MULTUM IN PAEVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1852, 20 May 1887, Page 6

MULTUM IN PAEVO.

Mrs Henry Wood's grave is in Highgate Cemetery, near those of .George^, Eliot, Perepa Rosa, Frederic .Maurice,, George Vandenhoff, H. Crabb Robinson, Alaric A. Watts, Lord Lyndhurst, ' and the fath_er, mother and little daughter of Charles Dickens. Near by, also, is the tomb of Wombwell, the famous menagerie showman, surmounted by a full-sized lion in marble/

•—At the suggestion of the .Surgeongeneral of her Majesty's forces 1 in India, the .Government there has resplved to make a trial of the fluid extract of cinchona in Upper Burmah. Much . inefficiency among the troops there is due to fever, and it is thought that the fluid extract may prove more useful than quinine or the well-known cinchona febrifuge, which is a mixture of the whole of the alkaloids of the bark.

— The standard bearer of Queen Victoria's^ Body Guard of the Honourable Gehtlemen-at-Arms—created A.D. 1509— is in- the anoma- * lous position of having np standard to bear. — As an instance of trie speed at which a tunnel can be driven in comparatively soft earth, we may mention that a subway under the river Thames near London, Bridge. has recently, been completed in sixteen weeks. The distance bored is '667 ft. -' '' s — rSince the formation of the Baptis.t,' Union in Scotland, 18 years ago, 31 new chapels have been built. At the present time there are in the United States 85 Baptist, churches, with 77 Sunday schqols and ,105, preaching stations and cottage meetings. —The extreme richness of the milk of the reindeer, that feed .on the wild 'mouses of» Sweden has led to an examination- of the moss as an article of food. • These researches' have .resulted in the establishment of a number of moss dealers in Eussia and Sweden, and a prosperous and growing interest has been developed. —It is affirmed that a French engineer is engaged on the construction of an ,air torpedo which can be steered. 1 This engine of destruction is said to have been ordered by the Eussian Government. It is intended to carry about Bcwt of dynamite. — The petroleum wells of Burmah, like the Euby mines, are in future" to 'be worked on more scientific principles under European sway. Hitherto the natives have been content to wait for the oil to collect during the night to a depth of two or three feet, and then to scoop it out in the most primitive fashion. The wells' are from ■ 200 ft to 300 ft deep, and it seems dubious whether the oil can be sold cheap enough to replace the American product in the Indian market. . — It is said that a sovereign remedy for cholera has been discovered in Buenos Ayfes, I where the genuine Asiatic cholera has existed in an epidemic form for the last two or three months. This remedy is'said to be' fchd Peruvian plant coca. It is alleged that' it is only necessary to chew the leaves of the plant to get rid of the disease. — Since the age of the Plantagenets only four peers have been convicted of murder, and only three have been executed for , that crime, on the judgment of the House 1 of Lords— the ninth Lord Daore in 1541, the seventh Lord Stourton in 1557, and the fourth Earl Ferrers in 1760. Robert Oarr, Earl of Somerset, who, with his infamous wife, was convicted in 1616 of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, was not executed. —The fourth case of a successful' removal of a tumor from the brain has been reported in England, the weight of the tumor .being four and a-half ounces." These cases .piHbrain surgery, with the. exact location 'from 'the symptoms of the spot affected, are' feats" of which science may well be groufl. , " , An invention or discovery has been made by M. A. Raj'mond of the, means of converting all liquid perf limbs' into solid perfumes, retaining the pungencyof smell undiminished. The solid perfume is set in rings or articles of jewellery/gold pencil cases &c. —Literature of $he Police Gazette stamp is being put down in some parts of' America. In Michigan, for example, a law has been passed to the effect that " no picture, painting, or other representation of murder, assassination, stabbing, fighting _or any personal violence, .or of the commission of any crime, shall be posted, under penalty of fine or imprisonment." ' j —Mrs Anna Elizabeth Hall, who 1 recently died afc Philadelphia, was born a slave in Virginia in 1797. 'She was among the slaves liberated by Colonel Jesse Ball, in 1812. She had a record of 63 slaves whom she aided to freedom, and used to boast that, no slaves were ever captured or taken back who passed through her hands. . —Captain James B. Eads, the' projector of the Tehuantepec ship railway as a counter proposal to De Le^seps' Panama Canal, died on the 6th March, at Nassau, of pneumonia. He was a practical engineer in every sense of the word, and was bold in design and skilful in execution of his plans. ' For more than a quarter of a century he has been engaged in works of the greatest magnitude, which have given him a wide reputation. ' —Mr Fred Douglass, the noted coloured politician, who has been on a visit to Eurppe, makes the following remarks on Protestanism in France : — '• The soil of France has not been favourable to Protestanism since St. Bartholomew ; but lam assured that under the auspices of the MAll Mission alone there are now in Paris 500 places of Protestant

