Untitled

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 455, 29 November 1875, Page 3

The Board of Trade has issued two revised scales of medicines, medical stores, &e, ftr ships sailing under the Passenger Acts. One scale applies to North Atlantic steameii where the voyage does not exceed thirtyseven days, and the other to vessels the passage of which may be 100 days or upwards. Both »cales are very much simplified as compared with those now in use, having been altered to meet the practice of medicine and surgery in the present day. The London Globe has reproduced from the American papers a legend of a canine funeral, spontaneously celebrated in 1869 by dogs, on the death, by shooting, ol the spaniel of a negro who belonged, before emancipation, to Governor Charles A. Wickliffe. The story is ihat this spaniel having shown symptoms of hydrophobia, he was promptly shot, whereupon all the dogs of his acquaintance, led by a large and fierce dog called " Old Bull," assembled round the body with loud howlings, and then prepared for a funeral. " Old Bull," seized the corpse and carried it off to the woods, dug it a grave beneath a tree, interred it, all the dogs joining to fill up the grave, and then led the mourners in a new series of elaborate howls, kept up for a quarter of an hour, after which they dispersed. The meaning of the story is plain. Ciearly these things were written for a parable. The spaniel who showed symptoms of hydrophobia—no slight symptoms—was the South. In his lifetime he had fawned ou " Old Bull"—obviously, John Bull—and in return Old Bull, who did nothing to save him from his death-shot, made a pompous funeral for him, and howled over his remains. The Negroes have more humour than our contemporary the Globe gives them credit for. It is a well ascertained fact that housewives are seldom out of temper on a washing day, if they get well on with their work. But if they have obtained inferior soap, and their hands are chafed therewith, there ia generally a late tea, and the fireside is not pleasant until the children are got to repose. When purchasing soap, if you ask for the star brand, and see that you get it, there will be no fear of late washing or chapped hands, as the greatest care is taken when it is being manufactured to render it free from all injurious properties. Besides, it is the best, the bars are the largest, and it is the cheapest soap in the market. Try, and you will be convinced.—f Advt. ]