NEWS ITEMS

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8250, 17 May 1895, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS

(From oub Latest Exchanges.) Mr Obarl! s Simmons, of Beading in a let er to a contemporary, givea the milking record of his Dexter oow, Bed Rose for the past twelve months. The record was taken iron* the 24th December 1898, to the 24;h December 1894, and dnring that period the cow gave the fX'.raordiusry quantity of 5 tens 9o;tt Oqra B,bs Qf milk. Mr ritDmous calls attention to the milk record of the same cow published in 1893, and pays that many at th*t time were inert da ions to belitvo chat a oow wtigbing only 6owt Bqrs 6bs could give within a year 4 tons 9cwt Bqru 201ts of milk, being more than thirteen tim-B the live weight of her body. Continuation of News tee Fourth Page '

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Mr Simmons states he has gone carefully through the whole of the fignr s, aucl can voaoh for their accaiaoy. The ioteaaily of the cold lataly experienced in Eaglaud is illustrated i< a recent number of the •' Chemist and Druggist." The picture fthowo the rising foam from two open bottle < of " phie ' to hive frozen in a column to sha mouths of the bottles, with the cork adhering to the top of each, A farmer says : — " T-uis larnin tv'ry girl to play on the pianner, aud ev'ry boy to be a bookkeeper, will make pertaters a sovereign a bushel afore many years.' The Pomahaka correspondent o! the Oiutha • Leader ' reports tha^ tha flames from the burning lignite have broken out in the middle of the county engineer's road, and that the roar and crackle of tbe furnace is aweinspiring. The party of tribotors who, for the past two yearß have baen working Mr Craig's property at the Sooth bpit, terminated their contact on Friday last, their term having expired. Mr Otaig is now in town making freeh arraDgaments for the working of the ground, and a? might have been anticipated has received a very large number of applications. We learn that no less than £10,000 worth of gold has already been taken from the ground, of wheh flutn the tribut-ra have receive! £12.000.— 1 Guardian.' Smith, a miner, of Hoeburn, vVes'ern Australia, won the first prize (valuad at £26.000) in tha Bank of Van Diemen's Land Bank lottery. Whateveb lin:»erin2 doubt w*s entertained as to the guild of George Archer, who was cxecafei at fcydney on 11th June, 1893, for tha murder of Emma Harrison, dressmaker, has been set at rest by the discovery of a watch and Ting belonging to Miss Harrison, where Aroher was emp!oye3. A sad case of distress h-s been revealed at Goalbourn. A worn in earned Webb k whosa husband is Eupposad to ba a* Ooolgardie, gave bir.h to a child which died. Tue woman was alone at tha time, biing too poor to p*y either for a nurse or fo a doctor. She had borrowed the bd, wbioh was poorly supplied with olohes, while six other children slept on the floor. Tiirae doctors were ssnt for bat did not come. The woman also applied io the local Gi y Misbi n for relief, but was refused, as &he bad only been ia Go dboura for four months. A chaibman's gavel jasfc presnted to ?be Appleby Towa Oonnoil was curved from oak 800 years old, discovered 12ft below the beS of the River Eden, where it setved as he support of a primitive bridge.

