CUPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2029, 9 July 1885, Page 4

CUPPINGS.

Tiif hand of foitune— four aces. WiiFNisa <loct< r like a eatpenter?— Wlu'ii lie hits an ai! f'li the head. In liuli.i a widow burns for lier fi t a*" husband. In tins country she bums fora s 'cond one It is not the change of scene that cures s> many ttavelhng invalids. It is the ,iI)S nee .rom a d'>ctoi. Osk Di Ski iietm.y Lintoln'sStorii-s -Sicitti.y Lineo'n has enough of liis fat iui's natii'e to enable liim to make <:o >d stories and (.o tell them well. When he was in Clrcngo with Aitlmr ho, witli i iiuuibc ■ of othei gentlemen, was enjoy - nig au after dinner chat, when he told this story, illustt.uiic of t!io ca/,e in Chicago for cnleiing tho pica of self defence : 'I'hite men < jtta> felled in a loom above a saloon, when one of them lell diad with hen t disease. Tiiechci were feaiful that they would be c!>aiged with minder, <-o one went to the saloon and cnti' c 1 th > bii tender out, w bile the other c.mcd the coi pse dow n and placed it in a tiiair, with it? head on a table as if sleeping off a diunk. When the baitendei relumed the two men took a dunk, saying the diiinl.cn man in the cli.in would pay for it, and went away. T<ie ba.-tcndei soon shook Ins customer and demanded his pay. The corpse fell over on t!ie floor, and as the bar- tender stood trembling with fear, the two men icturned w itli an officer. The bar-tender, aiilicipiting Ins arrest, quickly said, " He struck me first " A Friendless Pkndenms.— The Law Courts have just been squabbling over the "domicile" of an aged officer who died friendless, not veiy rich, and with out a will. For ninety years the poor old gentleman had dragged out an existence almost forgotten by the world, appmently indifferent whether h« had any relat.ves alive ; and now, when he parses away in a dingy London lodging, a sw arm of poor relations — nep.iews and nieces, and sons and daughters of nephews and nieces— lise out of the ground, and beg Mr Justice Chitty to decide whether "the Colonel, ' w!io had not visited Scotland for twenty-two years, and had not pasß.-d out of England for two-and twenty was or was not, in the eye of the law still a Scote'.imnn, whose "gear was to be distnbuted according to Scotti-.li law. As thcie was no proof thai Colonel Patience "had mauicd and brougiit up a family in England, or purchased land here, or even purchased a giavein an English cemetery," he was duly decreed to be a Scot, despite the fact that since the day when, an ensign of eighteen, he had turned his back on the Scottish hills he had— unlike his countrymen generally — never recrossed the Tweed, or, it seems, even written to >iis relatives. The story is a strange one as it stands, and no doubt theic is a good deal inoi e to be lend between the line?. From the glimpses we get in the depositions and alhdauUi of the witnesses, it is dear that iiad the aged soldier spent among Ins kin some of tl.c weary years which he was pel nutted to "enjoy" t fter a feeble fashion, lie might have left to his heirs a nice welcome le o acy than a law suit.— The Wo Id. Vi.vm Ti D.)f \u — Few people of middle age \ lew with <qunuiiitity the festivites the present .sea3on brings with it. Tins often makes them impist to those who at the extremes of life aie able to enjoy the good things, if only indulged in with modulation. Middl • nged piejudice is unusually severe against plum pudding, jrt tins article is a highlj cmoient food, yielding a fo>ce ujimnlcnt to '2.30 foot tons. It is iil«o inimitable \ elude for the adnnnistiation of fat, an niticle of diet, as a rule, usually objected to by children. Plum pudding, in leasonably quantity, is rertainly to be prcleired to the so-called "wholesome" cakes, which have little fatty matter in their composition A good wedge of cold plum pudding is not an unwholesome, lunch for young and gi owing I.uls to put in their pockets when out for a day's skating oi hunting. Eldeily people, too, are often able to complete with the younger niumbcis of the f imilj in the cii|oyment of Christmas eheei in a manner that ama/es and di.scomnges tlieir middle aged relations The fact is, as lias been happily point' d out ly I'rofissoi Michael Fostci, the digisttvc ih iik nls aie long pre-ened, so that a man who in the piiine of manhood was a maityr to dyspepsia, l>y iea c on of the sensitiveness of his gastnc uci ye«,v c«, in his later jcars, when Ins nerves ate blunted, and when, theiefoie, Ins peptic cells aie able to puisne their chemical woik undisturbed by net v ous worries, eats and drinks with the courage and success of a boy. — Lancet. Ambktw Opiniov of the British Akm». — Genrial Dium, the AdjutantGcueial of the United SiUes Army, who has spent some time in England, lias just been interviewed in Washington by a represent itive of the Now Yoik Woild, a paper unf< icnrlly to (.'reat Jiiitmn. Having been ask his opinion on the British army, the Ueueial leplied :—": — " Tiie English soldier is the finest in the world —I nuke no exception. A regiment of Englishmen is the finest body of soldiers ever got together. Ido not believe that the English troops can be beaten by any nation. They love fighting. They are men of high intelligence, and their othoers are plucky fellows. Tho Scotch make wonderful soldiers. They are the only t r oops that have made a leputation in military history for a capacity to i .illy under fire. Unite them with the Hntish, and handle them well, and you have an invincible army." General Ha/en, another ofheer in the United States A> my, who was sent abroad to watch the Rurso- Turkish war, and was for some time with Gcnci.il Skobclrfi', ways that Russia has been piepaiing foi war with England for years past, and that the question incessantly addi cased to him by ilus-sian officers was '" How do our soldieis compaic with the British?" He entertains as high an opinion of the Biitish foices as General Dunn docs 110 considers them the finest soldiers in the wot Id, and rcgaids the leseives as composed of the best materials, although the Geimans and the Austiians m.iy be better machines peihaps. <{cnciat Ha/ en docs not bcliexe that there would bo any tioublc with Ireland in the event of wai, for the Irish arc so fond of fighting that he feels certain England would receive all the support she require* from the people of that pugnacious island.

