ART UNION PRIZES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 150, 16 July 1903, Page 3

ART UNION PRIZES.

Last evening the art union in conneo tion with the Poultry Show was drawn in the presence of . a good number of interested persons. Messrs E. G. Wilson, D. Watt, and Sergt. Dougan acted as scrutineers, and the winm'ng numbers are published elsewhere. Mr H. B. Bolton, of this city, has won the first prize of £10 10s.

An ethnographical expedition is to ;■ start from Great Britain for New Guinea - Tiext montli. At a farmers' convention in Victoria on Saturday it was stated that the work of rabbit extermination during the last 20 years had cost the State >B3so,ooo. An echo of the laraentable " ragging " ;acandaTin the Guards is heard in the resignation, just announced, of Lord Douro, one of the young officers who were the .victims of| the notorious treatment. Lord Douro, who bears by courtesy- a title woa by the great Duke of Wellington in 1814, is but seven-and-twenty, and rece ved his commission something over three years ago. He has in the interval seen service in South Africa. The discovery has been made that a Chinaman, who lias been carrying on business as a fruiterer at Newtown, is suffering from a disease which is believed to be leprosy. On Saturday last, Mr. James Doyle, chief sanitary inspector for the City -Council, had his suspicions aroused by the peculiar appearance of a Chinaman who keeps a -small shop iti ■"♦he southern end of. the city. The.. Health Department was communicated with, and; ,Dr Va'iotine, Assistant-Chief Health Officer, wsnt out to Newtown to see the man, who, however, had made himself scarce. Later in the day the Chinaman was found by Mr Doyle. Dr Pol'en, : Port Health Officer, was summoned, and he pronounced the case to bo a yery "suspicious one Subsequently the man iras removed to Sonieslsland. The Wellington City Council authorities have possession of the shop, and will not allow it to be reopened to tlie public until it has been thoroughly fumigated. Prince Alexander of Teck seems to lose none of his military enthusiasm, for this yea* he has again decided tp pit himself aoainst his brother officers in the competitions and combats that form one of the greatest attractions of the military tournament.. Ha has Lord Castlereagh and : the Duke of Boxburgh amongst his ] rivals at tent pegging and " heads and .posts." I The following story of President Roosel j velf s family is taken from a persona: [ letter in the " Brooklyn Presbyterian " ; "The present occupant of the White House until the recent innovation f ound it cramped quarters for a large family. With one or two of the little Boosevelts off at boarding school, there were beds to go around, bnt none to spare. Well, last winter the President was entertaining a foreign envoy of great Btate and many years, and invited him to the White House over Sunday, He was j. put in Ethel's room, and Ethel, when Bhe came ,back from sohool on Saturday, went up io sleep with Alice, but, unfortunately, Kermit did not know 1 of. this arrangement. So when early morning came, mindful of his strenuous ' inheritance, he crept to Ethel's room i**ith a pitcher of water, and softly opening the door without awakening the slumbering ambassador dashed forward and threw the icy water over the bed, with the shout, 'Get up, you old f lazy bones!' Then, when a grey head was lifted from the pillows, dripping and alarmed, the astonishment was mutual, and the departure of the youngster instantaneous — without his pitcher." A Wellington street picture drawn in the " Post" : He had dropped dead beside the wet, cold, blue metal stones he ' had been breaking all the morning, and he had been carried out of the yard and laid in the street. Thoi body lay on tke roadway - r a piece of oilskin covered the head and chest and a torn sacsk the legs. Only the boots, the old worn boots, were uncovered. A little group of men and boys