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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 September 1880, Page 2

('{ all th-^ ep : demfcs which bare' ever appeared in Kuasia, diphtheria, on account if tie greatf mortality it causes, is the most destructive,The steel despatch vessel Iris has 1 broken down while on her trial trip in' the Channel, her engines have sue* cumbed to tlie' severe tests imposed upon them. The MuMicipal Statistical bureau of Herl : n announces that the population of that city at the erttf of 18V8 amounts to 1 081,330 persons, of whom 1 060,057 were civilians, ani 2l\llb military persons. Ostriches have lodjj been known to have digestions. Indeed, the digestion o f an Ostrich has passed into a proverb.Bub perhaps ttie' most wonderful collection of things ever found in the slomaeh of one of these nnimals was that discovered after the death on the fine fellow that lias been on exhibition 1 in Rome for m\ny months pasf. When Irs stomach w:is opened it was found 5 to contain four liir-je ptones, XI smaller ones, s; yen nails a neck-tie pin and' 13 copper c>!ns 14 beads, l^ Fp nch f'r.irn' t'.v.> small keys, 9 p'eoa* of a liau ■•ltii'i-chiet', a stiver m-'dal of '.he P>!>^- '•'"'' the ero-^s df^ a 1 luluti On!d'.- Enr pean Mail. A cot re-'-jioudeut of the Cbieigo Tribune writios; from tbe Dalrymple" 1 farm, says ." Jais*-. tkiuk of a sea oft'

wbe .t «««M'oiog t»e«*f «Hiaw ailei. — 13,<MW acres— rWi, rip*. %<*&** % th * winds rippiiog otfir ifc Aa far aa the eye can see Uie*e w Ifce «aw« golden suns t bue. Far away oa tbe horizon, s you beholb an army sweeping along In grand procession. Riding on to meet it you see a major general oa borse-baek —the Btipwittteadent ; two brigadiers on horseback— paassr*. No swords fi :.sh ia theßatilighfc, but there weapons are monkey wrenches and hammer*. No brass band or drum beat or shrill note of the fife, bub the army moves on— a solid phaians of twenty-four falf-binding reapers —to the music of its own machinery. At one sweep in t twinkling, a swath of 192 feet has been cut and bound— the reaper tossitt? the bundles almost disd iio ful'y into the a'r — each b nder doing the « work of six mea. In all 115 selfbinding reapers are engaged at the work During the harvest about 400 men ore employed and during thrashing 900.