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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1456, 3 April 1873, Page 2

The shilling subscription for the erection of a monument to Robert Burns in Glasgow now amounts to nearly LI2OO. Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health for the city,' in his annual report, states that during the past year 195, 5221 b, or about 88 tons of meat, were condemned as unfit for human food. • ' '..•"' A sum of LSOO has been placed at the disposal of the Council of the Society of Arts, for. promoting, by means of prizes or otherwise, economy in the use of coal for domestic purposes. ; i . ; Anew guillotine has been adopted in Paris, which has the novelty of not demanding from the victims the exertion of clambering up a flight of steps, as in the old and cumbrous machine. Ricciotti Garibaldi, second son of General Garibaldi, is on a visit to England ; for a short time, it is expected he will be the .guest of Mr J. Rae, L.L.D., F.S.A., of Chislehurst. The electric light having been introduced at South Foreland Lighthouse, it is now to be further improved in efficiency by the addition of fog-horns — two to be placed on the cliff and two on the beach. Steam power will be employed to sound the horns, and part of the machinery has already arrived. Mariners will hail this as a great improvement.