EXTRACTS FROM LONDON PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 658, 27 November 1874, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM LONDON PAPERS.

A fee of 150,000 dollars, has just been received by an American surgeon for removing a wen. The operation w.s performed with electric knives. At Berne a man, who it seems bad been crossed in love, attempted to commit suicide choosing the extraordinary means of jumping into a bear-den. He was rescued with difficulty. Some houses in Clare Market, London, were recently found to be in such a dangerous state that the occupants, who ran out ou the first alarm, were not allowed to return for their goods. They are now in course of demolition.

A publican at Leeds has been fined for refus : ng to close his house during the time there was small pox in it. In Sweden gardening forms a part of the educational curriculum. Upwards of 2,000 schools have gardens attached to them. It m said Jtlrat ex-Marsh»l Bazainu has taken the apartments formerly occupied by the late Emperor Napoleon 111, in King Street, St. James’s London. At Wands vorth a butcher has been fined for kissing a barmaid, the magistrate distinguishing between a kiss on the hand, which was allowable, and one on the lips, which was not.

Cremation is to be immediately adop'fd in Vienna. Tho authorities expect to make a great saving as well as benefit the pul • He health. The annual mortality of Vienna is about 20,000.

The Thames is said to be rapidly drying up. At Richmond, the present high-water mark is lower than the low-water mark of two years ago. It is supposed that the Embankment, by easing the outpoor below Westminster, has drained the upper parts of the stream so far as it is unchecked by locks.

The Order of Foresters numbers half a million. 50,000 of whom have been initiated during the present year.

A curious phenomenon was reccnt’y caught at Wimborne, Dorsetshire a perfectly white sparrow, with pink eyes. Its brethren, doubtless shocked by such a tutus ntlurcc, had set upon the wretched bird, and were pecking it to death. An artist travelling in Greece fell into conversation with an Albanian peasant, who told him in all seriousness that women were bettor than donkeys for carrying burdens, hnt not so good as mules. The tallest, shortest, and stoutest M.lV g arc all Irish members. Mr O’Sullivan, the member for Limerick, is the tallest. Drogheda has sent the smallest man, DrO’Loary and the most bulky is The O’Gorman, member for Watcrfoid, who is said to be a stone heavier than the Claimant was.

The identity of the pilchards of Cornwall, with the sardines of France being now indispnted by naturalists, an establishment for preserving them in oil has been formed on a large scale at Mevagissey an 1 it is said that the Cornish sardines are fully equal in flavor to the fish imported from Franca or Spain.

Dr. Hooker’s beef-stake eating plants are eolipsed by a tree which is said to exist in Madagascar, and which is so terribly carnivorous as to entrap men and beasts, catching them in its gigantic leaves and digesting them much in the same manner as the dionoea does the unlucky insects upon which it lives.

It is said that Dr Kenealy has bought an estate in Irel. nd, which'he intends to christen “ Tho Tic iborno Dole.”