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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 870, 5 October 1871, Page 3

A little girl joyfully assured her mother she had found out where thev made horses. " She had seen a man in a shop, just finishing one of them: for he was nailing on its last foot. The greatest stickler for etiquette ever heard of is a man in Michigan City who objected to interfere with a man who was stealing wood from his wood-pile, on the ground that he had never bsen introduced to him. " Gentlemen," said a pedlar " these razors were made in a cave, by the light of a diamond, in Andalusia, in Spain. They can cut as quick as thought, and are as bright as morning star. Lay them under your pillow at night, and you will be clean shaved in the morning." Our doctor's front door has not been properly painted, and ought, as his friends and patients tell him, to be done over again; but he declines to let it be touched, assigning as his reason that it looks professional being " blistered."—" Puuch." The "Edinburgh Courant" was, it is said established in 1718 as an evening paper, and edited by Daniel Defoe. Englishmen will be sorry to learn that the old elms in the churchyard of Shakspere's burial-place have suffered so much damage in recent storms that they have been cut down and sold by auction. The health of London during 1870 was unusally good, and the mortality exceptionally low. That, notwithstanding a succession of formidable epidemics, is the great fact of the Registrar-General's summary. Anne Boleyn had a whole family of Browns for country cousins. At Queen Elizabeth's court, the cousins of the Queen's mother however rustic, were of course welcomed when they appeared there, Elizabeth, however, had an eye that acutely detected what was ridiculous ; and she was so unreserved in her remarks upon their oldfashioned attire, their quaint looks, uncourtly ways, and old-world style of speech, that her Majesty perfectly " astonished the Browns!" and handed down a slang term to posterity, by which it was revived and made popular. Professor Mantegazza had discovered that ozone is developed by certain odorous flower.s A writer in " .Nature" states that mest of the strong-smelling such as mint, cloves, lavender, lemon, and cherry laurel, develope a very large quantity of ozone when in contact with atmospheric oxygen in light. Flowers destitute of perfume develope it and generally the amount of ozone seems to be in porportion to the strength of the perfume emanated. Professor Mantegazza recommends that in marshy districts and in places infested with noxious exhalations, strong-smelling flowers should be planted around the houses, in order that the ozone emitted from them may exert its powerful oxidizing influence. So pleasant a plan for making a malarious district salubrious only requires to be known to be put in practice. Refined oil, for fine mechanism, can be prepared by putting zinc and lead shavings, in equal parts, into good Florence olive oil, about half an ounce to every pint of oil, and placing it in a cool place till the oil becomes colourless.