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Dunstan Times, Issue 790, 8 June 1877, Page 4

We learn from Saratoga Springs that one of the belles of that place has had a difficult operation j erformecl upon her ears for the purpose of reducing them to the ordinary size of such appendages. The lady is aecom plished and pleasing to all who meet her, but up to this time she has suffered great annoyance from the fact that, her ears were very far beyond the proper dimensions. No art of the hairdresser or milliner could bo employed successfully in hiding this deformity, and she resolved to to go New York and have them cut down. She consulted with a skillet surgeon, and, after refusing chloroform, suffered bravely while undergoing the operation. The surgeon believes that the ears will be all right again within a few weeks —Utica Herald. At the Middlesex Sessions, Mr Sergeant Cox remitted punishment in the ease of a youth charged with obtaining goods by false pretences, on the. condition that his friends sent him to New Zealand. “ where he had relations well to do.” Very kind of Mr Sergeant Cox. A correspondent to an .Australian contemporary says : —“ Bones should be collected, and crunched into pieces, and laid in heaps on the camping grounds of sheep and cattle. These animals will consume the hones largely for the lime they contain at all times. Tliis will he found more especially serviceable against acidity. When a man’s coat is getting a little old, it may be turned. The older his brain is, the less excuse there is for ts being turned,