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It is a remarkable circumstance, and one worthy the consideration of medical men, that Irish political prisoners invariably suffer from illness when incarcerated—while it is an undisputed fact that gaol fare and gaol discipline is very beneficial, if not absolutely reinvigorating to ninety-nine out of 100 involuntary recluses in the gaol of the United Kingdom, The Walhalla correspondent of the Melbourne Telegraph reports that two lads have died at Ostler’s Creek last week from eating unripe fruit. They were brothers, and both died in one day. It is stated that they were almost starved to death for want of proper food, and that therefore the unripe fruit had the more effect upon them.

A year ago and Sir Henry I’arkcs was the honored representative of New South Wales. Now this is the style in which Sydney writers can be found to address him ;— “ Poor Sir Henry ! If he were not such a charlatan one would really be sorry for him. Hie day is over, for he cannot live except upon his vanity. His epitaph will be written in two simple words : ‘ Snuffed out.' "

At Linton recently a child three years of age obtained access to a horn, . pathic medicine chest, and, child-like began to taste its contents. He had swallowed five bottles of the medicine, including one of aconite and one of belladonna, and had got successfully through half a bottle of nux vomica before he was discovered. The allopathic doctor called in said that if he had swallowed the whole contents of the chest he would not have been one penny the worse.

A good story is told in connection with an incident on one of the Prince of Wales’ pleasure trips to Paris. While the train stopped at Amiens, the Prince went into a restaurant and bought a piece of sponge cake. Before he had half-munched the cake the bell rang for the train to stop, and the Prince laid the unfinished cake on the counter and proceeded on his way. The restaurant man put the remnant under a glass case, labelled it “Great curiosity: The Prince of Wales bit this ! For sale !” and he renewed the cake as fast as tuft hunters bought the piece they thought had been sanctified by royal molars.

The San Francisco correspondent of Town aud Country says :—A farmer's wife in Missouri has confessed on he deathbed to having murdered her first husband, and made two at tempts to kill her second one. She assisted her brother to kill and rob a stranger, strangled her fourteen-yeai -old daughter, all in her mother's presence, cut her father's throat, and wound up by strangling her wicked old mother when she threatened to make a clean breast of it. There can be no doubt of the confession, and 1 mention it as something unique in the annals of crime even in this country.

Barnum is on the look-out for a family of Maoris to join hie “Show" to make one group of a polyglot collection of savages. He is nut likely to have the same trouble with the aboriginal New Zealanders as he has had with his party of Queensland blacks. According to new spaper reports, two Queensland aborigines were found running wild near Manly, N.S.W., on February 19th. Whilst capturing them Constable Leplan was attacked by both, and wounded with a knife. When the blacks were brought before the Police Court, Cunningham, the agent for the well-known Barnum's show, appeared and informed Mr March, the police magistrate, that the prisoners formed part of a contingent of nine blacks he had recently procured in Queensland for the purpose of forwarding to Barnum to arid to his curiosities. Tire two prisoners had deserted from the others. Mr March replied that it appeared to him as if the case partook very much of the character of kidnapping, and legal proceedings would probably be taken in the matter. The blacks were remanded for a week.

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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 4

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Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 4

Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 4

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