MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 937, 6 March 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mahogany sawdust, flavoured with 'coffee, is extensively sold in London as a " cheap breakfast powder." The Scotch dairymen have beaten the Somersetshire men in the manufacture of Cheddar cheese. At Wolverhampton, a w<sma"n has been arrested on. suspicion of poisoning eleven of her children. 26,000 persons are annually maintained at the public cost in the workhouses, gaols, Ac., of Liverpool. Tlie railway workmen at Crewe, who have obtained the concession of fifty-foiir hours per week, have resolved to commemorate their success by the establishment of a scholarship, to be called "The Nine Hours Scholarship." A committee has been appointed to take charge of the project. The Old Testament Company of Bible Eevisers have nearly finished the Book of Exodus. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has 37,000 members. ~ Dr Farr, in a letter to the KegistrarGreueral- of England, says that the number of deaths from gout is rapidly increasing, and adds that " refined •gluttony is as fatal as intoxicating drink." . The salary and " pickings " of the Town Clerk of Glasgow amount to £B3OO per annum.

The administration of justice and the punishment of criminals dost , Britain upwards of £4,000,000 per 3 annum. Mr Frank Vizetelly, the well known I correspondent af the Illustrated "Lonr den News, was drowned while'on a f voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. i -j " '£,