A celebrated America 3 millionaire once boas ci that he was able to baj ap the whole of b. 3 United Kiogdom Taking this a* hid text, and tUj'posin^ for 'he sake of argument that the British Tsle3 were for sale, a writer ir *n Kug idh paper has just made som? caloula iooß to show bow much tb< millionaire would have to p^y foi fiem, It would amount to jnst abonl £12,000,000,000. Such is the estimate made by Dr Giffen, the, greai Board of Trade statistician, en thinoome- ax returns. Tn 1885 th< value of this nice littlo pi operty wat jast fibaut two thoaeand miiiioas ies* than the above estimate. la ex id figares i$ was £10,087,000,000 One cf the most curious trees in Germany stands on the left bank oi the river Order, in Batibor, Sileeia, It is a maple, at least 100 years old, which has been twisted and cut intc a sort of two-s.oried house. A flighi of E>teps leads up to the first level, where the branches have been gradually woven together so that they make a firm, leafy floor ; above this is a second floor of smaller dimension*, formed fn the same way ; and the ends of the branches have been woven iiito solid walls, and out so that eight windows light each of the apartments. Below the firat floor, at ths level ol the second, and at the top of the tr.e, the boughs have b:en allowed to grow oat naturally, while the intermediate Wills and the edgea of the windowlike openings are kept closely clipped. Mb D O'i3rien's cheque for e-akes won a* the A.J.O. Mealing amounted to £1123. A Hindoo withdrew a Butn of money from the Waraambeol Poet Office Savings Bttnk on Saturday, and refused to take the interest with it, remarking "Me don't w*Lt money but my own." The kfc was placed in a poor box. A settlbu on the Oana JEiver, "Victoria named Falmerston Sewell, mot hid death under singular circams acces tie had an impression thas 6omo< ne might break into bis hut, and. with & view to protecting himself, fixed a loaaed gun inaide the hu 1 , so tha rwb^n the door was opened r, would pull a wire which he had attached to tht; trigger. It is believed that Sewell must have accidentally touched the wire aad been shot by his own con;riv »i)ce, as he was found deai iv the hat, >ying upon his back, and with the charge from the gun lodged in his breast. At the Magisterial enquiry a verdict oi Aooidaotal Death was returned, The Merlon • Advocate ' recorts that a serious nativa eqotibble, resulting in a " free fight " took place at Par^wanoi on Friday last, ia which a number of the belligerents, headeJ by Winhana Huuii and Mobi Bopiha, fonght on horseback with sticks, sever »1 b^nig severely kaocked ab^ut. The trouble arose over trsiningmattera on the Pd.rewanai rae*coarse. The equable is iikey to end in a law suit. The officers of the ship Firth of Stronza, spoken by the barque Trinidad, which lately arrived at Wellington, report that when their vessel was under full sail about 50 miles from the Australian coast, a dove with a green twig in its bill, settled on the deck, and was so tired by its long journey that it was easily caught. The following reminiscence of tbe late Major-Generel L- Qaesne is given by the • National Observer ' : Whn he first joined tha 12 h Lancer * a 11 cheeky " brother subaltern aske^, 11 You oome from the Ch^nne' I-lands, don't yon ?" " Ye?." " I tfcought -hey only produced cabbages there." "Quite fcru*," rep'itd Le Qaesne, •• bet then ali the stalks make splendid etiefcp. Would you like to teat my assertion ?" But the other didn't care to do so.

An ama'eur fisherman at Peterborongh (Victoria) lnd a sensational txrerk:Kce wifcb an oetopns the other day. He wai standing in the water, iotent upon the sport, when his companions T?ln were some distance aw ;y, observed a largs cotcpas swim, ming lapidiy towards him. They gave thj alarm, and he nude a rush for the chore, and after a great effort aucce^ei! in escaping the tent^o-es hi the monster, which, npoa being o^p'-ated, was fonod to measure eight feet ac oss. Oub (.'romwell c orreapondont telegraphs that a girl named Dickie, seven years of ag\ fell down a shaft at Baunockbarn and broke one of her Jags jast above the ankle. Bishop THOiiOLD tells this slory:— « " On an ocean s.eataer ft few yean ago an English clergyman was in oloss conversation with a lady, when a smaii Loy of six y- ars old lounged up and coo'y joined in. The divine think ing it well to administer a reproof to the child, who had become an awful nuisance to everybody, looked as grave as he coald, and observed, 1 My yoaug friend, when 7 was your aga little b >ys did aot j jin ia the conversation of their elders until they wer-j invited.' '•' he reply was instant and straight, aid gave ranch joy. ' I gates that wa? seventy or eighty ye«rs ago, you bet.' " It is state 1 that the rcfa=al of station-holders to put up bw riggers has result-d iv a saving of three sheep a wsek oa Borne of the Wairarapa ttition?. The Bgv Frederick Langaam, a vateraa W"e3leyan missionary from F ji, ia r,t prse jt in Auckland He was the chairman of the Wasl c yau Mission at Fiji He first went to Fiji ia 1859, and ia by far the oldest missionary in the group. Unlike most other missionaries of to-day, he has seen mission s rvice as it is gene-rally eupposad to be by tha uninitiated. He went np into the mountains of the Fiji Group immdia*ely after the Rev Baker had been killed and eaten by some of the hill tribes, in 1866, and brought back some of th^t unfortunate clergyman's bane?. Ha ha 3 several narrow escapes in the old days, and can relate many interesting adventures. He was very much respected throughout the giroap b? natives and Europeans alike, and his departure, wuioh isfiaal, is generally regr--tte3. i^ae natives sabBoribed a purse of money as '• loloma " or, gift, to present to him. Mr Lang « ham is retiring in ord-r that he may have leisure to complete the translation of the revised version of the Bible, of whish he has already dene several books in (he Old Testa* ment.

