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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 501, 1 April 1869, Page 2

"Speech is silver, but silence golden." Hence the expression, hush money. .; It has been observed that on moonlit' nights the eyes are apt to suffer in a peculiar way, which has occasionally brought on temporary blindness. This was ascribed to the moon's influence, and the term moonblindness has therefore been given to the affection. In reality, the moon has no moreto do with this form of blindness than the stars have to do with the formation of dewy The absence of clouds from the air is the time cause of the mischief. There is no "sufficient check to the radiation of heat from the eye* balls, and the consequent chill results in temporary loss of sight, and sometimes even in permanent injury.— Chamber's Journal. We are told by a Nottingham journal that there is now living a man who has had six wives. Of the six, five died, the sixth was reclaimed by her husband after the lapse of seventeen years. The marvel is, not that the man had six wives, but that there is a man who bas been married six times, and is yet alive. No wonder the Nottingham journal spea". s of him with amazement: