CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1909, 30 September 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

All in the Family.— "Your father was nothing but a simple bricklayer." "I know where you get that information," quietly remarked the other. "From »vhom did I get it?" ••From >your father." "How do yon know that?" "Because your father was my father's hod-carrier. Gents Irritable.— Jones (who has been asked by Brown, as a friend, his candid opinion of Brown's last book)— " Well, my dear follow, since you ask me, you know, I— a— must say that, —a -—that your last book is perhaps hardly ,-> Brown — " Oh, confound it ! One can't please every one, hang it all !" [Bolts in a huff|,— Punch. " I sent you a statement of account the other day," said a Detroit tailor, as he met one of his poor pay customers on the street. "Did you! Sent it by mail, I presume?" "Yes." "Put on a two cent, stamp.?" "Of course." "And directed the envelope to my street and number ?" " Yes, sir." " Ah, well ; all right. It was probably.'delivered all safe. All letters properly directed to my address come right through. Good day, sir." A man picked up a purse in the street, and advertised the fact. In ten clays he was visited by 61 men, women, boys and girls, all claiming to have lost money. The sum was but lls ; but of each visitor ( who called the finder asked, "o' you lost 50s did you ?" Nine-tenths of the applicants promptly replied, " Yes, sir." "Ah," "yours was another purse." Fast Work.— To win a wager of one hundred guineas, an English manufacturer lately accomplished the foltowing remarkable feat of textile manufacture. Two sheep were brought to the factory at 5 o'clock in the morning. Here they were shorn, the wool scoured, spun and woven, and the cloth scoured, dried, pressed and finished at 4 o'clock, p.m. The cloth was handed to tailors, and at 20 minutes before 9 o'clock a coat was made and the wager won. The feminine mind early attains to the consideration of the ethics of the affections. In one of our city schools, the other day, the class in English grammar was discussing the difference between the words "like" and "love." "Now," said the teacher, " we can like a tomato, but is it proper to say we can love a tomato?" "No, it is not," said a fresli young miss ; " one can't love a tomato." '" Why not," inquired the teacher. "Because, you know, yon cannot— you can't — well, you can't hug a tomato." Boillo LKTTacts.— The lettuce is a neglected vegetable, although it constitutes a prominent ingredient in every good salad. At one time the lettuce was supposed to possess soporific properties, but of late years it has perhaps too hastily, been disestablished as a diug in the repertory of the therapeutist. Borne are now strongly insisting that lettuces should be used more generally as food, and suggesting that they ought to be boiled, Rafter which treatment they are said to be as palatable as spinach. If this be the fnct, it is woith knowing, as spinach is necessarily excluded from the diet of the oxaluric patient, and it is precisely in this clas3 of cases the soothing propei ties of the lettuce, if it have any, would be valuable.— Public Opinion. Seidlitz powders and blue pill 3 are now consideied lequisite in the outfit of ocean voyagers, bromide of sodium having been almost discarded as a remedy for sea sickness. The rich foods, nuts and pastry of a steamship's bill of fare are tempting to the sharpened appetite of the voyager, they over-eat, and the pitching' of the vessel completes the round. But it is asserted that Neptune can be cheated of his tribute if the intending ocean passenger will begin to fortify himself or herself a week in advance with a fhegrain blue pill every other night alternating with seidlitz powders. — Nautical Gazette. Thk pri/,e of €1,000 offered by the king of the Belgians for some work on social science or progress, is tins year open for competition by natives of other countries besides Belgium. The subject is—" The best work setting forth the means to be employed and the measmes to be taken for popularising the study of geography, and for developing its teaching^ in educational establishments of vaiious degrees." Works intended for competition must be addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Brussels, before the Ist of January, 188?. — Court-Journal. Lono since dead there was a noted gambler who flourished in the States. His name was William Davis. He was an elegant dresser, hid great conversational powers, and was a man of uncommon courage. He kept the fust society of his kind, but the kind was not the best. His opinion with regard to the xules of all games was held in his esteem — in fact, he was looked upon as an oracle. He was called " Star" Davis, and was a model to the younger " sports." One