worship, attended chiefly, by- the working people. Nor is this religious activity confined to this particular mission. There are here other Protestant influences. Bible classes Sunday schools, Young Men's Christian Associations, with various devices for spreading religious ideas, flourish to such a degree here that there is no more propriety in denouncing Paris as a Godless city than" in thus stigmatising London," Liverpool or New York. —There are in the United States 2,647,157 women who earn their own living. , Of this number 2,24^5,2 are labourers (mainly agricultural), mill pperatives, seamstresses, domestic servants, and teachers— all of them, except the last, menial and poorly paid employments, and the last, is poorly' paid when the teachers are women. '>'•'' , ■ —Since Mr Disraeli and Mr Gladstone 1 faced each other, and waited for each other in the House of Commons, each eager to batve

the last word, hand-to-hand fighting has ceased in the House of Commons. The great object of almost everyone now is to move the adjournment of the debate, and to get a whole day for the'J preparation of his^ impromptus and; of his repartees ■■ to interruption dexterously- provided J u -fpr. The t result of this is that there is very little real debating in the House b'f Cbmm'ons'at all.

— One of the metropolitan public analysts has in his last ■ quarterly report- calledatten* , tion to the necessity of consuming tinned foods on the same day they are opened. He points out ( l 'that such foods rapidly,'decom- , pose, especially in hot, weather, and form "poisonous products, to "say the least; are most dangerous., In one case brought under 'the, notice' of this analyst, the' consumption of a' stale sample of tinned lobster had terminated fatally:; (: ; '- >:< r v ' ' t-f '\ f \ ' — Dr Benjamin W. Richardson, the wellknown London physician, calls attention to the peculiar periodicity^ of delirium tremens in 'Great ' Britain. } The presence .of the disease,' as indicated 'ltrom 1 the mortality arising from it, begins to be prominent in the warm weeks of May, and attains its maximum in July ; thence maintaining its place wi,th little change through August, and deolinihg through-September. It reaches its .average in October. There is a flight rise in January, the result' of holiday indulgence. Wet and cloudy weather are both favourable to the spread of the disease.

—A German chemist has invented a new kind of anaesthetic .bullet, which he urges will, if brought into general ' use, greatly diminish the horrors of war. The bullet is of a'brittle substance, breaking directly'it comes in : contact with the object afc which it is aimed. It contains a powerful anaesthetic, producing instantaneously complete insensibility, lasting for 12 hours, which, except that* the action of the heart continues, is not to be distinguished from death. While in this' condition, the German chemist points out, the bodies may be packed in ambulance waggons and carried off as prisoners. \ „■ . •

