CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2053, 3 September 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Ik many parts of Austria crops are reported to ha »c bjen totally destroyed by recent hailstorms. Ax exchange advirtises fora " goofl, upright boiler." Boilers whose moral character is enti'cly above aspersion arc scarce WntThns in the London L'vncet call attention to the great value of hot water applications to the head in cases of faint, ing or syncope. They say, also, that a prompt us>e of it, applied to the forehead with cloths, will icry often avert aucli attacks. Svkb Fkvkr iv K\(»r.A\n.— As many as 1 13 cases of swine fe\ur are said to exist in .SoimMM'tshnc, 140 in Worcester, 12(i in the Wet Riding of Yorkshire, 27 in Norfolk: while in another county iio few it than 224 cases tvcie re poi ted List Mii'li. Tut Royal O.» U estate, near Liverpool, comprising two farms— M 7., the Rojal Oik F.nni, containing IOOv Ok 8p , and the haa Line F.mn, contitmng 26a. 3r. lOi* , together with farmhouses and outbuildings, buck works, Jo cottage*, smithy, &c — was sold the other day to Captain llurf I). A. Willis, M. P, of H.ilsncad H.ill, Whiston, at £13 500 Kmiouatiov from Ik ma totiikColomks — It is stated by the Bombay (}>/ettc tint Sir Frederick Roberts has ptoposed (and his scheme has commended it*clf to hicher authorities) that on completion of the annual H*,me reliefs, one Indian tioop-ship shall run to the Colo nies to take tune-expired men who are desirous of settling there. Sir Frederick further piopoies that accomodation be found for a certain number of officers and men who might, on medical grounds, be recommended the sea trip and thorough cliangp ot climate. On the way back he suggists that the vessel might be utilised foi the com vey ,»iieo of remounts. The Government hive approved the proposal, but before arranging to make a tiip, have cilled for nominal tolls of the men who would elect to proceed to the Colonies. If the returns are numerous, ncce«sary arrangement*, it is said, will be made for running a tioopship about May or June next Two > ears ago the Rmal New Yorker, on the experimental farm belonging to the propiietois of the p.iper, ptodiuel a h} In id betwc n wheat and rjc by inoculating one with the pollen of the other. Oni of the h\biids bore nrailj sterile ears; but seventeen shiivplled gi tins were, found •■rid planted in the autumn. They produced sixteen feeble plant*, whirl) wore not expected to survive thu wintei, but grew » igorotisly in the spring, and ptodncul e»r« lnrge and full List year a further cioss w^s made by inoculating thco hybrids with rye pollen : but, agiin, hs in the cue of the first crop, the kernels seemed to be nearly sterile. Sit plants, including ono with fourteen ears, have been lotaed from the second cross, roujinlling both wheat and rye in some respects, but more like the latter than the plant* grown from the first crop, Tito plants raised from this more fertile hybrids resulting from the first cross vary grcntly, fonio having long beards, otheis short beards, yet others being quite smooth The expeiiim ti^h are scientifically interesting, whethei tney rue likol> to be useful or not Mk I'inhso's" Magistnte,'' which has been so fivonrably received .it the Court Theatre, recalls a good, if doubtful, story of Mr Justice Hognn of the Tombs, New Yoik— a dignitary whrse function! ate analogous to those of the Chief M igntrate at Bow street. One morning thee was brought before him a gang of "down town" ruifims, charged with a gnneial stabbing and shooting alTiay in a gambling hell in Bowery. Kn.li of the witnesses told his own paiticnlar jiack of lies, until Mi Justice II 'gin fairly lost patiencr, and addiessi'ig a witness who was evidently a bicgar liar than his predecessors, asked sternly, " Does the Court understand jou to say that Murphy did not draw his knife until Dwyer had drawn Ins icvolver?" "Right jnti aic. Judge,', was the answer. " Then you had letter be c ireful," solemnly obseived Mi Justice Mogul, "and so had ■ill the other witnesses ; for the Court was there it-*' If the whole tune, ami the Com t saw the husim ss throuL'h with its own eve* fiom st.rt to finish " —St James 1 Gazette. NhVV Sv-TKM or Cl M VL Cri.TIVATIOV ~A wiiter in the Journal of I'iactical -\ £ji lcultu t e draw* attention lt«t week to anew method of corn «ou ing which is now being followed in Fram-i- with good result*, and is, therefore, \roifhy of the attention of ptactical in- n. The plan is to sow the corn in strips or band*, by means of a diill, which puts both the seed and the inai.ur- into tin- ground siniultineously Unfortunately, the distance between the ships and the m/u of the l.ittci is not iletiiut.lv stated by the idvoctte of the system; lint he \ery coutidcntly affirms tint his method produces results much superior to ordinaiy (hilling or hruidcast sowing —in «o.ne ciB(.'s making a dirfeience of return of between 100 ami 200 francs per hectare ; wln'c he has observed that in some fields wh'ch would only pioduoe meagre ciops, a good and reinuneiatiug yield has been semrcd by the introduction of his plan On the oat crop, especially, the heavy yield is partiuulat ly noticenbln. We hope that if a clc.ii gain is e-<tih!ishcd by th s scheme we shall hear moie of it SIII-H'-BKhKIiIVO IV Al'sTKfV AS ft Ht'M.vm. — The future of sheep hrceding seems to be causing some unviety m Austria and (jcriitany. Wo have it on the nuthoiity of Piofmoi Wilckuns, who has gone into tne (|tifstioti in some detail, that the dcciease in the nnmbei of Meiino sheep, and of other breeds noted for their fleeces, is greiter in Silesia, Bohemia, and Moravia th m in the piovinccs of the German Kinpiie. Thus, m Austria alone, the number of sheep han fallen fiom ."i,02(i,3!H head, in 1800, to 3,8 11,340 head, this being c jnivalcnt to a decrease of '23 per cent , the dccrea.se being greatest in the prov inces of Silutia (.14 per cent.), Motaxu (*)0 per cent.), and Bohemia (31 per cent ), the only province in \vln<Ji there has been any increase being Dalmatw, In a few cases the Meuno sheep have been replaced by English breeds, which yield more mutton. But, as a rule, sheep have been replaced by cattle ; for, while there has been a decrease of 23 per cent, in the former, the number of cattle has increased by l."> per cent. — fiom 7,424,305 head to 8,554,977 licul during the last fifteen jears. In Hungary there has been a decrtase of .'5,037,007 head, or 3.1 per cent, in the number of slnep ; and this has not, aa in Austria, been compensated for by an increase in the number of cattle. The Bad and Worthless aie never wnhittil or roiititnfrtf/rl. This is especial'y true of a family medicine, and it is positive pi oof that the remedy iiHilnttil is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole woi Id that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and the most valuable family medicine on e.uth, tnnny imitations spiuuj.' up and began to steal the notices in which the pu-ss ami the people of the country had expressed the merits of 11. B , indin every way trying to induce sufFenng invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the cicdit and good name of H. B. Many othen started nos fciums put up in .similar style to H. B , with \.iuously dev ls-cd names in width the word " J lop" or " Hops" vvcie Übed in a way to induce people to believe they "vi'ie the same as Mop Bitttis. AH such pi cteuded remedies oi cuies, jio matter what then L tyli > or name is and especially those with the woid " Hop or " Hops" in their name oi in any way con nt'ctcd wjtl) them oi their Dime, air imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. 1 ouch none of them. Use no thing but genuine Ameiiean Hop Bittei.s, with a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr SonleS name blown in the glass. Tmst nothing else. Druggists and Chemists arc warned tuainst dealing in imitations or countertits.