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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 16 August 1872, Page 5

" A correspondent of a medical journal, writing from Gibraltar," -observes the '-Sydney Morning Herald,' " states, ou the authority of Mr. Henry Stokes, the officer of health for that port, that on the arrival of. the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Nyanza, at Southampton, irom her last trip to the Mediterranean, the whole of the officers and crew,, save one man, a sailor who obstinately refused to have the operation performed, were re-vacci-nated. v When the Nyanza reached Gibraltar on the Ist instant, on her outward voyage, she landed this identical man for treatment at the civic hospital, covered with small-pox eruption."

Aar.Aged Minister. —The Rev. W Tranter, the oldest living Wesleyan minister, has been preaching at Portsmouth. The rev. gentleman, who is approaching Lis 100 ch. year, entered the Wesleyan ministry just 70 years ago. He is still hale and active.

Mr. David Davies, surgeon of Leomiuster, has been fined LI and costs for having twice kissed a lady who came to consult him as to the beating, of her heart, and which he declared beat " naturally enough." A correspondent of the ' Queen' says : —You will of course have seen that the sale of Mr. Gillott.'s collection realised Ll'/SjOOO ; but you do not know perhaps that Messrs Christie and Manson, the auctioneers, receive a commission of 5 per cent on all they sell, which would make their premium for the Grillot sale something between LSOOO and ::L9OOO. Not a bad sum for a few days' talking ! A.Luxury, if Yon Like.—Sandy : \ say, Jock, mon, did ye ever get yer hair brooshed by machinery?— Jack ; JNaw! What like is't !—Sandy: Eh, mon, it's awfu* nice. Its near as good as scrattin' yer head ! 100 to 5 is offered on Little Dick for the Melbourne Cud. .The magnitude of mining Quotations in Melbourne was vividly illustrated a few days ago, when the oscillation in a valuable and favorite stock showed variation to the extent of L 84,000 in about 84 hours. A nother case of small-pox is repor-ted-at Sandhurst.

Ewinc's Casis.—lt will be- remembered chut the petitions in favour of the reiniaion of the sentence of Joka Ewing, convicted of shooting a Chinaman, were referred, to Mr. JusticeChapman. A Wellington correspondent writes in reference to the matter: —" The case of Ewin» is meeting with, due consideration. Judge Chapman, it appears, does not consider it a ease for mitigation of sentence, still I think a good case has been made out that the puuisbuieut should be initialed : certain rules are laid downby Government in cases such r.s this, and it is a-dilliL-ult matter to'art contrary to t.'ie views expressed by • the .fudsjp.- The friends of Mr. £\ving may ivst assured that every legitimate endeavor to relax the. rule will he made by the representatives from Otago/' ,

Professor Airey, Astronomer- Royal, has been knighted. . . A great exhibition is; proposed to be "held for 'Ease Calcutta in 1574, and will include the East and Australasia if agreeable.

The great island of Marajo, dividing the Para from the Amazon,-became entirely inundated, early in April, and ifc is estimated that 90,0UU head of eatsle perished. Anglo Brazilian Times.' . '

The" Journal de Chime Medieale, in a very interesting article, states'the yearly value of cigar stumps picked up in the streets of Paris and sold to tobacco manufactures, to be 250,000 francs. There are about 200 person* thus engaged in "stumping" Paris. Nearly 540 persons have perished from small-pox at Norwich during the last eight months. While a rather affected young lady was confiding to her admirer, how ethereal her appetite was, and the sensitive delieatcness - f her organization, tho- too matter-of-fact servant bawled ouf r "Say! will yer have yer biled pork and beans now. or wait fr'll - ver feller's gone?" The " feller".has been gone ever since. . .

The diamond-seekers of Southern Africa must have their pockets better lined than the diggers on the -townships of New Zealand, as we see by reference to the Natal Colonist that u raco. meeting being advertised to take place at the mines, the. site for the grand-stand, fetched £920, and that on the day following the purchase, no less than 3000 tickets for seats thereon were sold without difficulty - .at' one guinea apiece.

.An English artist, travelling professionally through Scotland, had'.occasion to remain- one- Sunday in. a small town in the North. In a walk in the environs the picturosque ruins of a castle met his eye. He asked its name of a countryman who was passing. The reply was, " This is no* a day to be speerin* aboot sic things." iAn exhibition is preparing at St* Petersburg which will throw* all the known collections of gems into th© shade. . It is that of the jewels of the Russian Crown. First in beauty comes the great Orloff diamond, which' surmounts the sceptre. Like the Koh-i----noor, it is one of the royal jewels" of the tfast, but the error of making it & brilliant has been avoided by the Russian lapidaries, and its weight is thus preserved, while the English jewel hae lost more than half its original value. The Imperial Crown may be called a dome of diamonds, the dazzling whiteness of which is relieved by an enormous ruby on the summit j the glob« is surmounted with a sapphire, which has become traditional in Russia as emblematic of any object which is to be regarded as beyond all price.. The coronet of the Kmpresa is exquisite,, composed entirely of diamonds of equal size and lustre, a marvel of beauty and skilful workmanship. Besides tbes» priceless, objects, the rich and costly jewels to be worn on State occasions are innumerable. Russia has been drawing for centuries upon Persia, India and Turkey, and adding to this board kept from profane eight at the Winter Palace, watched by sentries day and night. The present "Emperor however, is said to prefer the crystals of his own Siberian mines, so delicately tinted blue, green, and violet, and has bee» for a long time past a purchaser of the finest diamonds to form, their appropiate setting. • - •.' '-'-. * -