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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1687, 17 April 1886, Page 3

In Norway it is Imlieved- that . wolves are frightened away by telegraph linos. ,"W)»le a vole was pending on arrant, to a new line a member of the Storthing remarked that, while his constituents had no direct interest m it, they would support the grant, bocause the wires would drive away the wolves. It is said that, however hungry a wolf may be, he will never go into a spot that is enclosed by ropes gtretched on posts. It is stated, as a remarkable fact, that since the first telegraphic line was established twenty years ago, . wolves have never appeared m the neighborhood, j A statistician -has published some tables showing that the richest people have an average life of fifty-two rycars the, middling forty-six, and the poor only forty-one and a-half A well-to-do man is as liable to infectious disease a* a pauper, while diphtheria, croup, whooping cough, and scarlet fever are. more prevalent among the rich. Consumption and pneumonia claim tbe poor, who are comparatively free from brain feror. An Adelaide paper contains the following account of a young girl being caiTied off and devoured by an alligator .- i -" A dairyman bn Cattle Creek, Water View Bun, thirty miles from Townsville, named Adam Gordon, hadjuac reported to the police (hat his daugther Margaret, aged 15 years, and a servant girl, wore sent to ihe creek for a bucket of water. He saw them as theytelood at the brink of the scream, and al the same moment he saw an enormous alligator approaching the girls at' a terrific speed. Be-cried outto warn them j but too late, m the monster had with a; rush advanced a fewfeet from the brink, and seizing the girl, who uttered heartrending screams, plunged like a flash of lighting back into the stream, and neither the victim nor destroyer, were seen again by the horrified father, who ran distractedly along the bank, or by the servant girl, who overwhelmed with terror, remained fix«d to .the spot." ; ■■'< £ ••■- * • J - f -'■