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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 524, 25 May 1880, Page 3

The Lord Advocate of Scotland in the Gladstone Ministry failed to obtain reelection for Parliament. Eight Children at a Birth. —On the 2nd of August, Mrs Timothy Bradley, Johnston, Trumbull County, gave birth to eight children —three boys and tiva girls. They are all living and healthy, but quite small. Mr. B.’s family is increasing fast. Ho married about six years ago Eunice Mowery, who weighed 278 pounds on the day of their marriage. She has given biith to two pair of twins and now eight more, making twelve children in six years. It seems very strange, but nevertheless is true, Mrs. B. was a twin of three, her mother and father being both twins, and her grandmother was the mother of five pair of twins. Mrs B. has named her boys after noted and distinguished men—one after the Hon, Joshua Gideings, who has given her a splendid gold medal; one after the Hon. Elijah Bhamplin, who gave her a deed of fifty acres o£ land; and the other James Johnston, who gave her a cow. Mr Bradley says that it is profitable to have twins, as the neighbours have clothed the others .since they'were born. Mr. B. is a poor industrious labourer, but says he will not part with any of his children while he is able to work. : —American paper. A New Use for Sulphur. —A good story is told in Hokitika ('says the Star ) about the diptberia. A family man, who is living in a two-story house and is an early riser, last Sunday called the balance of his household, who slept in the second story. But they preferred an extra snooze on the Sunday morning, and three or four calls could not move them. All at once the father remembered the brimstone he had bought the day before for diphtheria. He commenced to burn that on the staircase, and it was not long before ho heard them coughing. This exertion got more violent every minute, and presently the whole family appeared on the ground floor —mother, daughter, and boj's, with clothes in their arms, dressing themselves on the ground floor. This goes to prove that sulphur is not only good for diptberia, but also for early rising. A “ Slating. ’’—Patrick Flaherty, to re cover an alleged debt, purceasd a slate and covered one side of it with a description of his claim, affixed a shilling postage stamp to the corner, and handed the slate to the clerk of the Court. Yesterday he returned to the Court and asked for the slate, and having recivcd it, he filled in the other side, this time making a claim for the modest sum of iiIOOO, compensation for being struck by somebody. This was too much for the clerk, who at once sent for a constable, and gave poor Pat into custody on suspicion of lunacy. He was subsequently examined by Drs. Collins and Kemp, the result being his committal to to the Lunatic Asylum for an indefinite period.— Times.