ADMIRALTY CHEESEPARING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3890, 9 February 1870, Page 4

ADMIRALTY CHEESEPARING.

The economic proclivities of Mr. Childers, and the excessive cave with which, he dispenses coal for her Majesty's ships, appear to have somewhat blinded him to the fact that thrift in combustible commodities may result in reckless expenditure of vital material. The Flying Squadron, which is supposed to be here, there, and everywhere, as occasion may require, has been visiting Monte Video, Bahia, Hio, and other places on the east coast of South America, and s farted on the 11th of last monthforNewZealand. Yellow fever has been somewhat prevalent among the crews, and the * Eclipse' lias lost her captain, commander, and suige^n. But my Lords, profoundly ignorant of, or intensely indifferent to, the fact that the Squadron was navigating in one of the hottest and most unhealthy districts in the world, have, it is reported, issued certain directions as to the consumption of coal, the result of which is to reduce the drinking allowance of water for every man in the fleet to about three half-pints daily. Is it possible that the authorities at Whitehall can have done this thing ? — and if so, who is the responsible individual ? Has Mr. Ohilders in his recent cruise indulged his leisure moments (which no doubt where few'awl far between) in making complicated calculations about coal ? — and, if not, may we be permitted to inform him that a proper supply of water might be provided for these wretched men at the rate of an additional sum of about 3s. for every 600 or 700 persons. What hope can there ever be of diminishing mortality in the service, or of inducing good men to join them, when such miserable skinning of flints is practised ? Is the life of a sailor to be weighed against a pound of coals ? — The Lancet.

At a farmers' club in Long Meadow, the members gave their experience in cow-feed-ing. Mr. Allen said he had found that wheat shorts make the sweetest milk, rye bran the whitest, Indian meal the richest, and oil cake the moat. Clover, they thought, should be cut early, not moved away dry but stored, a little damp, between layers of rye straw. Four quarts of oil cake a day ia too much for a cow ; she will be likely to calve prematurely. A wag, speaking of the embarkmeut of troops, said, "Notwithstanding many of them leave blooming wives behind, they go away in transports !" ' Why is a gaoler like a musician ? Because h« finger* the keys,