CLIPPINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 3108, 4 February 1873, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

Ode to a Money Lender.—“ Meet me a loan.”—Zozimus. Supplemental Treaty. I shall smoke, dear, now I’m married.” The Favorite Song of the Siamese Twins. —“We were boys together.” The Bhuddist nunneries at Wuchang have been suppressed, and the parents of the gills notified that, if not claimed and taken home, the ex-nuns will be handed over to any eligible parties desiring wives ; there are quroerous applications fur them. Captain William Upward has died at Wareham, Mas*., at the age of 90, in the game house which be built before bis marriage, and into which death had not entered until he was stricken down. Hia widow, nearly the same age, and all his eight children, survive him. The machinery department in the Vienna Exhibition will be a mile in length. Dr Cprfield, medical officer of Islington, in a repent repopt, says;—“lt has been shown that infection hangs ahoqt wall-papers even fpr many years ; and I am of opinion that, ip all cases where a room has been occupied by a person suffering from an infectious disease, the paper should be washed with carbolic acid and water, and stripped off the walls and burnt. This is done in all cases of which we have cognisance.” An extraordinary sect of religionists has lately gained some converts in London. These metropolitan mystics’ are said to call themselves the “Howling Repentants ” These industrial religionists howl at convenient periods of the day, and they howl at two periods in the night. An entirely white lion has been captured, and is exhibited in Buenos Ayres where L2OOO was offered for it by an English merchant for the zoological gardens in London, Mr Peebles’ instrustions as to how to become a medium, are, according to the Telegraph to keep the body clean, and to abstain from pork, intoxicating liquors, and tobacco. ' The acting Commissioner of patents, England, has decided that Masonic symbols cannot be used as trade marks. The Sydney Morning Herald states that a package of lOOlbs of bei £ has been preserved m pipeclay for six months, with such success that a portion is to be cooked and eaten. The passengers by Cobb’s coach, leaving Stanthorpe at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 21, have accorded (through the Examiner ) their thanks to the driver, George Chamberlaiue, for his skill in avoiding what, except for hia able management, might have resulted in a very serious accident. The roads were in a dreadful state ; and about a mile a half from Stanthorpe, when in a dangerous part of the road, the bar-hooks holding the traces of the leading horses snapped, and the leaders dashed off with the swingle bars dragging at their heel*. George, however, was equal to the occasion, and made a flying leap, such as wonld have astonished Ashton, over the pole horses, and was thereby enabled to steady the leaders, and save the coach from a capsize. After some delay, the coach proceeded on the journey, and on reaching the Six-mile Creek, the road was under water for miles, and all the gullies were running a banker. George, however, succeeded in landing bis passengers at about half-past eight o’clock at the Commercial hotel.