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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1622, 23 October 1874, Page 401

Lime in Bread.—at a recent meeting of the Medical Society of Victoria, Dr Day, of Geelong, exhibited some ar.ead made with lime water, which he recommended as au article of diet, especially fvif 'children, who, he stated, were the subject' of many abnor malisms, due to a deficiency of lime in the system. As an .evidence of this deficiency, he referred to the early decay of teeth, from which a large number, if not an absolute majority, of young persons suffer. Sad Effects of a Bath.—An Indian named Squatting Bear went into Omaha the other day, and while he was in a condition of vinous thoughtfulness, somebody induced him to go in and take a Turkish bath. The next day he went home. As he approached the camp a squad of Indians rushed at him and began to shoot arrows into him and to hack him with their tomahawks. He yelled for them to stop, and asked them what they meant by treating him in that manner. He declared that he was Squatting Bear. They received the statement with derision. They took him away and killed him. It was the first wash he bad since 1827. Superstitions on the West Irish Coast.—No priest lives in Inniskea, and when one goes there from the mainland he is sometimes wind-bound for a fortnight. There is a sort of fetish-worship here, consisting of incantations to a stone. The people pray for a storm to bring them wrecks. Some years ago an sea captain got possession of the idol and broke it to pieces, but the fragments were carefully collected into a flannel bag, and the people still.treat the collective parts,with the same veneration they paid to the whole. And so the last state of these men is worse than the first. Such is the wondrous tale. If it is true, no one will be surprised to hear that Inniskea possesses no school; that there was an old hedge-teacher, but he went to America; that there is a sort of medicineman who is superior in knowledge to .the other islanders, and' that he has influence \ enough to persuade them that learning is useless. All this seems strange, hut is the evidence pf men well acquainted with the place, A. similar practice is said to exist in Innishmurray, off the coast of Sligo. Here, however, the divinity is embodied in the figurehead of a ship, which is called "Josh;" those who have seen it say. it is richly carved, and of ancient pattern. Can it be a relic of the Spanish Armada ?m.dSanJ6se? It is not likely the wreckers ever had' so, good a harvest as after the destruction of Philip's armament. The priest once persuaded a merchant captain to carry Josh away with him, but he was washed ashore on Inuishmurray, &nd the superstition is since more inveterate than ever. The island is part of Lord Palmerston's property, and during his last visit to. Ireland'he made a voyage to this distant possession in compauy with an eccentric clergyman, who pronounced. the weather favorable. The wind freshened, and, the boatman declared the return unsafe. The great man turned sharply round to reproach his reverend friend. " I thought, sir, you said it was, a good day to visit the island ?" " I said it was a good day for going out, but I said nothing about coming back," was the ready answer. And so the old statesman had to pass the night on the seabeaten isle, the people doing their- best to make him comfortable.— Nm-a-Days.