Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4337, 24 November 1882, Page 3

Savory Morsels.

This is what the London World calls " certainly the best joke of the Beason, and quite true. She is virtuous and even prudish, but naturally anxious to marry her daughters. He is a peer with about £10,000 a year. But on being left alone with her he mistook the tenor of her conversation, and springing up almost tragically said, ' Oh, my dear Lady , don't lead me on please; I swore to my father on bis deathbed that I would never have an intrigue with a married

woman.'"

The operation on Pierre Gcuiscaitithe waiter whose case we recently mentioned—for the extraction of the spoon which he swallowed a few days bro, was successfully performed by M. Feilizet at Hospital Lariboisiere. It was effected by means of an incision in the epigastric region, the . stomach having been previously dilated by means of vapor of ether forced into it through an ingenious, though simple, apparatus invented by the operator for the occasion. The principal difficulty consisted in effecting the opening into the stomach, but once that was successfully and safely accomplished the spoon—measuring 24 centimetres, or nearly 9| iDches in length—was easily drawn from the body. During the operation, all the details of which occupied less than three-quarters of an hour, the subject was kept under chloroform, and no unfavorable symptoms "have as yet been displayed. For a few days Geniscain has not been allowed to take any solid food. This prohibition was extended for a week, but the patient being now out of all danger, has been permitted to take substantial meals.—Pariß Letter.

The Circassian Cavalry are most in credibly expert. On a recent occasion when the Sultan reviewed them, a company dashed to the front and suddenly stopped. Each man seized the bridle close to the bit, threw his horse flat on its left side~ dismounting at the same timefired a volley, and was up and off again. A Society has been organised in England to excavate the Delta of the Nile. It is proposed to raise a fund for the purpose of conducting excavations in the Delta, which up to this time has been rarely visited by travellers. Here must, undoubtedly, lie concealed the documents of a lost period of Bible history—:docu«ments which will furnish the key to a whole series of perplexing problems. The position of the land of Goshen is now ascertained. The site of its capital, Goshen, is indicated by. a lofty mound, where, if anywhere, are to be found the missing records of those four centuries of the Hfbrew sojourn in Egypt, which are passed over in a few verses of the Bible so that^e history of the Israelites during that age is almost a blank. Pithom,and Rameses, the "treasure" or store cities built during the oppression, would richly repay" exploration.—Southern Cross. The new reporter was sent to the school exhibition. His report read pretty well; but there were a few things in it which did not meet the approval of the local editor —such, for instance, as these: " The essays of the graduating class were good, whoever wrote them ; " " the floral offerings were excessive, and from the number received j$ Miss Simplegush we judge her fath^ivrns a first-class greenhouse;" " the young lady who reaa the valedictory address to the teachers has in her the making of an actress. She simulated sorrow so accurately that the writer might have been misled had he not subsequently heard the young lady speak of the same * dear teacher' as ' hateful old thing.'"

Dr Wood, Professor of Chemistry in the medical department of Bishop's College, Montreal, reports a number of cases in which acute articular rheumatism was cured by fasting, usually from four to eight days. In no case was it necessary to fast more than ten days. Less positive results were obtained in cases of chronic reheumatism. The patients were allowed to drink freely of cold water, or lemonade in moderate quantities if they preferred. No medicines were eiven Dr Wood says that from the quick and almost inyariably good results obtained by simple abstinence from food, in more than 40 cases in his own practice, he is inclined to believe that rheumatism is, after all, only a phase of indigestion, to be cured by giving complete and continued rest to all the viscera.

A gentleman who is ashamed of his intensely bald head, explains the absence of his bair by saying that he vras born poor, and was compelled to scratch his way through life. The Niagara falle.ia a s.iht nevnr to be forgott«n. There art.- irprv waterfall? hv* only O ne MoGtoWAif iiellin* 8» T*»