MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 887, 14 November 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

At York, a train of 20 coal waggons fell into the river Ouse.

A sturgeon, weighing 14 stone, has been caught in the river Trent.

The number of Foresters in the United Kingdom is about 400,000. The fruit crop in Britain is, generally speaking, a failure this year.

A flood has been caused at Leicester by the bursting of a large water main. A scheme is on foot for forming 180 miles of tramway in and around Paris. Light and ornamental iron telegraph posts are coming into use in Germany.

The estimated total value of the live stock in Ireland in 1871 is £36,782,968. The United Methodist Free Church has 67,64S members and 315 ministers. The sea is encroaching on the Yorkshire coast at the rate of eight feet a year.

47£ tons of unwholesome fish were seized in London during the month of July.

The annual value of the Irish salmon fisheries is estimated at over £400,000. The quantity of land under flax in Ireland this year is less than for 20 years past. Two girls at Sunderland have beeu fined 10s and costs each for profane swearing,

Handloom weaving, once the chief industry of Carlisle, is now almost extinct there. It is estimated that fifteen million gallons of water are wasted in Liverpool every week. A weekly journal for women in modern Greek, is now published in Constantinople.

The last accounts from the South African diamond fields state that they are looking up. The foundation stone of the Chelsea section of the Thames Embankment has been laid. A Dunstable butcher has been fined for selling dog's flesh, representing it to be goat's flesh.

At Ravensthorpe a boy was killed instantaneously by a kick in the throat from a pony.

During a thunderstorm' at Cardiff, the police station was struck by a meteoric stone.

A thriving trade in human teeth has lately been carried on by certain speculators in Paris. A new landing pier has been constructed at Douglas, Isle of Man at a cost of £50,000. A national association of engineering firms ia to be formed in Britain to resist trade combinations.

Two ladies, mother and daughter, were drowned while bathing at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.