THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.
'■» The longest word in the English, or rather Welsh, language has, after a long period of oblivion, been once more exhumed. It is robgllgerchwyrobyllgogerbwllzanttvsiliogogogoch. Thi3 awful word of 72 letters and 22 syllables, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by the Rev. J. King, M.A., at the Museum, Berwick, in which, he showed that it means : — " St. Mary's white hazel pool, near the turning pool, near the whirlpool, verynear the pool by Llantsilio, fronting tlie rocky islet of Gogo." A novelty in silver is the discovery of a process of electro-plating with, silver upon wood, and its adaptation to handles of all kinds, including umbrellas, canes, carving knives, &c. The silver is thrown upon the wood by a process which has proved extremely difficult in practice. The deposit of silver, of course, follows all the peculiarities of the wood, and the ordinary handle is simply garnished in most ineradicable silver. The special advantage is in the variety of designs that may be produced. The following sentence from the Rev. Mr Runciman's speech at the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery last week, is of much importance : " It is believed by competent authorities that if the New Hebrides Islands are given over to France they will be populated by convict Frenchmen, all of whom have been drilled, and these, in event of war would to a man volunteer to attack the colonies, and the French have owned that they would be of great use for such a purpose. Tnis being so, the annexation of these Islands by France would compel the adjacent colonies to go to additional expense in protecting themselves." Dr Wendell Holmes has been saying a good word for the dentists. He referred with compassion to the forlorn condition of some of the great personages of history in the days when there were no dentista, as, for instance, " poor King David, a worn-out man at seventy, probably without teeth and certainly without spectacles," and Walter Savage Landor and his " melancholy complaint that he did not mind losing his intellectual faculties, but loss of his teeth he felt to be a very great calamity." Of the dental pro* fession the doctor said : "It has established and prolonged the reign of beauty ; it has added to the charms of social intercourse and lent perfectioa to the accents of eloquence ; it has taken from old age its most unwelcome feature, and lengthened enjoyable human life far beyond the limit of the years when the toothless and poor blind patriarch might well exclaim, ' I have no pleasure in them.' " Two little girls, children belonging to Mr J. Davey, were playing near their parent's house one Sunday lately, when one of them, in stooping to soak a biscuit, fell into a water hole 6ft. deep. The youngest of the children — a girl under three years of age, not only screamed for assistance but laid down on the grasa, stretched her arm over the water-hole, and catching hold of her sister by the hair of the head, held her up till help arrived, Such presence of mind in a child so young is remarkable, — ' Woodvile Examiner.'
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1754, 1 June 1886, Page 3
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532THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES. Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1754, 1 June 1886, Page 3
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