Remember This. If yon are sick Hop 15 Iton will Mirely aid Nature in making you well when all else fails. If you arc costive 01 dyspeptic, or arc '•iillcimg fioin .any olliei of tin* ininicions ilixrnsi's of tlif sN>macli or houcte, (fc is yoiu nwn fault if you icinain ill, for Hop KittetM i« a sovciuign lonedy iv all such winpl.iintH. ff you me wpsliiujnway with anj fo'tu of KuliKy disc.iM 1 , stop tcinpoMijj Di.iLli lips moment, and tt'in for a ciwe to Hop I'.lttCM. If yon are Nervous use of HopTllitei-,. It you are rok wuh that fei iblr di*eaio, Nervousnpss, you will find a " D.ilin in (J.lcid" in tlic u 5«u 5 « of IFop Ditti'b. If you are a fiequenlcr, 01 a UMdi-nt of it miasmatic d'st-'iet, banicado your ■■ystem Against tlic scouigii of all conntiics — malarial, epidpinie, bilious, and intermittent fevers — by the use of American Co's Hop Bitters. If you ha\e ronyh, pimply, or callow si. in, bad bieath, pains and acln-s. and f > 1 1 miserable geno.ally, Hop Hilton will pive you lair bkin, neb Mood, and sweetest breath, heal uli and eou.foit. In s-lioit, they etne all Dis< ,i-< s of Hie stcinac'i, Bowels, I»lood, L'no', Ner\<i, Kidney's, Briglit's Disease. JL.JOO will be pnid for a case they y ill not cine 01 help. iMugijists and cbemistH keep them. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, winter, mother, ordanghter, ran he mad? the picture of health, by American Co's Hop Bitters, cjsLing but a trifle. Will you let them buffer ? None genuine ■without n bnnch of t(reen Hops on white label and Dr .Soule's name blown in bottle. Shun all I otlieis as vile, xioisonoua atuir.

What Zkro Mkans. —Perhaps not one person in a hundred knows wliy a point 32 degrees below the free/ing point on FahicnlieitV thermometer is called zero. For that mattei nobody knout. The Fahiriilicit scale was introduced in 1720. Like othei thermomctric scales, it has two fixed paints—the freezing point, or rather the inciting posnt of ice, and the boiling point of water. The ccntigiade and Reaumur call the freezing point 7cio, nnn measure thciefrom in both directions. This is a very natural arrangement. Fahrenheit kept the principle on w liich lie graduated his thermomi ter a secret, and no one has ever di=coveied it It is supposed, howevei, that he considcied his zero S2 degrees below ficozing- the point of absolute cold or absence of all heat, either because being about the tcmperatuie of melting salt .uid snow it was the greatest degree of cold he could produce artificially, or because it was the louest natural ternpciaturc of which he could find a.y record. The grounds on which Fahrenheit put ISO degrees between the freesing points arc likewise unknown. Ci.lmvtion\ —Lady Dilke, Sir Charles Dilke's \s if i>, who died while still a pretty, charming young woman, was the subject of one of the first cremation* of modern times. I believe the ghoulish, detailed desciiptious which were published of the gradual consuming of that body by the flames did much to check the practice of so disposing of the dead. Such desecration of the dead is, however, of course totally unnecessary in cremation. Properly speaking, the reduction of the relics of mortality to their primary elements by the application of fire is as secret and decent as, though more rapid than, the same process in the silent darkness of the giave. Two other ladies were not deterred by the unfortunate hehawour in Lady Dilke's case from taking the came cours". A naval capUin mined Hanliam, living in Devonthiie, erected a crematory in his own grounds, in which to bum (according to their own wishes whilf alive) the bodica of his wife and his mother, Lady and Mrs Hanham, woo died within a short tune of each other. This occurred in 1876, I think. Rather less than two ytars ago, Captain H<tnl>am himself died, leaving order* for the cremation of his remains. Now the body of Mis Fickeis«dl lias been similarly treated. Tims, four out of the fire Knglish cremations so far ha\c been per formed on women, in each case by the deceased's own desire in life. —Mr Fenwick Miller.

