CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1953, 13 January 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

An English authority condoms the use of phosphates foi tuinips. Sows are injured by having pigs before they are 14 months old. Coal a*he« applied to heavy soils will keep them from baking in summer. Mr Payn's " Literary Recollections," published in the IJunihtll Mat/mine, ia .ibout to be issued by the Harpers 1 i,n stratf.d editions of Thackeray's •' Ballads," of Edwin Arnold's "Light of Ash, ' and of Scott's " Maimion" are being picp.ued for the holidays by Oc-good. Hinkv Jam i>» is atill in London engaged on hii fortlicoming Atlantic stoij — "The Puncoss Cusamasaima" — which, if is s,ud, will bi* Ins longest and most elaboiatc pioduction. Gi in ka fowls aie a gieat help against insects and are not desti netiv c to grow ing eiops. On the Landietli Sted faun they are given access to all the helds, and aie the only fow Is kept. In the work on feeding animals, by Professor Stewart, it is stated, as the lesult of careful experiment, that lClb of turnips and l^lb of corn will fatten a young sheep or lamb faster th&n 31b of corn alone. Thin formula has been tried with marked success in cases of that formidable plague, the roup : Sulphate of iron, 1 giain ; cayenne pepper, 3 grains ; watered extr.ict of aloes, one quarter grain ; camphor, 1 grain ; extract of hemlock, one quarter gmin ; extract of aconite, one-third grain. Make into one pill and give one at night and one in the morning. For half-grown chicks use a pill halt the si 7 e. Platinum in Russia. — The platinum mines of Russia, dicovered in 1824, are near Bogoslowsk, Miask, Newjansk, and Nischnei Tagtlsk, in the Ural Mountains. At six places in 1868, 1869, and 1870, from 45)4,000, 367,000, and 263,000, tons of sand, 6,67."), 7,770, and 6,4,13 pounds of raw platinum were obtained respectively. The metal always contains some other mbstances ; thin Le Play found, in a sample fromJ.VibehneiTagilsk, 7.) 1 platinum, 1.1 palladium, 3.5 rhodium, 2 6 indium, 0 6 osmiudium, 2.3 osmium, 0 4 gold, 1 copper, and 8.1 iron. The raw metal is almost entirely sold, at about £14 per pound of pure metal, to England and Pans, where it is refined before it cm be worked up into manufactured at tides. Smallpox and Vaccination — There is, we (Medical Gazette) read, no vaccination in Kdbhmu, and smallpox causes enoi mous nioitalit}. It would seem that neatly e\ery Kishmir born into the boild is bom to sutler smallpox. Mr Aithur Neve, of the Mission Hospital, Kashmir, relates an illustration of the great pievalence of the disease: "I recently obtained from all my hospital staff a statement of the mortality from smallpox among their own immediate relatives. They lepresent twenty rive families, living elm-fly in Siiniiggm, but some in distant paiN of the valley. In these twenty five families 15)0 membeis Were bom, of w horn exactly 100 diul of smallpox. Two oi three childien have not yet been attacked ; all otheis have had the disease." I " Shah Down's Mick."— The class of idiots commonly known as " Shah Dowlas Mice," fiom the peculiar mouse-like conformation of their cianium, have their [ head-quaiters at a Minne in the Gujerat district of the Punjaub. Their appearance is \eiy chaiacteristic — projecting mouth, exticmely low forehead, and cranium long drawn out and tapering to the vertex. It is generally believed that this malformation is produced by forcible moulding or compression of (he head in infancy. In the Punjaub Lunatic Asylum Report for 1883, Dr. Gray, of Lahore, gives particulars of a case which lead him to believe that the malformation ia conjcnital. And Dr. Simpson, the Surgeon-General, commenting on the subject, state that, as far as he had been able to gather from inquiiies made at Gujerat and elscwheic, the statement that their heads have been forcibly moulded or compiessed is quite devoid of foundation. A PlUhhN'T FOR Till". MiKADOOF.TaI'AN. — A. tiuly Imperial pie->ent has the Emperor of Austria sent to the Mikado of Japan. Above all other accomplishments, the Austrians excel in their knowledge of horseflesh and their love of horses. Some of the finest riders in the English shires hail from Austria and Hungary, notably Count Kinskv, who won the Liveipool Grand National Steeplechase in ISS3; and Count Kaunitz, who goes as straight as any nun with the Quorn and Pjtchlcy hounds. The Empress is notorious as an ardent lover of the chase, travelling many miles eveiy year to indulge in her favourite pastime. »So that the four magnificent horses that aie oi to>'tc from the Austrian Imperial stables to Mout/ Uito, the present inler of Tapan, will certainly lack nothing in the way of size, substance, bone, and blood. It is to be hoped, however, that the Mikado will not do as a Chinese Emperor once did with a present of carnage and hoises. Being unaccustomed to the use of Jsijropean equipages, and not appreciating the comforts inside, he had the horses led by giooms, while he rode on what appeared to him the exalted scat, the coachman':! box. HFKR RhIVIIKK'h EXPLORATIONS.— At a late meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society. Dr Hector read a paper entitled " Notes on New Zualand Ornithology," communicated by Herr Reischek. a Germau ornithologist. Dr Hector stated that the author of the paper had sptnt about seven ycais in New Zealand studying the habits of the biids of the Colony, and had thus acquired a very intimate knowledge of | the subject. He went (low nto the West Coast in the Government steamer Stella, and spent six months in the vicinity of Dusky Sound by himself, studying the birds inhabiting that region. He navigated the Sound in an old Maori dug-out canoe, lent to him by a prospector living in that neighbourhood. He also explored the tablchnd lying between Dusky Sound and West Jacket Arm, and met with ."51 different species of biids. On one occasion he went up to the summit of a sinow clad mountain, and remained tlnee weeks for the purpose of observing the habits of certain birds, his pnncipal bustenauce during that time consisting of a load of oatmeal which he carried up on his back. Dr. Hector thought that if cxprdi tions were made into that distiict in the same spirit as they were made to other 1 emote parts of the world, they would lead to great discoveries, there being at the top of the cliffs at the West Coast Sounds a comparatively flat, open, giassed tableland of 100 square miles in extent. Yes llt is certainly true. Ask any of your friends who have purchased there. Garlick and Cranwoll have numerous unasked for and very f.uour.ibli- commentl-itions from country rust m< rs on their excellent parking of Furnitur<\ Crockery, and Glass, Sic. Ladies and gentlemen about to furnish should remember that Garlick and Cranwell's is tiik Cheap Furnishing Warehouse of Auckl.md. Furniture to suit all classes ; also Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Ncccss iru s. If your new house is nearly finished, or, \ou are pointf to get married, visit Garlkk ,md Cr.invw 11, Queen-street and Lornr-street, Auckland. Intending purchasers can have a catalogue •ent free.

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