News and Notes

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 5, 29 April 1893, Page 7

News and Notes

One of the new fads of happy mothers is to have baby’s picture taken while it sleeps.

Upwards of £112,0.00 have been Subscribed to the scheme for erecting art and music galleries in Glasgow. The nave of Dunblane Cathedral was opened recently for public worship, after being bare and roofless for 300 years. An Irish paper contradicts the Statement that Mr Gladstone has never been in Ireland. It states that he spent three days there. In all parts of Scotland farmers are receiving remissions of rent. The Marquis of Queensberry in Annandale has given an abatement of 10 per cent, on the half-year’s rent. The foundation of new sewage works at Glasgow has been laid. Through these works, which are to oost £45,000, a first step is being made in the direction of the purification of the Clyde. When an Egyptian dog wishes to drink at the Nile he goes a short distance up the river, and howls for some time. The crocodiles, being attracted by the sound, immediately crowd to the place, while the dog hastily runs to the part which the crocodiles have left, and drinks in safety. Richard Forgie, a respectably connected young man, has died at Auckland from injuries received in a glove fight with John Nicholson, a professional boxer. At the inquest, the jury, in finding that the deceased died from injuries received in a glove fight, expressed the opinion that such disgraceful occurrences should be prevented in future. The very latest method of applying paint to large surfaces is with a hose. They are painting the exteriors of the vast buildings of the Chicago Exhibition with that form of brush, an idea truly American in its originality. Air is compressed to a pressure of 15 lbs to 18 lbs per square inch by means of a rotary compression, then mixed with calcamine, and the mixture driven by the pressure through a hose and delivered upon the surface to be painted by means of a nozzle held by two men. The process is rapid, cheap, and all-sufficient. Watch snatching is becoming very prevalent in Glasgow. Two men have been arrested,and in one of their lodgings nine watches were found. Of these, four, it is ascertained, were stolen at football matches, and all the watches were without their bows, clearly indicating that they had been snatched from their owners’ pockets. At Go van (Scotland), the police have been engaged during the week investigating a rather cool theft of £260, the week’s drawings of a licensed grocer. The money —which was tied up in a bag ready for banking—was given to a young man, who called ostensibly from the manager, and on getting possession of the money he decamped with it.