CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1969, 19 February 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Aril r Ti mphivti kk. —The tempera tnie ot tlie lice ii f lorn '.) dcg. to 10 il( <• an 1 the eai tli woi m and Mi.ul fiom 1 \<] to 2 deg higher than the. an , The ntt.in t'Jinp' latuic of the. eaip ami toad is ')1 iU'n. ; a ni.'in, i)S <icy ; dog ; c-.it, 101 doij ;?(|iinici, 101) ilig , ami of the svv.il low, 111 dec. Mu. Stitio the famous Kimli-1' i-iule'ei, recently inhctitf d n:i < notino s foi tune, .mil tlic u'poit is that he ha•liven the entire let/acy to a fo-tign mi?l-o i.i'\ 8 i Mctv, mid is himself gong to China to labor as a simple evangelist. Tin* gentle mm may be a Stud)', l>ut his .lotion aioiucs the suspicion tint he i& a ] ick. Mu Wir.iiAMs, a Victoiian squatter, vi hug to the Hamilton Spectator in refeii me to lon-e wild'shcep wliiili lit hid captured with several yens' i!eci:e<on them in beautiful condition, point out that by sheaiing oily once in two years more than double the quantity of wool is obtained, whilst the nicieased leng'h of staple aNo doubles the pi ice obtainable for the article. Additional instances havt been testified to the extraordinary efficacy of brandy in treating peripneumonia. Oxen, cows, and heifeis so attacked have been cured in the course of a few days, by administering from one pint to a quai t of brandy, in two doses morning and evening. The respiration is at once relieved, and rumination rapidly returns. Life Ixsurancf, which was first estab lisheil in Germany in 1829, when two insurance offices succeeded in obtaining 1448 clients, who insured for % sum of 8,077,-" tO marks, has gone on with mci casing numbers hut diminishing averages per head, until at the commencenunt of the present year the insurers amounted to 70S, 149 and the amount insuied for to 2,G19,0G0,359 marks. A Rmiarkablk Macihvk.—A working engineer in Aberdeen has just invented a very ingenious machine for recording the number of passengers entering and leaving ti am way cars, omnibuses, cabs or coaches. Biss^t's Indicator, as it is called, besides registeiing the number of persons who enter or leave such conveyances as it may be used on, will perform with equal fidelity the somewhat marvellous function of noting, in the case of a tramway car oi omnibus, the exact amount of cash that ought to be received in fares by the conductor during a journey or series jonrnej s. The Indicator, as applied to a tramway car, would be placed on the platform, and every person entering would pass through a turnstile, and in so doing '•et the machine in motion. The *-aine usult would take place in a person lea\ ing the car ; but the wonderful thing about the invention is the faGt that it records the number of persons who travel one oi moie stages, or make the entile jnuincj, so that at the er.d of the day the sum which ought to be handed over by the conductor may be ascertained by a simple caleulition. Christmas CrsTOMs.—Many myiiads of old people deplore the 10-is of autiuuc Christmas customs, and the rise of new onc3 ; and many myriads of \oung people were boied by their lamentations on Thursday. Persons still on Ihe nL'ht side of middle ai»o can tecollcct when the I'Cifunctory Clnistmas tree wa-> an inno\ation, lepiehended as un-English, and proved to lie much inferior to the " kissing bunch" for]real diversion ; when waits and carol singers were something like what they professed to be; when "guisers " perambulated the counti y side and claimed a heaiing from every house holder whom they thought \\oith a "show. 1" Such ancient customs and ideas are lost now -or worse, hive fallen into hands more or less objectionable. 1) it if we survey this matter calmly, we will allow that they were mighty dull. To stick apples full of oats, to dip ivy berries in Hour, to make toffy, to hear waits thiough half the night in a pi occasion haidly cca°ing, and guiscis half the day in a piocession that did not cease at all, was not eternally diveiting. Most childicn of the midlands knew all the caiols of their neighhouihood, all the speeches and actions of guiscrs by the time they were six years old, and mueasing auc did not lend moie enchantment to tho familiar scene. The life of these old ceremonies had evaporated long before our day, and the corpus had become a nuisance. Christmas in ye olden style was charming, no doubt, " when Love and all the world was young ;" but we have been outgrowing it this long while. If Yuletide is still to be a merry season, each generation must divert itself in its own way.—Evening Standard. A Citktaik Ficht.—For two da)s and nights a party of three of us from the North were quartered with a log cabin farmer while we explored the battle field of Shiloh. He was a good man, though rather shy at first, and his wife was an awful good woman, though she had hei faults Two of iis slept in a room divided fiom the family bedioom only by a thin boaid partition ; and on the second night, after we ought to have been sound asleep, tho old woman suddenly began, " Xow, Jabez Smith, you'll I'll have a settlement !" " Why, mother, what is it?" he asked. "What h it? Why. ever since them sti\uig<;i3 showed up you've been canying a poweiful high head. You claimed you w^rc in this tight." " Y-e-s." " Take it back ! Take it back, Jabez Smith, or I'll make a bald head of you !" She evidently gave a twist on his hair, and he yelled out that he was a liar and was soi ry foi it. "And you've been taking pains to speak of youi farm, and your team, and your this and that. Jabez, who owns this farm? Who bought them mules ? Out with it, or I'll get the gouge on your eye." " I—l reckon jou do," he stammered. " You bet I do ! I heaid you telling how you lo^t eighty niggeis by the war. Jabez, that was an infernal lie ! Own it up, or I'll shet youi breath oil' !" "I—l own it up, mothci." "And you was telling as how jour father was a judge in North Caiolina. Jabe/ Smith, take it back !" " Well, wasn't he ?" " Never ! He was nothing but a Tennessee 'coon hunter, and you know it 1 Oh ! you need pounding !" He hadn't any opinion to expressed^ on that point, and after an inteival of silence she raised up on her elbow and resumed—" Now, then, you hear me ' I own this squat, and that mule team, and the cow and all else. I run the business. I run you. If I ever find j'ou piancing round again like you have for the last two days, I'll make dog'a meat of you ! do you listen j" He didn't say. "Oh ! you don't ! Then take that!—and that!—and—!" At this juncture the bed broke down with an awful ciash, followed by the howls of the dogs sleeping under it, and the groans and jaw words of man and wife, and we turned over and went to sleep with the conflict still iaging.

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