Scotch Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 27 July 1888, Page 2

Scotch Notes.

The common sense and value of aatiike have had an exemplification in a sta'ement made the other day in (lla-igovi , ;'t the annual meeting of theßroxburn Oil Com) a-iy, to tbf ell ct that the cost of their action to the lute strikers at ihe slwile mines i>,id been a loss in wages alone amouEtmg to be wee-i £60,000 and £70,0u0. In this way the working man who strikes, as the old &a>mg is, bitea his cose to vex his face.

Scotch thr.ft is proveibial but even that has its limits. It is rumoured, much to i he discomfiture of '•quenmish pr»or,le, that a large piopoitionol the bones l.uely impmtcil as t.iosj of 1 >wei anima)3, camels aud such ltk< , ir«m Kgytit lor mantiiing puipos'-s consists of the sk letonh of men killed in Ar. bi Pashn's revol', and the rebellion m .he So .dan. S >me uf the '• unc >, iruid " aie inquiring how it will look on ih • last da. ( to have a loi ot black pagans atisnig among the gloiified bodies of the Covenan'ere, — though the colour may perhaps form a sufficient dihtmciion. It is generally agreed, however, that thrift should draw a line at raising food by the disposal cf human remains. Of the twocicm.itioa appeals the better way.

There are oth;r me hods, however, of manuring tLe ground besides those that nnikj use of human bones, which seem also objectionable. A labourer Las foccti killed at Niger in Ross-shire by the fuaus of some chemical FtufT that ho wts employed in spreading on the soil, and five others who were with him, nairowly escaped sharing his fate. Whatever the ciops so produced may be, and they can hardly absorb am thing deleterious, such methods must be widely unwholesome. The question of this chemical treatment of the land is also ia itself a doubtful one.

Mr. Winans the American monopolist, is about to give up the forest at Kintail, in X >ss-sbiro, tented at £1,600 a year from Lord Lovat. It ia aleo announc d ]that fcir Wnium Cuucliffe Biooks has purchased, in addition to the forest of Gl^ntanar, in the sime county, Lord Huutly's Aboyuo esiaUs in Ab j rdeenshire. Faith in the monopoly of the land is therefore still extant.

Profeseor Flint has cuised gre it exct^m 'nt bj issuing a circular to the ministers of the Church ot Sc >tland in which he mikes grave charges against the Chinch's foieigu mission. The special charge is that of neglecting to c-iuse an ex iminati >n into tbe moral condition of the Female Institution at Calcutta, concerning which it may be remembered a sho king scandal occuired somj few yeats ago. The Professor accuses the denejal Assembly of being " guilty of an act of deplorable immorality" in c the l.ixtty oi those in charge of the mt'Sion. He says, m ,reover, tni a Uornrni'-si >n sent out to Calcutta in ISB3 w,.s a " d.-lio.iCßt sham." Thi Scotsman, in commiutu'g on the muter, i,i\-, "If I'iufessor Flint is light, much cf tin: money gmn to tlw foicgn mi sions o" the Uhu-ch of Scotland — aud things a-c not mittoi tally uiilireni m the Fieo K'rk — is wasUd or woisj. '

The inquiry of the Croftets' OonvniKsion, "iui^g at Aaltboa, into the condition of the toi ant -.on t!ie L 'tt'jijwi oi ate aas i e\ ealed great iujustice and birds lp. Af er the hill i: .' tin- lal boon ttken from the ciotteif, foi 1 ex m ile, ih y we c still oohg d to p-iy thu bame n.nt for their l.Oiding*. me 1 ,rm r. w! o "giabbul" l h ■i r pastuie, seized their fchecp, which weie pin by i mi in <> a " fa ik,' where they nearly all died, ttu crolL( is i< <% ivin^ thjl < ii" penny in c;m pen sat ion. They had only been nba t . keep out of debt by ris auj; an I going South to woik.

Some amust'ni >nt v.,n cancel af Aultbia by the description of a fruitless effoit ui.vle a, lit'le urn* 1 ago to pump a pond, named Loch na Beiste, dry. 'lh> motive «na the ditcoveiy by an old man in the water of a monster endowed with two hoins, and rather suspected in tae negbbourhood to be the old gentium u\ in prppna persona, althouga, water is rut gencially roiii-i lerud lobehinc Haemal element. Everyone abou' the place was afraid to p iss !he locn. But all efforts to land the memy proved in \.un, mi I the only ( f!vct produced by a lot tf lime thrown m, to make (things nap! ja-.au t ior him and remind him of home, was to kill a number oL uout. Kilhr-y the deil, however, cau only succeed on hallow-e'en.

Those who cto nut lo >k to old age as hkt\y to s'ro'c'i them on a ra'kof thisiotuh world woilddo well to i,tk" up thiir toi lenoe ri Wigtown-shiie. Itissud to bo ih ■ .ib >de, par r.vrd/rncr, of longevity. A Miss Kerr, of Stanraer, is ati'iounced tj havo ujst comp.eted her hundredth yi'ai, and to ho still almost as young an 1 merry *s any miss in her teens — Tnc drat'is h.ive be i n r cetuly reported, moreover, of iwo f,»imer->, one in the pa ish ut Kukco'.m, and ihe oi her near Portpatnck, \s hu hml etch .vtaincl to almost similar length of days, and who were 1 v.id ha'c aud vi^ jious wLeu death came thus uutiraeiy upon them.

The Rev. Jacob TV mm 'i- i-j pa;. \uj Old Hairy with the Pope at Dumfermline. It is, huwwer. ,i w h .iojoiut s,^n of thi- tunes that his cougiegition ild? nit lullow i.,m with eiithu<-iism. After a mountebank display i-i tins hn j ma le by him on a recent Sunday evening, they stood up and lute the c mich without wai'ing for the benediction.

The Catholics in Shettlcston arc triumphing over the election for the first time of a member of their b >dy to the School Board. i/Jr. E. Murray, the gentleman m question, headed the poll by a large majority.