DEATH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1113, 31 August 1883, Page 2

DEATH.

Per*iam— Ok 28iUl /ugust, at bU *■ i deuce, LowbilliU John Perriam ; ayed 5-t ye,iis, 1 /

During' the last six months 9085 horses have been used for food iu Berlin. The warm sausages sold in th« streets at night are mostly of equine origin. When a prominent restaurant keeper failec some years ago the most conspicuous among his credi* tors was a horse butcher, which throws a side light on the “ roast beef ” that used to be served up to his guests. The poor are the chief buyers, but there are not a few gourmands who look upon horseflesh as a delicacy. A good many Nebraska papers claim that the workings of the high license law in that State vindicate the wisdom of th* measure. Tt has certainly crashed out inumerable low dons of iniquity, for fully one-half of the saloons in the State find themselves unable to pay a tax of 600doL or 1000101. a year i*-. for the privilege of selling intoxicating t 'lflqnors. As to those who have been able to continue in the business, it is said that they secretly, one aud all, bless the day when the present system waa inaugurated. A Lansinghurgh firm has almost com pleted a paper steamboat for a Pittsburg company. Its length is twenty feet. It has seating capacity for 25 persons and car* rying capacity of three tons. The sheath ing is a solid body of paper three-eighths of an inch thick. A bullet from a distance of four feet neither penetrated nor made an abrasion in it. The athlete Miller, who lately vanquished Foley ia the glove-fight, seems to be a firstrate alUround man, as it is reported in the Argus that a splendid display of awordnaanahip was witnessed at the Athenseum on Wednesday the 23rd inst, in a match between the Professor and Mons. Victor, a French swordsman. The contest was with light foils, for a stake LIOO, Miller con■cending his opponent 10 points in 21. At first there was very little difference between the two men, but very soon Miller, who used his foil in a cool, calculating way, •and seldom missed a chance, began to assert his superiority, and scored as many as half a dozen points in succession. Victor was excitab'e, and, to his own evident dis* advantage from the outsit* tried to force matters, The match, which occupied -over An hour, was finally won by Miller, who scored 21 points to Victor’s 7, and pioved himself a splendid swordsman Both men showed great activity and determination, and Miller at the finish was loudly -cheered. The great rix«days walking match i” Melbourne, between Edwards and O’Leary, •ended unsatisfactorily. On the closing night at 20 minutes to 10 O’Leary stopped walking, and entered a protest against the stakes being paid over on the ground that the scoring had her-n unfair. At this time O’Lcaiy had walked 457 miles, and Ed. wards was 11 miles ahead. Edwards walked till 10 minutes past 11, covering 475 miles. Since the match O’Leary’s Trainer has written to the papers asserting -that the match had been “square i” so that 0 Leary should win, hut that Edwards broke ihe agreement. In Spain, where nearly the whole of the nation is Roman Catholic, there were, at the last, census, II SOO.IIOO persons, out of a population of rather more than 16,500,000, who can neither read nor write. The national debt of Italy is increasing at the rate of ten millions sterling a year. The Victorian Postal Department considers that telephone exchanges should he sstablished, and conducted solely by the ■department. A gun tax is consi’ered necessary to ■check the great destruction of valnanle birds by lads and young men who go out shouting, principal y on Sundays, not only in the -vicinity of Melbourne, but more or less in All parts of the colony. Nothing is spared by these persons. In the vicinity of the city English thrushes, doves, and other imported I irds are destroyed, while in the ■country, that most valuable bird, the magpie, and other insect-eaters, are shot downOf all the birds in the bush, the magpie is considered the most useful to the farmer, as it only eats grubs, insects, and worms. Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup —lnfallible, tasteless, harm ess, cathartic ; for feverishness, reaticness, worms, constipation. Is at druggists. Moses, Moss sort <!»., Sydney, General Agents. According to Mr F. H. O’Donnell, M.P., •• the closing quarters of centuries appear to be fatal periods in the relations between the English and the Irish, ever since the accession of the House of Tudor at any rate.” A good many people have attempted to fathom ‘‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” a story which Dickens left unfinished ; and the next attempt is (says ri</as) to be made by Mrs Meynell in a forthcoming number of‘The Century.’ Mrs Meynell is better equipped than sorat c f her predecessors, for the long aid intimate friendship of her father, Mr Thompson,with Charles Dickens has put her into possession of trustworthy information ; and her solution of the problem will be borne out by illustrations, sketched by Mr Fibles, a.R.A., tor tbe latter instalments of the stoiy, which, iu consequence of the author’s death, were never published. The Bishop of Melbourne describes the Bible to be an account of the religious training of an ancient and ignorant nation of slaves beginning their career with all the mistakes, prejudices, and vices of their time and condition, and gradually growing, through the viciss tu ins of an unexampl ed history, in the knowledge—first, of their relation to God, ami then of their relation in Him to all H : s human children. By the San Francisco mail (says a contemporary) Mr Macandrew received intimation that his son Herbert bad successfully graduated in medicine at the Edinburgh University. Upon th s becoming known in Wellington Mr Macandrew washeartly con* gratuiated by bis many fi lends there.