MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1183, 22 September 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Pan Francisco papers record an extraordinary cure of smallpox patients by an accident. Sixteen men, when being conveyed from the ship in which they were attacked to the hospital, were thrown into the sea by the upsetting of the boat, and were thoroughly drenched with sea water, and sat in their wet clothes for an hour afterwards. The medical men looked for a large percentage of deaths after " treatment "of this kind, butall the men made an extraordinary recovery, while others who had been attacned at the-^flfe* time were still far from convalescent The San Francisco people are inquiry I ing whether a salt water bath is the right treatment for smallpox.

One morning a week or two back, a nice young man got into a car on the Dayton Shore Line Railroad, and saw to his delight the only vacant seat was by the side of a young lady acquaintance. I : c reached for the seat with joyous strides, and her eyes answered his delighted looks. But just as he got there an elderly party from the other end of the car waltzed up the aisle and dropped into the coveted seat. The young man approached more slowly, and accosted the young lady, "Is he able to get out V " Oh, yes," she said. " Will he be very badly marked 1 " he continued, and the old gentleman grew suddenly interested. " Oh, no," said the fair deceiver ; " with the exception of a few small pits on liis forehead, you would never know he had ever had it, " ' Were you not afraid of taking it?" j the young man went on, while the old gentleman broke out in a cold perspiration. " Not at all,' she replied, I have been vaccinated, you know." The seat was vacated instantly, two young hearts beat as half a dozen, and the prattle of " nice talk " strewed, that part of the car, while a grey haired old man scowled upon them from the hard accommodation of ti^ wood-box. I

While James MacEwan, age ten years, was enjoying a sail in a small

■oat with his father and uncle off the; Rnellan Shore. Firth of "Clyde, he observed a whale and became frightened. He fell into a tit and died before his father could pull the boat to the. shore. ■

A woman named Maria Roberts, a few days ago, at Liverpool laid herself down in a bath in a laundry, and pulled a large earthen were pan over her head to keep her head under water. She had also placed a carving knife beside the bath. The coroner's jury found the deceased committed suicide while suffering from temporary insanity induced by religious mania.

A Miss Buchanan once rallying her cousin, an odicer, on this courage, said : " Now, Harry, do you mean to tell me you can walk right up to a cannon's mouth without fear!' 'Yes,' was the prompt reply, 'or to a Buchanan's '-•ithcr.' And he did it.

The man, Antonio Gschnell, who recently * murdered his comrade Knoll at Stratford, is forty years of age, and when he jyas sent to the lunatic asylum at Nelson last year he said he gave himself up to the police because Jie wanted rest The medical gentleman who examined Gschnell had a long conversation with him, and he then'said " that his beast religion told him that he must take human life." He also told Sergeant Duffin that he must shoot him, because he would be the proper man. Why Gschnell was released from custody seeing that he had homicidal tendencies is rather unaccountable, and is a matter which should be enquired into.

Parisian society is now suffering from acute Anglomania. The men and women are Anglicised from head to foot. Even the little milliner girls are now wearing aesthetic sleeves puffed at the shoulder. The cafes are not taking the names of taverns and bars. ; The very language is being transformed by Fan infusion of Knglish elements. The aristocrats give their children English names, and in high society it is considered the right thing to have none but English sei rants, and to speak to them in English. French novels are abandoned in Javei; of Thackeray and Dickens, or He'rbeit w pericer, who is a great favourite with' the ladies there. Dinner is served in the English style. On some tables even English dry sherry has made its appearance. In short the M chic Anglais" is all the rage, the Prince of Wales is the modern French exquisite's model of manners and excellence.

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