MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1055, 1 March 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

* Oliver Cromwell's Head' stuck on a spike over Westminster Hall, after the Protector's body was dragged out of the Abbey by the returned Royalists, is the subject of an article in the Phrenological Journal. The embalmed head,' with the iron spike still in it, is the property of Mr Horace Wilkinson of Seven-oaks, Kent

A very painful sensation has been , caused in several circles in Sydney, at the the news received of the death of young Dr FouttV* native of the colony from diptheria, caught in the performance of the operation of tracheotomy on a patient dying from the complant sin the Glasgow Infirmary. This young gentleman had acquired a world wide reputation in connection with an operation which he was the first to perform, the removal of the larynx for cancerous disease, and the successful substitution of the natural organ by an artificial contrivance. His early decease must be regared in the light of a considerable national loss. Seeing that so many brilliant members of the medical profession have lost their own lives in connection with the local treatment of casfes of diptheria, and how inevitable it is that the contagion will take effect if any impinge on the operator's lips it is surprising no precautions are taken. In Dr Foulis's case a common respirator would have constituted a sufficient protection.

A young Danish lady residing in Melbourne recently became the victim of a most extraordinary hallucination. She imagined a gentleman named M'lvor was Christ, and insisted on keeping close to him wherever he went in the streets, and even in his own house. He tried to persuade her that she was making a mistake, but she refused to be convinced, and at last he gave her in charge. The magistrate before whom she had to appear reasoned ana argued with her, but she stoutly maintained that she was not in any way wrong. She v had found the Lord, and did not mean to leave him." She was let go on her husband promising to it;!-;-; ui:\i\,;«-, of

The New York World says that the forty people of Brooklyn who madehorses of themselves and " who, in the harness of enthusiasm, drew Patti and her Nicolini in their carriage to the hotel, were not hired to do so by her manager, Mr Abbey." It is not, then, probable that they made horses of themselves ; because horses have to be hired, while such men make asses of themselves gratuitously. Mr Beetham, R M. of Christchurch has ruled that an entry in a book was not sufficient to constitute proof of a debt, unless supported by some outside evidence. A London solicitor recently tendered a bill, in which the last item was thus stated—" To dining with you after the case was lost"

About 12,000 persons are now engaged in factories of various kinds. This numfcer represents about a fortieth of the total European population of this Colony. The Nelson Colonist of the 24 ulfe mentions, ' as showing the immense quantity of fruit that is being purchased for Mr Kirkpatrick's new jam manufactory, that on the previous day alone 702 lbs of apricots, 600 lbs of plums, 30 lbs strawberries, and 4120 lbs of apples were received Five thousand four hundred and fifty-two pounds of fruit purchased in one day, orchards and gargens are reaping great benefit from the establishment of the Jam Factory in this City.