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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8433, 5 August 1889, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an article entitled " Smell in Dogs." An elderly man named Thomas Murray, late of Hastings, died at the hospital on Saturday from cancer. I At the Resident Magistrate's Court on I Saturday, before Mr G. A. Preece, R.M., Matthew Ferguson, charged with lunacy, was certified sane and discharged. The Rev. De Berdt Hovell announced in the Cathedral yesterday evening that the Thursday evening services will commence for the future at 7 o'clock. A Scandinavian inebriate got into the lock-up on Saturday night, and failing bail had to remain there. He will interview the Resident Magistrate this morning. 1 We are requested to state that Mr Vigor Brown was present at the last meeting of creditors in the estate of Banner and Liddle as holding proxies for various creditors whose claims total up £849. A good few people, with plans in hand, were inspecting the Riverslea estate on Saturday and during yesterday. Several townspeople availed themselves of the Sunday trains for the purpose of visiting the property, and at the same time enjoying a day's fresh air after the labors of the week. The important sale of Harbor Board leaseholds to be held on the 29th instant has been placed in the hands of Messrs C. B. Hoadley and Co. Lithographed plans are in course of preparation, and will shortly be issued with the Herald, meantime a plan can bo inspected at the auctioneer's office. Tho Simonsen Opera Company produced "The Bohemian Girl" on Saturday night to a large audience. The performance was not a meritorious one. The principals sang well, Mr Gainor particularly so, but as a whole the opera had "scramble" writ large all over it, and suggested very strongly all that is involved in "last night." A second fifteen football match was played on the Recreation Ground on Saturday, the Harriers and Pirates furnishing the teams. The Pirates won by two tries. Two other tries were obtained, but were disputed.— A scratch match was played at Taradale on Saturday between the second fifteen of the Napier Club and a team from the Tardadale Club. The game resulted in a draw, each side scoring one try, Karauria scored for Taradale and T. Crowley for Napier. The Working Men's Club will give their fourth entertainment this season on Wednesday evening, when an excellent programme of items will be gone through. The first part will consist of a vocal and instrumental concert, in which Signor Carmini Morley will take part. The second part will be entirely performed by Mr F. W. Collins, whose versatility is too well known to need comment. Altogether an excellent evening's amusement is promised, and as the members are requested to take with them their wives and friends a large attendance wilflJ doubt be the result. ' /* Charging two shillings for admission to the pit nf the Theatre Royal does not keep out the baser sort if one may judge by Saturday evenings semi-riof. During the intervals between each act the most outrageous din was made, and the pit of the theatre seemed more like a menagerie of wild beasts than a collection of civilised persons desiring to see an opera. As those who made the disturbance were neither drunk nor mad, and their apparel betokened a station in life that should ensure decorous conduct, the only inference possible is that their view of what constitutes fun comes very near to what is usually called blackguardism, The following are the chemical elements a man eats when he is taking a substantial breakfast of tea, bread, butter, hams, and eggs : Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen chlorine, fluorine, sodium, potasium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, sulphur, silicon, and traces of half a dozen more besides. A monster house is being erected at Minneapolis. It covers an area of 80ft square, and will be 350 ft high, divided into 2S stoiies. Two iron staircases lead from bottom to top, but tliere will also be twelve passenger lifts, by means of which the highest story will 'be readied in 30 seconds. The structure is to consist of 728 rooms. The prevalence of typhoid in New York and Brooklyn during the present season has led Dr. Cyrus Edson of the local Board of Health to make an exhaustive examination as to the origin of the disease in as many cases as possible. He found that the disease, in nearly one-half tho cases inquired into, was contracted in country resorts to which the victims had gone to find health. A curious wedding has just taken place at Lodz, a young man, 18 years of age, and of good position, for some unaccountable reason married a poor widow with a numerous family. Tho "blushing" bride is in her 74th year. The "happy" bridegroom has now 11 Btep-stepsons and daughters, the oldest of whom is 53; besides 23 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren— and all that fit IS* Mr J. Cornerly, writing in the Matin, sees m the increase