CUPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1923, 1 November 1884, Page 4

CUPPINGS.

One million boxes of matches are produced daily by one machine in use at a factory in Sweden, The statement seems incredible, but it is well vouched for. The rector of Lincoln has deposited in the Bodleian Library a box containing the greater parts of his papers, with the condition that it shall not bo opened before the year 1910. Five newspapers established before the year 1700 in Great Biitain are still alive : —London Gazzette, 1607 ; Course of the Exchange, 1697 ; Barrow's Worcester Journal, 1690 ; Stamford Mercury, 1693 ; and the Edinburgh Gazette, 1590. Ferrets in New Zealand.— During the past year neatly 4000 ferrets have been bred and turned out in the colony by private individuals. Marlborough heads the list with 3041, of which over 800 were liberated on one run alone. A new dish with which epicures tempt fate and give an impetus to stomach anodynes is composed of sliced oranges, sliced pineapples, sliced bananas, sliced hard-boiled eggs, sliced cucumbers, vinegar and sugar. It is called a frmt salad. The Colonial possessions of the Netherlands rank next those of England ; in fact, Holland is the only State that resembles Englaud in the fact that her subjects abroad are more numerous than her citizens at Home. Neither the Colonial possessions of France nor Spain contain 10,000,000, whereas the King of the Netherlands rules over 26,000,000 subjects in the East. Dr Barnvrdo's House for Destitue Children in England is gi owing in popularity and importance. During eighteen years, ending last March, 5033 boys and girls have actually been rescued. At the present time about 4000 childien are in some way being taken care of. The donations for the past year amounted to over £55,000, an inciease over the receipts of the previous year of over £10,600. A trade in paper bottles is growing up in Germany and Austria ; 10 per cent of rags, 40 per cent of straw, and 30 of brown wood pulp are used in making them. Thin paper is coated and impregnated wich a solution composed of 60 per cent of defibrin.ited fresh blood, 35 of lime, and 5 of sulphate of ammonia ; dry and coat again : put 10 or 12 sheets together, and then dry in heated moulds under piessuro. They aie made in two pieces and joined af terw fuds, and are said to be peifectly proof against spiiits and other liquids. Atti mpt to Blow up Nottingham Post-okeice. — Thiee packages, weighing about 12 ounces, and containing nitroglycerine, weie diopped in a letter box at the Nottingham Post office one night at the beginning of August. They were packed in pieces of the liishman newspaper, without address, and each had a fuse and cap attached. Tho supposed intention was. that the packages should explode when they fell into the box, or when stamped. The quantity was sufficient to wreck the buildings. The new number of the Royal His- " torical Society's " Tiansactions "will be especially interesting a3 containing a fiist instalment of an lustoiical sketch of South Aftica, by Sir Bartle Fiere, one of whoso last acts was to prepare this paper for tli e pi ess. The other papers are by Mr H. E. Maiden on the " Local Progress of Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centurie3," and by Mr Oscar Blowing on "The Triple Alliance of 1788." Cricj<et in Holland.— Three years ago cricket was introduced into Holland by a Mr Hetherington, and, stiange as it may seem, the lethargic Dutchmen have taken to England's national pastime very kindly. There aie now some thiity clubs, and English cricketers, appreciating the inteiesfc taken in the game, are doing what they can to foster Dutchy's liking for it. At the beginning of last month the Tunbridge Rovers went over to play a seiies of matches with the local clubs, and they were to be followed by another English Club, with w horn some exhibition matches were to be played. The amenities of life in a South Ameii can republic weie illustiated recently in Lima. Caceies, the revolutionary leader, biipn&ed the gaitibon of tho Peruvian capital and came near taking the town. Alter hard fighting, in which nearly 200 peisons weie killed in the streets and churches, Caceies w.is dm en off, only, pei haps, to repeat the same lnaincuvres as soon as he has lecupciated his forces. There can be no peimanent prospciity lor a State which is conducted on such piinciplcs as I'eiu, with no stiong central lotee and no confidence in tho nitogiity or permanence of the Go\ eminent. A wKiuu in the London Times doploies the fac t that no one is eligible to the Senate in thi^> coutiti y unless he is a citizen of a oeiteiin State, and aigues that we would ha\o a f.u finci body if the Status took pndc, as the ICnghsh boiouglis do, in seeming tho ablest men to icpw-ent them, incspcctne of tliur places of lesidencc. The w i iter pi obabily no\ cr heai d of Nevada, whew tne non i trident idea has been in f oi ia tor sevcial yeais, and has lesulted in making the election depond not upon tho si/l of a man's brain, but upon the capacity ot his sack — S.F. (.'hionicle. L'kol'lTsok Window Cli:aninu. — Berlin &ccms to lia\c a monopoly of novelties in industiial pei&uits. Follow ing on the nairalive of the gentleman who amassed a competanco out of supplying small change to these who wanted it, another woudeiful niatance of industiy and perseverance comes to us from the Gei man capital. It appeals that a few yeais ago a woikinan leit Paris to settle in Bcilin, whue, with a small capital of ii'Jio, he founded a shop-window cleaning establishment. By industry and attention to business lie obtained, in le&s than two yeais, a list of 6000 lcgular customeis on bis books, who paid him an aseiage of 2s a month each, ior which sum he cleaned their windows once a week. JBe employed foity men and paid them £3 a month, one with another. While then he icceived £600 a month, his expenses would not exceed £130 a month at the outside. Naturally his success bi ought competitor into the field, but they could not distui b the original establishment Meantime the enterpiising window-cleaner has opened offices in other towns us will as Berlin — in Breslau, Ilambuig and Fiankfoit — and he is now intending to benefit London, and himself, in the same way by opening a " bureau " there. Hop Bitters ai c the Purest and Best Bitters Ever Made. They are compounded from Hops, Malt, Buchu, Mandrake, and Dandelion, — the oldest, best, and most \aluable medicines in the world and contain all the best and most cuiative properties of ail other remedies, being the gieatest Blood Puiifier, Liver Regulator, and Life and Health Restoring Agent on earth. No disease or ill health can possibly long exist where these Bitters aie used, so varied and perfect are their opeiahons. They give new life and vigor to the aged and infirm. To all whoso employments cause irregularity of the bowels or urinary organs, or who require an Appetizer, Tonic and mild Stimulant, Hop Bitters are invaluable, being highly cuiative, tonic and stimulating, without intoxicating. No matter what your feelings or symptoms are, what the disease or ailment is, use Hop Bitters. Don't wait until you are sick, but if you only feel bad or miserable 1 , use Hop Bitters at once. It may save your life. Hundreds have been saved by so doing. £500 will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. Do not suffer or let your friends suffer, but use and urge them to use Hop Bitters. Remember, Hop Bitters is no vile, drugged, drunken nostrum, but the Purest and Best Medicine ever made ; the "Invalid's Friend and Hope," and no person or family should be without them. Try the Bitters fco-day. Get at Chemists pr Druggists, >..-'.