GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1676, 3 April 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

WnpLLY' uncalled for— a (load letter. 1 A jjkokkx tumbler — An insolvent aeroIbat. A doctoh was arrested at Lynn, Mass., on Nov. 30, charged' with malpractice on ,110 less than 500 females. \ i , In .Queensland any solicitor of five years? standing is eligible to be appointed, a judge of the Supreme Court or District Uourt. , A t<a\v just passed in Denmark providea that all drunken persons shall be taken home in carriages, 'at the expense of the landlord who sold them the last glass, j Mr J. B. Howe, the popular actor, writes to Lloyd's Weekly News recommending Auckland as " the home for working men." A veterax observer says: — "I never place reliance on a man who is telling what he would have done had he been there. I have noticed that somehow this kind of peoplo never get there." Tiik London World says of Oscar Wilde : " He goes back to America in the fall, then to Australia, and ultimately to Heaven. The lavish adornments of the latter place will perhaps strike Oscar as inaristic and in bad taste. According to the London Echo, Colonel Mai'teras in 1869 was on the point of being proclaimed President of Uruguay when he was arrested and condemned to death. On Monday, June 30th, of that year, he was taken by a platoon of soldiers out of the city to a meadow in the heart of a forest, and bound to a chair. At the word " Fire !" a "spasmodic shock" threw him to tho ground ; he did not hear the volley ; the soldiers marched away without giving him the customary coup dc grave ; and M.irteras, by tho kindly aid of a neighbouring labourer, got away, was healed of his wounds, and to-dny serves society more humbly, but yet more safely, as waiter in a Paris caf6.

Relative Loxoevity in various Occupations. — An interesting exhibit of the mortality in the 'different walks of life was furnished by the Register General in a report on the death-rate of the whole population of England in 1881. From this it appears that out of every thousand persons between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five, forty died on an average. Classified according to the most favourable mortality, aud increasing downward, we have the following tables : — Below the average— l. Merchants. 2. Weavers. 3. Cobblers. 4. Carpenters. 5. Blacksmiths. 6. Laborers. Above the average —7. Miners. 8. Tailors. 9. Bakers. 10. Butchers. 11. Liquor dealers. The mortality of the eleventh class is so great that in good companies they are only admitted with great caution, and on short endowment or term policies. Mariners, also, are considered poor risks, as 33 per cent of the deaths among them are* attributable to accidents. Among miners 2o per cent, among machinists 15 per cent, and among painters, well-diggers and glaziers 10 per cent die in consequence of casualties. The callings of biewur, typesetter, tinsmith, lithographer and stonecutter are also in a measure detrimental to a prolonged duration of life.

Vat.uk of Salt pok Trees and Gakdkv.— "Young fruit trees," says a writer of the Rzc/tanr/e, ' 'can be made to grow and do well in places where old trees have died by sowing a pint of salt on the earth where the are to stand. Alter trees are s>et I continue to sow a pint of salt around each tree e\ cry year. I set twenty- five trees in sandy soil for each one of seven years, and only succeeded in getting one to live, and that only produced twigs a few inches long in nine years. Last spring I sowed a pint of salt around it, and limbs grew three to three and a half feet long. In the spring of 1877, 1 set our twenty-five trees, putting a pint of salt in the dirt used for filling, and them sowed a pint more on the surface aft«r each tree was set. All grew as if they had been taken from the nursery. Last spring I set thirty and more, treating them in the same way, they have grown \ cry finely. The salt keeps away insects that injure the roots, and it renders the soil more capable of sustaining plant growth. In 1877 my wife had a garden forty feet square. It was necessary to water it nearly every day, and still the plants and flowers were very inferior in all respects. In 1877 I put half a barrel of brine and half a bushel of salt on the ground and then turned it under. The consequence was that all I the plants were of extraordinary large size and the flowers of great beauty. It was not necessary to water the garden, which was greatly admired by all who saw it. The flowers were so largo that they appeared to be of different varieties from those grown on land that was not salted. I had some potatoes growing from seed that wilted down as soon as the weather became very hot. I applied salt to the surface of the soil until it was white. Tlih, vines took a vigorous start, and grew to the length of three feot, blossomed, and produced tubers from the size of ban's eggs to that of goose eggs. My soil is chiefly ?and, but I believe that salt is highly beneficial to clay or to common prairie land."

