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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 712, 17 September 1870, Page 2

A young lady in California broke lior neck while resisting the attempt of" a young man to kiss her. Toung ladies should be very careful not to resist such attempts. It is extremely dangerous.

_ A very laughable ease of mistaken identity took place in Queen street, Auckland, recently. A gentleman was walking with his wife towards the wharf, when she stopped behind to look at some " sweet bonnets." The gentleman did not seem to notice her quitting his side for a minute or so, as another lady was walking behind him, whom he mistook for hia wife. He stopped for a second and said to her, " Come along, my dear, we shall be lato." He received no answer, and the lady endeavored to pass him, but he caught her by the arm, saying, " You need not run away." Judge his surprise when he got a sound box of the ear which knocked his hat off, and was told never to dare to insult a lady again. He saw his mistake at onco, and his wife coming up at the time, added to the amusement of the spectators and embarrassment of the unfortunate man, who didn't know his own wife. A cure for toothache has been discovered at last. A writer in Cassell's Magazine states that the following recipe, which is coppied from the Lancet, and which ought to be made as widely known as possible, "will really cure the most maddening toothache: One drachm of collodion, added to two drachms of Calvert's carbolic acid; a gelatinous mass will precipitate, a small portion of which, inserted in the cavity of an aching tooth, invariably gives immediate relief." Coming from such a reliable as the columns of the leading medical sourcejournalin Britain, the remedy given above is certainly well worth trying.