if every ounce oi sublimate is made into only four gallons of mixture, and the giound gone over the day after with a second wateiing of pure water, which will cat ry the destructive po.ver deeper into the giound. This plan not only destioys the pel feet slug, but the eg^s, l.uv.e, and pupa of everything which it leaches. A Ross paper has the following in a lecent issue :— " A strange occuiience happi ned on Thursday afternoon at the main shaft of the Ross United Coldmining Company. Several tame pigeons ha\e been in the habit of frequenting the hi ace at the shaft for cuunbs that the wotkmen may tlnow to tliem. On the day mentioned, a hawk, catching sight of one of these pigeons set chase after it. The little thing made for the biace of the shaft, but had not tune to reach it, and instead of flying upwards to the In ace, it Hew down the winding shaft. The hawk, e.igei aftei its pi ay, immediately followed, both passing one of the woikmen who was descending in the bucket, and when he 1 cached the bottom, which was about 150 feet horn the surface, he found them both swimming in the water Uc killed the hawk, and brought them both, the puisuer and the puisucd, to the suitace. The pigeon was none the woise foi the chase." Mis.r\K.KSi\ Plvntino treks—Deepplanting is one ciror— to plant a tiee lather shallower than it fonneily stood is really the light way, whiUt many plant a tice as they would a post. Roots are of two kinds -the v,oni)g and tender lootlets ; composed entiiely of cells, the feedeis of the trees, always found near the surface getting air and moistuie ; and loots of ovtM one vai old, which <-eive only as suppoiters of the tree and con-(Hu-tois of its food. Hence the injury that. eriMies w hen the delicate i outlets aie so deeply bin ied in the eai th Placing iicah oi gieen manuie in coi. tract with the joung loots is another great eiror. The place to put manuie is on the sui face, vvlieie the elements di^integiate, di-solve and cuiy ltdownwaid. Numcious foims of fungi ,ne geneiated and lepioiluced by the application of such manuies directly to the loots, and they immediately attack t lie tree. Itisveiy wt 11 to eniuh the soil at transplanting the tiee, but the m.inuie, if it be in eontiaefc or veiy near the loots, should be thoiuugldy decomposed. On'k of the recent numbers of the Melbourne Argus has the following lemaikson the way in which Mahommedans embiace one another. "They approach one anothei smiling, and seizing the waist, bend over each other's lelt shouldei iiist, then light, wink over each shouldci, and then release theii hold and ga^e allection at one another." It lemuulb one of a very dear triend who ns°d to do this self same business. He would embrace his wife, and gazing <Ker her sliouldei, wink at the hired gnl all at one and the same time. One day his wife inteicepted the wink. She caught it instead of the gill; and then he caught it, and so did the girl too. I think it was because he foigot which shoulder he was gazing over, and contracted the wrong optic— tiie one noaiest his partner foi life, instead of the one whose goings on ••lie couldn't bee fiom his nose being in the way. It was a fatal en or, and he w. isn't seen at his office for a week afterwaids, noi has he w link a wink since. Mr Blrry has advanced a theoiy regaiding the lecent introduction of smallpox intoVictoua which has not before been made public. The Chief Secietaiy said he had been assuied by a gentleman who hail had a lengthened Ind an expenencc that the germs of the disease had been brought to Mel bourne in the goods impoitcd tioin India, the tiade between the two countiics having increased enoiinously dining the past few yens. This view was borne out by the fact that the disease had broken out in several isolated places simultaneously, and it was lidiculous to suppose that all the cases could have spuing from the one liist discoveied. If the gel m theory, as stated by him (Mißen\,) was the corlect one, the House would see how uttcily impossible it would be to cany out cllicient quarantine icgulations ; and, as the bost that was possible was being done, he dcpiecated the scaic that had been nised.

The Bad and Worthless .110 no\ei inntnlt'd or eonntafuled. This is especially ttue of a family medicine, and it is positive pioof that the remedy tmifnfid is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole wot Id that Hop Litters was the puiest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations spuing up and began to steal the notices m w Inch the press and the people of the countiy had e\pie&sed the niciits of IF B , and in evei y way trying to induce sniveling invalids to use their stuff instead, e\pcctuig to make money on the credit a-id good name of H. B. Many otlieis stai ted nostiums put up in similar style to Fl. B , with v.ii ious devised names in which tlie woid " Hop " or " Hops " were used m a way to induce people to believe they weic the same as Hop Bitters. All such pietended lemedies or cuies, no mattei w hat their style or name is, and especially those with the woid " Hop " or '• Hops '' in their nauip or in any way ennnccted with them or their name, aie mutations or counterfeits. Bewaie of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine Anieiican Hop Bitters, with a bunch or clustei of gieen Hops on the white label, and Dv Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or countoi frits.