One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 7

One Thing and Another.

The easiest way to make holes through an oyster or clam shell is to drill the holes with a hard, sharp steel -drill, the same as used for drilling iron. TTse the drill dry. I feel a profounder reverence for a boy than for a man. I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. — President Garfield. Charles V., speaking of the different languages of Europe, thus described them—- • The French is the best language to speak to one’s friend ; the Italian to one’s mistress ; the' English to the people ; the Spanish to God ; and the German to a horse. Carrots act directly on the liver, and therefore young carrots plainly boiled, or carrot soup, which is made of older carrots boiled and pulped through a sieve into a little weak stock are extremely wholesome. Tomatoes stimulate the liver and the stomach generally.-: '• .... To restore faded ink on parohment, &c., the Bodleian Library at Oxford has long employed bydrosulphide of ammonia, a solution of which is spread in a thin layer over the writing by means of a camel’s hair penoil. ’ . . ■ . , Personb possessed of real culture betray it directly * in themselves—their manner of speaking, their surroundings, their dress even. There Is an unmistable air of refinement about everything that' appertains to them, which instantly gives you a clue to their mind. ■*' An apparatus of iron and glass, in which a pressure of 1000 atmospheres can ba developed for the purpose of studying the influence of great pressnre on animal life, has been exhibited to biologists in France. With it deep sea animals can bo observed under their natural compression.