MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 36

MULTUM IN PARVO.

— Since the English occupation of Egypt the planting of timber trees in the delta of thcNile has been largely carried on, and there is no doubt that this has changed the climate considerably, rendering the atniosphero much more moist than was formerly the case.

— No Greek statesman can seriously contemplate that his country should remain as she is. But Greece wants roads and railways ; she wants a navy ; she wants internal order and good credit abroad ; and the means to all these things is sound finance. — Speaker. — A walnut tree, 6ft 6in in diameter and 80ft to the first branch, will be the unique exhibit of a Missouri town at the World's Fair.

— The authentic history of China commenced 3000 years B.C. — Twelve ordinary tea plants produce lib or tea.

— In Ashantee no man is ever allowed to see any of the king's wives, and should he even acuidently see one his punishment is death. These wives during the working season attend to tho king's plantations, but the rest of the time they live at Coomassie, the Ashantee capital, where they occupy two long streets. — Men's ideas change, but not their passions ; and there are as many ready, in all European countries, to be half piratical explorers now, as ever there were in Devon when the "duty" of a "Devon worthy" was to find new worlds to conquer and kill Spaniards in, with returns in gold and honour. — Spectator. — The man who says he will welcome death as a release from a life made up of sorrow generally sends for four doctors when he has a headache.

— One result of the various attempts made in Germany to produce a building material at the lowest possible cost is the brick of sawdust. The sawdust is immersed in a specially-pre-pared liquid and then subjected to enormous pressure. The blocks are said to be extremely hard, practically non-combu6tible, much lighter than either iron or steel, and much stronger than timber.

— According to fairly well authenticated reports, the Queen has invited the Czar to visit her at Windsor next year.

— As early as 1597 the jasmine, so famous for the odour of its flowers, was in common use in England as a wall shrub and for covering arbours.

— Consternation exists in several Spanish villages in consequence of the great increase of leprosy. In the town of Gata there are so many lepers that a separate hospital is to be built for them. There are eight lamilies in Benidorm that the other residents fear to associate with, even for the transaction of business. Every member of the eight families is a leper.

— All chalk is composed of fossils. If you take the tiniest bit and place it under a powerful microscope you will see an infinite number of extremely diminutive shells, and no spectacle on a larger scale is more beautiful than the varied forms of these tiny homes of animal life which are disclosed by powerful glasses. — The first photographs produced in England were taken in 1802.

— In Germany the extent of land devoted to agriculturo amounts to over 78,405,000 acres. — Egyptian mummies are imported into England to be transformed into brown paint. — A holy carpet from a Persian mosque, worked by a slave 360 years ago, has been on exhibition in London.

— The donkey is the longest lived amongst our domestic animals.

— A steamer wrecked while traversing one of the four great Atlantic' Occan^routes ought to stand a pretty good chance of having her passengers rescued, inasmuch as there are said to be 1100 boats which always use these " lanes" on their voyages between Europe and America.

— The superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum says that the excitement while engaged in a game of baseball has cured several patients. — A spring has been discovered in California whose waters, it is stated, have "marvellous hair-restoring " properties.

— If every minister, priest, rabbi, and Sunday school superintendent would select eight or 10 young men and spend two weeks with them under canvas by the side of a mountain lake or trout stream, more good might be done in permanently influencing their lives than by many weeks of eloquent preaching. — Scribncr's Monthly.

— There are said to be 300,000 blind persons iv Europe.

— • Pupils in the schools of Japan are taken out rabbit hunting one day iv every autumn.

— • Six medical experts examined a man as to his sanity, and were evenly divided. After they had wrangled about it for a week, it was discovered that they had examined the wrong person altogether.

— American children, it appears, are too -sensitively organised to endure the unredeemed ferocity of the old fairy stories. The British child may sleep soundly in its little cot after hearing about the Babes in the Wood ; the American infant is prematurely saddened by such unmerited misfoitune. — Atlantic Monthly.

— Automatic boot-blacking machines are being introduced into Germany. A coin in the slot sets it in motion sufficiently long to black a pair. — The Empress of Japan has juet received a present from the Empress Frederick of a painting executed by heiself. —No country in Western Europe- is so grievously taxed as Italy, and few are so little able to bear it.

— Mr Andrew Carnegie says that the first and most important lesson he learned in the art of money getting was that "it isn't the man who does the work who makes the money; it's the man who gets other men to do it."

— A few years back over 15,C00,000 leeches were used medicinally in England every year.

— There are 29 metal monetary systems throughout the world. — The smoke from an expiring caudle is poisonous.

—It has been proved that wasps' nests sometimes take lire from spontaneous combustion — the chemical action of the wax upon the inflammable material of the nest.

— The decoration of the Lion of Persia is worn by a larger number of Frenchmen. The htoi y £,oes that if it were not for the income derived trom the sale of brevets of that order, the Persian Ambassador in Paiis would not be able to maintain his establishment in the Fieuch cipital. — Asia signifies " iv the middle," from the fact that ancient geographers place it between Europe and Africa. — Japan is credited vwth en average cf abc.it £00 earthquakes a jcur, but in 1591 the number was reported as ucaily £SCO.

— Advertisement v. ritmg is heron. irg a regular branch of literature in lh" L T isit"ed Slates. Some of the first-class writers cuiainrnd salaries of L2OOO a year, and now joitiig mm are regulatly training for tho work, and going to college in preparation. Seventy thousand professional thieve? are 6dld to CAibt in the Uuilul Xin 0 dou».

— Tho first settler in Chicago is alive, and pursues the same trade (that of a capeuter and millwright) as he did when he came with his parents, in 1833, to what was then only a frontier fort on Lake Michigan. — The city of Paris has 87,655 trees in its streets, and each tree represents a cost to the city of 175fr.