stood around and peered with wooden expression. It was the nearest tbey could get to that reverence to Death, which they felt . was expected in its presence. In the yard where the piles of wet blue-metal stones were, a man was tugging at a horse's , mouth. Hie voice came up on the wind-swept rain : " Get back, curse you!" he said. A few pace 3 from the group around the body a policeman stood. He posed to the requirements of the position— he was the Man in Charge of the Dead. A pressman hurried up to the officer for information ; his first question was ignored, his second brought but an impatient muttering. An old man, unshaven for many days aDd soaking wet, stood at the head of the dead man. He was shivering aiid fumbling nervously at a botton on .his thin, faded c,oat. "Yes," he replied, "I knoo him for thirty-three years, lie had some dinner ajid was. just lightin' . 'KiapipeC'wnen' he made a choke with j his throat and dropped dead." For the moment tho group had lost its interest in the dead in watching, the living. All eyes followed the pressman's pencil. "" His name? his name ?*' the old man was saying j;' 1 ! cluhiio ; ifc Started witlra D" The pressman hurried away; and the lit- ; tie group7shuffled Tbabfc, aud refixed its gaee oif '^W ; bbolsy ■ tho old "worn ; and the oilskin that covered the grey, dead face. '/ 7. ... _ The ""Labour Journal" for July-contains the following notes on the present state of the labour market ..in Wellington: — Building^-rjiaes £ Busy in all branches, and every prospect of its continuance. Engineering trades : Not very busy. Boilermakers are fairly busyybufc the other branches of the trade are quiet. "Boot trade: Fairly busy in principal factories ; all hands are making full time. Clothing trade (tailoring) : Order shops rather-quiet r factories fairly busy, a few working overtime. Retail trade (general) Apparently good business is being done in all branches. Miscellaneous : Brickmakers, carriage-builders, and tanners Are. all . busy ; fellmongeis not; making ■f*^l^ti*Koi;"sa#dlers alack | ; other trades 7tlier noftnal conditioti, -JJnskilled [Jaljoirl% * Aa i ia usual .at this this time of is&js!s&j>pti<&te for ejinployiaeiit have "jfughtly increased, the majority of them being: Single men;"A^r«F hfeUin g . ■£ va|ipiis7parls*fjttw cannfe*^ ..**>&■ swhrg, 'ii number have been^seirt^toy "-t ; but rilajiyMthe applicants ate. -loth to lekve tfie ©^preferring 1 &/ hang about for a ■■xgft^.«a*pa'-.worK rather than go into the country, where, they would be l-^^lfejitgii;-- winter's' work. Forty-eight Men^yeTbeen* sent away to Government "an(i-piivate ; wbrk. Cabinet-makers, uphojatereii, xso&vtegs, bricklayers, and -jlaaSw»M'a"re' : rtffly s -"^iployed; in fact, » .difficulty is experienced in getting workers in some of these lines. The Ausjfcj^iian Jflgfej? still continues, although in jTsJaglftiiy fess Segree than during the first part of the year. A traveller was in a hurry to catch a steamer at Wellington. Ho rushed down I the stairs of . liis hp^.^lai-^y^.:hiß; :»^^i-a^^iM§M®lM^J^'^ #aa two ! iniuuteswl^^for .refreshment. Two I portmanteaux wei*e a$ once put down at Hthe door ai^d.*heJj«VyeUifs: xtppfi fragk in--%vde.c:-Mm69tatfti^ J saiiSwi time* Edward t^erth&ratlid^ij^xjf liquor, grabbed the . baggage, junip^ j»J"o .a .cab, and bolted. ! jCbosa was giy&ja a**td the stcAen property i^overeid, mit s^, until the troiffilter ba.dL imsfeo', the ei^^r^nd 30s j-out/ of his o^l^H<>l^^^'iMW^^ W$P& gate's (feui^^Wey^d^Ttelitipleialod' guUty to the offence, and saiiLih&flt was committed with no criminal intent. His Worship tqok that ?JSS*7 "-ftd^fiued 'eaeli inan "los and LBs costs, but warned them that if any similar -funny trasiness fcippe|ied the severity of t^e result yould asfconiflhrthfilti. ■ '"There have -b'eeii one or two ineffectual pi-Qtci-te on the. partof thatheairical proi"fession t gainst tho imposition, of income r.taic'otf hip^fied'br " star " "performers .