It is very generally believed that the proper way to bathe is to take a header into the sea, or, at least to immerse the whole body immediately. Theoretically this may be done so far as the most vigorous organisms are concerned, but it must not be forgotten that a man may be perfectly healthy and yet not endowed with sufficient latent energy to recover quickly from the " shock " which must in all cases be inflicted on the nerve centres by suddenly plunging the whole surface of the of the skin, with its terminal nervous twigs, into a cold bath. For a time, at least, the central activity must be reduced in force, if not iv form. When, therefore, a man plunges, and immediately after strikes out to swim, it is not only possible but prob able that he may become exhausted, and fail from depression of energy with cramp. It is important that this should be noticad. We do not think sufficient attention has yet been given to this cause of " accident " in bathing. Cases of exhaustion from remain ing too long in thy water with a full stomach are understood. That to which we have adverted is not recognised. — Lancet:

In reference to the peach tree disease, and the use of brass nails referred to by Mr Drew at a meeting of the Progress and In dustrial Association, the N.Z. Farmer, Bee and Poultry Journal, says : — We are sorry to have to say anything calculated to check a promised spurt in the colonial demand for brass and copper nails, but if it be true, as stated, that many people are deluding them selves with the notion that they can make their peach trees healthy by sticking brass nails into them, we must really tell them that such an idea is sheer nonsense. Mr Drew apparently did not say — perhaps he did not know — what else the local gardener had done to the peach trees besides studding them with brass nails. It is strange what bad logic is sufficient to convince some people. The fact that some peach trees were sick and, alter their owner had adorned them with some brass nails, became healthy again, is accepted as proof positive that the nails effected the cure. 