CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2018, 13 June 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

On '-fin W i Mill - These biids fcl-ouM I), supplit 1 with food adipted to their natuial wants as far as it is possible to furnish it. Tin be Ivnls ate more lnrl.»\eious than anj of our do nestic fouls \s a matter of course, a diet c .ming nt.au st tluir Mirairr gram forage iiuti them bist. Fine ha), soaked in v, a- in water and spiinkb d with meal or bran, i-> accept il.l •. Boiled potatoes m-\ed with meal serve well. Beets, turnip's pe-Htoes, or applet, chopped hue, ,ii" q >od. Cabbage 13 a f.uiourito tooil, .\n.i digit to be geneiou«ly sup p!ud With tfood ijtiaiters and plenty of vvitci th» > will wuiUm content! dly, and be^in lo lay eailj. Mai/e is icli-died by them, but too mueli makes them over iat A DoMh-Tic I'Kuni.Mi.— The following cilcnlation of the number of stitches iv a plan shiit ha< In en nude bj a •.pains're s in Le ! i'es ( cr :— titclnny the tollais foumws, 3000; sewing the ends, ."iOO ; button holis and sewing on buttons 1 ,10 ; sewing the collar and srathenng the ufck, 1 -20 1 ; stitching wiUt bunds, 122S ; button hole*. 14^; hemming the mU", 2(>4 ; gilh liiu the sleeves, 810; netting on wi'.st bands, 1465; stitching on shoulder sttaps, three rows each, ISSO ; hcmmiig the bosom, IW3 ; sewing tlir s'euvea, 1251 ; setting in sleeve-* and <f,,s S ts 303 > : tapping tlie sk-( \f, I.">2S> : aewmg the seams, 848; Petting si-'c gu?s ( t» ii>, 4-J4 : humming the bottom ?K>4 ; total number of stitches. 20 (H'» Where N the man that can do so much ' SdMH)»nY of A nvithetuatieil tuin, with nothing better to do, has mule the following computation, which is cnriou*, if not rv»entialiy coircct. He si\s that a (Jet nun mile— aboat five English miX s — contains 2\SM) feet ; (188,500 square feet flic snpcificial niea of Lake Constance Win:,' eight and a half Griman squire miles, therefore contains .">, 082,000,000 «<mnre feet. There are living on the suifaee of the globe at this moment in round nnmneis, about 1,430,000,000 human kings. Let evety man have four squaic feet allotted to him, and if the lake was frozen over the w hol« human family might find standing loom upon its suiface. Humid the weight piove too pieit, the ice bieak, and the whok human u<-e be snbmcigcd, it would 01113 laifrc the level of the lake abont bi\ inclicb. A C\M. or CoKßriov. — .V motheily old woman, cousidei.iblv troubled with th< .istlimn. and a!so lime, cillcd at tin* Twentieth street station the othn- afternoon to btnte her case. She made the Rcigeant phce Itis hand on a copy of Brown's gi.imnur, wln-h iuppened to be thete. antl swc.ir that be noulil never tell anybfidy, nnd slie btg.ui : "I Im^c a daughtii." "Yes." -'And my daug l..ter has a bein." " Perfectly natui il." "They aic engaged, and the wedding day has been set thiee tunes, but he flunks out of it even tune. The first time he claimed tli.tt hi^ father was dead ; setond timhe was afraid that he had the small lox ; and the thud time, which was ycsteiday, he said it would b ing bid luck to many when a comet was visible. Now, then, I dent like thi-> fooling around. When me md the old man were ieady to many we walked oser to the ministd's, without any hacking out or beating around." "\\ ell ? ' Well, I want to hi ing this joung man to time, lie's either got to coire up to tlie r.