ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 574, 18 April 1873, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

—o— Noble work was done by the staff and boats'of the National Lifeboat Institution dining 1572, no fewer than 735 lives have been saved by them froui a watery grave. Another .audmark of eld London is to be pulled down —Harm way Coffee House - where the use of tea was first popularised, once the head quarters of speculators in the South Sea Bubble, and famousfor the “inch of candle” auction sales. The proprietors of tho Daily Telegraph have offered to send out to Assyria, at an expense of one thousand guineas, for six months, Mr. George Smith, the decipherer of the tablets which have lately caused so much interest in the antiquarian and literary world. Both the Trustees and the Lords of the Treasury, with whom they communicated, have cordially accepted the proposal, and an Assyrian expedition is in course of equipment, the results of which are eagerly anticipated in many quarters. Paris possesses a living microscope in the shape of a little gamin, who can discern animalcuhe in water when invisible to the naked eye of others. The Boy makes a drawing of what he professes to see, and on the application of a microscope his drawings are found to be correct in every particular. Tn a case that came before the county magistrates at Winborne, Dorsetshire, it transpired that a man, a grown-up son, and two grown-up daughters habitually slept in one bed, and that one of the girls had had three children by her own father. -Arrangements have been made for giving all the agricultural laborers locked out in Dorset, Essex, and Hereford, and [who are under fifty years of age, one hundred acres each of land in tho Brazilian Colonics. They will be supplied with a house and stock in trade, implements, &c., by the Government, and will be maintained for six months, till their first crops are gathered. The Earl of Dumnors has notified to his tenantry his intention of making a reduction of ten per rent, in their rents, in consequence of the bad harvest last year. Arnold lady gave this as her idea of a great man: -“One who is keerful of his clothes, don’t drink spirits, ken rcyd without spelling the words, and eat a cold dinner on wash day withoufgruinb’ing.” A child in a western city lately fell into a tub of scalding water, and a local paper isayi that “altogether instaatly snatched up by the agonised father, she lay in a stupor till death took her to where scalding water is vnknowr.” The farmer plants his seed, and, while ho s sleep!n r, his corn and potatoes are growng. So with advertising. While you aro sleeping, creating, or conversing with ono set of customers your advertisement is being read by hundreds and thousan Is of persons who never saw you or heard of your business nor ever would had it not been for your advertisement appearing in tho papers.— Dr: John Campbell. ... “ Man wants but little here ho!ow,’ nor wants that little long” is a liberal ; man wants everything he can see, or hear ov, and never is willing to let go of his grab. Whenever yu find a man who is thoroughly satisfied with what hohaz got, yu will find either an edict or one who haz tried hard to get some more and couldn’t do it. The older •a man grows the more wantful ho bekuras; as biz hold on life slackens, hiz pinch on a dollar grows gtippy. —Josh Ridings. A terrible disaster occurred at Lichfield lately. Tho house of a watchmaker named Cnrlield took fire, and the firemen, thinking that tho inmates had escaped, made no effort to enter tho building. When the flames had subsided it was found that the whole family had been suffocated, Mr. and Mis. Cm field, aged 42 and 36 respectively, four little children, tho oldest only six y'ars old, and Mrs. Cm field’s mother, who was Bj, The Birmingham A r ews relates an exciting story of tho disappearance, under very extraordinary circumstances, of a bridegroom Some time ago a young clergyman took a curacy in a village not lav from Stafford, and in a short time fell in love with the daughter of an attendant at the church—a gentleman who lived at a neighbouring mansion, a country magistrate, and an exhigh sheriff of Staffordshire.' After a little time the curate proposed for tho hand of the lady. Inquiries were made which resulted in the fact being ascertained that the revered gentleman came of agood Scotch family, was well connected had some fortune and was waiting for a promised living. Under theso circumstance he was accepted and two years ago became engaged, his fiance being then a charming girl 17 years of age. The weddingday was fixed for Thursday last at tho "village church tho incumbent undertaking to unite tho young couple. Preparations oa a magnificent scale were made the bridal dross was prepared tho cako, tho breakfast and blooming bridesmaids —all wore ready. The bridegroom’s nne’e aud brother time down to be present at tho ceremony. The villages decorated the house and the church and even the streets. The presents were arranged in the drawing-room. On Wednesday evening the bridegroom visited his betrothed, who pub on her wedding dress to see how she looked in it. Her lover asked her as if in anticipation of coming events, “What should you say if I wore to ran away and not come tomorrow morning. In her innocence and faith sho only laughed the morrow came, the bride and her maids, were betimes, and the process of dressing was gone through. The carriages arrived, and the party were in the act of entering them when a note was delivered to tho bride. She opened it and read it and fell hack fainting in the arms of a friend. Tho missive contained tho astounding intelligence that tho bridegroom—stricken down at tho last moment with a fit of Christian humility-felt ho was unworthy of his brido and could not therefore wed hor. Subsequentfinformation was- to the effect that the rev,' gentleman lift "by the midnight nwiffer Glasgow, ■ . . « • j