PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 188, 14 September 1871, Page 7

PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

A physician olaims that 10,000 women have been squeezed to death by corsets during tho last five years. "Ventilated garters " are the latest novelty in the United States. A letter from San Francisco, speaking of the richness of the White Pine mining district of Nevada, says there is now in that city a middle-aged man, who a year since was at work by the month as a mechanic, and not worth a dollar. To-day he is worth afc least 1,000,000 dollars in hard coin, and his income from one mine alone in White Pine is over 16,000 a-day. He is investing his money in real estate in San Francisco. The other day a friend was joking him on the subject of marriage remarking that he could now marry tiny young lady in San Francisco to which he replied, " Well I knew a gal out west who was willing to marry me when I hadn't a cent, and now I'm going to marry her," The Empress E.ugen{e, it is reported, is in treaty for the sale of her.diamonds., valued at £320,000. According to European medical statist tics, the introduction of chignons has increased braiu fever among women 75 per cent. Seventy-eight women are now regular ordained preachers in the United States. The latest swindle in Victoria is beating out a threepenny-pice to the size of a sixpence, and passing it for the latter coin. The trick is very likely to deceive the careless, as the hammered coin looks precisely like a much worn coin of twice the valne. This is one way of doubling one's capital. According to the " New York Herald," there is a pig living near Cairo, U.S., which has eight noses, one ear twice as large as the other, and eyes placed so far back in its head that it is obliged to progress bickwards. This is a fair sample of the "Herald's" powers of lying. An extraordinary ceremony was re-r cently performed at the church of St, Martin's, London. The giant, Capt, •Martin Van Buren Bates, was married to the colossal lady, Misss Anna Swan, , with whom he has been holding levees iat Willis's Booms. The service was performed by the Hey. W. Rupert Oochrane, preacher of St. Georges, Hanover square, himself a giant of six feet three, and also like IVfi^ Capt. Bates, a native of Nova Scotia. The curious little phenomenon, Chrissy-Milly, (f the two-headed Nightingale," was present. As the bride and briedgroom left the church, "The Wedding March" was played on the organ, and they were warmly cheered by the assem bled crowd, outside. A short time ago a two-head calf was born in Auckland, and more recently, a ewe gave birth to a double-bodied lamb with one head. It possessed two compelte necks and bodies with eight legs, the necks being joined in one head. There were only tvjro eyes, but fou* ears on the head-

Hrlloioai/'s Pills and Oimtmenf.—* Diseases of the Chest. — The daily increase of deaths from these causes is positively appalling. Duping the last three weeks, from the hot days and cold nights, many aged and delicate persons have died of bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, and other chest complaints, perfectly reraedible at their outset. Let no one afflicted in the chest hesitate for a moment to use Holloway's potent remedies. Properly used, they will mitigate each symptom, and a\'ert those disastrous consequences grievoulsy noted by the Register General. Rub the Ointment thoroughly over the chest at least three times a day, and take the Pills according to the printed instruc. tions affixed to eaoh box and pot, Tin* mediate relief and permamenfc cure mil result.