The Rev, L. R. Jacob, Vicar of Llanlhigan, Montgomeryshire, was lately fined at'the Newtown Police Court for drunkenness. The construction of the bridge over the Firth of Tay is being actively carried on. I he bridge is to be finished by the end of 1874. It will cost L 350.000, and will be 10,321 feet in length. When completed, it will ho the longest bridge over a constant flow of water in the world. At the ceremony of the opening of the new Aquarium at Brighton, Mr Frank Buckland produced from his pocket his promised present to the Aquarium, a diminutive allß gator, confined in a cigar-box, which the vicechairman had sent a waggon and six horses to the railway for, under the impression that it was a verifiable monster of the deep.
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Evening Star, Issue 3038, 13 November 1872, Page 4
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133Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3038, 13 November 1872, Page 4
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