day " Star"' met anothei member of the gieen cloth on St. Charles strept, New Orleans, who extended his hand, with the greeting, " How arc you old fellow ; how do they run to-day ?" "Star" diew back indignantly, and said, "I do not know you, sir." " Why," said the other, "do we not meet at the ' faro' table and play together 1 Ido not see any diffeience be tween one gambler and another." " Yes," said " >tar," there is. You joy to your position in society ; I fell to mine." Dkinkixg Ckkmiomls. —The custom of touching glasses prior to drinking healths is very common in this and many other countries, and especially in Germany. It is curious to trace how this custom has prevailed, and still exists, even amongst savage tribes. To drink out of the same cup, and to eat olf the same plate, was one of the ways in which the ancients celebrated a marriage, and the wedding feast continues to be not the least lmpoitant of the marriage ceremonies to the present day. The Indians of Biazil ictaiii a custom of drinking together a little biandy, as a sign that the marriage is concluded. In China si.nilar customs are met with. In the mediioval banquets in Gei many it was the custom to pass a " loving cup " from hand to hand, but this gradually necessitated that the cup should be of enormous sue, and thus smaller cups or glasses were adopted, and the old custom was confoimed to by the di inkers touching their glass befoie drinking. The ceremony attending the passing and drinking out of the loving cup, as practised at our great city festivals, and at somo of our college halls, is said to have arisen from the assassination of King Edward. It was then the custom amongst the Anglo-Saxons to pass round a large cup, from which each guest drank : he who thus drank stood up, and as he lifted the cup with both hands his body was exposed without any defence to a blow, and the occasion was often seized by an enemy to murder him. To prevent this the following was adopted : When one of the company stood up to drink, he required the companion who sat next to him to be his pledge — that is, to be responsible for protecting him against anyone who should attempt to take advantage of his defenceless position. This companion stood up also, and raised his drawn sword in his hand to defend the drinker while drinking. This practise, is a somewhat altered form, continued long after the condition of society had ceased to require it and was the origin of the modern practice of pledging in drinking. In drinking from the loving cup, as now practised, each person rises and takes the cup in his hand to drink, and at the same time the person seated next to him rises also, and when the latter takes the cup in his turn, the individual next to him does the same. — Brewers' Guardian. Benefactor.'. — " When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the disco>ery that by combining' some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which woulJ cure such a wide ranjre of diseases that most all other remedies could be dispensed with, many were sceptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honoured and blessed by all as benefactors, R ea d.

The Chicago Woman is full of rewurces. One of them who didn't fancy the man she married seized an axe, drove him out of the house, and told him she would kill him if he ever returned. She then instituted proceedings for a divorce on the ground of abandonment. The husband responds that he is willing to st,uirt a reasonable amount of beating witli ordinary household utensils, such as the broom, rolling-pin, and boot-jack, but he draws the line at sledge hammers and axes. The case is still open. The Chicago Tribune defines as follows :—": — " A bull is a person who wants a stock to advance. A bear is a person who wants a stock to decline. Longs are holders of stock. Shorts are operators who have sold stocks that they do not hold, to be delivered at some future time, their expectations being to buy them at prices below those at which they have sold them. By the way, ' lamb ' is an outsider who goes into the market and leaves his money.'' Tub work of " ironing " Guatemala with railroads is slowly going on. The two completed roads are the line to the Pacific port of San Jose" to Escuintla, about 30 miles inland, aud the line from Champorico, also on the Pacific, to Retaliation. The Northern Railroad from Santo Tomas to Guatemala, the capital city, has been commenced ; in its completion all Guatemala is interested. It is on this road that the novel form of taxation has been adopted by which every inhabitant in the receipt of §8 a month or more, is taxed $4 per annum to bmltl tbo road. Such taxpayers are entitled to receive shares of the stock, which will be receivable at 25 per cent, premium in the purchase of Government lands. Absinthe as a Core for Cholkra.