MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1532, 19 June 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A company of soMicrs drilling in Berlin were struck senseless by lightning. Gladstone’s fattier started him in life with a ' university education and a gift of L10(),000. The Governor’s speech at the recent opening of Parliament was the longest delivered for many years past. Lord .Salisbury, referring to Sir John Macdonald, late Premier of Canada, declared him to be as great a statesman as any nation has seen. The author of “Ben Ilur" says he can euro rheumatism in one night without fail with a poultice of mustard and garlic applied to the soles of the feet. The gas company floated in Gore to supply gas from fat and water, under a patent from Mr Watt, a b cal .radesman, have notified consumers that they will cease to manufacture owing to the small consumption. It is probable that coal gas will be tried, the plant being suitable. The report of the Postal Savings Bank shows a steady increase in business. The deposits for the year exceeded withdrawals by L 155,16.'>, the excess 'being L 37.533 at Wellington, L 33.745 at Christchurch, -20,781 at Auckland, L 15,832 at Dunedin, and LI2JJGS at Napier. The cost of ma agemcnt was 4id per transaction a slight increase. The [ interest paid during the year was L 92,919, the largest yet recorded. The number of accounts at the"close of the year was 1)7,203, and the amount to t'nc credit of depositors L 2,441,870 ; an average for each depositor of L 25 2s 4d. The judgment of the English Appeal Court in Jackson’s case is already causing a mild commotion in domestic circles at Home. In one of the London police courts, on April 1, Mr Plowden, the stipendiary magistrate that under the law as recently laid down she'was under no obligation to continue living j with lies husband It was no longer necessary for a wife to come to a court and ask for a separation, as she could separate herself if she chose to do so. That was the law which had lately been declared, ami it could not be too widely known among the poorer classes. A writer in the Mark Lana Ecpress, signing himself “ Barrister-at-law,” makes the following remarks on the right of Hock-owners to shoot sheep-worrying dogs: “ The law on the subject is perfectly c'leor, and is worth remembering. If it is necessary to , save the sheep the owner is justified in shooting the dog while in hot pursuit of the sheep, but he is not entitled to do so after the perii lias ceasad. An owner of such a dog is liable in damages for the injuries done to the sheep without proof of the dog’s tendencies. Such an action can lie brought in the county court or in the police court, but it should be noted that not more than L 5 can be recovered in the latter court.” James Chadwick, the murderer of Roderick Matl eson, met his death in a tragic manner. After committing the deed he made his way to a high cliff covered with hush, overlooking the scene of the murder, the home station, and ids bouse. Appearances indicate that he then got some flax, tying one end in a noose round Ids neck, and (he other end round the branch of a tree. He sat on the branch while he smoked a farewell pipe, and then : threw himself off. The (lax broke, but the tension tightened the noose round his nock and Chadwick was slowly strangled. The ground around his body shows that there must have been a prolonged struggle before death came. The whole of the press comments on the baccarat case have apparently fallen on the Prince of Wales. The provincial press and the London evening papers, like their morning contemporaries, severely censure the Prince for his conduct, and many of the papers warn his Royal Highness that he is only imperilling the monarchy by pursuing his present career. The Tories fear that the disclosures made will seriously affect their chance of success at tiie forthcoming’ general election Quite a number of dissenting bodies have denounced the Prince of 1 Wales becau;e of his gambling' habits. Every news- ; paper that lias referred to the case has been very , outspoken in its criticism, IloUiOW.w’s Ointment and Pints.—Sure ReliefThe weak and enervated suffer severely from nervous affections when storms or electric disturbances agitato the atmosphere. Neural pa, gouty pangs, and (lying pains, very distressing to a delicate system, may be readily removed by rubbing this Ointment upon the affected part after it has been fomented with warm water. The Fills, taken occasionally in the doses prescribed by the instructions keep the digestion in order, excite a free (low of healthy bile, and regenerate the impoverished blood with richer materials resulting from thoroughly assimilated food--wanting which the strongest must inevitably soon sink into feebleness, and the delicate find it difficult to maintain existence. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills are infallible remedies. Woolsorters, tanners, hide-dressers, and others who deal in skins are liable to a remarkable form of blood-poisoning, due to inoculation of some p irt of the body with the Bacillus anthracU, a microbe which flourishes in the blood and tissues of the body of man, sheep, and other anim U, The spores of this bacillus wonderfully resist the action of heat and drying. The sdin, or any part of the mucous membrane may be the point of inoculation. On the skin this organism sets up at the site of inoculation, a sort of hard boil with a black centre. If this malignant pustule is cut out further infection may be prevented. But the lymph and blood streams may be invaded, and the bucilli develop tlvrein, causing odema, congestion, and cechymoses, chiefly by mechanical obstruction, the bacilli being cultivated, so to speak, in the cagillaries. Bacillus authracis is the actual cause of anthrax, splenic lever, or malignant pustule. The mode of infection n man is either by inhalation of spores or by direct inoculation of a wound or scratch on the hands or face, or elsewhere, or by the bite cf fleas.