EIGHT DAYS IN A BOX.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 4

EIGHT DAYS IN A BOX.

The circumstance (if a stowaway who confined hmisolf in a boy for eight days is imported from Adelaide: — "On th<* steuner South Australian, from Western \n-ti.ili.i, teaching l'oit Adelaide, a ln>\ addicx-ed to 'W. Uylps ' was taken with the other luggage fn.m tho aftei hold, whore it was placed eight lay 1 * ago at Frpenuntle. Its unutu.il weight Ifl the Customs officers to open it, when a h.ing mm, about Oft in height, was found in the package. He Rave his name as Willi mi Al'lerson, and -.tid th.it no one on bo.ud know th.it he wa-> in the ca^e. He, ii 1 11 f I no accomplice. 15y means of a sfnng Utached to scrow>> he h id managed to keep the lid down tightly He had a fe.v bu^cuitw wi'l a billy, uhich was empty, He seemed very ninth exhausted, and Ins first request was foi water. J>r .f. F. Matthew-., a li.-men^iT, attended to the want-t of the in in, who was aftei waids given in cliargo "f the police as a stowaway. The dimensions of the box weie 3ft fun, by 2ft lin, by •Jft high, and the man in ant ha\c lain in a curled up position all tho voyage. He had a small augur, and had bored a few holes which gn\c him \enlilation. There is little doubt that he had remained in the case all the way, as there was a largo quantity of luggage above it, and it was nenrly the last package in the hold. Tho engineer of the steamer states that during tins voyage ho hcaid a knocking, and thought that some of tho cargo had got adrift. He went down into the hold, but could find nothing wiong. Byles, who was a passenger by the steamer, declares that he knew nothing of the matter, but he admits having worked with Alderson in a railway g.ing about a month ago. Aldcrbon is an old cxpiree."

M \kk Tn uv has written a letter in which he asserts that his children are well-behaved, well-governed, and companionably charming- This would go to prove that none of his children has yet developed into a "leading American humourist."—New York Graphic. A Nmv Pkooss. —A patent has been granted in Germany to Mr K. I'atry for a method of separating the grease froir wool fibte by mean"! of vapors of toluene. The wool is exposed in a closed cylinder to the action of toleune vapors. The tolune which runs out of the cylinder through an outlet in the bottom, carrying the grease along with it, is led into the evaporating appartus, from which it passes into the cylinder. When the wool has been suffioontly purified from the groase, steam i<* introduced n the cylinder, so that the remaining portions of the solvent and all the impurities of the wool which are soluble in water are carried away by the condenced water. A Mistvkk CnAi.r.Kvui.u.—The white colrur of Arctic mammals and birds has hitherto been ascrilx d to protective resembl.incc, the adaption to a snow-covered country being attributed to the pieservation of individuals, which, by assimilating to their surroundings in color, eithei escaped detection by their foes or were enabled to .secuie their prey more ads antngeously. A writer in Nature, however, scoffs at this explanation, and points out that white, the worst absorbei, is ahotlie worst iadiator of all forms of radiant energy, so that wann-bloodcd crcatuies thus clad arc butter able to withstand the vjveiity of an Aictic climate. ' Yi-s,' ho answered, as he sremed to huddle Itiirisclf up m a heap, 'I\c been there. That is, I've jumped fiom a railroad train running at a vpeed of fortyeight mi)<-s an hour, and 1 rant say as I want to repent the experiment.' ' Where and when ?' ' About thirty miles last of Chicago on the Michigan Ccntial, tlnce years apo.' ' What was the occasion?' ' I was half drunk, and did it on a bet of .") dols. The btt was that I daren't walk out on the platform and take the jump without picking out my giound. As it happened, the ground wai pretty dear, but 1,000,000d01s wouldn't hire me to try it again ' ' ilow did you come out?' 1 Well, it a hard to describe the sensation. As I sprang from the step I seemed to fly. I suled along in the air until my wings grew tired, and then I dropped down to see the country. I've got a good pair of eyes, but I didn't see much. I ! was too busy turning cartwheels and hand spi ings and somersaults Sometimes I btat the professionals all hollow, and again I made a muss of it. It was my intention to skip all the mud puddles and a\oid all the stumps, but you can't always have your way in this world, j By-and bye I rested my case ; that is, I brought up in a fence corner, and waited for a first class hospital to come along.' ' Much hurt?' ' Might ha\e been worse. Bioke an aim, two ribs, and had over a hundred cuts and bruises, and it was se^en weeks before I could walk a rod. 1 ' But yon won the adols ?' ' Y-e-s ; but ] that is always where I grow sad. The stakeholder sent it back to me from the first town in the shape of a pine coffin, | and it didn't fit my length into seven inches. I had to sell the confounded thing for a misfit at half price !' —' Detroit Free Press.

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