OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3498, 24 November 1894, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

An English farmer in the Mark Lane Express explains how he .makes butter at a loss, He works a separator, pays 4|d per gallon for the milk, returns the skim to the suppliers, makes a pound of butter of excellent quality from 2 47-100 gal., sends it'to London, where it fetches lid, and when commission and carriage are deducted the net result is 9£d for first-class Somerset butler. He finds he cannot compete with the foreigner. Upon the Temple clock in London is a simple inscription, the origin of ■which is said to have been a lucky ■accident. About 200 years ago a master-workman was employed to put a new face upon the clock. When his work was nearly done he asked the Benchers for an appropriate motto to carve on the base. They promised to think of one. Week after week he came for their decision, but was put off. One day he found them at dinner in commons. "What motto shall I put upon your clock, your Lordship V he asked of a learned judge. " Oh, go about your business!" his honour cried, angrily. <( And very suitable for a lazy, dawdling &ang!" the clockmaker is said to have muttered, as he retreated. It is certain that he carved "Go about jour business" on the base.

As a trout fisher (say? a contemporary) was leaving the.river with a well-filled creel he met his reverence strolling alon? the bank. "Is it

here you are, Dinny, he said severely, (( instead of keinsr at Mass this morning ? Faith, you'll have to do penance for this." " Oh, that's bad for both of us," said the angler, " for whin I was lavin' the river,' Now/ I sed to mesilf,' shura'n this'll be n lovely fourpouniler to sind over to the prisbytery lor his riverence's breakfast to - morrow mornin';' an' now, seein' it's caught of a Sunday, 1 suppose you won't take it An' shure, your riverenee, its only the Sunday I have for fishin'." «' Och, sure, you might be doing worse than

that, Dinny,; avick," said the holy father; " sind over the trout anyway, and you can do your penance in the close season."

A writer in an English paper called Goodwill says:-"There is not a single church and school iurniture manufactory that I know of which can be termed a fair house. They all j)ay very low prices, and have the work done on the worst possible system of lump work. We seem to be getting wjone and worse. We now apparently, in many cases, have the following state of things in a church:—A. paison, clothed in a * sweated' cassock and surplice, standing in a 'sweated' pulpit, preaching about Moving your neighbour as yourself,' and calling the workers of the congregation his 'beloved brethren,' the said con'gregation being clothed in 'sweated' shirts, trousers, and other garments, and seated on ' sweated' chairs, n'ndinjj the text in 'sweated' Bibles, and ' about to be sweated irotri Monday till Saturday when .they have left the church! I wonder what Isiah or St. James would have to say oirthis!' ■..'.", ' A French paper, says tlie sun, calls attention to. the number o: l secondary victims consequent upon the asassina.tinn of President Carnofc. The foreman of'the. workmen was killed while .putting up the funeral hangings in the courtyard of the Elysee. Nathan, the chief piqnenr of Mr Carnofc,died suddenly of apoplexy, caused ,hy excitement and grief A boy at Busstore de Clermont was accidentally stabbed to death by a schoolmaster, who was imprudently describing

€cssario's crime. A woman who

went suddenly mad on hearing l tie news threw herself out of a window at Perpignan and was killed. At the funeral there were four fatal •accidents. One man fed and was impaled on tne railings of the Tiiilwifis. whilst a hnsre-vnse fell upon a woman's legs, which were afterwords amputated. Enron de Bcyons. the Jute Belgian minister, swooned away •on the morning of the obsequies, •and never rose from hi? heil again. All over France mental eondition of ■those prone fo excitement led to .suicides, whilst several railroad workmen were stabbed in affrays. A contest for the prize of beauty• lias taken place in Vienna. The

rules of the contest are simple enough, Every visitor, on paying a coin equivalent to sixpence, receives a ticket, which entitles him to record one vote for the lady whom he deems the most beautiful. It used to be open to the fair ones to canvas for themselves, and many of the most enterprising would boldly address a perfect stranger and with a winningsmile inquire whether he did not consider her worth a vote; where upon he would gallantly offer his ticket. This year, however, that pratice has been stopped, and the utmost that a pretty canditate is allowed to do is to appoint a male canvasser, or to ask you what o'clock it is, or at what time the votes will be counted ] And the curiosity among them for information of that kind is quite amazing. At the competition which has just taken place over a hundred fair ones enrolled themselves as claimants for the crown of roses and the hundred crowns. There were enly three fayourities. It turned out, however, that by the voting the fairest girl in all Austria was Fraulein Sch , a person and. a name of .whom nobody ever heard betore. This irritated the audience and the girl, who was made to show herself, was hissed. She had finally to be escorted home by the police, the other and unsuccessful fair ones being but too desirous to maul her. Mrs Besant seems to have taken to Hinduism and all its dogmas most heartily. She believes in Hindu gods, she'tells Hindu audiences lb it she was a Hindu pundit in a former oirth, and is visiting her own land after a sojourn in the West, where she was incarnated to know the nature of the materialistic civilisation of those regions; she upholds the caste system as a necessary part on the law of Karma, those in the lowest caste being there as a result of their former "works. It is no wonder that she gets crowded audiences to listen to her. She is a forcible speaker: she knows how to adapt herself to her audiences,; and hence they do not hesitate to call her Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning. She very calmly dogmatics upon what is incapable of proof, and many are being led away, by her dogmatic utterances upon spccalative philosophy/ Her visit will doubtless revive for a season the waning influence of Theosophy, and there will be an increasing opposition to' Christianity as a result. Mrs Besant does not' , hesitate to sneer, at, Christian Missionaries, and to warn the people not to send their children to mission schools The Theosophists know that the only opponet they need fear is Christianity, and they openly avow it. This should encourage all Christians to continue their efforts to enlighten the people of India, and seek to deliver them from endless mazes and mystical teaching of Theosophy.

It is well that the remarkable story I am going to tell is not of America origin, since reaJers might lie very sceptical; As it hails from Charing Cross you can > hardly doubt its truth. A few months ago there .appeared at Charing Cross Hospital a, noseless young man who pathetically inquired of the senior surgeon, Mr Bloxam, whether he could supply him with a real nose. Mr Bloxam thought it possible that something might be done for the poor fellow, and took him under, his charge. As there was no spare noses from the amputating room fit for use, the amputated finger of other patient was carefully grafted on to the young man's face. It was found, however, that the finger had "died," and had therefore failed to take. The noseless man, nothing daunted,- greedily accepted the doctor's proposition that be should sacrifice one of his own digits to furnish the nasal organ. In order that the finger should not be wasted in the event of another failure to take, fie patient's arm was incased in a plaster, and for four weeks he had to hold his live finger to his face in the hopes of its taking root. This it did. The finger was then taken oil the hand and remained firmly fixed in its new position, Manipulation since has rendered the finger as such, and it is gradually being shaped to the requirements of its situation. This remarkable surgical operation is no idle tale, I assure you. I have verified the facts for myself at the hospital.— London, correspondent Dunedin Star.