A Th;hfs.< at L\nor..— A New York pnper gives the following account of a tiger's journey through thn streets of Chicago :— The beautiful queen of tl.; Indian jungles placed her huge paws against 'the door of a butcher's shop in West Van Burcn stieet dm ing her prowl the other evening, sniffed the hum sausages which hung in the window, and quietly w.dked flwny. The animal helongs to W. II Harris, proprietor of the Nickel Plate Shows. He livts in South Roby street, where two lions, a bear, an elephant, and the tigress have been hibernating in a barn on the piemiscs. The animal is one of tho largest of Her Fpeci s> on the continent. She is possessed ot an nnsnaliy vicious temper, and is regarded as dangtious. It was about ten o'clock one night wlicn she escaped fioni her c.ige. Her ke« per crouched with blanched face and paralysed muscles bebind a siove near by. The elephant bellowed until the hay seed rattled through the nfters. Pas«mj» out of the barn door, the stuped pet tiotted off throng 1 the alleyway across Van Huron street A little child sat 111 an unhorsed buggy playing. The tigrres*- put her paw on the wheel and offered a caress tiiat showed two srts of lonj» w bite teeth. The little one screamed, and the animal peacefully ambled ofF to the meat shop. Repulsed there, she continued her fight to a vacant lot in the rear of a hou?c on A\on place. She prowled about among the people scrambled to the top of the sheds, stables, fences and houses, in the neighborhood. Fully 3000 people ciowdcd about to see the pcrfoimance. Aftci two hours of meat-throwing and co.i\intr the F'oynl Dengal tijress entered wool-shed, into which .she was quickly nailed. A hole was sawn thtougli the side of the stiuctnie ; she stepped lig'itly into the cage which bad been placed opposite the apertuie, and was ag.nu becuiely confined,

Hunting Fou a Lost Aktici.e. — "Look lieic!"' cvdaimed a licry eyed woman, as she lushed into the police headquarter? one day litoly. " I ook lieie, i*n't this the place where they hi ing lost articles w hen they find them f" "If the police lind them they Are bi ought lierr," replied the sergeant in charge. "Have you lost anything? 1 ' 11 Well, I should remark!' panted the woman, sinking into n soar and fanning herself ugoroutly " Police bion^ht anything in lately ?" "They've brought in sc\cral tiling? dining the day. If you'll tell me what jou have lost, I can It'll you whether any policeman Ins found it or not." I s'posc I've got to pay about three times what it's worth in the way of a reward haven't I ?"' She snapped. "No," replied the sergeant. "We don't take any rewards here. If we have any article you have lost, it will be returned to you without any expense." "If somebody else found it, I s'pose I've got to pay then) to get it b->ck. ha\en't I?" " That depends entitely on circumstances. If you oifer a reward, you should pay it. But some honest person may bring it in here and I not be w tiling to accept any recompense." "Umph?" snorted th« woman. "That's likely to happen." "May I inquire what you ha\elost?" a?ked the seigeant politely. " It's my husband !" squealed the woman. " And I want it understood right here that lam offering no reward for him. I did that twice, and tlio last time I found it was a put up job between him and his chum? to get money out of me. Hk can't play that on me again, and you try to recollect it ! If hr'a brought in, you say he's a?trny, and there ain't nobody going to place a cent oa him to save hi? life. They can keep him first! Ha\e you seen him? Any honest person what shies ntaieward bi ought him in here just out of pure love of seeing me get at him as soon as I plant these eyes on him ?" " Not yet," replied tho sergeant; "no article of th.it kind has reached here to-day. Where shall I send him if he comes?" "Don't tend him nowhere?" growled the woman. "You just keep nim here till I come for him. Have I got to pay for hi? feed while he's here ?" "I don't think it's inymorc than right that you should," responded the sergeant. " then you give him tripe and haid tack. He don't like 'em, and what ho eats of Yin won't come to much. Don't you go inorc'n ten or fifteen cent? on him, if lie stays a week ! Yon heai ?" " When will you come for linn ?" asked flic sergeant. " I can't get back hcfoic Monday. Lsnt don't you give dun no bed, and you just say that you heaid me remark that that as soon a? I get him home I'm going to make bun think that cveiy hair on his head is a band of music, and all playing different tunes !" and out she floopcd to tiy two or tlnee places whore she thought lv. miglit be, because she had an idea that he might have "boirowed a quaitcr of viine one, and ?he knew he'd stay till the last blessed cent was gone, if it took him a week !" — lirookljn Eagle.

A Great Eusmess. The United S*: *es of Atnenci is the home of .-omc \ery large cnteip'ises, hut none pchaps gicucv tliiin the husiii" 3a conducted by Mi (j. (i. Green, of Woodbury, N'cw Jersey, U. S. A. He is the pioniictoi of the well known \) )schee'H Ociman Syuip, winch was unequalled ,ig a remedy for Pulmonary and Hronchinl affections. He manufactures also Gi ecu's August Fowcr for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Liver. Thece preparations nre used throughout the civilise il woild, and thousand"! testify to their valuable curauirc piopertifs. Roth these preparations have reached «n immense sale solely on their merits. Sample bottles of each trc sold at 6d, or fullbottles at 3s 6d. All drupgists keep thfii: