ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 619, 27 February 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Four hundred and thirty three naughty pauper boys, calculates the Fall Mall Gazette, have been whipped,during ' the' past six months.

One of th* much admired workman’s iron ho uses at the Vienna Exhibition hss been sent to the Gold Coast as a hospi-

It is stated that Mr. John Walter, the proprietor of the London Times', has once more refused aibaroHetey. A cheerful volume is in course of preparation at Paris. The daily registers of the Morgue,_iu which the “ sensational ’’ information about the bodies exposed there, is carefully written, are being collected and bound in volumes, and they will be placed for the benefit of the lovers of tragedy in the National Library. , r , The largest break at billiards on record, certainly deserves 'notice. It was made recently in an “ exhibition match'" by Cook (the Champion), when he scored 930.

An American named Jefferson, ’ has become a first class billiard player, he uses his nose insted of a cue. This beats M. Tyar’e performance with his. thumb and finger.

The wardrobe of a fashionableNeW York poodle usually costs over 31.

Three live mammoths have been discovered by a Russian in ;Northern Siberia. Gas engines are now being used extensively in.the'iiiDhon weaving, trade at Coventry. They are-mainly . employed to do the work of small boys. 1 WhfiDUked to turn machinery to which it apply steam power. tt-, 0 r r

A young Marsellais* recently chose’ft curious r.ode of; suicide by swallowing pins. She only succeeded in making herself ill, and was taken to ahospital, where, after two hundred and fifty Lad been extracted, she was considered to he in a fair way to recovery.

Well, eggs is eggs nowadays. What In the name (if wonder -would [they be if we had not fureigh supplies ?. Up to', the end of “ chill November ” —which was not particularly chill this’year— we received from abroad—how many do you think ? (129,932, 560, and we paid for themJ2,250,98H. Why don’t you people who have the cb&nce of keeping hens take a wrinkle from these saatistics!

At Plymouth an actor was-’lately summoned for.assault-hy an actress,who complained that while she was) dying in his arms upon'the stage he pinched her severely in the side. The witnesses on one side contended that undue was used, ami on the other that the actor's conduct was necessary to conceal the lady’s had acting. The summons waspltimateiy dismissed.

An old Parisian mendicant was recently noticed to manifest apparent caprice in selecting the objects for his importunity. He would allow a number of persons to pass unheeded, and then attach himself to others and take no denial. A bribe of half a franc from a curious spectator induced him to give his reason. “ 1 have a code of rules, which [ invariably follow," said he. “ Thus 1 never ask alms of ‘ one who has dined.’ as rotiblf renders a man selfish, nor of ‘stout men,’ as it bores them to stop, nor of any one putting on their gloves, nor of a lady alone, hut always of any ono manifestly going to dinner, of people walking together, as their amour propre make them generous, of officers in grand uni forms, amt of people apparently seeking favor from the government- they think that a gift will bring them luck. “ By the visitation of God.’’-This verdict, so rarely heard of nowadays, was the result ot the coroner’s inquest on,the body of Mr. B, Hawkes. who idled suddenly while addressing a spiritist asfembly in the Birmingham Athenaeum. He had spoken for half an hour, recounting his experiences at a seance, at which he said that the Apostle Peter had grasped his hand. This, he argned, made it quite’possihle to understand how Thomas of Didymns had thrust his hand into the [side of “ the Personification of Divine Love.” The instant he , had uttere 1 rhrse words lie fell back dead, and the meeting broke up in “ wild confusion.” The surgeon who, made the postmortem examination thought that death n suited from congestion of the lungs, but one can hardly wonder at the verdict if we regard it as an expression of the indignation which must he felt fiy all Christians at the blasphemous liberties which have recently been taken by Spiritualistic mediems.