CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1809, 9 February 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

*_ It is said that every ounce of gold gob in India of late years has cost £40. Victoria haa 780 aboriginal* ; New South Wales, 1643 ; Qneeibluid. 20,58 i ; South Australia, 63,346 j and Western Australia, 2346. Theke is high authority for the statement that Humbert believes himself to be the last King of Italy, and look 3 forward to seeing his son living in a Republic, and haa educated him with that possibility in mind. The money in Tonquin is made of and very bad lead at that. The coins are thin discs strung on twine, and for a gold or silver piece the traveller receives more of them in exchange then he can carry away. A lady going shopping is followed by a coolie who carries her purse, and groans under the load. Toad raising is a profitable Austrian industry. The creatures are produced for the London market, where they are sold for £3 to £4 per hundied, and arc bought by gardeners and agriculturists for use in destioying obnoxious insects. The "Light of A3ia" has lately been translated into German. The Emperor of Japan was, by the way, so pleased •with this poem that he congratulated Edwin Arnold upon it in a private letter. The "Pearls of the Faith" especially appealed to the taste of the Sultan of Turkey, who has I'esolved to bestow a de coration upon the author. The London Medical News reports the suicide of a leading anti-vaccine agitator in England. Last summer the. smallpox broke out in his family and carried of his wife and three children. The loss preyed upon his mind, and he completed the extinction of his family by self-dis-truction. The German Emperor astonishes everybody by his vitality. He is nearly eighthseven years old, thirteen yeais older than his great ancestor, " Old Fiita,'' when that monarch broke down, and his life has been one of great activity. In the public school of New Haven, Conn., a new covuse of study called •'newspaper geography" has been adopted. This consists of requiting the student to trace out on his map, places referred to in news leports in the daily papers. The Primitive Methodists in England are the only Protestant body that lias had missionaries on the Island of Fernando Po, Western Africa. The climate is exceedingly dangerous, and their families have been called to suffer and in some cases to die. The Tarlagoch lead mine, in South Wales, lately sold, believed to be the oldest in England. It was, according to tradition, opened by the Romans, and has been worked more or less ever r.nee. The result of the census taken in 1880 of the populatson of the Austio-Hungarian Empire show s that the Jewish inhabitants of the Emperor Fiancis Joseph's dominions number, in round numbers, 1,645.000. They chiefly abound in Galicia, Hungaray, Moravia, and in Vienna. The Jewish population of the capital is about 56.000. It is announced that M. Body, of Lecornette, in the Auiennes, has invented a new and ingenious fire-damp detector. It is essentially a safety-lamp of Davy type, connected with fvn oiectnc bell. Contact is prevented by a catch held bick by a cotton wick impregnated with some chemical pieparation. When the firedamp reaches dangerous pi oportions the wick ipnrtes, the catch is released, and the bell rings. An accurate photograph was taken some time ago of a very ancient msciibed palm leaf pie&eived in the temple of Horinsi, Japan, and foi wii dec! to England, where it will be duplicated by the autotype process. Max Muller w rote to the limes that it is considered the most ancient manuscript in the Sanskivt character now known. It has been a sacred relic since A.D. 500. Too severe bits aic often placed in the mouths of young hoiscs, unaccustomed so any bit at all, which has the effect of making their mouths veiy sore. After a horse's mouth becenies calloused, making it insensible to the touch, and tlu lior&e will then be " haul in the mouth," which makes him hard to manage. The bits or colts should be well wiappcd in order to keep them fiom thus injuring the mouth. — Pitsburg Stockman. The largestestate ever sold in Scotland in one lot at public auction was disposed of recently to Johnßullongh for£los,ooo, aside from the timber, which will be paid for as an addition at ,x valuation. The estate, and is known as the Meggcrnio estate, and is situated in the \ alley of Glenlyon, Perthshire. It contains upwards of thirty-two thousand acres, included in an aica of fifty squat c miles, and is one of the best .spoi ting and gazing estates in Scotland. The salmon fishery extends to the almost unprecedented length of over forty miles Hon. Gkoiu.], F. Loud, of Elgin, 111., keeps 100 cows on 300 acres of land, and has not raised a pound of hay for ycais. The corn is sow n in dulls three and ahalf feet apait, and about the time it blossoms it is cut with asclfraking reaper cutting one row at a time, the machine throwing it oft' in ganels. When sufficiently wilted, it is bound and set in large stacks, and allowed to cure standing on the ground until winter sets in, when it is hauled to the bain. He secures a a yield of about seven tons of cured fodder to the acre, worth as much as the best hay. He is one of the most succesful dairyman in the State. — Chicago Journal. The Spirits at Wokk. — An amusing incident occiurcd tcccntly at Dover, England, in a public hall, at which a Professor of legerdemain named Dupery was giving an entertainment before a lager audience. The professor was proceeding with a dark seance portion of his entertainment, when an accident occurred which brought his proceedings to an abrupt conclusion. Mr Duprez had produced several of his so-called spiritualistic manifestations, and w nile tlie hall was in darkness, disengaged himself fiom the cords with which he was bound on the stage, and as events proved, found his way among the audience, where he was to fire a pistol as a climax to the feat. Just before the pistol Mas discharged, however, the audience became somewhat alaimed by a scuffle and altercation, and as soon as the lights were turned up the professor was seen struggling to free himself from a gentleman, a tradesman belonging to the town, named Wood. It appears that just befoie the pistol was to bo discharged Mr Wood's wife communicated to him the fact that one of the spiiits was sitting on her knee, and before the supposed ethereal being had time to escape he was in the clutches of the indignant husband, who held on to him until the lights were turned up and the unfortunate Mr Duprez, discovered, An exciting struggle then ensued, Mr Duprez, who was evidently greatly annoyed at his awkward dilemma, levelled his pistol at Mr Wood, and afterwards dealt him several blows with the butt end. Some gentlemen present succeeded as quickly as possible in separating the disputants, but considerableexcitement prevailed in the hall, especially amongst the female portion of the audience, who made a speedy exit from the building. Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to de stroy them get a packet of Hu l's Magic Vkrmin Kjli.br in packets, Cd, od, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extta stamp. One Shilling. — Francis J. Shortts' Popular Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Paintings by celebrated artists. 5000 tickets at Is. The prizes are magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will have tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. — Fkancis J. Shohtt, 140, Queen-street, Auckland. — fAuvr.] lava in the Birsn— Then and Now. — It it generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Hill, who has himself dwelt %n the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned'nie'ats his Colonial Sauce gives to them afciost delectable flavour, making them as well of,tho plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper bis Improvid Colonial Baking Powpbr makes the very best cake*, and pastry far •uperiQr more wholesorae than yeast or