General News.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3732, 10 December 1880, Page 3

General News.

" Man wants but little here below," is • lie says a famous wit. "He wants all he ban grab, and when he grows old his grasp on the dollar grows grippy," Man has a natural liking for money. He imbibes it with his mother's milk. So \ long as he keeps fairly within the right path in his efforts to make money, however, the world will applaud him. But still the world will notallowhimto"make" money for himself in a literal sense, and it is this fact that has led to the discomfiture of a worthy couple in Liverpool. It is reported that the police in that flourishing seaport hare discovered an extensive base coin factory in full work. A pan of metal was on the fire, three moulds were in the oven with base coin in them; there were also a plating battery, a quantity of metal, gear, and bottles of acids, besides some base shillings wrapped in paper and a brash used for polishing. The worthy pair who occupied this interesting apart* ment are now residents in one of her Majesty's prisons. Tenders are invited for the necessary apparatus to light several bridges and streets in the city of London with electricty. A murder trial at Lebanon, 0., was held in a public hall, instead of the court house, in order to accommodate the spec* tators.