LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 14, 14 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

HonicßOpathic trefttme'tft fioPiJaittle ' has seldom been resorted to, although when one Bebs v( the'-qnarts arid gallon- of, nasty staff poured j Rolens : voletfs, down the: throats of sick animal?, common humanity suggests the alternative',! jßut one of our I Bcienl?ific>m^dck~naas(e'rs>b«fs 2 ]ast given his experience ..of ewes which suffered severe iti_la\ntnati6n' previous to lambing. Tp each of these he administered five ; drops of tincture of acohite ih ; a dessert 'Spbopv 'ful of water eVery hour,' aU'd the effe.ct, u he says, wsß'hVarVelioti'g',' All the animals recovered, although his shepherd had given them up. Zl Ten thousapd people attended Tom Thumbbi. fatieral,,fOuivhfths of them being women and girls. The corpse was dressed m a black ' broadblottt-Bi.it, a white -lace veil being spread over the face, and the' Knights Templar ohapeau,' silver's word, and.other emblems lay on the Coffin. : The widow fainted at the grave. ; - | .Married Women* iii Great - Britain must : bii l %'rdf nl ? ri ~f a ture ho w l ' 'they contract -debts on their own account, as they will bs liable la arrest, if DbeyJdb not nay up at the appointed time. r lhey have, m fact, a legal . states which was: r formerly denied tbejm if .by th?. common law.,.. >Kence the court holds that asUhe reasons on which their eiemptlon)f*am -aiKej.t/AE&s formerly based no longer exist, the exemption it.vself canjßol, be- successfully.-! claimed on theri behalf. So .complatelyiijis, the in-j „ dependency of, raarmd, women secured by! legislatibn'ic'Grga't Britain that a learned j udge rite'eni ly •Stated 'that a~ womia j&ul d , put her husban6Vin^pri|on if he made off i witb-W Lfimblerla 'whicf she could prove ' wa"B bought?' with her' separate money* Women certainly appear to have got their " rights" at last. I The following telegram ha. been re. ceivei by Chief Inspector Johnston.of ihei Rabbit^epartment, from the inspector m 'Lake>'Gp.tft)ty : — ' Disease decidedly tubercu.loiis!. Br. Douglas examined one rabbit apd fbuad the liver and lungs badly., 'affected. " Ten-shot last week all affected. A number are^dy ing daily^ •but the- disease.is confined to one" locality.' ,' A^yrffaer.* m- ,Yogt and Specht's Die Saugijbier* in.*y^)rt and Bild (p. 11;, says: /hay'e'myself seen a case m which ai chimpanzee, who had got himself a little scratched by-the-coint of -a_-slightly»pro<« jecting nail injLWe wall of his cage, first carefully examined the sam&Athen sought to remove it, and afterwards, when he 'Was let j 0U& jpim^diafely proceeded toi search for the head of the nail On the out-* tide of the wail, and then, on finding it| bee; an to try to pull out the nail with hia; ( 6ngers,and teeth, and when this was done tor him with a^riair of 'piheerSj' -broke out into lively demonstrations of joy." • IjAh Z e.3tt/it<|rd|nary sheep-9hearing feat is reported bythe Temora Star as having been performed by a man named Michael Hurley, a native of Tasmania, during the present 'seasbtf 'at ; VViarti station; During an ordinary day's work the man shore forty hoc gets m lh SO mm, and forty ewes in.lh 25min, finishing with a tally of 210 sheep m all. Prosperity is , making* the Clyde iron workers exceedingly independent. 'He will work just when he pleases, and how he pi ease 8 and he spends generally a couple of days m the week ' down the water ' with his family, There is an old Scottish yarn to the effect that if you asked. a. Paisley weaver m the good times 'what .his Jocoupatibii,^ was he cocked; his hat over his eyesf&nd laid : ..begad; while if times were dull he humbly . replied : ' Am yen o' God's panr wivversf The Clyde\ pnan is, now an iron- worker withittte\expletiy_e, m ':r\''i ' >( Lord EuaseD, while calling upon Prince Bismark a short time ago, asked him hp* he managed to rid himself of that class, of unfortunate visitoVs-whbm he could -Hot well refuse to see, but whose room be found preferable to their company. ' Ohj' replied the Chancellor, ' I hfcve-a very simple 'method. 'My' "wife kftows'them protty Well; and when she sees they arewith me she generally contrives to come m and call me. away upon some pretext or 1 another.' He had scarcely finished speaking when the Princess put her head m at the tloor and sai d: ' Ott'>, you must come and take your medicine. You ought to have bad it ten minutes ago.' ] If every person would be half as good as he expects his neighbour to be, what a heaven this world would be. . .