-.-aliae trailing through tbte-eolony.: Asked *• how he viewed ihe matter, Mr George Musi grove, tho well-known theatrical mauasar fcftho was- recentlv in the colblf ,'^¥&[ bed I 'Sat he Thought, tfife tax waa^at^Bonable t.5/i*e^a^M6plB mi $ker light*. of -i.tSgeJn^eo>^..t^p«silej^s ftat the &ui|fi*y was able to give theri^generally tbok'-OTit of it a considerable amount ol pton^y,:.and^..cons'^tlentiK,, i QP i gh^ not . to o^je^to^"v'Bbmf"thipg iit > retui'n for these "g?ivifeg^*i if i*fcisithe iaw7ofc'ah> country. , TJie Labonr Paf ty >as now 7a f i>ijg ■:'Tn.7aH pblit^Cftl -^pvements, j And if it^governs wieel-y, m^y I Make many great imprpye^efit^j XWo^hf^eTto'- have isome i)etter laws, 7 bett*r;-jh.e£tlth; that su*r"er; ' Jf feeLill, a. cold tbe cause, 7 v i^c ; vl*a&e— •' ■ " ' .--.'■•-'■■• '.- ;d .; y _ ■■- - ■WOODS' GBEAT PEPPERMINI

" Professor Thomson, of Aberdeen, in the ; Quarterly Review," has an article "On Growing Old," in which he points out that man is very deficient in the resting instinct, and seldom takes much thought about resting habits I — "A simple creature exhausts its j stores of internal fuel, the nervous system gives the signal ' hunger ' or * fatigue,' and infallibly the simple creature will eat or rest if it can. Its brain is not disobedient. In higher animals, however, and especially in man, the business is ' much more complicated. The signals for stoking or resting are plain ly given, but some higher nervecentre suddenly countermands them, and we say in our folly, ' Full steam ahead,' ' No time for lunch to-day, ' Late up to-night,' No holidays at Christmas this year !" And so, adds the Professor, as it is pre-eminently by rest and change and a quiet mind that the nervous system is kept young, we come • back to the old commonplace, 'Let j us be aisy ; and if we can't be aisy, let us be as aisy as we can." Professor Thomson, has no elixir vitae to suggest, but a humdrum, com-mon-sense prescription : — " Closer I touch with nature, more open air, ' more change of environment, more j versatility of function, . more effort I to secure the lines of activity that aro organically most suitable, and therefare most effective, less artificial stimulation, .less pressing as golfers say, stricter avoidance of nerve fatigue, more resolute cultivation of resting habits, an effort to heighten the standard of vitality . rather than an effort to prolong existence, such are some of the conj ditions of remaining young." There is nothirig In this but wbat the • majority of men, and of women, 'too. can easily carry out if they i choose. One of the practical uses of a magnet, and to those imnicdiately I concerned is that (says "Cassell's ! Magazine") in which it is employed to withdraw small pieces of iron from such out-of-the-way-place as • the human eye. Still another instance of the employment of mag- . netism in a small way is that in I which a magnetised tack hammer is used in the manufacture of strawI berry "baskets on a large scale in conjunction with a mechanical dej vice which presents the tacks one !at a time, the head up, to the ! operator thereby greatly facilitating his work. It is a far cry from lifting a tack by means of magnetism to the lifting of massive iron and steel plates, weighing four, six, and twelve tons, by this same force which is now done every day in a number of large steel works. The magnets are suspended by chains from cranes, and pick up the plates by simple contact and without the loss of time consequent to the adjustment of chain and hooks in the older method. It is also found that the metal plates can be lifted by t-he magnets while still so hot that ,it would be impossible for the mon to handle them. The ratio of weight of these magnets to the weight lifted varies with the machine. In some cases this ratio is 30. Thus a magnet weighing 300 pounds will lift 4.5 tons. The magnet is operated by current from a dynamo.