GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 157, 12 November 1872, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

)out 300 tons of ston * fr° ra Paxton’s claim, dopt fambaroora, averaged 10 oz. to the ton. com- At Callington, Cornwall, a volunteer named and &° severe w^ s s^ot d ea d whilst marking for fight >° me recru^s were practising at the the c utts * ; ■ s * , a of At Eaglehawk, Victoria, a gay Lothario le of who was serenading his lady-love, fell into a anri tank of water while singing, whereat the lady from oearly died of laughter? 3 unit- At Stawell, Victoria,, three repentant topers spoiled an Egyptian by .borrowing from a nain pelican 7s. fid. to pay their entrance fees S3 _j into a lodge of Good Templaris. Several bird-merchants in Paris, unable to bers demonstrate to their parrots the, impropriety Jex- now “ Five I’ Empereur /” have yino sent a consignment of the rebels to Brazil. • s 0 f The police have discovered an extensive ffect factory of spurious coin on the premises of a ition blacksmith named Hewitt, at Shoalhaven, hat K-S-’W. Hewitt has been committed for cted trial. trict The Melbourne Telegraph says : —“ We tup' am likely to have a summer of unusual heat, eto such a summer as that of 1862 was, when, [• re . after the sun had set in flames, every part of t at the horizon was lit with bush tires.” hen A man named Flynn, who was sentenced pre- to be hanged for a murder he committed at t e <] Oldham, died in Manchester Gaol, having is. ’ literally starved himself to death. Force had been used in order to get him to take food, but without effect. ” The Theatre Royal, at the Thames, had a narrow escape from being burnt down a few Ison nights ago. A large chandelier, bearing twelve kerosene lamps, fell to the ground. The is- S"t' r ignited, but the fire -was extinguished, el e . though with great difficulty. ;* e l Here is the formal notification from a ; i Sandhurst newspaper : —“ ] hereby give noanu tice that I will not be responsible for any ,f a debts that my husband, Thomas Green Pickles j nff (brother of George Pickles, coacbbuilder,) ical m y contra ct from this date. Mrs W. M. e | o Robson, late Mrs Pickles.” Poor Pickles ! itfi. At the ceremony of the opening of the new ers - Aquarium at Brighton, Air Frank Buckland ,| 0 produced from his pocket his promised pre er y lent to the Aquarium, a diminutive alligator, on, confined in a cigar-box, which the vice-chair-ake man had sent a waggon and six horses to the j n railway for, under the impression that it was on a veritable monster of the deep. p a . At a recent meeting of the Islington Guaral. dians, it transpired that the master of the p] le district workhouse has discovered an easy lite method of settling whether a person is drunk f a or sober. The master’s plan is to require any t] ie over-festive pauper to say “Truly rural”; p er and if he cannot he pronounces him to be ■ic : drunk. The guardians have sanctioned this me _ nit The Chinese population of San Francisco :le, have declared for Greeley and Brown, by t er virtue of an autograph letter from the pbiloue- sopher, which has been imposed upon the 'he priest at the Joss-house as an invocation to ter one of the heathen deities in the original he Chinese cbirography. The document was rs, mere lv a dissertation upon the adaptability ,tic tule lands to the cultivation of plug gif tobacco. 0 f The aristocracy of England are becoming ,ey the religious teachers of the people. There in- * seven or eight peers of the realm who go ;H aMt preaching the Gospel to the poor. ) Eaxl Dalhousie preached lately in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, to an audience of te.’ more than two thousand persons. The AlarVlr quis of Lome was to follow on the following las Sunday. Lord Radstock and the Earl of ve Shaftesbury are of the number, and Sir lar Roundell Palmer is a regular Sunday-chool 'or teacher. iis The Cincinnati Lancet and Observer says : lis ~on the 21st of August, Mrs Timothy Bradral fee, of Trumbull county, Ohio, gave birth to ur e '?ht children—three hoys and five girls. >te They an* all living, and are healthy, hut quite ct- small. Mr Bradlee was married six years ns ago to Eunice Alowery, who weighed two nd hundred and seventy-three pounds on the <iay of her marriage. She has given birth to p. two pairs of twins, and now eight more, makhe ing twelve children in six years. Airs Bradad fee was a triplet, her father and mother both r; being twins, and her grandmother the mother ed of five pairs of twins. n . Two years ago, says F. Barillet, one of my ig fiends who was suffering from toothache, lit thought he would try the effect of cutting a piece of the stem of the Araucaria imbracata, taking some of the sap (resin—which has the appearance of a white paste, and which is impact,) making a little ball of it, and places if in the hollow of his tooth. Some hours >d "forwards the pain ceased, and the substance, ag "hich still remained in the tooth, answered all the purposes of the best stopping. Since that time, the sap (resin) has become very hard ; it has never moved, and my friend has never since experienced the least pain. Of all the hotels in the world, the oddest is a lonely one in California, on the road beween San Jose and Santa Cruz. Imagine I ten immense trees standing a few feet apart ■ and hollow inside ; these are the hotel, neat, rcezy, and romantic. The largest tree is feet round, and contains a sitting•too wi’.’-id that bureau of Bacchus wherefrom , Pfm—jt.gnsed the thing that biteth and stingeth - All about the tree is a garden of flowers and evergreens. The drawing-room is a bower jnade of red wood, evergreens, and madrona Branches. For bedchambers, there are nine great hollow trees, whitewashed or papered, and having doors cut to fit the shape of the , • Literature finds a place in a leaning stump, dubbed the “ library. ” If it were riot * ? r , th f fc same haunt of Bacchus, it is certain ’ 1 i? f e g uests pf th i ß forest establishment, onld feel like nothing so much as dryads.