MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 705, 22 October 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

. Storekeepers in the villages of Northern Wisconsin are using grasshoppers’-'wings for awning. The rifle contest at Edinburgh for the International Challenge Trophy which was won at the last Wimbledon meeting by the Scottish team, has resulted in another victory for Scotland by twenty' points over E igland, and 139 over Ireland. The Caledonian Line.—Scone—Motherwell Junction —Arrival of a train from Glasgow.- Porter on the platform—‘ Motherwell ! Motherwell!’ Pleasant face from a third class carriage looks out and replies—‘ She is very well, I thank you..' What is Insanity ?—At a murder trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to establish insanity was made on the part- -of the defence, T)r, J. K. Allen was called as an expert and testified thus briefly and rationally:--! have been a practising physician for nearly thirty.ye,-ps. •> hj iliave- had some experience in cases of inzanitv, Kdving 'been, tor nearly ten years metical superintendent of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylu n, aid during that time had over 2031 crazy people under my charge. I have heard the .hypo, t,helical case read, by Mr Phelan. jI. am • here as an expert, and before answering tho question would like to say that the more I studied the question of insanity, tho less I understood it ; and if you,ask me where it begins and whore it ends, neither I nor any physician in the world could toll you ; in fae'', on occasions like this, lawyers make fools of themselves in trying to make asses of doctors.” Tho frankest professional teat'mony ever given in court. During tho month of August violent thunderstorms passe 1 over various parts of England, whereby ranch property was destroyed, and several fatalities occurred. The following singular marriage is reported to have taken place recently at Carnarvon.—" The bridegroom, a returned convict, wai awaiting his trial for theft, and tho br’de, who had participated in the crini’, was also to bo tried. After the wedding tho happy couple adjourned to tho Assize Court, where both wore tried and convie.tcd—tin. bridegroom was sent into penal servitn lo for five yeara^qpjL to six months' hard labor."