Milk and On, in Diseasp.-- Dr W. W. To\viiBen|d, of Philadelphia, publishes the following letter in the Scicntljic American of December 2nd :— " I notice in your paper of the 14th of October an articlt; taken from the statements of Dj\ Benj. Clark and Dr. Alexander Yate in favour of the- use of milk as a diet in dysentery and typhoid fever. They give no dates as to when they commenced to use it. I am now in my seventy -fifth year, and have witnessed several epi«" demies of dysentery, typhoid, scarlet and relapsing fevers, small- pox, measels, &c.,, and have used milk in every case coming under my care'for nearly forty years iv every stage of the disease. I will not say it is a cure, for I do not believe in the so-called " cures" and specifics. Milk is the natural food of all mamalians. It-not only sustains life, but promotes the growth pf every part ,of the system. No othpr article contains, all ,tbose ingredient*, ,1% in ,s\e recuperative power of , nature that performs ,the cure, and lie who "studies l\ow to assist it by sustaining the jSy'atiem is the best .physician, and milk is oije of the best agents ( . that can ,be Used. , In dysentery I prefer frehh butter- riiilk, arid all the patient wants is perfect rest, and discard all irritating cathartics a«d purgatives. Mercury ioj any of itjSv preparations is poison in dysentery* or ( scarlet feye|^ ans, tho ( ipbysicten, who -gives'tjiem will p^er, be very tijop^ful. If his patient recovers it will be, despite hia treatment.' I' V»l Wi : 'thiifc in 'si^U'poxand scarlfet' fever' 1 ap6iht the patient irom'lje^d to foot tyith I 'olive oil 'by means' "of Ji'baa'g'er brush, WdVepeat ns often as" , it tber^iy, allaytng^tlj^-beat, ;ke^in^ ( qpeiahe;i.^es ot ■• the ;skiA Wj heed the gr^ng for thli^fivp f jv&fv and,jwasj su^ere^, /at', by my , medical ')jrethre«* f/fc, it and the jnilkitraitrneiit. NoiV, I o^lieve, it H|, ii^gwififjtt tt»B !W^h : thq beat rwuM" \- <*i* , ' ,

A widow ocouyphig a large house in ft fnsbioHdble qnMtp^ftLoijiToo, »out>for n Wealthy BoliotoWiwMKcfJ^r will, by sVlnoh she disWs&VVMifetwi'feh fifty nn-i i'ixtiy ) / thoM h f HftiAheM. Hii ' W <ll>t&<i\ 1 .^odtfttheiV-Vas'A'co^^d. 'rtnil/io^nHhim I i -iolf the jinpl^y husband of a pftnnilcss ad \-«J«HirM. r-iimiiM. . ./ fl| -, < -j »'f UIO 1 ' JAfiWtscoKrtK" millioimire- clividtrl » b^AVJ hisitlirijb uliildi-etf,> with thc'j irovi^ujiisitlfAthalf of'cauii portion is,ito'j )d'kt'f;t l/y» trustees J =11 11 til tlie' child 'to vliMnit'isleffc'lisithirty ytiarsiold, hm,l/ ;hcn isnuttc bu delivered until proof is'l ;iven that nt leo>t oiiu-lialf ofth'o jtortion [ireviouslj^' pai'd has not hdti\ s^uahiUtcd.

