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A landslip at Passo Martino, near Cantania; Sicily, recently brobght to .light a large number of ancient tombs and artistic objects, believed to belong to the cemetery of Sinentus, a town on the river Simit, mentioned fey Pliny. • According to London Truih, it i 9 calculated by the advocates of a reformed system of spelling that, by the adoption of the phonetic rule, there would be a saving to a writer of one hour and twenty minutes in a day of eight hours, or 400 hours in a year of 300 days, A saving of 20 per cent would be effected on the same amount of literary matter in the Times newspaper, and an equal saving in the cost of new books, Over all departments of English literature it is calculated that there would be a saving of £10,000,000 annually. . According to a notice in the Berlin National ZeMung, Dr Martin Luther's own copy of the Vulgate, from which he translated the Bible into German, while living at junker Forg, on the Wartburg (1521-22), has been discovered. The director of a watering-place in Bohemia, Dr Schlechta Ritter von Sedmiborsky, m said to be in possession of the precious volume, for wbitih so many Lutheran scholars have made the most diligent search. The margins of the single leaves of the Latin volume are covered with a great many corrections, conjectures, glosses, &c, many by Luther, and written in his own hand. - A Bohemian 'paper states that this interesting book was formerly possessed by the Royal Saxon Library, from which it passed a long time ago into the hands of the poet Faniz Evfizdy. From the latter Dr Schlechta received the valuable Hande » empter as a present. There is a rumour that Professor Curtius, of the University of Leipzig, has offered Dr Schleehta a sum of- 15,000 marks for the book, but whether the offer has been accepted we do not know. Some extraordinary remarks fell from an Australian judge the other day. Iv the Warrnambool Standard of 9th October there is account of the trial at the Belfast Assizes of a man named Henry Thomas Reid for embezzling £236, the property of the Warrnambool Permanent Building and Investment Society. In summing upj His Honor Mr. Justice Stephen said that he bad no doubt of the. prisoner's guilt. The, jury, however, returned a verdict of " not guilty." . After an interval of silence, his Honor, looking at the Crown 1 Prosecutor, asked, " What's the use' of going on ; with these Belfast cases ? •It J 3 perfectly disgraceful, i would advise the Crown Prosecutor not to proceed further. It's a. disgrace to the" whole system of trial by jdry." Mr Hodgejwho prosecuted, then asked for a postponement and a change of venue before proceeding with the other charges against the prisoner. This was opposed by Mr Molesworth, and finally his Honor rose in a passion 'and^.said he would discharge the prisoner altogether. "My opinion i«," continued his Honor, "that Belfast requires to be exterminated } it •is Belfast that is on its trial — hot thdt man.'* The single ladies resident in the township of Rangiora, Canterbury', are up in arms over a recent decision arrived at by a Discussion Class; The following, / which 'appears in the cotirs6 of a letter to the^editprqf^the Standard explains it all :—" We single ladies of Rangiora cannot but view with' astonishment and alarm the decision arrived at by the Rangiora Discussion Class, at their last meeting, namely, ' That single life is most beneficial to mankind;' There are numbers of us in Rangiora eligible for marriage, who for a long time past have been waiting and watching, hoping against hope, for something to turn up in the shape of a husband. Have we not spent hours and hours practising on the piano, cultivating our voices, and learning to sing, 1 trying our bands at making puddings and cakes darning our brother's stockings, patching his trousers, irouing his shirts, and nursing babies whenever we had an opportunity, all for the amusement and benefit of our expectant husband (when we were fortunate enough to get one). And now to think that our time ha 3 been thrown away, and our labor made in vain, by the decree which has gone forth from that august body — the Rangiora Discussion Class— that we are to live in single misery all onr lives. If we are to be thus debarred from marrying, for the future' we will lock up our pianos, the puddings may spoil j our brother's trousers may go wanting a patch, his shirfc front riiay be dirty for all we care, And babies may squall themselves into hysterics before we will take any notice of them." Homicide by stabbing, a crime formerly of as rare occurrence in every part of Germany, except the Bavarian Highlands, as it was of yore in these island^ has within the last few years (says the " Daily Telegraph") steadily increased throughout the Fatherland, Until tiow-a-days hardly a week passes by without bringing us the record of some deadly affray in which Germans have used, or abused, the knife with fatal effect. The latest sanguinary incident of this class is reported from Reuss. Little more than a fortnight ago, two men, named respectively Adam Duerscheidt and Heinrich Schif telman, drinking together in a dram-shop at Delhoven, a village close to Dormagen station, quarrelled over the price of a glass of spirits^ whereupon Schiftelmann, seizing a common table-knife^ stabbed his Companion in the abdomen. Although moi'tally wounded, Duerrscheidt grappled with Schiftelmanh^ threw him; and kneeling on his chest, wrested the knife from his grasp, and with it deliberately cut his throat from ear to ear. Within ten minutes from the commencement of their trivial dispute both men had breathed their last, weltering in each other's blood, and clinging- to one another with so fierce and convulsive a hold that their corpses were with difficulty disengaged from the mutual death clutch. The inhuman ferocity displayed by either party iv this barbarous encounter appears to have made a more than usually deep and painful impression upon the German public, judging by the tone of horror and consterna tion which characterises Teutonic Press utterances upon the subject of the double murder -at Delhoven,. r ,v r v ,. r >.-„,. r . „., -.--,

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