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MISCELLANEOUS.
A medical man practising in Ballarat in
forms the Star that since the officers of the
local boards of health have exercised a
vigilant supervision over the quality of the
meat sold in the town, there has been an
almost total disappearance of the disease
known as hydatids. Before this watchful
ness was exhibited the disease had become
painfully prevalent in, both the city and
town.
An Irish gentleman relating some astound
ing feats of British bravery in the Crimea,
was inquired of by §n incredulous listener,
" Faith, sir, if I might be so bould, where
did you get yer intelligence ?" " Shure an'
I fouacl' it in the chape newspaper," was the
answer. " An' do you belave what ye see
in shape publications ?" " Why not, when
it's "a gintleman as prents it?" inquired Mr.
O'Shaughnessy. " Bekase, by the powers,
I don't think they can afford to print so
much truth for so little money."
Ex-Governor C. C. Wasburn, of Wiscon
sin, is said to own the largest flour mill in
America. It is seven stories high, cost
$300,000 and turns out 1,000 barrels of
flour a day.
More than one case of death from scarla
tina has occurred recently at Wallaroo, and
there can be little surprise at the disease
spreading. The local paper states that only
last week we heard of one child dying in a
house, three others being ill, and about fifty
persons assembled, although the house, only
consisted of two rooms. These people
were of all ages and sexes, and, of course,
were doing their very best to spread the
disease, it being so notoriously of a fearfully
contagious character. They have been
asked to go away by medical gentlemen in
attendance, warned of the mischevous con
sequences that must ensue from their
conduct, but all lias been of no use.
Nineteen thousand people paid for admis
sion at the. gates of the New South Wales
Exhibition on Thursday last.
A number of sp'urious sovereigns are in
circulation in New South Wales.
A telegram from Wellington states that
the Governor has renewed for a term of years
the contract with Messrs. MacMeckan,
Blackwood, & Co. for the conveyance of the
Suez mails between Melbourne and New
Zealand^
The Gawler Mercury reports:—A sad case
of drowning occurred at Springfield near
Mount Crawford on Tuesday 21st instant,
-the victim being Miss C. Warren, daughter
of Mi-. J. Warren, J.P., aged 11 years.
Several children including deceased and a
brother 12 months younger were playing in
the neighborhood of a waterhole and by some
means the boy fell in. His sister, seeing him
sinking, sprang in and pushed him towards
the side of the hole whence he was extri
cated by some of his companions who held
out a stick for him to grasp. The deceased,
however sank and as only small children
were around no aid could be extended to
her. The body was recovered half-an-hour
after the accident, by Mr*- Warren, but of
course life was then extinct. Great sym
pathy is felt for the bereaved parents.
The BaUarat Post reports that one of the
most horrible accidents which it is possible
to conceive happened on Thursday after
noon, on the Melbourne-road. A little
fellow, six years of age, son of Mr. Schraeder,
the well-known band-master, was hanging
on to the cart of an old blind organ grinder,
the vehicle being driven by a mere child,
when by some means or other the boy
Schraeder got his leg entangled in the
.wheel, and notwithstanding his piercing
screams the horse was aUowed to go cn
till the wheels had made four distinct re
volutions, at each one of -which pieces of
leg were torn away. When the horse was
stopped the child's clothes were all rent off,
and the place had more the appearance of a
butcher's than anything else. The leg-was
broken to pieces, raw from the thigh to the
ankle, and completely torn out of its socket.
So firmly was it fixed in the cart that the
wheel had to be taken off, and one of the
spokes sawn away, before the child could be
released. He was at once conveyed to the
hospital, when it was found necessary to
peiform an amputation.^
In New York two little orphan boys,
brothers, named respectively Patrick and
Peter Handley, were accused of attempting
to pick pockets in Chatham street. They
are newsboys, the older ten and the younger
eight years old. The former was held and
the latter discharged. As the brothers
were about to be parted, they embraced
each other, and, bursting into tears, cried
aloud as if their hearts would break. Judge
Flanuner and all the spectators in Court
were visibly affected by the touching scene.
"We never parted before, Petie," the elder
brother said, sobbing, "since poor mother
died." Then, as the officer was about taking
him down stairs, Patrick said, with a tone
of real tenderness, " Here, Biibby (and he
took off his overcoat)," you will want this, -
for it's cold outside. The little fellows
separated, and little Petie left the Court
room for the wide, wide world, alone.
From the Australasian it appears that
Signor Rieclotti Garibaldi, a son of Italy's
liberator, General Garibaldi, has been for
some time a resident in Melbourne.
We have at hand no record of a heavier
bullock at home or abroad than the follow
ing, mentioned by, the Wellington (N.Z.)
Evening Post of January 24:—Quite a sen
sation was created on the Queen's Wharf
to-day by the arrival and the landing of the
big bullock Prodigious from Wanganui, in
the steamer Manawatu. For general
length, breadth, depth, and massiveness,
Prodigious beats all bullocks we have ever
come across. He has been purchased for
£120 by Mr. Murdo McLean," who has
brought him down here for the purpose of
exhibition. Prodigious turns the scale at
3,9481b, or 35cwt Iqr. Can any of our
raisers beat that ? The following are his
measurements:—Height, 6ft lin; length,
lift 9in; girth, 9ft lOin; at belly, 10ft
llin: hocks, 5ft ljin; arm, 3ft; "width
across loins, 2ft llin; yoke, 7ft 8inl Hi a
age is eight years, and it is not likely that
a larger-framed or heavier beast was ever
produced south of the line.
An awfully sudden death occurred at the
Bathurst (N.S.W.) Railway Station, and
created some consternation among the
crowd at the terminus. A young man
named Patrick Dean, employed as a railway
porter at the Bathurst station, on the arrival
of the half-past 5 o'clock train which left
Sydney at 9 o'clock a.m., went to the lug
gage van to remove the goods. While con
veying a parcel from the van to the parcel
office he suddenly fell on the platform,
without tripping or stumbling. He was
immediately raised up, but life was found
to be extinct. Dean suffered from delicate
health, and it is surmised that heart disease
wa9 the cause of death.
The opinion gains ground that the Queen
means to abdicate in favor of the Prince of
Wales, as she is getting- too old for" State
affairs, and the Dilkeites fancy that such a
step would, count one for them.
At Hamilton, the eldest son of Mr. Alex.
Thompson, of Pierpoint, who was about 14
years of age, was out shooting1, and while
getting through a fence, his gun went oS and
shot him dead.
The Casterton News says:—" A fine yield
of wheat is reported from Carapook. Mr.
Gilbo has leased 48 acres from Mr. Stock,
and from this paddock he has garnered the
large crop of 532 bags of clean wheat, or an
average of over 41 bushels to the acre."
Men become bald. Why ? Because they
wear close hats iand caps. Women are never
bald. Sometimes, from long-continued
headache, heat in the scalp, bad hair-dress
ing, and some other causes, women may
have bare spots here and there, bat with all
these combined you never see a woman with
a bare, shiny, bald head. And you never
see a man lose a hair below where the hat
touches the skull. It will take it off as
clean as you can shave it down, exactly to
that line,"but never a hair below, not if has
been bald for fifty- years. The common
black stiff hat, as impervious as sheet iron,
retains the heat and perspiration. The
little hair glands, that bear the same relation
to the hair that the seed wheat does to the
plant above ground, become weak from the
presence of the moisture and heat, and finally
become to weak too sustaiu the hair. It
falls out, and. .baldness exists. A fur cap
we have known to produce baldness in a
angle winter. A man with a good head of
haii- needs very little protection where the
hair grows.
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