MAIL ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4095, 11 April 1876, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

The notorious Captain Hayes, who about fifteen years ago ran away with the Estello del Norte from Adelaide, has been lately tried at Hong Kong for piracy at the Ladrones. At Dartmoor ninety-five convicts are said to have made considerable progress in French, German, Spanish, and Latin during their incarceration, and when liberated will be able to take their degrees. It is understood to be the intention of the British Government to place Simon’s Bay, Cape of pood Hope, in a complete state of defence, by th : erection of forts and batteries at various points along the coast. There are at the present time no less

than twenty-two vessels belonging to the Royal Navy occupied as school ships 02 training schools. Recently there was a lifting match at Eureka, Nevada, between two men, for a prize of 200 dollars, the winner lifting a 151b dumbell at arm’s length the greatest number of times. The loser lifted it 1,130, the winner 1,14 4 times.

The unsatisfactory accounts of the state of Mr Longfellow’s health which reach us from America render it only too probable (says the ‘ New Quarterly Magazine ’) that “ The Masque of Pandora” will be the last considerable work which we shall have , from the poet.

A cod recently caught in Aberdeen Bay, measuring 3ft Tin from the nose to the tip of the tail, and Ift lOin round its body at the thickest part, when opened was found to have in its stomach a large quantity of small bits of hair lines, sixty-three fish-hooks, an old door-key, and an iron ring. It has been ascertained by the New York World that a large trade is done in New York by certain men who furnish corpses for dissection to medical students all over the country at the very moderate rate of 25d0l (L 5) for each subject; and that these bodies are stolen from the graves of poor persons who are buried in the humbler quarters of the cemeteries.

The * Jewish Times ’ says :—The first Masonic Lodge of Jerusalem is a beautiful illustration of the cosmopolitan nature of the principles of brotherly love in practical operation. The Master is an American, the Past Master an Englishman, the Senior Warden a German, the Junior Warden a native, the Treasurer a Turk, the Secretary a Frenchman, the Senior Deacon a Persian, and the Junior Deacon a Turk. There are Christians, Mohammedans, and Jews in the Lodge. A Scottish paper narrates the following “ turn in fortune’s wheel.” It says that one of the “ upper ten,” not unconnected with the county of Perth, recently became bankrupt. . His “ establishment ” was broken up, and last week his house was sold. The buyer, who paid L 23,000, was formerly a butler in the bankrupt’s employment, who saved money, became the owner of a paying eating-house, and is now to turn the aristocratic dwelling-house in which he was a servant into an hotel.