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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 416, 29 March 1877, Page 3

A Rbmed? for Baldness.—Th British Consul at Nicolaieff, in reportin on the absence of cattle plague from tha part of South Eussia, observes—" In th e summer my attention was drawn to seve ral cases of sudden baldness to bullocks cows, and oxen, and the loss of tails and manes among horses. A former servant of mine, prematurely bald, whose duty it was to trim my lamps, had a habit of wiping his petroleum-besmeared hands in the scanty locks which remained to him, and after three months of lamp-trimming experience, his dirty habit procured for him a much fi.ier head of black glossy hair than he ever possessed before in his recollection. I subsequently tried the | remedy on two retriever spaniels that had become suddenly bald, with wonderful success. My experience induced me to suggest it to the owner of several black cattle and horses affected as above stated, and while it stayed the spread of the disease among animals in the same sheds and stables, it effected a quick and radical cure on animals attacked. The petroleum should be of the most refined American qualities, rubbed in vigorously and quick with the palm of the hand, and applied at intervals of three days, six or seven times in all, except in cases of horses' tails and manes, when more applications may be requisite." One of the living curiosities at Barnum's menagerie and circus is a man tattooed from head to foot. His name is Constentenus. a Greek by birth, and it is stated that he was one of the party who penetrated Chinese Tartary for mining purposes some years ago, and engaged in an insurrection there. The natives captured him and two of his companions, and instead of putting them to death, adopted the more cautious plan of tattooing their bodies and setting them free. The process of tattooing occupied six hours a day for three consecutive months, and the torture inflicted wa3 so severe that the captives used to beg for death instead. Captain Constentenus was the only one of the trio who survived the ordeal, and he carries about on his person 188 pictures of men and animals and geometrical figures.

Free Railwat Passes for County Councillors.—The Dunedin ' Evening Star' informs us that the Government have decided to grant free passes to members of County Councils, which will only be available in g"ing to and from Council meetings.