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does to a pond. I don't believe one word of it myself, Hut my friend says it i 9 gospel true, and she knows the female-male. Michael Power, a boundary rider on Keilarabete station, n**ar Teiang, recently skinned a bullock supposed to have di«*d from pleuro. After the operation had been successfully performed. Power washed his hands roughly and proceeded about some other work. During the day he apparently scratched his face, which was a little sore, with his finger, and in a little time his fac« began to swell, and symptom as of blood poisoning flet in, and the unfortunate voim-. man died, after having; re named f<<> some days in an jnconscious state. A sorrowful circumstance connected with the untimely death is (says a Victorian paper) that young Power was engaged to We married at Easter, and was making all arrangements for the event. During the past fortnight ttry large numbers of parroqnets have made their appearance in various parts of th.' Ashburton district, and hnv« ho*.making raids on the gardens, in many instances destroying large quantities of fruit. Thp strangers appear unusually tame but nnviM-tiJ'-U-SH 'l:<'i!.v £i.-vat cunning in evading the fruit gardens. OiiHgentlenmi who owns • large fruit garden near the town of Ashbnrton kilM durini* la3t w^k upwards of 150 parroqupts. O;u reason assigned for ths unusual mini bera of parroqm-ts to ] <? «" "i down the plains is a scarcity of berries and other food in the bush districts. The fascination of ballooning is •<«ays the "N»*v York Times") akin to that of gambling. There is a glorious uncertainty whether the aeronaut will come back to be fet*d and qui2zed by men of science, or whether many sorts of unpleasan things will happen to him. Colonel Bumaby toolc his life in hi* hands when, alone au amateur, he set out from Dover in 1882 to cross thr> Channel. It was a glorious risk, and the result was a great prize, a portion of immortality which the gallant officer could scarcely have achieved by even a battle or another " Ride t" Kbiva." That the risk was very real oan be readily imagined and repeatedly «hown by precedents. Im 1^ 7 -t Donaldson and Griuiwood ascended. A month later Grimwood's mangled body was found with a melancholy joke about his having at last risen i the world. In 1879 Professor Wise *nd on« Burr went np to the Path finder to test a theory about an eastern current. It was a costly wav of finding out which way the wind blew. Burr's body was found on the shore of Lake Michigan, but the Professor* fate is yet uncertain. At an ascension in South America the gns bag burst into flames thousands of feet above tlv horrified spectators, and the aeronauts did not survive to t«ll how the flames started. Equally fatal and far more thrilling was the ascent of Ciptait» Sivel, Croce Spinelli, and G-asto > Tissandier. They set out 'n tlv Zenith in 1875 to rival Captain Glaisher's reported altitude of 1 1,000 yards. At about five mile 3 high two of them were suffocate!, Tissandier alone surviving. This is perhaps a demonstration of the limits where lift <san 1>« sustained. The voyage of La Vidouvillais in 1883 was also singuLr. It escaped from its fastenings and soared four miles high, with McMl--. Albertine fainting in the car and M. <iratien swingiug below, caught merely by a loop of rope around two fingers Btra*«gely enough, they both came <lown safely. Shortly before an American captive balloon escaped, carrying a gymnast clad in tights and -cliuging to life solely by the grip of hi* fingers. In an hour he was carried sixty miles, and cama down safely. Not less testifying was Mark Quintan's experience in Boston in 1878. He went up to test a flying machine. "When so high that the rarefied gas was beginning to burst its envelope, he sought to descend. To his horror the machine would not work He coolly tied his ankle to the framework, swung beneath it, tightened a loosened screw while dashing earthward at nearly railway speed, climbed back, started the apparatus, and escaped, as so bray© a man always should. Thf world's liiggpst balloon was probably that at tun Paris Exposition. Il •was 36 metres in diameter, 2400 in in volume, and was pulled down by a 300 horse power engine. The envelope was a half-inch thick, the total «ost was 500.000 francs, and it was *old for 800,000 francs, but it was burst l>y thtt wind, and was ■. ruin in twenty seconds. The blue-stockings of the city of Paris have lately endevored to disarm their journalistic critics by inviting them to dinner. The repast was a great success, as their guests report that bluestockings dress as elegantly and chat as pleasantly as those of black hose and white, an 3 that t'ley can sit down to a three hours dinner without asingle allusion to '• shop " The appearance of two stocking-shaped sweet dishes of blue satin was greeted with much mirth, and tbu former adversaries separated in the best of tempers. The first fruits of the entertainment were appreciative accounts from the ma « pens in tin* French papers of the dinner of the "azure" stockings ; but weather this hospitality will pat a stop to hostilities iv future does not yet appear. WHAT IS THIS DISEASE THAT 18 COViING UPON USP Like a thief at night it steals in upon an anawjres. Many per-oni have paini about the cb'Ht an i «i !•-«, ami •om^iime-i in th i btaofc. They it-el dull and sloppy ; the mouth tuw m bid CMtf, cap oitlly in 'ho morning 4 •ort of ft'eky olm.e colkcti about the t^eth, JZhf apperira U poor Imiit feeling like * %*q*j $—& * n t •tomach. i •ometimtt • tot tlfcfast MWitioji at tbo pit of tt*