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Mataura Ensign, Volume 11, Issue 821, 2 November 1888, Page 7

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..There.; are 292,160 perßoWin ; NeWi'TdrS City who ; do, not -speak JSnglish. .-"-..• ciili hA ! The top early ,. and . immoderate use 1 6f re* iigion is extremely prej,u^ jpial {q the.grOwtbt and prosperity of humanity,,. juat as; brandy, abd Bueh'Jik'e, are prejudicial, to the physical development.— Novaliß.."'' '' ''; ■ ' : '^'■ ! '-^ iJ j i- ' Austrian '• engineers -' speak' ' ¥evs l f&Vou#sy of Q-iezl's ipilot engine fePpreyenridg railway" collisions. . It is worked b^;,eiectrioi^yi>.tindoß the control of the, engineer^ a^nd- is^ua^tjajdy ; desired distance in frorit of the train, wijicj^/B stops 'automatically'; on encountering apy bjq« atacle. . " • ■ --'- < --'• ;-'-»-■-'■■ '- 1 "'- The United States is the latest 'raiain-ion- ; suming country iv the WGrldftand trustworthy authorities estimate' the. consumption at: About ; 2,000,000 boxes of about^tb.^aqh, }rhish>a& ', average of two dollars per box^shbws. an exr penditure of £800,000 per annum fdrbiile, dried' ; fruit. < ;■• ■ -■'. •'- '"'"■• ;■.'.■' t ". > , ! * The air circulates, tberaTn-clo^da,forja^;Mdr float, the storms 'sleeps from sea to J^nd, tW tempest Juars, and in : ia sense' "the" 'sun.ifsel^ kindly .-shines, to carry : on the ; : B)rit»iaup i p'ij^ f >f<s equalize distribution,! and to purify the :wori(i and make ft m habitable,, jjieailji^y/Aud; be^u^ifol K — A; H. Jaap, LL,D., in Kxgosv, 'Vj ' ' / :• Wise men oe'er sit and wait theirioes^ j-r But cheerily seek how to redress thejr harms^, "^That though 'the. niasfc' be iiow bldw'tf <3itot^ board, ;.. .... .■... :i ' v -.•■..■.r^ 1 £.i&QO'A\. The cable brq^e, the holding, anohofclqsjbi u ti.<.l And half pur sailors shallowed in.the floadj ? -^'.- fYefc lives biir pilot still.— ShaiespeaW.' -*', '* . _„ ■ ■-■;:f'j r il:j,'szM 3£ it we set a proper value on thps,er,^haj«Mitribiite to the prosperity 'of' the^StateTWe ought . to plactf iv the first ran&^tnose'wii'd ! teacjb children, whose' labours infltfence.posX terity, and whose preo^ptSiapdijexerfciojis the.<j welfare of our country in a groat measure depends.—Lorenzo de Mediois."' "''"' 7ff Qaill tootiipicka come from lfjanee f^tibe> largest factory, and which turns 6'iit about 20,000,000 annually; bein^near 1 P arisi 1 ■' WWai; for the manufacture of- quillpeaa, ■ - b'ftfc ! tfheiU hheße were superseded by (he,a>;eel;iQjplemeatis the quills became, tootnpicks, tq .which use, they had long been applied by tHe -'dreamy* bookkeeper." ■ - '..'..",'.,"■ [" ' "' »" Suppers in Portugal ar^ Very 4ifterent, from thoae.'ia other <Jount'iiies.-' j "Wheri We ; ' trays loaded with cold, meats are broUightiinV'' tha.guests, make ; .use,of littler.pieces^fK^woqdt.j like toothpicks to, help" , themaeWes 4o ,t ; h©-: ojorsels which they fancy, and then throw them ' do wn, ; so' that, at the close' oi the 'supper,' <■ Cn.e whole. room ia strewn! with them: ■:■.'■' n; -A Great lukury is displayeiid" th'^fdi'niSHn^lL { o f ,Borne of tha .newly built 'London i jbotels;f One recsenty opened,, in eyery.,bed.roofli,,i6ift., I b ith shut off from - the rest. ''of the rpotn ,by., . silken hangings. The lace , curtains ■at tHe^ ', windows cost three-. guineas' a"'pairi arid'Vh'e--small chair* iv t'le • diniug-roqtn are seated/ with, tup^otr/ worth seven guineas Iper chair. Q-B-rderiing, as well as 1 tbe-art Of making'^ bouquets, is taught in the school* .of r Japan,' ;i 'and, nowhere m Europe, arei^eor^anyj^P^x Igardena as in, that country. ■ .AU-p©% ppe.Qjeß,, and varieties of garden flowers and 'cree4^. are A sold at high price's, 'and become." ttfown' 0 throughout the country = with greit • rapidity/ Q-ardening is Ciirried on by. all classes. Anew dinner clock whifch talks haa been invented. Instead of striking the hQujpfitrij? speaks it. At dinner time a. voice issues, from ( - the clock which says" Dinner time;" alaofV '! One o'clock, 1 ' &c, as the casj may be.," Another dovice which the inventor is perfect*' ing in connection with the clock is that of a female face which he purposes to' set in the' r face of the clock. The lips of , tb.jp.- figure will move at the hour, the bead will bow t and the fictitious lady will say, "' Goad' evening ladies ; and gentlemen, it is bed-time." When the cork tree is about fifteen years" old the bark has attained a thickness and quality suitable for manufacturing pnrposes ;' '" and, after stripping, a further growth of eight ryears produces a second orop j and bo on at' <: iutervals, for even ten or twelve crops:' The • bark is stripped from the tree in pieces two ••* inches in thickness, of considerable length, and of such width as to retain the curvi' ff * form of the irunk when it has been stripped. ' The bark peeler or cutter makes a slit in the ' ' bark with a knife perpendiculary from the top to the bottom ; he makes a'oother incision parallel to it, and at some distance ;froin the former, and two short horizontal cutson tb£ top and bottom.