j Opening of^a Silo.— By I 'invitation from Mr HdntfylHoare'^aays \\\>Tihl>* re porter) I went down on '21st November to ( Jr/ageu hurst Farm; Stiiplchurst, ami saw jthe first vi his f fciloB opened. s ', 4 The insults j measurement 'was 24 feet by 10 feet, 10 feet |dc%>'ai/d built 'of' atone faced iwfth cemeit,', Jin a barn. I furnished the particulars for tins silo ili Match, and in the end of May > fthrSe*' acres of r trifoHUm (a '" vdry .good crop,") was mown and cut up small with 'the ohaffeutter, and well trodden into the silo. It stood above the edge twelve inches, and was weighted with three planks, and on these, a heavy weight of stone. < Mr Austin, - the overseer, in» formed me that he estimated the, weight ; of green trifolium, was 50 tons, and that it would produce eight tons of hay if dried. The mass-had shrunk to almost one-half 'its original depth. Upon 'removing the stone and three of the planks we'oatne to w 1-inch covering, of straw, which had partially rotted, then with a hay knife Mr Austin cut iuto a, corner of the silo. About three inches of the ensilage , was , found to be mouldy, but under , this it was in perfect order and green ; the flowers were nearly as red and fresh ns when put into the silo. In a short time the smell and color changed as the mass became exposed to the air. Mr Austin took some to the cattle in the adjoining shed, and several of them commenced eating it at once. Pagen hurst Farm can be seen to the right as you approach the Staplehurst station for London, so it is easy for all who are interested in the subject to go and see for themselves how a green crop can be preserved in a silo. The object of ensilage is to maintain the yap as nearly a? possible in its original state, without having undergone wither the transformation into gr«ain and straw or the fermentation of haying. That this is mainly effected is shown by the ensilage sentyou heiewith, taken from Mr Hoare's silo, and it is proved by all the dairy farmers in the United States thnt the butter made from the milk of cows fed on ensilage has the rich yellow color and flavour that is never found in winter, when cows cannot get into the- pastures and have fod upon hay, roots and grain. We have been favoured (says the H'ottrn AvKlrnllnii Times) with the perusal of a letter from Mr MeLatty, Manager of the liimberley Pastoral Company's Station, describing the circumstances attending the s.id fate of Mr A. Cornish, one of the members of the above firm. From this letter we make the following extracts : — "On Wednesday, December 13th, Cornish left the home station for another, seven-and-a-half miles off, with a flock of weaners, assisted by Winny (a Pinjarah native), and a native man and woman of this country, and took with hi in various articles — shirt, trousers, &c, and a largo American axe ; the latter he gave to the Fitzroy native to carry. At two miles he sent Winny back, saying that as the weaners. travelled so quietly he was not required. The same night Edgar came to me at midnight and stated that it was rumored that Cornish waa killed, and that he feared it was too true, as the Fitzroy native who had been in our employ for some time had suddenly run off and swum the Fitzroy. Early tin- following morning we started on Cornish's tracks and saw where he had dismounted to drive the sheep on foot. At about half-past 10 a.m. we came upon the body. From the wounds it was evident that the deceased had been killed by an axe. Near the body was found a pencil, shirt and mirror ; the tobacco, cnstor*oil, strychnine, axe, etc., were gone. I took his revolver o(f and found one chamber discharged, but this I knew he had discharged the previous evening at an eaglehawk. We looked carefully about but could see no sign of any struggle having taken place. The native's name is Guerhilla ; he told another Fitzroy native called Lofty that he had done the deed. Lofty told Bamba (a Pinjarrah native). I should not be at all surprised to hear that Guerhilla was assisted by others, as tM-o natives left the home station in that direction about a couple of hours after the deceased, in plenty of time to ha\e been on the spot when the murder ' was committed. Nothing can show more vividly the precariousness of our position here. Here was a strong young man, fully armed, destroyed by a wretched old savage. We have not ' provoked the natives in any way, but have done all in our power to keep on good terms with them."

