MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 166, 14 January 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

The sewers of Glasgow discharge a volume of water only one-third less than the Clyde itself. The late Bishop Goss of Liverpool stood six feet three inches, and weighed twenty stone. It was necessary to make his coffin of the unusual dimensions of six feet five inches in length, and two feet in depth. M. Joigneray, an athlete of prodigious strength, has been performing at the FolicsBerge're, Paris. Amongst other exercises, being suspended by his feet from a trapeze, he lifted from the ground a horse by the mere force of his wris's. A remarkable engineering feat is in progress in South America, viz., the crossing of the Andes by the Lima and Oroya railway. The mountains will be tunnelled at a height of 15,000 ft., the tunnel being 3000 ft. long. The workmen are Choles Indians, no other men being capable of enduring the rarified atmosphere. A writer in an Australian paper says : "They are a primitive and old-fashioned people in the rural districts of Tasmania. I noticed a report of a ploughing match the other day. _ There was considerable excitement, as might be naturally expected, over so stirring an event. One man won, of course, but the splendour of his victory is slightly dimmed by the local journal, which icords that the other competitors had only wooden ploughs. The conqueror boasts the only iron implement of that kind in the district. But even that does not carry us backso marly to the dark ages as what is reported t) have been seen on a German farm in South Australia : the wife yoked to the plough and the husband between the stilts." October 14th witnessed the overthrow, at a Cumberland and Westmoreland (or fairhold) wrestling tournament, held at the Edinburh Gymnasium, of the hitherto invincible Dick Wright, of Longtown, who with his friend, associate, aim 1 sometimes rival, W. .Jameson, has during the past few years taken the all-weight champion prizes at the leading meetings both in the north of England and at the annual London gathering. So great, ;i few years back, was the fear entertained ammg other wrestlers for Wright and Jameson, that to got numerous entries in the allweight competitions at Girl isle, Newcastle, Dundee, and London, these two great border champions were debarred from entering. In tin: linal falls for the all-weight prize at Edhv burgh, \V. Blair, of Solporfcmains, throw 11. Wright, of Longtown, in the li'.-st and third bouts, and was officially declare;! the winner, So passes away the glory of the wrestling world.