—In the province of East Prussia alone during last year no fewer than 237 married couples celebrated their golden wedding day. — A street in Germany, like a portion of an Edinburgh street, has been paved with indiarubber. The result is said to be most satisfactory.

— The Pope, at the age of 82, uses glasses only when reading. At 70 he could see better than at 20, as in his younger days he was very near-sighted.

— A physician of Sfc. Louis asserts that there are in that city 20,000 victims to the habit of injecting morphia under the skin, and that the great majority of these victims are women of the well-to-do classes.

— The American papers have recently been recording the death of the first white settler of San Francisco, whose namo was Jacob Ltese.

— A strawberry plant set in a dry patch of sand will send out its runners in the direction to which the best soil suitable for its growth lies nearest.

—In a Bohemiam village a couple were married on the same day that the bridegroom's parents celebrated their silver wedding and his grandparents their golden wedding.

— In 1860 an accident at New Cross, on the London and Brighton line, cost the company about L 70,000 in compensation alone— the largest amount ever paid in England. A collision at Thorpe in 1874- involved a loss to the company of L 13,000. The accident in 1889 at Killooney, near Armagh, by which 78 were killed and about 400 injured, cost the Great Northern Railway Conipauy of Ireland more than L 66.000.

— Madagascar native literature now comprises about 500 books, averaging 100 pages each.

— There are 578,4-74- occupiers of laud in England and Scotland, and there are 32,918,000 acre 3 under crops, bare fallow, and grass. This gives an average of nearly 57 acres per holding.

— In the Encyclopedia Britannica there aro said to be 10,000 words that have never been formally entered and defined in any dictionary.

— An ancient copper mine is about to be opened in Japan w r hich was first worked 1103 years ago.

— Cossacks may be considered as in many respects as mysterious a race as the gipsies. They seem to have been born on horseback, and their bravery ever since the days of Mazeppa, and long before, has been literally handed down from father to son. — Telegraph.

YOU MUST HAVE A GOOD STOVE

You cau'fc hive a fire without burning some kind of fuel. You agree to this ? Why, of course. Well, now, suppose you had bought a stove in which no fuel whatever would burn, what would you do ? Throw it back on the dealer's hands and get another ? To bo sure. Now, fancy you had But let us have the story first, and draw fcho conclusion afterwards.

A woman tells this bib of experience :—: — "It was in 1882," hhe says, " when I began to Feel ill and out of sorts. I did not know what was tile matter with me. In tho morning I was tired and languid, nud was constantly spitting and belching up a clear fluid like walor. My appetite gradually lefb me, and I had great pain after every morsel I ate. I had great pain at the chest, which at times seemed to strike through to the back and shoulders. I lost a good deal of sleep at night, owing t j spasms and to wind that appeared to gather in my sides. No food, however simple, agreed, with me. For three years I suffered like this, and could take no solid food, such as a meat dinner.

"Now, as I had always been of an active disposition, I strove hard to do my work and attend to my shop, but in April 1885 I got so bad that I sent for my daughter, who was living at Priest Hutton, near (Jaruforth, and she returned home. Whilst away she h.td been under a doctor for weakness and neuralgia, but getting no better she had been recommended to take a medicine called Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup, and this cared her, so she insisted upon my taking the same medicine. I got a bottle from Messrs Needhara Bros., chemists, Brighoute, and began to take it. In a day or two I found relief. Soon all my pains left me, and I gradually gained strength. I could eat my f"ood,"~aud after having used two bottles I found myself completely cured.

"I have recommended this medicine to many of my friends and customers who come to my shop, and it has done them good ; so I thiuk it right that its virtues should be made as widely known as possible." (Signed) Mrs Collingc, grocer, Rastrick, Brighouse, near Halifax

Another woman sa 1 , s

In December 13&5, after my confinement, I began to have a poor oppcti'e and much pain and sickness after eating. My food seemed to turn lo wind, and I suffered from fulne-s in the chest and pain in the i-tomach. I gradually lost my strength and fell into a low desponding state of mind.

However light food I took I had pain, so that / became afvaid to cut. I Jost a deal of sleep, and got so weak I was frequently obliged to lie down on the couch .and rest. At timed the pain was almost more than I could bear, and I had to go to bed ai.d have hot salt applied to my chest and stomach, for wh'-n these attacks came on / fdt as if I u-as d>/i<ir/. The doctor who attended me said I was suffering from Chronic Indigestion, and that something was wrong with the "upper stomach." What a strange statement for a doctor to make ! He did all he could to relieve me, but without success, and I lingered on in this way for 12 months. About this time Mr Connor, stevedore, living at Dennison street, told my father of the great benefit lie had derived from taking Mother Kiegcl's Syrup, and I senb at once and got a bottle, and afcer taking three bottles ail pain left me. I got strong and could eat anything, and from that time to this I have never been ill. I keep the medicine in the house, and if any one of the family ail anything a dose or two of; Mother Seigel's Syrup sets them light

fSignnfl) Mrs Reid, 12 Galton street, Great Ilywaul . Ireet, Liverpool. We said you cinnothave a fire without burning sonic bind of fuol. The human stomach is a stove, and food is the fuel we put into it. If the food is consumed or digested, the body is nourished and built, up, :ind we enjoy health and strength; but if otherwise we quickly waste away and ieri-h. Now, wheu the stomach refuses to dig. st, b-ir:i, or onsmne fijo'i, v.-f have what is called indigestion and drsp- p.si?, the mc^t common and ciangr-ious of all c'.i^c.tbcs. T.ii-i is vhat ailed these two wom-_n, and v/hut ails millions rao:o in this country. The conclusion is plain enough : The remedy v.hich cured them will cure others. Then ttho fire burning well) we shall have heal, which v life and power.