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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 265, 27 October 1874, Page 7

Bather an amusing typographical error occurs in the Sydney Townand Country.Journal. In a large heading to the report of the recent boat-race appears—lntercolonial Pig Race. A lady in Grey mouth is reported by the Star to have engaged one of the new arrivals as a general servant, who, the first day at dinner, sent up the potatoes in their skins. The mistress explained to the help that she would need to conform to the customs of the country, arid peel the vegetables before boiling, but to the lady's great surprise her servant exclaimed—"Spile the pratees! is it ? Never—l'd lave first." And she was as good as her word. A special Berlin letter of 17th March, published in the London.Ne.ws of the 21st ultimo, contains the following announcement : "Miss D. Heenan, the sister of the wellknown American boxer, died some davs ago in Berlin,, literally of suffocation. She was undoubtedly one of the most corpulent women in the world, and had been for some tjme exhibiting her not uncomely and her all too solid mass of flesh to an admiring Berlin public, together w}th a .selection ffom the nilver cups-and other presents received by her from enthusiastic, citizens, and crowned heads during the.course of her travels, when, almost without any' previous warning, the noor lady's"career was cut shortin the way I