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Evening Star, Issue 3450, 13 March 1874, Page 3

A Boston girl, being asked if she had not once been engaged to a party by the name of Jackson, who was at the time a Harvard student, languidly replied : "I remember the circumstance perfectly; but I am not certain about the name. In one of Lord Brougham's last speeches, his upper teeth fell out, and there was an' embarrassing silence until they were restored, when he remarked that his teeth had given him a good deal of trouble ever since he cut them. That restored the equilibrium. The Kev. Joseph White, Eector of Middleton, Suffolk, died suddenly the other day, owing to a silver tube (which had been inserted in his windpipe with a view to improve and relieve his voice) slipping down his throat and causing suffocation. In the London clay, at Sheppy, Professor Owen has just discovered anew fossil bird with teeth, somewhat resembling those in the Australian hooded lizard. He concludes it to have been web-footed, and a fish-eater. No evidence of true teeth had previously been known in any bird.