CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8541, 22 July 1893, Page 6

CLIPPINGS.

Sperf'ting at the annual meeting of t&* { t Tonic SSiol-Fa Collie, Lord C^rriagtoa.]*■ ? \ wan instance of the great it?*®* ; -made 'bf?* musical education, that whs? w ? was ab>ay at Eton there was only one p_**®» ._' and thjffr pre«M_nt Earl of Sandwich *w** w* only piaj -ail who played oa it, ■

It htrt l come out that the GovemsuHJ* «-***• paying ■ Sir a Russell and Sir R. Wtfc&f . each a _|ac of 200-gs for six weeks' aitsss* ance fw Paris on the Eehriag Strsit* arbitration. The sum is large, but (say** Some -f /riter) it is a coosotation to that tl»a work for Great Britain is fc«**§ : magnif*. ently done. The American "&& • has b&)ii. torn to shreds, and unless & be pat< g tei up again there ought to h* ■** doubt m i to the verdict of the tribunal

The (J ape Argus of June 12th, referriei tt the arifl vals from Australia by the Tfeg* | writes j—-"The Australians w*9 j have liilely arrived in this country wtii<p j well to *i /am their friends in Australia «* : ik of following their example th** ! this'iis a.j country easily swamped. We «•** ; always Absorb a 'moderate number of ae** * comers, 3 out too many shiploads would g"*s"| us as if ell as Melbjurne out unempJoj®* -- \ coating.* at. -*-*

Quite »t number of Victorias colonists s«s iv Landau at the present time (writes J-a* Argus' Y4 mdon correspondent on June ss».* in a red*£ x d and even coaditsgSo many; applications have been made te Wacting .Agent-General for assisUnca p enable ijiem to return to friends ia .•**_ ; colony that he ha 3 been reluctanUy obtif"* ' to use sea ac of the State funds for the p*a_ i pose, _Bie amount to he employed ist «• \ aggregatta will probably not exceed _48p» \ aud the pi -ssistanoe will be canßned est**"**"? I te persot n• of the industrial class, who fro® one circumstance or another have Btranded i v London." Nnm.r*a us cable messages from Load*** , and Syd&ifl y have beau received latelj^* s *! - reference *to the case" of the _3_"Que C**__*.: Rica P._e ket, of Sydney. A &&»** message h* it week stated that tions arc* proceeding With referaase w*

recommendation that the Dntoh Governmeat pay the captain of the Costa Rica Packet the sum of £2500 in compensation. The sum claimed as compensation (says the Wellington Po»t) is for unlawful' imprisonment for alleged piracy. The total amount claimed from the Dutch Government in connection with the case was £25,000. Of thia £10,000 was on behalf of the captain, £5000 on behalf of the officers and seamen, and £10.000 for the owners. Iv the year 1887 the barque Costa Rica Packet w%s ou a whaling expedition thirty tnilps off Batjau {near Java), when a. small waterlogged, abiudoued, and wrecked Crow was fallen in with, and tbe salvage in er, consisting of a few cases, was removed to the Costa Rica Packet. The occurrence was duly entered ou the official logbook, and reported to the Dutch authorities. In 1891 the barque set out on another whaling expedition. On the captain goin X ashore a*, Tcrnate he waa immediately arrested by the Dutch on a warrant issued in Maccassar. No explanation was given as to why he was Mixed. He ottered to give a bond to return to Maccassar at the end of the whaling ■ejuon, but this was refused. He was kept in prison for twenty-eight days, when he was rel-iweJ as suddenly us he had been arreated, and without any explanation.

It is often said that scarlet fever is not infectious to auy serious degree until desquamation, or peeling of the skin, has begun. The medical officer for Eastbourne, however, observes that tho experience of the past year has shown this to be an error. The point is the more important in the face of the fact that the past year witnessed the largest epidemic of scarlet fever that has occurred in London since sanitation was first actually prosacuted. Iv two instances —both schools—although the first cases, tad each succeeding case, were promptly removed to the Sanatorium, further cases, this gentleman reports, continued to occur. Theyicondary cases did not occur specially amongst tho* children occupying the same dormitory, but tho disease appeared to attack by prefcreuce those who were most closely associated in the class rooms with the first patient. Aa regards the period which must elapse before the outbreak can bo pronouncf-d to be over, the experience of the put year indicates, in the opinion of this authority, that the infection may lie darawnt for two to three weeks.

An officer of a local branch of the Charity Org-nisutiou Society has discovered a family who are known to their neighbours as " the cleverest beggara in Battersea." Tho title appears to have been honestly, or rather dishonestly earned. Somo two years ago this official's opinion was asked by a medical man regarding a family in that part, who seemed to bo iv great distress. The home was a miserable one, the children dirty and untidy, the father appeared to be always out of work, and it was difficult to see how the family managed to keep out of the workbouse. It was found, however, that at one and the same time they were in receipt of out-door relief from the Guardians, and were getting help from the clergyman ot the pariah in which they lived, as well as from a large Dissenting chapel in the same district. The clever family were also being assisted by the Solvation Army and by members of the Church Army, whose meetings the man attended in a parish quite a mile away from his own home. Not long after this they left the district, but very soon r>ewa of them was received from another Relief Committee, to whom the man seems to have represented himself as ••en infidel lately won over to Christianity."

Mr Joseph Nowton, late of the English Royal Mint, who has a knack of making the subject of coin interesting, has written to explain the existence of those " cracked" sovereigns—suspicious, yet good and legal coin of the realm—which most people come across oho or twice in a lifetime. It is observed that all coins struok at the Mint are cut from metal which has been previous relied down from thick cast bars to thin flimsy ribands. Castings, however, may have air bubbles within them, not visible to the eye, and these wheu compressed by rolling, become elongated in tho ribands. Then the ribands have to be punched, or perforated from end to end, in order to extr«wt from them blank coins. These may, to all outward appearance, be perfect, yet some of them perhaps have been cut from the hollow, or cracked parts of fillets, and In that o-se the blanks will necessarily also be cracked, hollow, or, in Mint patlance, "dumb." Iv order todeteot these defaulters a number of sharp-eared and sharp-eyed ringing boys are employed. Ringing boys, however, are not infallible. We are reminded the Mint is always willing to exchange such coins for good pieces of money, and is even thankful to those who bring them back for re-melting.

A recent ddotsion of the Assize Court at Cherbourg should do somethiug to inspire do-fldence in purchasers with regard to the genuineness of French butter so largely ex•ported to Great Britain, and it also shows how much more severe is the law against adulteration iii France than that which prevails iv this country. A butter merchant WW charged with selling butter mixed with margarine as pure butter. It appears that he had purchased of a manufacturer of Mahuury three or four thousand kilogrammes of pa«}tu'i«e every year, and at lost this got to the knowledge of the police, who had an analysis made, which proved conclusively that it was boing uned as an adulterant The Cherbourg tribunal, after setting forth theinjury that such a fraud is calculated to do toFrenoh trade, has condemned the offender to three months' imprisonment, a fine of two thousand francs, and to the payment of the coat of the prosecution. Nor is this all, for He is alao condemned to the humiliation of publishing at his own oxpense tho judgment In thirty local newspapers, aud of paying for posters proclaiming his misdeeds to be printed and stuck up outside the Town Hall, the market place, and each one of his own \mm of business.