— A Cairo telegram states that at the petroleum boring No. 1 at Jemsah,*the workmen found, at a depth of 865 ft, ozokerite, a mineral wax, much more valuable than petroleum. Now, at 380 ft, they, have reached 1 a close-grained coral. Gas and oil arc becoming, more plentiful; In No. 2 boring at . Jemsah, slight traces of gas and oil have been found. In No. 3, at a depth of 155 ft, a coral clay has been reached. In the boring atZeiti, at a depth of 400 ft, hard, coral was touched. ; ( — All the reigning houses of Europe 'taken together muster only 408 male members, so! that ,the' royal "castle" is not an , extensive fane; especially when we consider that one family alone, that of Lippe, which rules over barely 16,000 souls, counts 35 princes. The most prolific house is that of. Hblstein, '.with 53 members, "embracing, the* royal families of .Eussia,' Denmark/ 1 Greece, and some small principalities. -^The house of Wettin, to which belongs the British royal family, as well as those of Belgium and Portugal, counts, so; the Bpurbpn^' muster 47, the Hapsburgs 33, the Hoheri&ollerns 20J tl^e House of Orange 43." The smalfest'bf 'all is that of ObrenoviLch, Servia, which is limited to two males. • " s " ,' - " —If we could establish a thoroughly efficient blockade of our large cities, and allow no further immigration into them from the country, it would not be many years before the mortality in our centres of population as compared with that in healthier districts, would be so marked} that the physical deterioration in our city populations would become so apparent, that we should be forced to take immediate steps to prevent their utter annihilation.— Lord Brabazon.

— Paper bottles were patented in America in 1883. Their sale was not extensive at first,, but now that European patents have been secured, covering nearly all fields of probable competition, the .controllers of the patents intend to manufacture the bottles in large quantities. In the item of freight alone they will effect a saving of one-third less weight than glass or stoneware, and are on the whole less liable to breakage. Paper being also an excellent non-conductor, fluids stored in the air-tight J paper bottles will withstand a more intense degree of heat or cold than they could endure without injury in bottles of any other "material.

— Steam power through pipes is furnished by the New York Steam Company to 435 engines from a big steam station in Greenwich street. The conductors or pipes used for conveying the steam are of very large dimensions. The steam when delivered to the engine is wet steam, and the pressure is about 80 or possibly 901b.

— Fusi Yama (in Japan) 12,200 ft in height,

has been inactive since 1707, when a terrible eruption occurred, spreading destruction far and wide; similar catastrophes are recorded to have happened at intervals of 170 years since 286 8.C,, and it is a general belief therefore, that a fresh outburst is imminent. Earthquakes, though frequent, never lose their terror. It is calculated that at least one entire town falls a victim to their ravages every seven years, and in 1855 Tokio suffered a loss of 16,000 houses and an equal number of inhabitants. — The largest landowner in the United Kingdom is the Duke of Sutherland.' The following is a list of the biggest. landowners in the kingdom, with the amount of land they hold : —

The Climate of Nbw Zbaiand.— The Reographical position [and .physical features of the Islands, produce great variety and remarkable salubriety of climate, resembling that of Great Britain. Most of the diseases prevalent there resemble those ■ the the Mother Country, hence the popularity which ■ Freeman's Original Oaforodyne has obtained in the treatment of Consumption Bronchitis, Asthmatic Affections, Croup, and Hooping Cough. The Colonists of New Zealand treat these diseases the < moment the sympfcons evidence themselves by Freeman's Original lOhlorodyne. which they-jmplielfcy ■believe in. upon having.", Freeman's " only. ;Trade mirk, jsnyßlephant,— Sold everywhere. . Obi talriftble|«om4all ,;plippits r&nd stQjJekeepeis,?-. . [ADyx,J

Landowner. Duke of Sutherland Lord Middleton .. Mr.Matheaon •'■ .. ... Duke of Bucoleuoh ... Marquis of Bredalbane Earl of Seafleld Duke of Richmond ... Earl of Fife Acres. ... 1,386.000 ... 1,006,000 ... 627,000 ' ... 460,000 ... 438,000 ... 306,000 ... 286,000 ... 258,000