\ck or jump the fence" " \ e3* he must.' 1 "I wanted to ask jou how far I could go. Suppose, after he ainves tomoirow evening, I walk into the room with a pistol in one hand and a minister of the gospel in the other? Wouldn't that precipitate a clima\ ?" "I think "If he lenllj loves Smsjc I think he would stand "p and be. imnied. If he is only fooling aioand lu'«l lump through the window, viouldn t he'; "Look that way to me.' 1 "Well, 111 tiy it. I shan't indulge in no thn at* v>n know. I'll hold thf pi"tnl caielessly in mj left hand, ami lung on to the in'ti *«ter c.ire-ies-sly with tlie othei. md I'll sin. ply remaik that there* eitl.ei going to l>e a maiiiagc 01 a skip. I think that William uillmwry. It's my opinion that he is waiting for a little co icioi, and I'm pretty uood on the oeice when I git staited " "Well, don't lmak the law, ' " Oh, no, no ! If he skips I shan't do nny shooting. I'll let the dog run him aetosa the. cxnnnns and send tlio mipister home, I shall be a^ cool ik ice, and it will be all ou"* in tivp minutes." Yesterd«iy William an.l Susie were eating th-ir bridal tour on the elegant new Michigan a>eime two hot »c street cars. The \ou.i« mnn had bten coerced.— Detroit Fiee Tics Tur. P.R«.st\s Crown K>t\te^— One One may form some idea of the extuit of the possessions belonging to the Russian Kmpeiorns propeitj lmmt-diati ly Attached to the Crown when we hear that the Altai estate* n lone cover an area of C-0,000,000 of desjatins, or over 170,000 square miles, being about three times the si/o of England ami Wales The Net tchinsk estate*, in Eastern Sihciia, are estimated at about 18.000 000 of desjatun. In the Altai estates ate situated the gold and silvei mines of Barnaul, l'anlov, Sunijuv, and Loktjt pp, the copper foundaiy at Saroum, and the great ironwoiks of Gnvrilov, in the Salagnov di.^toict. The rectipts from these enormous estates me in a ndi'iilously pitiful ratio to their extent. In the yeai ISG3 they iimounted to fMO.OOO rouble*, or a little moie than £05,000, while for 1883 the re enue was estimated at less flinn hilf this sum, or about 400,000 roubles, The icnts, &c , pave a suiplus over expense of administration of about l,") 00,000 roubles On the other bnnd, the working of the mines showed o deficit of o\er 1,000,000 ; hence, the lesnlt jus^ indicated, A partial explanation of this xeiy misati>fattoiy state of things is to be found in the situa tion of the mines, which are gene 1 ally In places ijuite destitute of wood, while the smelting works weie natuinlly located in distiicts wheie wood abound", soim'tiines as much as 000 or 700 kilometres distant from the miiict.. The cost of tiansport of raw materials became considerable iv this way. Hy degrees all the wood avaiable in the ncighhouihood of the smelting works became used up, and it was necessary to fetch wood fiom distances of even ovei 100 kilometres. Foimerly the mines were really penal settlements, worked by convicts, who were partly helped by immigrants whose sous were exempted fiom military service on the condition of woi king in the mines. But since the abolition of scifdom this system has been ijuite altered, nnd time is now a groat deal of fico laboui on tne ordinal y conditions.

The Bad and Worthless aic ne\er imit-iftil 01 eowilafnhil. This is CKjK'CMl'y ti no of a family ujntlit mc, anil It is pOMth«* pi oof that tlie remedy lUt'hiteri i<S of tI)C highest \allll 1 . As SOOll as it had hern tested anil pio\rd by tho W hole woi Id that Hop Kitteis was the purest, licit ami the most \alu.ible family medicine on eaith, many imitations spuinp up and begnn to steal the notices in which the prtss and the people of the rountiy had expressed the mi i its of II Ji , and in cvuiy way tiying to induce suffeiing invalids to use thcii start instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nos tmms put up in similar style to H. }$„ with vaiiomly dc\i«ed nanus in which the word " Hop" or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to hehc\e thoy were the same as Hop Hitters. All such pretended remedies or cvnes, no matter what tlieii style or name is and especially those with the woid " Hop" or " Hops" in their name or in any way con nected with them or their name, are imitations or comitcifeits. lie ware of them, loucli none of them. Use nothiny hut grnuine Ameiican Hop Bittets, with a cluster of meen Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Tiust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists ure warned .ij.'nm.-'t dealing in imitation* or counterfeits.

