THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 12 March 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880.

We congratulate our Boatman's friends tipon the vevm enticing little programme they have been able to put forth for their opening tneet. The stakes are suffleien'ly large 'o attract numerous fields, and as the different events will be! open to district horses only, there is no doujrt they will be honestly contested, and we may look fop a really esciting ftnd interesting! day's amusement. The ppot Chosen for the course, on Mr M'Ginley's farm, is one of the prettiest rural situations la the Inangahua, and should the weathe but hold good, ire shall be surprised if the attendance does not approach to that of oui annual meeting. ■ In connection pith th<* petition of the Comiilittee of the Abhuiu Convert* School, for COtnpensatiO'i on account of damnj?- done u> the property by construction of iipproachci to the Ahaura bridge, the C'omnsittefi o f -he House lave r4oHed pb «o!'ow^ ;-• It , - p---psots fro v. ■•';in eii-ienoc Uiken by die Committee that th" petitiocei-3 have sustained 6Heh damage, but the amount of such damoge ia a matter to be nquired into imd >lealt with bj the Governmeit in the usual v/iy.' His Honor Judges Westoa arrived by coach yesterday eVeningl and the sitting of th.c District Court will open at 10 o'clock this

Th*e Minister of Public Works, with Mr R. Beeves, will reach Eeefton this afternoon. The County Chairman, with other members of the Council, will meet Mr Oliver and escort him into town and in the eveniug the Minister will be entertained at a banquet. A writer in Soribner's Monthly draws a contrast which is true iv the main, but overstrained. He says :— American manufac* turers of farm tools shape them in guoh a way as to do the work with the least physical labor. The English manufacturer, on the other hand, has a pride in making everything substantial, heavy and solid, without any regard to the weight or strength needed. Why, there is more wood and iron in an English iarm cart than would make two American carts, and yet, with their superb roads, they load theirs, no heavier than we do ours. An English manure fork is of the same size and pattern it was half a century ag0 — a square, rough thing, shouldered near the pomt — cnlling for the greatest amount of force in loadin? or unloading, The \ meriean fork is a round, polished thing, tapering gradually from the point to ths base, and calling for the least power. The weight of an English plough is at least three times that of ours, and its length aboat twice, and yet it takes neither wider or deeper furrow slices j than our best ploughs. In fact, one pair of j horses attached to one of our best pattern ploughs will do from a third to a half more worfe in the same number of hours than an English farmer with his long unwieldy pattern, that is out of all proportion, both in length and weight, to the work it is intended for. Thß same is true of the English harrows, cultivators, and all of the implements I found in common use for turning or cultivating the soil. The ordinary wooden hand rake is a clumsy, heayy thing, having from a third to a half more wood than is actually necessary. The human ear is sometimes attacked by a disease which shows itself in the form of a running sore ; in many cases the tympanum is destroyed and hearing lost'before the nature of the malady is discovered. The disease is , due to the growth of a microscopic plant or fungus of the 'Aspergill' family. If; especially thrives when, from any cause the secretion of wax in tha ear is stopped or hindered. The microscope is a valuable assistant in the discovery of the fungus. Consumption the moat disastrous malady that afflicts humanity, is now said to be caused by a yeast plant that flourishes in the blood. The presence of this fungus in the blood is readily shown by the microscope and now forms the subject of careful study amonsr physicians. Dr Ephraim Ciittea, M. I)., of Boston, Mass., has devoted much labor to this subject, and, we understand, has recently produced miorophotograpba of the fungus with Tolles' remarkable 1.75 objectiTe.' We believe that Dr James, H. Salisbury, of Cleveland, Ohio, was amongst the earliest to detect and describe this curious yeast plant of the blood. — Se<entifie American. • / To those who delight to dwell on the hor . rible and terrible, last year will be remembered as that In which a great fire occurred at Serajevo, and floods in Spain and Hungary. The year, too, has closed with two sad catastrophes — the calamity which occurred on the t 'fay Bridge on Sunclav, by which during a , violent storm the mail train was precipitated, • with about 100 passengers, into the river, and . the wreck of Borussia, by wbich it is believed 170 lives have been lost. The frightful explosion in a colliery at Dunas, by which 60 persons were killed, and the explosion on board the Thunderer will not be forgotten. Murders do not diminish, and the year will be remembered as that on which Charles Peace, the notorious burglar, met the fate which be so well merited, for the murder of Mr i-yason. The 'Barnes My*terv," in which Ente Webster murdered a ladr, in whose service she was. at Richmond, will also huve due prominence in the minds of those who seem to revel in the history of such crimes, by whom also the ' Euston Square Mystery ' in wliieb the body of a lady named Hacker was found in a cellar, will be borne in mind.