ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 669, 12 February 1875, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

—o— Edinburgh proposes to creot a memorial to the lute Mr A'dam Black, the 1 publisher of the •’ Wuverley novels.” Shoals of herrings are visiting Calais in such abundance thus the bouts sink under their loads, and the fish'are sold at five for a half-penny. Paper manufactured from the refuse of the sugarcane is.ropbrted from Guada.oupe. Tuo paper is reported to be of excellent quality, thick, finegrained’, and witii a particular smooth surface.

A census of canaries has been taken in the United States by some enterprising ornithologist. These feathered songsters number 900,000, and of these 3 11 0,0U0 were imported last year. Other cage biros number about 100,000. The little songsters consume annually 475,000 bushels of seed.

The Leader is the title of a forthcoming London weekly. The price will be twopence. Mr Compton lleado and Mr S. Phillips Day will be the joint literary and art edico.s.

“ The latest Irish fashion in head gear,” says the facetious San Francisco News Letter, “is a Home Hide bonnet, it lias no crown.”

Following the example of the Japanese, the Chinese propose to send a number t.f young Celestials to England to study physics, and the English language. A Prince,of high rank is now in England to select the best public school for the purpose.

“ Fasting girls ” have been common enough in Europe of late, but a dog in a trance is a nove’ty. This phenomenon is a Parisian spaniel which has been sleeping thirty-two days. At Leeds the owner of a travelling menagerie was charged with cruelty to some hyaenas by making them jump through hoops of fire which burnt off their hair. Tire magistrate said that he had no doubt that gross cruelty had been practised, but the law only applied to “ domestic ” animals, and therefore dismissed the ease.

At Petwortb, a signal-man employed on the London and Brighton Railway has been sentenced to two months'' imprisonment for drunkenness while on duty. He was found asleep in his box, the signals blocking the line when two trains were nearly due.

At Calstock, in Devonshire, about fifty persons have been poisoned and placed in imminent peril of their lives in consequence of some malicious person having put arsenic into a tank containing drinking water. The Rev Rees Prichard, a Minister of the Church of England, has been committed for trial at Bridgend on a charge of assault. The dispute arose at a shooting party, when it is alleged the defendant threatened to shoot the complainant if- he touched a hare which he claimad.

A real man and dog fight has just taken place at Coniaton. Adrunken fellow named Hall was found by a policeman lying on the gronml holding a young terrir, and worrying it with his teeth. The dog ran off as soon as released, and when found two days after was covered with wounds where he had been bitten. Hall was locked up and subsequently fined 10s. for the assault, and 10s. for drunkenness. At the Preston Sessions a man was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labor for heating his wife. A sympathising friend was line 1 51. for declaring in Court that the se iteuce was a “ sin aud a shame.”

A Liverpool policeman has been committed for trial for stealing 64d. from a beggar boy, whom he persuaded to give up the money by threatening to put him into prison.

AClergymm, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery on the Cheque Bank, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. Devotion to science has been carried to an alarming extent by a young Frenchman, who has recently issued the following strange advertisement ;—“A young man of twenty, healthy, and possessing a strong constitution, offers himself as a subject to a doctor or medical student. He is willing to undergo any kind of operation, even at the risk of its proving fatal, in payment of 200?., as he is in want of that sum to carry out a scientific experiment.” At Steeple Morden, in Cambridgeshire, a lad named Street shot his great uncle, an old man of seventy, and robbed him of 30?. }de then went to a village, a few miles off 1 , and while ea ing a hearty meal openly boasted of what be had done. He was, of coarse, taken into custody at once. A Sheffield Collier, having vainly tried to cure his wife of intemperance, summoned her for being drunk. The woman has kept quite sober ever since, and as she promised in Court never to get drunk again the summons has been withdrawn.

Some time ago a young clerk, named Sadler, while walking in the City with an acquaintance named Acworth, picked up a parcel of ten 1,00(1?. notes. Next day an advertisement appeared offerriug a reward of 100? for them, and the two friends agreed that Sadler, as the actual finder, shou’d have 00 1., and Acworth, who undertook to conduct the negociatious with the owner, 40 1. Mr Acworth, however, not only obtained the 100'., but 60?. in addition—3o? for himself amt 10?. for a Chapel with which he was conneete 1, but said nothing about the extra sum to Sadler, who, on discovering the fact, sued him for the 40?. Mr Commissioner Kerr very promptly decided in his favor, and advised the covetous Acworth to write up “ Thou shal’t not steal” in a conspicuous part in his chapel.

A Down East Yankee has recently ii-. vontod a rat exterminator, consisting of a sort of powder-snuff. The animal jerks his heal of at the third sneeze. A histrionic individual, who had heard a great deal about the “ theatre of war,” suggested that the back seats must bo very desirable.

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Goldsmiths’ Work. —The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by Mr. J. W. Benson, of No. 25, Old Bond-street, and of the City Steam Factory. 58 and 60 Ludgate-hill, London. It is enriched and embellished with design s, by Italian, Fren eh and English artistes, of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day. or other presents, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to Hilt.H. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet on the Itise and Progress of Watchmaking. These pamphlets are sent, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot le *oo strongly recommended to those eon tern pining a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require, and have forwarded in perfect safety.

Holloway’s Pills.— In general debility, mental depression, and nervous irritability there is no medicine which operates so like a charm as these famous pills. They purify the blood, soothe and strengthen the nerves and system, give tone to the stomach, elevate the spirits, and, in fact, render the natient sensible of a total and most delightful revolution in his whole system. They may be commended most unreservedly as the very best family medicine in existence. Though powerfully efficacious they are singularly mild in their operation and may be given with implicit confidence to delicate women and young children. They do not contain a grain of mercury Or other noxious substance, and cannot do harm. Delicate females, and all other persons of sedentary habits, will find these pills a blessing.