EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.

A Female College is to bo built at Ycddo by the Empress of Japan. It is intended for the education of young girls who wish to devote themselves to the career of teachers. A Naval relic of some interest—of Nelson’s flag-ship, the Victory--has been found in Chatham Dockyard. The sails bear the name of the maker, and the date September 1805, and are pierced with shot holes, one of the largest having ninety, and the maintopsail sixty holes. The Victory was paid off at Chatham after the battle of Trafalgar. A historical watch chain is worn by a ci-devant French gendarme, now a Government official in Paris. The chain is of iron, and is made of the handcuffs which the gendarme placed on the wrists of the murderer Troppman, bvhen he arrested the perpetrator of the Pantin butcheries sis years ago at Havre. Journalistic statistics in the United States show that during the past year Ti1,000,000 were lost in newspaper enterprise. Anent journalism, the New York Herald is stated to cost LSOO per diem, or LI 80,000 yearly. The daily expenses of tho Tribune amount to L3OO daily, of tbo New York Times to L2OO, and of tlio World,

from Ll4O to LIGO. Literary ladies would do well to cross tho Atlantic, for fifty-seven arc now editing journals in the States. Telegraph clerks will hear with alarm of telegraphic paralysis, a now malady reported by a French physician to tho Academic des Sciences. An employe, who had been engaged in a telegraph office for nine years, found that ho could not form clearly tho letters U, represented by two dots and a stroke, f, by two dots, and S by three dots. On trying to trace tho letters his hand became stiff and cramped. Ho then endeavored to use his thumb alone, and this succeeded for two years, when his thumb was similarly attacked, and ho subsequently trie I tho first and second fingers, but in two months these wore also paralysed. Finally he had recourse to tho wrist, which also shortly became disabled. If ho forced himself to use his hand, both hand and arm shook violently, and cerebral excitement ensued. It appears that this disorder is very common amongst telegraph clerks. Carrier pigeons in Franco continue to attract more andtmoro attantion, and a tower 75 feet high has been erected in the Paris Jardin d’Acclimatation as tho head-quarters of the carriers used for conveying military despatches. Spelling matches are "the latest pastimes across tho Atlantic, and are now frequontly held publicly for charitable purposes. Highly educated people often come to grief in these matches, and at one which recently took place at Indianopolis, the first person who missed a word was a Professor who had formerly been Superintendent of Education of tho city, and was still editor of an educational journal. The unlucky Professor spelt allege with a “ d, ” and was derisively presented with a huge cabbage bouquet as a reward for bis failure After all, the Professor was only a little old-fashioned in his spelling. A centenarian was married last week, according to tire Echo du Parlement, which states that a lady of Coire, aged 103, has just been united to a bridegroom of CO. Tlris was the bride’s fifth spouse.

A curious bet, the Continental Herald tells us, has been made by a well-known pedestrian and guide of Pan and Nice, who has wagered that within a certain time he will capture a liviny izard in the Pyrenees, will bring it to Paris, conduct it through the Champs Elysees, and make it mount the Arc-de-Triomphe without touching it with a switch. The izard is the wildest and most unapproachable animal found in the Pyrenees, It jumps from peak to peak at tko greatest heights, and is rarely shot even at the longest range. The “ Early Baronet” now advertising in the Morning Post should take warning by the example of a Virginian gentleman, who recently advertised in a Washington paper to correspond with young ladies with a view to matrimony, stating that ho had an annual income of L4OOO. He now declares that he has recouped the cost of his advertisement twice over by selling the replies as waste paper, and has made LlO by disposing of the photographs sent him, but as a set-off against this, ho has been threatened with vitriol 1G times, and has on hand six broach of promise cases.

The drama of All Round the World is to bo performed in right earnest by a gentleman in New York, who has undertaken a walk round the globe. He was to start on the 3rd instant, and expected to be back at the City Hall, New York, on November 23, 1870. The distance he has to traverse amounts to over 19,000 miles, so that he will have to walk an average of 32 miles per diem. Part of the journey will be performed on board ocean steamers, and in this case he will walk a certain time every day. The Destruction of Life in India by wild beasts and reptiles appears to be on the increase. Over 20,000 persons, it is estimated die annually from snake bites alone while the inhabitants of the border lands between jungle and cultivation are killed by tigers in alarming numbers. In the three years from ISC6 to 1809 tigers destroyed 940 Europeans in the Central Provinces ; during a period of six years wild beasts in Lower Bengal cost 13,401 lives ; and in one month alone in 1807 in South Canara 40 persons fell victims. A single tigress, says Mr Clements Markham, in his report caused the destruction of 13 villages, and 230 square miles of country were consequently thrown out of cultivation while another tigress in 1809 killed 127 people and stopped all traffic on a public road for many weeks.