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Globe, Volume III, Issue 247, 25 March 1875, Page 4

————■■"^—™^———■—^—■» A little lad who had just commenced read ing the newspapers, asked his father if the word " Hon," prefixed to the name of a member of the Council, meant "honest." Cure for Hydrophobia.—A German forest keeper, eighty-two years of age, not wishing to carry to the grave with him an important subiect, has published in the Leipsic Journal a receipt he has used for fifty years, and which he says has saved several men and a great number of animals from a horrible death from hydrophobia. The bite must be bathed as soon as possible with warm vinegar and water, and when this has dried a few drops of muriatic acid poured upon the wound will destroy the poison of the saliva, and relieve the patient from all present or future danger. Mr Cross declined to commute the sentence on McCrave and Mullen, convicted at Liverpool of kicking Richard Morgan to death for refusing to give them sixpence, and they have been executed, with another man named Worthington, a bargeman, who kicked his wife nearly to death one evening, went to sleep, and in the morning finished his work. Another kicking case, nearly as bad, but not ending in death, has since been reported from Liverpool, and from every part of the North the same kind of outrage is reported. Nothing but the steady, cool control of the law, never swerving, but pressing as it were automatically, will repress an epidemic of brutality of this kind. Opinions may differ as to the expedient or righteous kind of punishment, but of its certainty there should be no doubt whatever,