of foreign cardinals a great chance of a foreign Pope. There can be no doubt that in France there .exists a secret ecclesiastical movement to push forward at the next conclave a nonItalian cardinal. Three more members of the Sacred College are now French; and Cardinal Lavigerie is at the head of the movement. The general opinion, however, is that neither France nor Germany can at present fulfil the conditions required in a foreign Pope; and tho choice must eventually fall upon an English or an American cardinal. Some startling revelations as to the heavy gambling at one time indulged in at the Field Club were made in the Bankruptcy Court, on June 7, during the examination of W. A. PoVell, who had dissipated a large fortune in card-playing. .He admitted having lost as much as £13,000 'in one night, but said that on another occasion he won fully £15,000. It, may be added en passant that this "worthy" gentleman, on the death of his father, a Monmouthshire •gentleman,

mccbeded to a large aura of money, and - in the four years' ending last April he I6at w .spent £107,000. Truly, a goodly heritage to lose in four years. • ■ Mr Edison is reported, In a conversation with ah interviewer who solicited his ideas On tile subject of ttie projected World's Fair in New York (sttys iron), as Raying that he would tako an aero of space in such a fair, and completely cover with Ills inventions; of which he has no was lliail seventy itow udder way. '"One of tho most peculiar, and now' promising good rcsnlts, I ' said Mr Edison; "is. what I nifty call, a farsight machine." By rhodns df .tins' extraordinary invention US hopes to be able to increase the range of vision by hundreds of miles, so that for instance, " a man in New York could see tho features of his friend in Boston with as much ease as he could see a performanco on the stage. " That," he added, "would bo an invention worthy of a prominent place in 1 the Workl's Fair, and I hope tti Have it perfected long before Isb2." Dr. Wilkins, superintendent of the in Bane asylum at Nairn, in a recent conversation as to the number of young men and women at present iv the asylum from the use of opium, morphine, cocaine, and kindred narcotics, stated that the subject had given him more trouble than all other causes of insanity combined. He said that among his patients were those whose minds had become unbalanced through drink, family afflictions, business losses, and from other causes, but the worse cases were those whose minds were destroyed through the use of narcotics. The number of patients from this cause is rapidly increasing, and there Have been more men and women, committed during the past six nio&tlis suffering from dementia occasioned by drugs than there was from the same cause during the ten previous years. Said he: "Tho statement may appear incredible, but it is borne out by facts. Narcotics are a more prolific source of insanity than all the other causes combined." A horrible case of murder for supposed witchcraft is reported from the Decoan. Ato- village in Chennar, Jaluho,_ certain shepherds were suspected by the villagers, and these suspiciens were accentuated in dotisetjuentie of a severe epidemic of cholera. Two of the suspected men were seized, solemnly tried and condemned for witchcraft by the village commission, and sentenced to be tortured to death. There, in presence of all the villagers, their teeth were extracted with pincers, asd their heads wers shaved. Subsequently they were buried up to their necks, wood was piled round their heads, a tire was kindled, and their skulls were roasted into powder. Some thirty persons have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Another case of murder for supposed witchcraft was recently tried at Bombay. The accused imputed the death of his father and mother, and the illness of certain members of his family, to the arts of an old woman, and beat her to death with a thick, heavy stick. These cases are common, but are rarely brought to the notice of the British authorities. A story is current illustrating how completely Dean had hoodwinked the Thames Borough Council, how implicit was their trust in him, and how unscrupulous was his conduct in stealing the money entrusted to him. So.ne time since the Thames Borough Council, in order to recognise the zeal of Dean in the discharge of his duties, and the intef,.ity of his dealings with all moneys entrus;:d to him, determined to vote him a bonus of £75 above and beyond his salary. It could not have been for the sake of the money that he got the vote passed, because if that had been all, he could easily, for aught that the councillors knew, have simply put the money in his pocket without a vote. But the best of the joke is that the auditor has discovered that just at the time when the councillors passed a vote to give him the substantial bonns of £75, ho made one of the biggest " steals" from the borough funds that he had perpetrated during the two years through which the investigation extends. A distressing