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Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4727, 23 July 1890, Page 4

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The forest tree m*y bo felled by a wire heated to a while heat by olcc'.riciiy, and drawn through lr, and it may be cot Into beards by tbe same means, thus doing the work of a circular saw. The only drawback would be in the fact that the wood wonld necessarily be charred by tbe passage of the not wire. General Booth has requested the director* of the London Crystal Palace to over the node sutnes on the ccrasion of tbe coming monster visit of the Salvation Army. Dr Chsmbeland, Pastenr'a chief assist• ant, has diicivettd that cinnamon is fatal to the typhoid microbe. Seven years ago there was just one brass band la the Silvitioo Army. It wm composed of a fa'her and bis sons. Sinca then 8550 other bands have been formed. They bava been mostly recruited from the taproom, says the War Cry, and have songbt out tbe theory and practice of music for themselves. A few days since a deputation of the army bands-men paid a visit to Mrs Booth. The man were addressed by tfcc " General's " dying wife, and the scene was a most aff.c.ing one. The nanghty Ltbonchere, speaking of John Mnrley as a political leader, observe*—"The trjnblo with these atheists !« that they are too dashed scrupulous for ns Christians." This Is said to have been the cinversallon which passed between the Emperor William and Captivi <m the appoioimant of the latter to tbe Chancellorship :-" I want yon to take BisnmckV two places, as Chancellor aod Prussian Prime Minister." "At your Msj.sij'a oHers." "Yen hav« no conditions to make!" It is not for me to make conditions, sire." "Very well, com* here to-morrow morning. What are yoa eoiog to do now 1" " I shall go home and finish my dinner, sire." Bismarck says that be has to bavo some Immediate relief when his fits of temper come on ; and that on ons occasion, when be bad Oeen forely tried in a c.-nversa-ion with the old Emperor, he rati into a rnom In the palace and smashed a waih-bowl. He frequently asks people. " What do yon do when yon are angry ? How do yon manage I" Mr Gladstone mentioned in the course of a conversatien tbe other day that in 1874 he went to Sir Andrew Clark, think- J log to get from him an opinion that fortify his determination to retire from Parliamentary life. Sir Andrew, however, took quite tho opposite view. He told Mr Gladstone that he wonld be much better if he continued inactive public life, and sent him away withonS the slightest encouragement to follow out his resolution. Most persons would say that tbe outside light is two or three times a3 strong as that within our houses. Bat tho ratio of difference is vastly greater. Cirefully prepared tables, accjrdlng to Health, show that for a view at tho seashore, comprising sea sod sky mainly (with a leus and plat; of a certain speed), an exposure of one-tenth of a second is sotßc'tont. An open landscape away from tbe ees wonld, with tbe same lens, the same aperture, and the same plate, require one-third of a second. A fairly lighted interior wonld require 2& minutes, while a badly lighted interior, such •s rooms which moat ladies prefer to occupy, would reqoire half an hour to obtain an equally good picture. In other words, patients strolling on tbe seashore in tnnny weather are in a light not two or three times, bnt 18,000 times stronger than that in sn ordinary shaded and curtained room of a town house; and tbe same patients walking along tbe sunny side of a street are receiving more than 5000 times as much of tbe health-giving Influence of light as they would receive Indoors in the usoally heavily-curtained rooms.