MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5155, 30 May 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

She (enthusiastically) : " Oli, Qeorgo, don't 1 you think the grcntcnt joy m lifo m tho pur--1 suit of the good, tho true, nnd the beautiful ? " Ho : " You bet. That's why I'm 1 horo to-night." | g.Tames B. Bandal!, tho author of " Maryland, My Maryland," has been for tho lost i quarter of a evntury tbo editor of a Goor^i'i newspaper. Me is v writer of great power an 1 originality and a most scholarly man. Tho Bulc.man, a papor published m > Rotlieaoy, N 8., given tho following account. ■ of the effoots of whisky m iicroatingtfangrerio : — " Mr John Taylor waa obligod to got hia J leg amputated, owing to coma diaeusso of the bono. Dr Madclovor hub dt'cirous of perform- ' ing tho opomtion somo days earlier, but Mr 1 Taylor would not submit: to it, nnd even when ho did agree would not allow the doctor B to take off nu much of tho diioaned limb ub ho 9 considered nccooourv to offoct a cortitin and 3 speedy vooovery. 'Xho conscquenco waa that 1 a socond operation had to bo porformod, * lonvinfr tho potiont excoodingly wouk, ond 9 mortilioation rapidly Bet m. In thooc '■ circumßtuncoß Dr Maddovor ro3ortod fci " very strong measures, ond proscribed ' a glass of -whisky to ba givor. Mi Taylor every Imlf-bour. This was done foi y Boyorat dajs, with tho extraordinary reaull r that tho gangrono disappeared from the leg IT at tlio rato of about an inuh a day, till at * lonpth it was ontirely gono, and tho disoasoc B leg bocamo as white an tho other, tho wound l " also healing m tho most sutisfaotory manner Tho caBO waa olosoly watohed by Ur Patcrann " of. tho Glonburn Hydropithic, nnd Hr Mad 0 dovor got groat credit m surgical circles foi ':, having pullod hio potiont through. It was i remarkablo (not that although such quantitici of spirits woro poured into t.bo patient, then '• were no symptoms of intoxication until th< " gangrono who cotnplotaly expollod' from tin " syiitem, nud then ho rebelled against tin f' nurao giving him uny moro, mid ho could nol 10 bo induced to partako of any moro opirilß fo: l ' a loug time after his rocovory,"

Mr H. P. Cunningham, of Melbourne, baa BCCepted a three yearn' engagement with the Oarl Kosa Opera Company. According to the statistics of Mr Hayter the total estimated liability of the friendly eooieties of Victoria amount to £2,164,406 ; the assets are given aB £1,829 586 ; therefore there is a defioienoy of £331,820 yet to be overcome. Tho societies are, m fact, m a position to pay 17b m the £ of their liabilities, whereas at the first qninquonniul investigation they were worse off than they are now by Is lOd m the £. An exchange siiyn : — Tho champion mean man has been the subject of frequent paragraphs, mostly of the American order, but a mean thing has reoently been done m commerce — one whioh it will be hard to match "General" Booth included m his scheme for the elevation of tho " Submerged tenth" a match factory. Of course the matter waß made public, and what did some soulless ghouls m Gorm&ny do ? They flooded the English market with boxes of matches bearing the Salvation Army's well hnown shinld and insignia, thus taking advantage of the popularity which thoy knew would follow the introduction of the genuine article. Huoh oreaturaa would steal the life line that was the only hope of a shipwrecked crew. An article on the Chinese problem is contributed to the Nouvelle Revue by M: Bhepard. He Bntioipates tha' the day will come when the immense hordes of Chinese, to avoid a struggle with Busßia, the Tartarß on her north and western frontiers, and possibly with England, will rise up and quit their country en masse, Australia, he holds, will bo the firßt couut.ry thoy will invade, and the Gulf of Carpentaria will be their landing place. Once there they will spread over the land, "living ea-ily on the game and natural horbage of the country " uutil they have fairly established themselves. Thence thoy will spread to tho JPaeifio Islandß, and finally will ocenpy South and v7eßt America. As nn effort of imagination there may be something to say for M- Shopard'a article, but as a contribution to serious political science not much. Some very BUggeativo figures have jußt been published. The little kingdom of Holland (says a Home paper) has more lhan eight times the volume of foreign trade per oapita the Uuited Stales has. That ia to say, the amount of foreign commerce transacted by Holland is £40 12s per annum for oach man, woman, and child of its population, us against £4 14s to the credit of the people of the United States. In Great Britain the amount of foreign commerce ia £19 to each individual, m Germany £10 7s, and m France £10 3s 6d. Holland has no tariff for protection, and but little for revenue, and yet leads all m the wealth of her trade. Great Britain comes next with a tariff fot 1 revenue only Germany nnd Franco have protective tariffs and bounties and subsidies to increase commerce, but secure less than one-half that of England. The United States, with the highest tariff of all, lugs away m the rear. f'o<- remal*d«r of iVW« ««• Fourth Pn<i»