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Dunstan Times, Issue 967, 29 October 1880, Page 3

It is said “ fringes ” are becoming so untidy and shaggy amongst fashionable ladies in England that her Majesty has signified her wish that those presenting themselves at her drawing-rooms shall wear the hair brushed off the forehead in the plain style, of some yens back. So states “Gipsy” in the Town and Country Journal, and a ids : “So adieu to your early • bangs,’ young ladies, for since royalty’s decree has gone forth you must bow your heads, and allow' the wavy tresses to be removed from your foreheads.”

In Loudon the frozen meat in histry is exciting great interest. The Orient Company have decided to tit up their vessels with ref igerating apparatus. The Orie-'t has been already fitted with the apparatus, which will he available for shipping of meat on her next voyage from Australia. The I’, and O. Company have followed the example. and one of the largest of their fleet has been similarly prepared. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who is said to have set her heart on marrying Mr Ashmead Bartlett, is ill in consequence of her .friends’ remonstrances against the mafch. There is a prospect of a run on the C'outts’ Bank, in consequence of the expected withdra val of the Baroness from the concern. The alien clause in the Duchess of St. will cannot now be admitted in the case of Mr Bartlett, as he is to all intents ami purposes an English m n.

Another case of Siamese twins is reported. An English paper says :—A birth of an extraordinary character lias occurred in the small fishing place of Instow, North Devon. A poor woman, the wife of a thatcher named fl ray don, has just given birth to female babies joined together, or rather incorporated, from the breasts down to the abdomen. They are perfect in every respect else, having a head each and two hands, two legs and a trunk, and it is believed a seperate existence. They lie in lied beside the mother, facing each other, and are very much alike. They are well and healthy, but are slightly thinner, than when they were born a day or two ago. The mother does not think one of them will live, and she is anxious least one should die and the other live. The neighbours and local doctors, however, believe the infants will live.

A Fhiladelpha firm state that for 30 years they have mafic toothed wheels of raw hide, and for the last ten years thousands of them have been made for use j in rooms, and further, lor tbo 'aat four I years, they have made paper wheels, and 1 found them superior to raw hide. During the tiist four months of the present year 87,000 head of horned ca tic, 575,000 sheep, and 95,000 pigs have been imported into France, Of these only 131 oxen, 1405 sheep, and 90 pigs were brought from America ; the principal exporter of oxen to France being Italy, which sends nearly two thirds of the total imported. Algeria sent no less than 02,000 sheep. Over 1.600,000 was stink on the Daily News before it paid one penny of dividend ! The capital with which it started was LICO.OUO, and it had Charles Dickens as its editor. Within the last six or eight years it has begun to pay, after twenty years’ ruinous expenditure.

A new enemy to wheat has been flis covered in Ontario. In its mature form the insect is in shape like the common house fly, but much smaller, and rather more sleu ler in proportion to width. The larva lives iu the stem of wheat, and destroys the plant by devouring the substance of the stalk, which becomes nearly dissevered, and the head of wheat consequently dies oil' prematurely. The pest will attack oats, barley, and rye, but it is said to prefer wheat.