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EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS.

As a consequence of the artillery experiments made recently at Calais, the Creusot works have just received an order for steel cannon for the French Government. The Adjutant. General of the Forces had issued a general order with a view to the further employment of soldiers at trades, and the formatiou in each regiment of an efficient pioneer force. There are good times in store for oyster-casters. A new bed has been discovered between Fleetwood and Whitehaven of almost exhaustless dimensions, being calculated to cover 800 square miles, the oysters lying two or three feet deep. The fish is said to be remarkably fine and well fed, and of a delicate flavor, though the outside shell appeari to be somewhat large and rough. Near Fleetwood the oysters sell at 2s per score. It is said that the late Dr Guthrie left an unfinished autobiography. The Egyptian Museum at the Louvre has just been enriched with a magnificent Ethiopian group in gold representing the god Osiris, his wife Isis, and their son Horus. The exquisite workmanship of those figures exhibits the smallest details in the ornamentations of the drapery. Among books announced as just published ia a work on the structure of the Old Testament, by the well-known Professor of Hebrew at King's College, the ReV. Stanley Leathes, M.A. A new edition of " Selkerk's Bible Truths with Shakespearian Parallels " i 6 also announced. We understand that the Queen has been pleased to create Lord Portman a Viscount for his services during thirty- , five years in the management of the Duchy of Cornwall. Lord Portman has also been a member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster for more than twenty- six years, and has now completed fifty years of Parliamentary life, having been elected member for Dorsetshire in 1823. An adventurous American aeronaut, ProfessorDonaldson, intends this summer to cross the Atlantic to Ireland in a large balloon. The machine will weigh about 2,0001 b., will contain 268,000 ft. of gas, with two small reservoirs to provide against leakage, and an electrical arrangement for light. The professor calculates to accomplish his trip in from seventeen hours to two days and a half, and intends, if the experiment proves successful, to establish a balloon mail and passenger line round the world. Dean Eamsay calculated that four millions of sermons were delivered in England every year. An extensive discovery of coal has just been made near Hartland Point, North Devon. An old shaft, that had been abandoned many years as unremunerative, from fresh surveys furnishes evidence of a deposit of coal at no great distance from the surface, and in direct connection between the South Wales coal beds and the Bristol Channel. The highest opinions of a successful working of the mine are entertained. Anonymous letters have been sent to the Ministers at Madrid of France, Great Britain, and Prussia. The letters, which are identical in terms, threaten the Ministers with death for conspiring against the Republic, and declare that the houses they occupy and those of the Consuls will be burnt. A number of Birmingham milkmen have been fined in small sums for selling milk mixed with water. It is stated that Mr Plimsoll has rec«ived a very kindly-worded letter from Her Majesty, thanking him for his book, " Our seamen : an Appeal," and wishing him success in his endeavors to benefit them. The favorite song, " Home Sweet Home," was written by a homeless man. The West Yorkshire colliers have received an advance of ten per cent, on their present wages. Should any further rise take place ia the price of coal, the mill-ownera of Leeds and the district

have determined to close their mills three days a week. The Jardin des Plantes has just lost one of its oldest pensioners, Nono, the parrot of the May^^isa islands, brought over in 1776 by Bougainville, and presented by him to the Royal Museum, which has since taken its present name. These birds, as is known, live for more than a hundred years, and the age of that now spoken of must have exceeded that The Lancet lately published the case of a man who for nine days followed his occupation with a needle fixed and imbedded in hia heart. On the ninth day a surgical operation was performed aud the needle extracted. The patient recovered without exhibiting any unfavorable symptoms.

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Southland Times, Issue 1744, 23 May 1873, Page 3

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EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS. Southland Times, Issue 1744, 23 May 1873, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS. Southland Times, Issue 1744, 23 May 1873, Page 3

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