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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 9

Mop this scientific business where it is, and don't let it go any further. It is robbing life of all that is worth livinsj for Only a short time ago one) of these scientific chaps analysed a tear that had tnckted down upon the check of a young woman whr> w*nt-d a new dress ; and he found-it to contain phosphate of lime, chloride of •oiium and water. Ever since reading that analysis we have lost fAitfa m tears, and-no matter what a person is grieving about, wo can only look at the tears as they flow over beauty's cheek and think of the phosphate of lime, chloride of sodium and wat-r. The *nalvsLs has knocked all the poetry out of tears for ua, and we feel as thoueh we wanted our money back. If the scientist will refund what he has taken froa us he can hay« his old analysis. We would like to throw him m a corner and jump on him. Oh, give us back the chivs, when tears were tears and not chloride of sodium and other nauseatine drugs. — American paper. <• B ♦v. 3 heT6 h* lateljr b t en « the Botanical Garden of Berlin the biggest flower in the world— the great flow«r of Sumatra known in science as the itafflesia Arnoldi, and peculiar to Java and Sumatra It measures nearly ten feet in circumference, and more than three' m diameter, bir Btamfurd Raffles and Dr. Joseph Arnold were' exploring in c6mpany when they discovered this champion plant" " -, L The .Wol>. Wol>h 'P o* Satan.fa at laßt becoming public in Europe. One of the crimes of the Press noticed by Pope Leo XIII. in his address to thß-Kornr.ns on July Isth, was the publication of a hymn to Satan ! But this is only a single incident of this dreadful cult, not new, indeed but hitherto followed out in secret. Not many" weeks since the " anticlericals of Genoa marched at the inauguration of a statue to Mmzim, ''marched under the banner of Satan." It is well nigh inconceivable, yet it is a fact, and one of the vile papers, noticing the fact says that hitherto this worship was secret and confined to the Lodges "but now it is the duty of Italians, who have so long lived under the menaces of hell fire, to render at length to Satan, the honors which are due to him."— Catholic Review. , , . M# P l^™ 3 ' the well>kilown Parisian inventor, lately deceased loft to the French Government a generous legacy, under most sin* gular conditions. It is to be devoted to the establishment of snicidaria or public institutions in which p3ruonß suffering from rainful and incurable diseases may bring their own lives to an end, under the direction of medical experts, and with the consent of their immediate relatives.