EXTRACTS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1138, 2 January 1874, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

Cure for Wakefulness —Erskine says : - " A friend of mine was suffering from a continual wakefulness, and various methods were tried to send him to sleep, but in vain. At laat his physicians resorted to an experiment, which succeeded perfectly. They dressed him in a watchman's coat, put a lantern into his hand, placed him in a sentrybox, and he was asleep in 10 minutes." The. Worst Partofit. —Lord Eskgrovc

was a very " wordy" judge. Lord Cockburn, in his " Memorials," says. he heard him, in condemning a man to death for stabbing a soldier, aggravate the offence thus : —" And not only did .yon murder him, whereby he was bereaved of his life, but you did thrust, or push, or pierce, or project, or propel the lethal weapon through the bellyband of his regimental breeches, which were His Majesty's !" Bret Harte's Latest.—There is an Irish woman of gigantic strength in St. Paul. One morning she lifted a barrel of sugar from the ground into a cart.

The next evening she presented her husband with twins. Two days af'ter sho did the washing for a family of 10 persons. Not so fortunate was Missouri girl. She washed all day, made

a supper of 12 hard-boiled eggs, and then danced all night. It is mentioned that her funeral procession was nearly a mile long.— A Hardy Insect. —A correspondent, writing from Hillsborough, Ohio, to a Cincinnati newspaper tells what he has done to exterminate potato bugs First, with no good result, he sprinkled upon the vines lime, ashes, plaster of Paris and sulphur. The bugs next treated with turpentine, benzine, spirits of hartshorn, and alcohol, but these fluid only seemed to add ts their enjoyment of lite. Gum camphor and assalcetida were the resorted to. Still the insects lived on ; and so they did through a course of chloroform, and of sulphuric, muriatic, acetic, nitric,aitromuriatic, and chemically pure nitric acid. These do not in the least effect their appetites. Then Paris green was tried, and this was found rather too effective, as it killed both the bugs and the vines themselves. It is now proposed to try calomel, which it is thought will loosen the teeth of the insects.—New York Tribune. \JFor remainder of news see 4<t7i page. ]