CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1994, 18 April 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

A\ American fanner has two hundred diffeiciit boits of apples giafted upon or.c tuu One bundled and tlurty-seveu of them vveie in bcaung last year. Tiik Tay is computed to yield 50,000 fo SO,()U<» &a'n)on every yeai, and exp rts calculate that there aie a quarter of a million fish in itswateis. It appears fiom a long sei i«s of return*, that in the whole population of England 1 in (j dies of consumption, 1 in 27 of dropsy, 1 m 30 of a violent death, 1 in 44 of water on the brain, 1 in 96 by sudden death, 1 iv 100 of apoplexy, and 1 m 500 ot lockjaw Tub standard of height and chest me* surements for boys entering the Royal \\ival training ships has been reduced, and aie now :— Boys l."> to 13^ yeais of a»o, ">tt in height and 30in chest ; 15 to 10 years, sft lin height and 30Jin chest. Tin- floor of an immense ball-room and conceit loom, recently constructed at \laiqatc, thp uotcd English wateiingplaie, is of oak, resting on Indian mbber. It is expected to givoan extra spring to tiie '" light lanta'-t.c toe." A yopno manied woman of NewYork, who has been addicted to painting her lips as well as her cheeks and eyelashes 19 now under medical treatment to reduce the si/.e of her lips, which have become " honibly enlarged" by chemicil poison. A well in the yard of a M.icon, Ga., citizen, which foimerly supplied the household with water, was discovered a few days ago to have stai ted producing kerosene oil. The trial of the oil for illuminating purposes was made, and the result was very satisfactory. Ditren is the third richest town in Prussia, and its millionaites evidently know what good use to put their wealth to. During the present year three mem hers of one family (Hosch) alonp endowed ! the poor house with 50,01)0 maiks, built a children's home with 300,000 maiks, founded a high school worth 70,000 marks, and the fourth is vow about building an orphan asylum. It wns recently announced that a post paicel from Vienna, addressed to King Milan, contaiiing jewels to tho value of 40.000 francs, intended for the Queen, hail disappeared in the Belgrade PostOffice. The parcel, with its entire contpnts, has been found in the house of a Belgiade watchmaker, who was betrayed to the police by his apprentice. Tiik enemies of tobacco have won a triumph in the person of General Grant, who has been suffering from a swelling of the tongue. He had been accustomed to smoke twelve or fifteen cigais daily, md on tin* advice of his physicians abindom'd smoking without the least disturbance to his nervous system, while the nnpiove ment in his general condition was mjirvcllous. It is reported, siys the Dublin coi rnspondpnt of an English paper, that on one estate in the south of Ireland fully 300 out of 600 tenant farmers aie absolutely bankrupt. It is added that this approach to universal bankiuptcy, and what might be called general pauperism, is not confined to one estate. T'lE Paris fire brigade service employs 1743 officers and men, commanded by an officer with the rank of colonel, and divided into two battalions and six com panics, with fifty officers. There are 190 stations in telegraphic communication with the chiff offices, and where the alarm of fire may be given, the telegraph wire 3 in use extending to a total length of 330 kilometres (about 220 miles).

DYNAMITAHOf- AND THE MaIIUI The New York World announced on Feb. 18 that it had ascertained fro>n a secret but reliable source that ceuain individuals, skilled in the use of explosives, had left Paris for the Sondan in order to assist the Mahdi. Theso persons, adds the journal, who have seen military service, will instruct the Mahdi in the art of warfare.

A Rri'HVNLY Officer. — A lieutenant attached to the new Governor of the Amooi Province, and formerly an aide tie camp to Geneial TchernaipfF, late GovernorGencial of Turkestan, has b"en at tested and taken to Nertchinbk for shooting a postmaster. On entuing the post station the lieutenant assumed the well know n blustei ing manner of some Russian officials, and was quietly requested not to frighten the postmaster's sic'c child The impatient officer at once stiuck thp postmaster with his fist, and then shot him dead with his revolver. He drove off, revolver in hand, but was arrested after some rather rough treatment, at the next station. Even in these remote regions it is evidently no longer possible for Russian officials to oveiride all considerations ot humanity with impunity. It had been generally supposed that any insignificant official travelling in these distant parts had a right to murder anyone who was at all opposed to ovei bearing insolence.

Tiik New South Wales Soudan Contingent — Just befoie the Ibeua's arrival at Adelaide, Colonel Hichnidson broke to Se>ale thfl news of the death of his wife, through the collision with the Nemesis, and as permission had been given him to leturn to Sydney he did so, to look after his three young children. Mrs Sessle, at tho time of her death, had just become entitled to a legacy of £8000, which now reverts to her childien. The men of the Adelaide permanent foi cc paid the pool fellow a deal of thoughtful attention. A wi etched stowaway from Sydney with all the military ardour knocked out of him, was put otfat Adelaide. He prefened an early experience of the vicissitudes of Adelaide life to tbe unknown miseries of the Soudan. Two others attempted to desett, but one of them was adjudged to be mad. Another poor fellow ran up to an Adelaide visitor and said in a quavering voice :—": — " Oh, do let us have a shake of the land. I don't know nobody here. What a fool I was to come. I've left such a dear little wife and tluee pretty little children at home." All, -w ell ; it was too late for legiets then. Some people may be interested in knowing that Lieutenant-Colonel Wells, one of the commanding officrs, has his own son on board as a pi ivate in one of the companies. The young fellow gave up an apprenticeship to a civil engineer in Sydney to go to the Soudan. Theie aie among the privates heveial ofKceis and one captain of the line who have seen Bcrvice in many pirts of the woild.

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