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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 133, 4 December 1895, Page 2

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■> It is rumoured that Sir Edwin Arnold i will be the new Poet Laureate. Sir Henry Thompson, the well-known doctor, has been left £70,000 by one of 1 his patients. The will is to bo disputed by the next-of-kin. The 20th annual dairy show at Isling- > ton brought together thousands of ex--1 hibits, ranging from cattle to honey. A feature of the show, as usual, was the butter making contests. A machine ' which milks ten cows in less than quarter 1 of an hour was to be seen at work. The 1 prizes amounted to £2500. A torpedo boat destroyer, built in London for the Russian Government, kra relied thirty -four miles an hour during her trial trip on the Thames, the highest record of speed at sea. At a postage stamp sale in London, a > block of four 2nd post-paid Mauritius sold for £210, two penny ditto realising £28 10s. A statistician has discovered that tbe , number of dark-haired girls who get married exceeds that of the fair ones. An egg laid at Bristol by a black Minorca fowl was 7£in in circumference and 3|in in length. Inside this egg was another one, about the ordinary size and quite perfect. The inside egg was all yolk, whilst the outside one was only white. An infant died from improper feeding in London, and the coroner said he could not understand why mothers would kill their children by giving them fancy things. The Creator had provided them with a natural food, and that was all that was necessary. , At a fashionable wedding iv London, the bridegroom's presents included a eheqne for £10,000. The proportion of under-age marriages is on tile decline. Last year the figures stood at 69 for tbe males and 190 for the females in England, A Leeds doctor, who had been hurry- ! ing on bis bicycle, expired at the bedside while examining a lady patient. The patient died the same morning, the end, it is thought, being accelerated by the shock. A London man, whose bicycle was stolen, succeeded ia having tbe thief con* ; victed, but the magistrate refused to *)- ' low him the expenses of the prosecution on the ground that he had not taken, the precaution to- lock the wheels of the machine before leaving it. ■ - Burglaries have been committed in Wfiat pad houses by men who call npon eeryancg i# tye guiea t>f window-Gleaners asking foe ftjofa, The police warn householders against giving jpork to strange window-cleaners, who may be burglars m disguise. A little boy 7n Snnderland met six strange lads in the street whfb induced him to drink poison from * a bottle, say* ing it was ginger«beer. The child died £#£ the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful Hoarder against the unknown boys. A, statistician $edarea that more people are killed by omnibuses jn &aris in one year than upon.thj», whole/ojE, the railways of ..France in .ten. ; The>state of,the,late Jay Gould has bern wpjr^ised at^lS, 580*000, the whae ol (vbidb ir£Ux>ajß tor hfydaughter* who