CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 6 October 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

" A Max and his wife may differ," says an essayist with groat giawty. They may, they may ; and w hat's more tlity generally do. An excellent blacking for fine harness can he made by disaolwug fivo or six sticks of hl.ick scaling wax ia a pint of alcohol. Lifci'TKNANT Greely remains in exceedingly poor health and has given up a projected trip to Kurope. It is feared he w ill ne\ei recover from the effects of his Arctic experience. " What are the last teeth that come ?" asked a Lynn teacher of her chths in physiology. •' False teeth, mum," replied a hoy who had just waked up on the back scat."— Lynn Union. It has been decided that a naval cadet who throws kisses at a girl is guilty of ungentlemanly conduct. Quite right. He should cairy them to her and place them gently on her lip?.— Philadelphia Call. Whey Milton and Shakspere wrote only .">,000.000 or 6,000,000 people spoke the English language. The number has now increased to 100,000,000, over onehalf of whom live in the United States. Princk Bismarck recently told a Russian diplomatist that he had decided never again to use tobacco in any form, and that ho regarded cigarette-smoking as extremely noxious and ridiculous to boot. Thk French Company which has a contract for improving the habour of Vera Cruz for $10,000,000 began work last April. The chief engineer poured into a hole several loads of lime, cement and rocks, the foundation of the great work. iSpceches were made and cham pague was drunk. The contracts call for completion in ten years. Thk fences on the farms in the State of Maine are valued at nearly as much as all the farms and their buildings are worth ; more than twice and a half the value of all the live-stock, and nearly as much as the entire capital of the Stat« invested in manufactures. In Sweden if you address the poorest person in the sticet you must raise your hat. A gentleman passing a lady on the stairs of a hotel must do the same. To enter a shop or bank with one's hat on is considered a tenible breach of good manners.— Exchange. Nickkl CRrciBLES. — Crucibles of nickel liav lately been adopted in some chemical laboratories, in the place of silver ones generally used for melting caustic alkalies. They have the advantage, not only of being cheaper, but of being capable of resisting a higher temperature tlun the latter, and the lesult issaid to be favourable. EvuriMNCK of Woods. —In some tots made with small squares of various woods buried one inch in the ground, the following results, says the Gat den, were noted : — Birch and aspen dcciyed in three years ; willow and horse chestnut, in four years ; maple and red beech, in live ycais ; elm, a*»li hornbeam, and Lomlurdy popular, in seven years ; oak, Scotch til, \Vej mouth pine, and silver fir decayed to a depth of half an inch in sc\en yeais ; latch, juniper, and arbor-vita. 1 were uninjured at the expira tien of seven years.