Valcaivlf I\vi\Ti\'firt - Some idea of the enoimoin value of M<mB*oiiut's paint. hks may be f jrmed from th<j fnct t'tnt at the lecrnr exhibition of them for a charitabU purpose in I'm-iw, the principtl item of ti« e\|« uwb \\a» the premium paid for theii iusutauce against fire. This was at th- rate of £20 for every rqaaie. inch of ca»va«. In the collection of Sit Rich-mi Wallace, th«re is «i small picture pointed by this art'ut about 1533 (MeUfonicr is now 74) for whkli the oi initial purchaser pave £4. Tiik former wealth of bird music in field and gio\p, hoc in Connecticut, cannot well bo understood by those who have grown up since the destrnctne warfare on birds began. It is a wonder, in fnct, that any nre left, when we consider the \aiiety of hhapfs in which disastei o\ ci takes our Mnging birds. Not to mention the many thousands that nre destroyed in th<» eg« or nest by marauding boys nnd " specimen " collectors, the further destruction of the migrating birds by dashing their li\es o*t against, the hnterns of an endless string of lighthouses along the const— for their journey is mostly peifcrmed at night -Is far larger than is generally suppos"d, and would s*em to l>c enough to decimate them If we n<M to tins Hip rnthloss wholesale sltughter of some species - lik' 1 ' the bobolink foi example— hy j»nnnjis along the Delaware and ri\ers fuitliei soith who deyote thr bi-ds to stews -hI pies. there nird be no further )oo'<in£ for the eanse of the ni.irKed duninuljon of thin m»st rolliekm* .md once rery abundant MBg ster of out M.ty and Jnne gra^s fiolda. Yet the ititroiltictiou of the mowingmachine, witli the e.-ulier gracs cntting that \\m acronipaninl i*i Hiipplits an additional exp'anation of a part of the general disappearance of the boViolink. He is not found as a aongater elsewhcie than in tluse charming fields of our north land in the " perfect months of May and June, and his peculiar rollicking, tinkling, swagijering melody was one of the charm* of Riich fccncx at tlint happiest time of the \ear, IVrhaps hiscxtcrmmation'cannot be stopped, but this w hdliw.ili* (Ustt notion of all soits of cone buds, inclnding our finest singer, the brown tln.isher, and all junt to supply feathered ornaments for women's hats, is a little too bad. If the women would be content t\ith the Knro-p-an sparrow (u-nv unfortutntely nitur allied in thi-i cnimtry) nolwdy would oiler a word opposition. — ' ilartford (Conn.) Time .' A Beautiful Painting. Mr 0 (i. flu <n, of Woodhun, New «hr>iy. U.S.A., is prencnt.ng todnijtai-ti and otlu-is in tl i- crmntn some \rij hue pictiiri-* in oil of his magniliietit h»tisr and grounds and labnatuiy at that piic*-. Mi (Jietn is the propr.etoi of Bo«cli-'f'H Gel man Syrup »ml (Irren's A«g«>t Flower, two \tiy \.ilnnhle m< di<- n '«, \>lnc!i aie meituif,' nitli v'rc»t fasou-, the first ns a remedy f>>r I'n'momry com pl.iinK and the Litter for I^upepnia and disoiders of tl.e Lixer 'I h< .-c pnparations h.i\c attained an immense "-ale sokly on then mpeiior merits and nre B'>ld'by nil diugyi«ts thiotiphout the woild. Tliepiiee is the same for c.ich. .'J> Gil per bottle, or .sum pic Lotties for (id The t-ample bottles einble ?nffcr«r* to pro\ c th< ir \ alne iit a triHoi^ cost