CLIPPINGS. Modern Girdle of Venus.—A coatsleeve.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1993, 16 April 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS. Modern Girdle of Venus.— A coatsleeve.

The hatching of lobster and fish is making great progiess in Norway. Thus, last year the As-.ocin.tion for th<> Piomotion of the Noiweguu Fisheries hatched 7,000,000 fish, chiefly cod and haddock, at their establishment of Arendal, in the Christiania fjoid, and this winter between ,")0,000,000 and 60,000,000 more will probably be tin nod out. The experiments which were made of placing the ova of lobster in hatching apparatus have been ittemled with gre.it success, and show that they may be turned out by the million in this manner. ArcoKDiw: to the Pall Mall Gazette, the Hungarian town of Temosvar has the lion r>u i of beini? the fust in Europe to adopt the electnc light "Temesvar," writes our contemporary, "has been lighted in this way (or two months, and there is a proud chorus of commendation thereof in the Austrian and Hungarian newspapers. Distributed oxer this town of 40,000 inhabitants theie are 7.30 incandescent lamps of 16 candle power, woiked on a high tension cut tent by means of overhead wires on four separate cii units, so that not one accident can affect the whole system. A further precaution is taken by ha\ ing on each larrppost a spare Limp, which, by a i-lt>\cr automatic arrangement, is lighted immediately any accident 1 puts out' the one in use. The genet ating power consists of eight Brush incandescent dynamos, driven by a 300 horse power engine. -Such is the system, roughly stated ; and it seems to have proved entirely successful. The public are not admitted to full knowledge of the financial arrangement ; but we believe that the balance is on the right tide. The townspeople obtain much better light, and that all through the dark hours, tor the same price that they formerly paid for a few gas and a great ! many pa ratlin lamps, the majority of which were extinguished at midnight." Of the thousands of stais which are studied, we kuow the distance of only twenty. The Polar star, which is a double star, is distant 21)2,000,000,000,000 miles from us ; Capclla, distant 42.">,000,000, 000,000 miles, a space which is tiaveised by light in seventy-one years and eight months — a light tra\els at the late of 185,000 miles per second. A lay of light from Capella, in 1884, must ha\e staited out in 1813. E\en if Capella was extinguished in ISI4, we should see it still. A recent case of death in Plymouth, England, caused by tin* use of mathylene as an anesthetic, developed the fact that it is in reality one of the safest drugs of its class. At the inquest it was shown that the number of deaths caused by it is but one in 8000, and the surgeon had seen many thousand cases during an experience of 2.1} ears, but had never met with a death from it before. He said that too much mcthylene could not easily be applied at once, because it would only evapoiatc at a certain rate. Pink wood shavings aie being more and nwie largely utilised in Europe for stuffing purposes. At Pesth, in Hungary, a large factory is exclusively devoted to the production of such sha\ings, which latter by the aid of machinery, are reduced to such a degice of fineness that the resulting product resembles tow. Pine wood shavings are claimed to be superior to every other substitute of horsehair in connection with upholstering purposes, whethei as regards elasticity, softness, or durability. For bedding, such shavings are recoin mended by ieason of the resin contained in the wood being an effective preventive •mamst vermin. The (Jerman Ministry of War has tiled the matciial for nedstutting purposes, and has expressed its high approbation of its nients both for hospital and hanack use After having been used as stuffing for five or six year", thi» shavings can bo renovated by being ixposcd to the heat of the snn or to a heightened temperatuie. As regards woii, pine shavings are s.i id tocompaie favourably with horsehair, while the cost is natniolly far smaller. Tick circulation of the New York newspapers is now veiy gieat, notwithstanding the hat d time". Of the one-cent papcts, the Daily News has about !3.">,000, and the Morning Journal about MO.OOO— it icached 201,000 on the moining after the election — and is steadily inerea«iiig. Of the two cent papers, the World, which two or three yeais ago was down to 7,000 or 8,000, now reaches 90,000 people ; and the Herald, Times and Tibune (threecent) remain stationary at about (50,000 to 72,000, though the last has a bad outlook for the next four years. The Sun probably fares the woist of all, as it now has a circulation of little more than 00.000 and is steadily losing ground. There is no doubt that the daily Sun contains much. less matter than its larger nvals, but the Sunday Sun is the best Sunday paper published in New York. — J Pittsburtf Bulletin. j A TRinrTK to Gordon.— The Baroness Burdett Coutts, presiding recently At the annual meeting of the Biitiah Beekeepers' Association, which was held at 105, Jermyn street, London said it was hardly possible for anybody to meet that diy without referring to the sad news received respecting the distinguished and gallant General Gordon. It was in everybody's thoughts ; and what the latter were did not need many words to express them. She could only hope that those who had been unfortunately bafHed, though never defeated, in their effoits to save General Gordon might still be able to redeem in some measures the deep stain resting upon this nation — resting very unjustly, for she did not believe that any English person would not nix months ago, or at leait three months ago, have lifted wp his hand to achieve what was then quite possible— namely, the rescue of General Gordon and those followers who were so bravely and affectionately devoted to him, and whose f.ite English people must look upon with equal sorrow mid indignation as on his own. She could not go anywhere without expressing her feelings on the subject, and therefore she hoped the meeting would forgive her. At the same time it was a matter in which every association formed like this one to promote the well-being of the country, was concerned.