General Gatherings.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume 2, Issue 2, 10 June 1892, Page 2

General Gatherings.

One lady, a widow, is said to have los{ £OO,OOO at tho gambling tables at Ostend dur u ing JS9J.

It is said that of 10,757 farms in Utah* 9,724 are made fertile by irrigation.

. The Queen of the Sandwich Islands has an income of L 15.000 per annum.

The duchy of Gotha is so prosperous that a bill has been introduced suspending all taxation for a period of three months.

In the city of St. Petersburg it begins to freeze at the end of October, and a general thaw- rareiy takes place before the beginning of April.

In 24 years tha Canadian railways have been multiplied six times. In the" United States in the aametimß the mileage has been increased four times.

A Russian, who has accomplished a jour°T more than three tuouaand milts on ms bicycle, was accompanied throughout his loDg ride by a faithful dog.

Owing to the exhibition of the Holy Coat at Ireves, Dr. Wiuscbied, Professor of Jurisprudence at Leipsic University, has joined the Protestant Church.

By the bursting of a rooket tube in the course of a display of fireworks at an Italian festival at Newaik, New Jersey, lately four persons were killed. One of them, a boy, was cut to pieces.

A very expensive domestic industry in Russia consisia oi the manufacture of wooden spoons, which are made to the amount of 30.000 000 anaudiiy. They are nearly all made oi birch.

Inn line of railway which was first constructed cost £37.568 per mile, about 60 per cent, a Dove the esr.mmte, but now railwayssometimes cost L 45.000 and over.

v\ I’m one or two trifling exceptions, tha submarine cables of the world, which stretch over 120 000 nautical miles, and have cost L40,00u,000, are of British construction.

The New Zealand Parliament has adopted a proposal to impose an additional tax of 20 per cent, beyond the ordinary land tax on absentee landlords of three years’ standing.

The first telegraphic instrument was sue" cessluily operated by S. F. B. Morse, the inventor, in 1835, though its utility was nofcdemonstrateu to the world until 1842. In Africa there are said to be 500 missionaries, 400,000 converts, and about 25,000 a year being converted. During the past five years there have been more than . 00 martyrs in Africa.

A despatch from Lagos, West Africa, reports that proclamations have been issued announcing the transference to Her Majesty’s Government of the kingdoms of Addc and Iliaro as British protectorates. The plant, material, and ireehold and leasehold premises of the Wigan Tramways Company were lately sold in London by auction for L 4.500 to Mr Alderman Gee, of Wigan.. The tramways cost L 58,000 to construct.

Flies frequently startle horses by entering their ears. This can be prevented by touching the inside of the animal’s ears with a few drops of the oil of juniper. The odor of juniper is so disagreeable *to flies that they will avoid any spot where it is.

Hekk Jager, the German astronomer, estimates that c-aoh star encounters another in 328 billions of billions cf years. Tbe proUaoilitiea of a celestial cataclysm consequent upon tne impact of two or more sidereal bodies are therefore rather remote.

A cold bath every morning is good for preserving the body in health and vigour; bu; some people cannot stand tha shock, and to such it is injurious. It is in the brisk rubbing after the oath that the chief good lies, as it sets up a healthy action in the skin.

Frederick Wily and John Rucker, halt brothers, each about 15 years of ege, quarrelled at Pratt, Kansas, over the possession of a horse. Packer got the better of Wiley, and then tho latter procured a gun, and deliberately shot Packer dead.

There are two rules for sleeping which everybody may adopt without bet-nation.. First, never Ist yourself be awakened by anybody else, but wait until you have slept out your sleep. Second, get up as soon as you are awake. If you follow these two rules, the hours of sleep will soon regulate themselves.

Leprosy ha 3 spread in the Japanese villages to an alarming extent during the past few years. In one village near Ibimachi, in Gifu Ken province, every inhabitant is a. leper. From time immemorial the villagers have intermarried entirely among themselves, and now there is not a person in tne settlement. man, woman, or child, who is not afflicted,

A German astronomer, Herr Jager, has arrived at the conclusion, based upon observations made on the movement of 4 I J stars* in the visual region, that the solar system,, with reference to the relative positions of the visible scars, moves with a velocity of 20. miles per second, the mean speed of the socalled fixed stars being about 27 miles per second.

“ Always, when you sweep a room, throw a little wet sand all over it, and that will gather up all the flue and dust, prevent it. from rising, clean the boards, and save both bedding, pictures, and all other furniturefrom dUBt and dirt.” Thus runs an admonition is a “Manual of Housekeeping,” published in the middle of tho last century.