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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 407, 7 November 1884, Page 5

A Seolclicg: Woman. — The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding; women, though abolished by law, arc now oftentimes practised by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold only when ]bhey are. ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe IJop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a, genial, pleas^n}; change. The nerves will be quited and acerbity pf word and thought will give place to amiabihtv and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Bead. Turtle fighting, we arc; told, has now become jQne of the most popular pastimes in the sporting circles of Sfaten Island. To one such event the ' Mey York 'i^mes ' gives half a column of spirited detail. A.boufc 200 persons assembled in an unoccupied house to witness a prize fight for L3OO between a Southfield and a Northfield turtle, weighing respectively 123 and 108 pounds. The exciter»en£ sy&s intense, and the turtles fought foi two hours, A£ tfys /sad $ £ke first hour the Southfield turtle had >(i lost its fail," % rjght leg, and had a big wound on the BGGk,' while its opponent had its •' front right leg broken, and had lost an eye." At the end .of another hour this last circumstance de_qi<jLed pb& for the Southfield turtle gpt o,n ,i;o .I^ie :b^n,d s|de his enemy, seized by the thr ( oa,fc,' au,^ hcld\on tilj, in jkhe words of $, .'/ dearth'" sti^drvened.'' The money wa4 pajd up, a,ns tjhe spectators separated, exhilarate/!,' p.p d,9.ubt ; J?y the ennobling spectacle which they fea4 witnessed. It is fortunate, however, that turtles are not common in that country. There is something about this latest additior jts American national sports a little repulsive ito ideas, yet %hs position of the turtle in Zoology migfyt ?»aice it d^pijlt tc bring sjjch a subs'titutl?' for 'coc^-fighting within the meaning of' jbhe Apt' Turtles, however, are not common, objects of the country in Englaad, and offer no particulai inducements to the acclimatises We may ; therefore; consider ourselves as safe from the l impprtation of American turtle-fighting • as we would wish to be from American djnamite,