CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1986, 31 March 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

THE United States lias about skteen million children of "school age," but less than ten million* are em oiled in tinschools. There ate two hundred and ninety thousand tuadiois employed in all, and the schools coat £18,000,000 a year. From IS(>4 to 1883 the lottery players tinned into the Royal Italian Treasury £.").") 000,000 Zfvas siy3 the warning to " beware of the tiist glass is no good " It 13 the last glas3 that always knocks him out. The Pillsbury Mills of Minneapolis, Minn, ha\e a capacity of 7300 barrels pir day, or over 2,000.000 bairels per year, re(iiurin a ' 10,000,000 bushels of wheat an mially. cSv\s the Philadelphia "Press": — Twenty-six years ago Simpson, who was then employed in Dubois' jewellery factory, was cutting a piece of gold from a breastpin, when the piece suddenly flew yip, cutting a deep slit in his eye. Although the accident was not punful, the sight of the injuied oigin was dt-stioyed. The piece of gold was one si\ty fourth of an inch thnk, an 1 of an oval shape, its greatebt dninetei bung about a quarter of an inch It could not be found at the time of the accident, and was supposed to have been loit. Thiee weeks a^o Mr "nmpson's t\e began to g've him immense jmn, and became greatly swollen. For relief hi- applied to it a bieid poultice, which was frequently renewed. When he lemoved the poultice litely, he was astonished to find clinging to it the piece of gold which had cut his eye more than a quarter of a century ago. No one hart supposed that the missing cold had embedded itself in the eye, and the discovery was as great a surprise to the patient as to his friends. The sharp edge of the gold had cut its way downward, and came through the skin just below the lower eyelid. The following is extracted fiom a letter received by a resident of Wanganni from a fiiend in Sydney :—'"l: — '"I here is one noticeable feature in the Soudan business that has not ciept into the papcis, and that h the bid tor cheap patriotism made by a lot of those who sent in their names in the first instance, but who. when the offer was accepted, took a back seat, and were heard of no more ! Never dreaming the offer of a New South Wales contingent would be accepted by the British Government, thc-e spuiious heroos were red hot to go right away to the Soudan, but the acceptance of the offer made a sudden (no pun intended) eh mgp 111 their feelings, and they became affected with a disease, Dr. O'Rafferty d eclated, to be a kind of a "sHy at home wid ns " (stialomatoif, ?) aflcction ! Of those who volui.teered in the Hist instance, only a veiy small per centagc turned up when called upon ; but their places weie soon filled by new men, who meant business and said nothing. One fellow in our shop was one of the first to come foiward and have his name figuring in the list of heroes published in the papers, but he evidently likes Sydney too well, as he is here still. But hot as the Soudan is, we are making Sydney hotter for this sham soldier, w ho wishes he hadn't made such a conspicuous ass of himself." Rf.ferrivg to the depression which at present exists in various branches of trade in Adelaide, the South Australian Ad\ort.i3er of the 26th February remarks:— " There are but few important trades which have not severely suffered, and on all sides we receive accounts of reduced establishments, idle machinery, and operatives out of work. The weekly wagesheets of mo3t large business firmi have been considerably cut down. In some cases the reduction has amounted to as much as 60 uer cent., and theie are other establishments where it is still greiter. The result of this decreased activity in almost all branches of business has necc^anly been great distress among the working classes. We have already shown at what a rapid rate South Australia is losing her population through the continued exodus to other colonies ; and when we learn that several trade societies have actually been assisting men to leave the Colony for Melbourne, it may be readily imagined that the state of the labour market here has not been painted in too gloomy colors. The movement to find employment for the men who are out of work was not started a whit too soon. No doubt can be felt as to the reality of the distress that exists around us, nor will anyone acquainted with the real circumstances of the case deny that it is tne bounden duty of the Government to make provision, us far as possible, for the employment of those who have been thrown out of work." T111: acquittal, a short time since, at St. Petersburg, of Mdle. Semenova, accused of being implicated in the murder of the child Sarah Becker, has been the cause of a scene closely resembling that witnessed at Paris when ildme. Clovis Hugues was restored to her admiring friends. The reason, however, for the acquittal of the Rnssian lady differs greatly from that which saved Mdme. Hugues. The evidence all through the trial was dead against Mdlle Semenova, and it would have fated badly with her but for the declaration of an expert, M. Balinsky, a Russian mad doctor, who pointing out to the jury the hysterical bearing of the culprit, persuaded them that she was suffering from "psychopathy," and therefoie morally irresponsible. For the benefit of those who are as yet ignorant of the meaning of psychopathy — a term which before Jong will be natuialised in our courts — we give M. Bahnsky's explanation of the new malady. " The psychopath," he says, " is a type which has only recently come under the notice of medical science. It is an individual whose every moral faculty appears to be of the normal equilibiiuin. He thinks logically, he distinguishes pood and evil, and he acts according to reason. But of all moral notions he is entirely devoid . . . Besides his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath, Sec, &c." The short and the long of it seems to be that if egotism is fully developed in a human being he becomes " morally irresponsible"— a very convenient doctrine, to which, however, mankind will have to add as acoiollary that whenever a fully developed psychopath iR discoveied he shall be 1m mediately hanged,

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