GLEANINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 5

GLEANINGS.

When Quakers hang tools up agniust a wall there the shape of tho tool is painted against the wail, so that when a tool,is removed and not returned the silent monitor remains. When a hammer, saw, or monkey wrench'is hung up there its shadow is painted, so that if the real hammer is gone the painted hammer remains to remind the owner that the borrowed tool has not been returned.

A novel case has been brought to the notice of the Paris Academy of Medicine. A man’s bi east bone was nearly all removed, with parts of several ribs in order to stop the progress of bone disease. The experiment resulted not only in saving the patient’s life, but has given several physiologists an opportunity for direct investigation of the living heart and great artery, parts of which have been readily accessible.

A young man, shabby and dirty, plays a street-organ in London, with a big card on his breast bearing these words: 'Utterly destitute ! lam Viscount Hinton, the eldest son of ■ Earl Poulett. Vide 44 Burke’s Peerage.”’ His Lordship was a few years ago the clown and contortionist of the Surrey Theatre.

The one hundred and second birthday of Chevreul, tho Frenchman of science, occurred on Tuesday, August 2Sth. He had to spend the day in bed. A number of Paris students, who made a call of congratulation on him, were entertained by his ssn, who is going on eighty himself.

‘Go’ is the name of an indoor game which is likely soon to be introduced into Germany, and thence, probably into the rest of Europe. It is the old national game of the Japanese, and old as 3000 years.

The F division of the London police have formed a brass band of forty-one pieces. They propose to play in the public squares for the special entertainment of tho poor, receiving no pay. There are other bands in the police force, but this is the largest.

A rector writes to the Guardian that 4 a celibate order among the clergy is one of the imperative necessities of the time,’ the reason being 4 the impossibility of supporting a wife and family upon the ordinary income of a curate.’

Leo. XIII is in poor health, although his real condition is carefully kept from the public. He is in a painfully nervous state, and is said to be constantly pursued by a morbid fear of death, the slightest ailment assuming, in his excited imagination, the foirn of a seiions disorder.

The bones of Howard of Effingham lie in the parish church of Reigate, with no monumet t nor memorial save this description on the coffin : ‘Here lyeth the Body of Charles Howarde, Earle of Nottingham, Lord High Admyrall of Englande, Generali of Queeno Elizabeth’s Navye Boyall at Sea against the Spanyards Invinsable Navye in the year of ourLorde, 1538, who departed this Life at Haling House the 14th day of December, in the year of our Lordd, 1624. JEtatis sna, S7.’ • -