CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1952, 10 January 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Vkkih, the famous composer, ie now 7 -J years of age, a remnant of humanity, with snow-white hnir and moustache. His public operas number P25-

Thkrk ban just been completed in a railway engine shop at Wilkenharre, Pennsylvania, a locomotive which, it is anticipated, will be able to pull a train on the New York division of the I.chigh ro:ul at the rate of eighty milen an hour. The engine weighs nenrly 100,000 pounds, and the tender," when tilled with coal and water, 70,000 pounds. The engine, it i.i stated, wil v l develop from 1,400 to 1,500 horsepower. A noteworthy regulation has been made by the French authorities in regard to the method of atlixing postage stamps to registered letters. The stamps are not to be placed close together, but are to have a space between. It is explained that when several stamps are placed together they cover a space sufficiently large to allow of an opening being made for the withdrawal of a bank note. The stamp being replaced over the opening the fraud would not be discovered until after the recipient had signed for his letter and opened it, when he would have no redress. Ingenious people. A veky admirable mid ingenious appliance for giving horses medicine was exhibited at the recent Amsterdam Exhibition by the firm of Valk and De Bussey, of Utrecht. It is called a Paardentrechter, or horse-drencher. A bit, made of plain, hollow pipe, rather larger than an ordinary plain bar, and in the centro of which is a small hole, is put into the mouth. This is fixed to a bar on either side, which tits to the cheek and is strapped to the bridle. On one side of this bar a conical tube is fitted, and which is not very unlike a horn u?ed for drenching, except that it is straight. When the bridle is put upon the horee, ami the animal's head held up, the medicine ie poured into the tube, and, finding its way through the bit, is swallowed without any difficulty whatever. It is notified that the Paymastcr(leneral in Egypt draws for an expenditure of £-25,000 daily, or £000,000 per month. This, at least, is to be the rate of the cost in Egypt alone during the next two weeks. What has been the expenditure in England in picliminary preparations? When Lord Wolseley assumed the command of the expedition he attached the condition, so far as one in his position can ask conditions, that he should have carte blanch. And he is drawing on it, to the alarm and amazement of the Exchequer. Nor is there any calculation possible as to where the expenditure will end. The expendition may last till spring, and be as costly to bring dawn as to B'.-nd up the Nile. Under the most favourable course of events the English taxpayer may h;ok out for the heaviest war bill since that of the last Afghan war.

A vkky neat explanation is given by the Kolnisohe Zeitung of the reason why Prince Bismarck is supporting the agnreaHive schemes of M. Ferry. It is all for the love of England -.—"The greater the colonial power of France by so much greater is the which Franco would run by a war with Germany ; the more ruluc'.aiit will the French lie to inaku war upon us, and the greater will be the temptation to the British during that war to destroy the threatening competition of French commerce. The more considerable become the maritime interests of France abroad, the more certain is an English alliance for us, which is so far important aa it tends to make war less probable. For us Germans, at any rate, paradoxical as it may Round, the support of French colonial policy will be the surest meaiiH, in n. crisis, t<) secure for ourselves British friendship." (Jive France something that may tempt England to take it from her, and who knows but England may help us when the hour of revenge comes off? That is the calculation, and a very ingenious one it is. But for our part, much as we arc devoted to the German alliance, we confess that we should prefer if our friends at Berlin took some other mode of displaying their affection, A Fact Worth Knowing. Arc you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any disease of tinThroat and Lungs ? If so, go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Boschce's German Syrup. The people arc going wild over its success, and Druggists all over our country arc writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value in all affections of this kind. Chronic cases ijuickly yield to it. Druggists recommend it and physicians prescribe it. If yon wisli to try Us superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for (Jα. Large size bottle ',h. Od. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it.