MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 907, 5 September 1879, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The telephone ns a means of transmitting religions instruction to those unable to leave the house for public worship, has 1-cen taken into regukir use in a Congregational church at Mansfield, Ohio, where, wires arc laid on to the houses of several aged and invalid persons.

The Marquis of Lome will shortly publish a volume on his Canadian experiences, entitled “ Travels in the Dominion." Tin work will be illustrated by the Princess Louise.

Lambs are protected from foxes by very simple means in the County of Cork.. A piece of scarlet binding tied round the neck ( f each lamb proves an effectual safeguard, for Master Reynard has evidently a cordial dislike to the colour, probably recogidsin. it as the same lute borne by the enemies of his kind, fox-hunters. The water supply of Boston, D.S., has lately been seriously affected by a fire at some chemical works, which caused the escape of 500 tons of sn’phuiie acid into n large lake which supplied two large districts of the city. The li-h and eels in the lake relished in snob quantities us to choke various mill-races and stop the works altogether, and had to be catted away in thousands for manure.

Uniformity in the Dnssian army is being carried to such a pitch that the cavalry arc distributed into companies according to the shape of their noses and the general contour of the face. One squadron is formed of nothing but fair-haired men, the next contains those of medium complexion, and all the swarthy warriors are collected in a third. Following the sam" custom, the horses of the various regiments are a'so selected according to colour, one company having chestnut steeds, another black, and so on.

Gad’s HIP, the homo of Dickons and one of the pleasantest resiliences in Kent, hns not yet found a purchaser. The reserve price is LSOOO, an I the largest offer has been L 4150, A man named Prcecehas been sentenced to fifteen months’ hard labour for falsifying a marriage register by mis-stating the name and age of a girl witli whom he went through the form of marriage at Croydon The girl was the daughter of his late wife

by a former husband, and had been left a fortune of L3OO a year by her father. The marriage is, of course, null and void, being

within the prohibited degress, and the delinquent has escaped with a light punishment, considering the gravity of hiaoffeuce. The Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary has sentenced three men to five years' penal servitude for robbing a pay-clerk of 1/200, with which ho was returning from the hank, Two of them met him in the street, and after throwing pepper in his eyes, knocked him down and ran off with the money. The third accomplice was an old man, who prevented the immediate pursuit of the thieves by pretending to render assistance to the clerk.