case of suicide occurred in Melbourne on Sunday, the 14th ult., the victim being Mrs Elizabeth May, aged 57, living with her husband at Clifton Hill. Her husband, who is living on his means, left at half-past !) for Sunday school, and on returning at 1 o'clock he found his wife laying face downwards in the bath. The shower was running, but the plug of the bath was only partially in. The bath was half full of blood-stained water. The woman had cut the scalp to the bone in several places with a table knife, and her left arm was gashed across to the hone. She had cut the calves of both legs to the bone, and had alsb inflicted other wounds. Blood-stains showed that she commenced the work of self-destruction in the diningroom, and had then gone to the bath. She had been twice married. Her first husband left her money, which she badly speculated in land, and she had been melancholy for some time in consequence. It is said in the Pall Mall Gazette that each year 16 people out of every 1000 marry. Of each 1000 men who marry, S6l are bachelors and 139 widowers, while of each 1000 women only 98 have been married before and 902 are spinsters. Twelve marriages out of every 100 are second marriages. The average age at which men marry is about 27, while the average at which women marry is about 25 years. Out of every 1000 persons, 602 are unmarried, 345 are married, and 53 widowed. Over one-half of all the women between 15 and 45 are unmarried. Married women live two years longer than single ones. If the mother dies first the father survives 9£ years, but if the father dies first the survival of the mother is 11 J years as an average. Two thousand four hundred and forty-ono births occur in England daily— about 33 for each 1000 inhabitants. February is the month in which the greatest number of births occur, June the month in which occur the fewest. The average number of births for each marriage is 4*33. In every 1000 births 11 are twins, I The custom of wearing orange-blossom aje'weddings is of comparatively recent ijffate with us. It came to us (says Chambers'sJoiirnal), like most other femaje fashions in dres, from the French, who in their turn have derived it from Spain. In the latter country it had long obtained, and is said to have been originally of Moorish origin. There is, however, an old Spanish ' legend which gives a different account of its introduction. According to this, soon after the importation of tho orange tree by the Moors, one of the Spanish kings lu>d a specimen of which he was very . $roml, and of which the French atubassa- [ dor was extremely desirous to obtain an offshoot. The gardener's daughter was aware of this, and in order to provide herself with the necessary dowry to enable her to niarry her lover, she obtained a slip, which she sold to the ambassador at a hish price. On the occasion of her wedding, in recognition of her gratitude to the plant which had procured her happiness, she bound in her hair a wreath of orange blossoms, and thus inaugurated the fashion which has become universal. As the orange was introduced into Spain at a very early period by the Moors, this legend sufficiently establishes the antiquity of tho custom as far as that country is concerned, although many centuries elapsed before it spread over the rest of Europe. A military company composed entirely of girls, regularly uniformed, and drilled by a senior officer of the National Gi'ard, is just now Poughkeepsie's cfiief claim to distinction. "The Poughkeepsie Amazonian Corps "—that is not the real name of ib, but that's what facetious people call it — has been in flourishing existence several months, When the idea of a young women's military company was lirst suggested, it was immediately declared ito bs impossible, because no one conld be found willing to join it. In spite of this prediction, the company has grown from six to sixty-two, and drilling is now the most popular fad in Poughkeepsie society. All the members are from the best families in the town and its vicinity. The originator of the idea made up her mind that most of the young women of Poughkeepsie sadly needed more exercise, and the best exercise she knew of or could hear of was that of military drill. Drills are now held twice a month in the State Armoury. The doors are closely guarded, and no men are admitted. When a reporter saw them drill the other day, each young woman wore a uniform consisting of a kilt skirt, made full and short, reaching below the tops of the boots ; a blouse' waist, with a wide open sailor collar, kirt and waist of navy blue cloth, stitched with gold thread, aud waist trimmed with brass military buttons. A large necktie was tied sailor fashion, and the headgear was a naval officer's cap, with a gold cord and laurel-wreath. The boots were broad - soled, and had low heels. The costumes all appeared to be loose and comfortable. Evidently corsets, had been left at home. A broad belt of white canvas, fastened by a pretty gold clasp, gave a soldierly finish to the dress.