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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 July 1880, Page 2

'"-^^"-^-■»--------^-»--_■H>j-»__W-_^_^------^~- , '^^^^ ''^"^^ K. RudolfU rcpor's, in the Gazzetta Medica Italiana, the fo'lowing obseivation made on himself. Being seized with a severe coryza, he happened to chew oneor two twigs of the eucalyptus, at the same tine swallowing the saliva secreted, whi h hud a bitter and aromatic flavor. To his surprise he found that in the courso of bal f-an hour the nasal catarrh bad disappeared. Some days latet he was seized with another attack from a fresh exposure io cold, when the same treatment was followed by an equally fortunate result. He then prescribed tho remedy to several of his'patients, all of whom were benefited in the same way. He believe that tbis treatment is only suitable in acute ca?es.— British Medical Journal. Lawyer's wigs are relics of the past — and it was h'gh time they were abolished. The American Courts give sound decisions without the aid of wigs In New Zealand wig? are everywhere. Not only must advocates appear with a white frizzly head gear in the Supreme Court, but even District Court Judges wish lawyers to appear " properly clothed" One of the ablest Judges New Zealand ever had, tbe late Wilson Gray, never wore a wig, and never a?ked lawyers to wear either wig or gown when he sat on the bench s but alas! there are few Wilson Grays. I One gentleman recently admitted to the bar, J asd recently appointed a District Jud«e (Mr Hardcastle), thought ho ought to don the legal paraphernalia, and hence he sent through a bookseller for a wig. The wig enme, but it was old fashioned, and the District Judge refused to pay £2 10s, part of the cost. We hope the new Commission on J udicinl Reform will recommend the abolition of wigs. Fancy a District Jud?e and a bar hearing a trumprry case, perhaps with no law points in it, dressed in wigs, gowns, and bands. Abolish such foolery. Mr Hardcastle please follow Wilson Gray's example and give your " old fashion " wig to the Wanganui Museum.— Dunedin Echo. On a recent melancholy event a contributor to the Timaru Herald thus moralises s— The dork curtain fell the other day on the drama of a human life in Dunedm, under circumstances " too terrible for tears." An educated professional man, over whose head some sixty winters had passed, finds himself infirm rheumatic, and hopeless, and sees no refuge before him but the grave of the suicide, and in dark despair, he rushes into that refuge. No home, no food, no prospect ! lt is shocking to picture the misery, the remorse for misprint time, the fixed despair through which that poor soul passed before the closing scene of tho tragedy. The narrative furnishes a sad pag*» of our colonial history, and reveals to us something of tbe misery in which hundreds of. our fellowcolonists in this fair land exist. "No food !" the phrase is a terrible echo of the cry that wails bo pitifully in the old lands, but which we hnd hoped never to hear in the new. In the course of lecture at Hamilton, Ohio, Mr. Proctor writes in the follbwing satirical manner from Piqua: I began to recognise one serious difficulty in Sacmann's theory that all the waters of this earth wiil one day be soaked' up within |tho interior of the earth. The difficulty was suggested by lhe spitting which went on, with greater or less energy, throughout my lecture, but especially when tbe room was darkened. This was an entirely new experience to me, though I cannot endoree Mr. Sala's statement that there is less spitting now than there used to ba (out west, at any rato). I reasoned in this wise, though I did not bring these views before my audience. Let ua suppose— it seems a moderate computation — that the moisture extruded in this un pleasing way in Ohio would, if uniformly distributed, correflpond to tbe addition of a film of moisture no thicker than a postal card over the entire State. And as in the course of my lecture, I had occasion to.lpeak of the earth's future during 2,500,000,000 of years it. would seem to follow (dreadful thoucht !) that the sea may rise over Ohio and neighbouring States of equal salivary potentiality to a height of nearly 200 miles ! Noah's flood was nothing to this. Tbe effect of the proposed Representation Bill in ita present state recently, says the Lyttelton Times, would be to give Canterbury three or four additional members, Otago four more, Nelson two or thrpe less, Taraanaki one lessor and Auckland also probably one less. The Bill affects many districts in which Government has supporter?, and it is said that they 'find it impossible to reconcile the differences among them, as to the rearrangement of electoral boundaries. The brothers Forrest, during tbeir reoent expedition aorosß the Australian comment, from Perth to Port Darwin, met with a race of blacks Wiho are said never to have seen or even beardHof whito men before They are described as fine, big well-built men, but cannibals. .No women were seen by the travellers, -though several parties of the same tribe of natives were met by the expedition. The men ifdopt an ingenious mo;le of fishing in the rij^rs, which teem with fish. They build a .'series of dams across the stream, leaving a' gap in eac k» at which one native stations bimse'f with a net made of grass, and cptpbes the fish as frightened from tbe pools by ftHe other natives throwing in stoi c etc., they try to escape. The natives did not attempt to molest the travellers.