ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 666, 22 January 1875, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Thirty-eight ladies are discharging the duties of clergymen of various denominations in the United States. Some time since the Lead Mayor of London publicly laid down the dictum that if people wanted to commit assault and battery they might do so in their own private houses. Mr Ingham, the Hammersmith stipendiary, and Mr Alderman Allen have now supplemented this extraordinary advice with two very startling suggestions, the one being that when the police hear people quarrelling they should allow them to break each other’s heads, and then take them into custody, and the other that they should summarily punish persons who use offensive language in the streets by soundly thrashing them with their belts. If these suggestions areacted upon by “ our protectors,” London will soon become a pleasant place to live in. Two cases of swindling by the “ confidence dodge ” have keen lately before the magistrates. The trick Consists in persuading the dupe to show his confidence by handing over his purse to the care of the sharper, who forthwith makes off. In one case 5001.. and in the other COOL had been thus foolishly parted with, and, wonderful as it may seem, one of the victims was a Yankee.

A warning to Doctors is issued by the San Francisco News Letter, which announces its intention in future of publishing after each death notice the name of the attending physician. The captain of a Portsmouth vessel has been sent to prison in default of paying a fine of 5,9971., being treble the duty and value of a quantity of smuggled tobacco.

At Musselburgh a lad has been prosecuted for whistling in the street in the presence of the Provost. The Bench had no doubt that he had committed a breach of the peace, but let him off with a caution.

“ Corpse Burning Association, Limited,” is the designation of a Company formed in Dresden for tho purpose of furthering cremation. The movement, according to the Continental Herald, has an economical as well as a social aspect, for the amount of fuel necessary for one operation only costs 4s 6d. Dresden, indeed, is taking greatly to the movement, and “ The Corpse Burning Polka,” with an appropriate froutispiece, is the last piece of musical composition in the shops of tho bchloss Strasse.

A wager, attended with somewhat unpleasant consequences, was lately made at Eton. An Etonian undertook to swallow a certain number of eggs and rolls in a specifisd time, and accomplished his object, but has been dangerously ill ever since. Dr L'vingstone’a camp equipment was lately sold by auction, and produced a total of L2B 4s. The highest prices were LS 10s for the late traveller’s fowling piece, and L 5 10s for his pocket filter and cup, while a lot of five air pillows, gaiters, and one black glove fetched L 4, and a couple of eggcups sold for 17s.

Holloway’s Pills and Ointment— The most effectual cure for Gout and Rheumatism. A frequent cause of these complaints is in the inflammatory state of the blood, which usually attends bad digestion, producing lassitude and great debility, thereby indicating the want of a proper circulation of that fluid, and the impurity of tho blood thus induced greatly aggravates these disorders. Holloway’s Pills are of so purifying a nature that a dose taken in time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism, but whoever may have an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the searching properties of whmh, combined with thq effects of the Pills, ensures a certain cure. The Dint meut should, at least twice a day throughly bernbhel into the parts affected after they have been sufficiently fomented with warm water to open the pores, thereby facilitating the introduction of the Ointment to th* glands,