The Melbourne O ricks t Olab has ; voted £250 for distribution among tbe y Melbourne charities*

3 ' l GRAN S Y GORTON'S BIBTHDAY. Saturday, January 21 si, was a great day 8 in Central Village, in the State of Gonnectir cut, in America. On thai day Mrs Joanttnn t Gorton was 100 years old and formally received her fii-nd3 of whom hundreds were , present. She wore her b?st blaok Bilk gown, " with a rose in the bodioa. The venerable - lady was seated in a comfortable armohair on 3 a pla form in the best room of the hou^e. 3 Then tbe t %in of callers file 1 through, each and a 1 shaking hands wnh her. " Granny 3 Gorton," as she is c •.lied, is a trim little t body and vey nimble on her feat. Xhere was never anything ailed her, eha says, and, exc-pt that her eyesight isn't quite so good I as it nsed t j be, eha is as active as any woman t of 50. . Why hss Granny Gorton lived so 'ong ? Why is she bo active now? She let? GJt the ' secret herself when she says, " Thera was , never anything ailed me. ' That's it, and all b of it. , People who liv 1 100 years are not so very . rare. The deaths of 45 suoh were reported 5 last year in England— 22 men and 23 women. ' Yet, compared to the multitudes who die, II these are nothing— nothing. Can we not , keep tilings from aiiing as, and so live as long ) as Mrs Gorton? Yea, if we will taka tbe trouble to do it ! Glen and women 100 years old, still vigorous and o'eir-headed, should • be a sight so common as not to bs remarked, > and will be vet in tba future Why not so f noic? " iouraelf the qaeHion," as ihe boatmen say down on Deal baaoh. ' Eere's hnw it is: A woman's tUe. She ' says sbe fell ill when a tirl of about fifteen, i She lost her &pp?ti-e, had paios in the sides ■ an-i chest, frequent headaches, and w*s often obliged to lie dowa on tee coach and rest All Ibis dida't promue long life, did it T No ; it wss a bad start. • Well, sha got worse instead of better. She was often sick, vomited her food, and spitting • up a sour fluid. For five years she went on this way: This brings us to October, 1881. 1 She was then in service as parlor-maid at Leamington Hasting*, Warwiskshire. Hera she saffrred horn constant si koeaa, retching, and heartburn. Tbe chest pains were bo bed as to bead her two donble. No position that sha could take rslieved hex. Her stomach was so tender and sore that evert thing she ac pained and distressed her. Fur mon'.hs and month 3 eha only took liquid food — milk and beaten eggs, and bo on. Shi got weaker and weaker every day, so she Bays. Of course ; how else could it be ? A doctor at Hngby told her ehe had " uloeratim of the chest," which she didn't at all. What is " ulceration of the ohest ? ' He gave her medicine and advice, but she grew no better on that account. This yoang lady was cow ab^m 20 years oid, with a pour outlook for ever being mnoh o'der. She didn't erpeot it, nor did her fi3cde. Then another doctor, being coneul'ed, said " ulcera ion of the chest," like his medical brother at Bugbr. Both wrong "After six months' medical treatment," ehe siys, " I gave up my equation and returned to my home at Buxton LamaK, Norfolk Tbis w».b in Jaae, 18S2. Then I was tiken bo bad I had to take to my bed. My mother thougbs I was in a deolioe." Now, tbe word " decline " meanscon-ump-tion, &s we all know ; a disease common io England and inourable every where. Thousands ol bright girls and young men " decline " into their graves every year in this populous inland. Sad enough it is to see Weil, at this point her good and wise mother interfered in her dioghcer's case. She gava the doctors tie go-hy and sent to Norwich for some bottles of Mother S^igel's Curative Syrcp In two weeks the young putient began to feel better, and in three months she got a new situation and went lo work. ' Since thr>n, fifteen years ego," she says, "I have kept in better health than ever before in my life, thanks to Sei^el'* Syrop. Yours truly, (Signed) (Mis) Sabah Eueanob Bases, 8, King's street, Church Road, Tottenham, near London, September 30th, 1892." A dozen words more and we're done. Mrs Baker's ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, coining else, and qure enough. The " u!c«ration " wa3 infUmma'.ion of the inner ooatiog of ih j stomach, a symptom of the disease. We wish her a long tad happy life, and merely add that if all her sex could avoid or cure this one trouble most of them might live o be as old as Granny Gorton.