The Late King of the Fijis.— Concerning this old cannibal, th»> Fijian Times nays;— In the death of Gtkobau, the Vunivalu, the first chief in the group of islands, now the British colony of Fiji, who was able to secure to himt>elf a ,bona fide title as'luiViri, or King of Viti, »h most the last tie which bound the old savage kiugdon of cannibals to the present colony of enterprising, earne.-t, peaceful work, is severed. His riyals in tormer yearsj Tui Cakau and Maafu, had gone before, and of his own type' but two are left behind, Tui Ban, of Vanua Levu, and Cara niValu, of Kadavu, Even the other leaser chiefs, lesser at least in the effect of their action on the present position of Fiji as well as in the farriiliarity of their names and titles to any but those who were brought iuto direct contact with them, R,atu Isikeli, Katn Savanaca,Ratu Kini andßitova, have all gone before. Cakobau.has seen his kingdom bound together and gathere4 iQtOi Qt0 one powerful band, and he had the satisfaction of knowing he had left his people in the guardianship of a chieftainship that wculd see every care taken of the race ( to which he belonged. , Though, «i> savage and a cannibal until the meridian of his years,. Cakobau yet showed.in the end such ability and capacity as well as thoughtful care 'for, his subjects as to command the admiration and esteem of the' mo.it honourable and highly cultivated of England's sons. We must ever remember, ib reading with unspeakable horror of the brutulity, and of the scenes of bloodthirsty sßvagedom that characterised his earlier years, that then he knew no better;,, tie had been, carefully trained in such a way that any^ possible sense of humanity, wa"s well nigh killed out of him ; he never ; had other example before him than one of greater cruelty than he,ev«r achieved. But on the other hand the fact that he yielded' at lasf. to the arguments of tli« missionaries who, at that time faced the savages of Fiji with , their, liyes in their; hands, and that, under the influence* of a, woman, whose heart had already, ,been touched by tfie teachingcf tfte^ospejlj'hej, showed that even in the breast of this son of savage i Viti there lay hidden a better nature that was of kin to human kind and .utterly !in ooptrastto the precedent ;of his former life, u apd, his. utter, abnegation of his previous cruelty is aprpqf pi the, power ,not onlyi !ofc spiritual ■ (thing?! ]fco, t^ej indi4 > .Vidual,! but that there is no,reaspn to,deapair of others— nay, teyen^tthjß^holel-j of histace.beingjbrought^injbo accord with; our>ideatf of oiyilisation. ! ( , , You willdo ■vvelltp furnish ;yQar ? house f! from Cxarliclc and Cran>vfeU's: fS Tb6y ltiwvs now' tiiW'most' !cimpl(ite>iFurMib}ti'n(f > )Witrehoifse in r Auckland; furmtuto tovs.'uittaHuclawsMSoad, .stjronjr, and cbean,. They haw TapeatrytC?rpdts Worn & 3d per yard, htiMWW>iies bXA'pfsr yard. Linoleum from 3s 9d to si/OillGlbths'frdm Is Od to(4s 6d- per 'yard; gpodf 12 • feqt ,wjde Oil ( Glbth^Bs.94 perryaW;. Jmfm'ttFV&tyl of Iron. Bedsteads 'from Infants .Cots to, 5, ,ieet* f wilio ffalfitest'ir' B^dsteids.^ Double iihn^Scp' 1 ? toads from 255. 480 Bedsteads in »tock,to select! \ftqmj *lljki^sj»M^t z ?Kl!l e Pl t . Ml readiness. Dimnp, bitttnff.rDnttvjnff-rodm Mrniturc, and.and, a largoassot'traeSt'iPMah'cHiat'er ■ and' Ttfn'iiibin^'.Grtoaij'tincludiri^ iflotvgfof ' ,Crc^nnt»^ 'Pbok'Catalogu'ei/iont^fre'o.td in»; City «f^^fef^g|K ; !