— As if Frenchmen had not sufficient excuse for drinking absinthe already, a French priest fresh from Cochin China lias supplied them with another. Absinthe, it is now proclaimed, is an infallible remedy for cholera. A small dose of absinthe, taken in a glass of claret, will restore oil dilation and warmth. With some patients the cure is as rapid as the attack, with others it is only accamplished after twenty-four hours. In a small parish in Cochin China M. Janin, the priest in question, enred seventy-three cholera patients out of the seventy-six attacked by the disease ; six: French soldiers in the fortress of Soctrang were cured by the same means, while only one died, and 'he was dying before M. Janin came. Should one dose of absinthe prove insufficient, M. Janin recommends the patient to continue taking it ; he says of himself that when attacked by cholera he drank one-third litre of absinthe in about ten minute I*,1 *, after which he slept and awoke ctued. It is a cut ions fact that after taking five or six dost sof claret mixed with absinthe, the patients aie larely intoxicated. If, however, they fall asleep in a state of intoxication they are saved. In case of an insufficient quantity being taken deatli is sure to ensue. In the long run, however, it is safe to say that absinthe will kill many more Frenchmen than cholera. — Pall Moll Gazette. To Clkax Marblk. — A person who has tried many ways for accomplishing the above object thinks the following plan, which he came across in some newspapers, quite the best : Brush the dust oft' with a piece of chamois, then apply with a brush a good coat of gum arable, about the consistency of thick mucilage ; expose it to the sun or wind to dry. In a short time it will peel oft' ; wash it with clean water and a clean cloth. If the first application does not have the desired effect, it should be tried again. Another method is to rub the marble with the following solution : One quarter of a pound of soft soap, one quarter of a pound of whiting, and one ounce of soda and a piece of stone blue the size of a walnut ; rub it over the marble with a piece of flannel, and leave it on for twenty-four hours ; then wash it off with clean water, and polish the marble with a piece of flannel or au old piece of felt, or take two parts of common soda, one part of pumice stone, and one part of finely pow del ed chalk, sift it through a fine sieve, anil mix it with water, then rub it well over the maible, then wash the marble over with soap and water. To take stains out of white marble, take one ounce of ox-gall, one gill of lye, one and a half table spoonfuls of turpentine ; mix and make into a paste with pipe clay ; put on the paste over the stain, and let it remain for several days. To remove oil stains apply common clay saturated with benzine. If the grease has remained in long, the polish will be injured ; but the stain will be removed. Iron mould or ink spots may be taken out in the following manner : Take half an ounce of butter of antimony, and one ounce of oxalic icid, and dissolve them in a pint of rain-water ; add enough flour to bring the mixture to a proper consistency. Lay it evenly on the stained part with a brush, and, after it has remained for a few days, wash it off, and repeat the process, if the stain be not wholly removed.—Scientific American.

Remember This. If you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature in making you well when all else tails, If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering from any other of the numerous diseases of tho stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if you remain ill, for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in all such complaints. If you are wasting away with any form of Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this moment, and turn fora cure to Hop Bitters. If you are sick with that terrible sickness, Nervousness, you will find a " Balm in Gilead" in the use of Hop Bittcis. If you are a frequenter, or a resident of a miasmatic distiict, banicade your system against the scourge of all countries — malui.il, epidemic, bilious, and intermittent fevers— by the use of Hop Bitters. If you have rough, pimply, or sallow skin, bad breath, pains> and aches, and feel miserable generally, Hop bitters will give you fair skin, rich blood, and sweetest breath, health, and comfort. In short they cure all Diseases of the stomach, Bowels, Blood. Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's Disease. £500 will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. Druggists and Chemists keep. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother, or daughter, can be made the picture of health, by a few bottles of Hop Bitters, costing but a trifle. Will you let them suffer?