ENGLISH ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 920, 5 December 1879, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

A tunnel through Mount Blanc is contemp a ted by the Breach Government, who have charged a Savoyard engineer to ill aw up plans tor the scheme. The old Arctic vessel, “Resolute” has been finally broken up, and three designs have been sent to the Admiralty for a memorial compose I of her timbers, and intended for the American Government.

Many of the artificial wreaths at the Prince Imperial’s funeral, were, curiously enough, of German origin, the Pans and London florists were unahle to execute the whole of the flowers required in the lime given.

Torpedo salutes are the latest novelties i» the American navy. When a foreign admiral recently visited the New York naval station the usual welcome from big guns was omitted, but eleven torpedoes were exploded in honor of the distingnishe 1 guest.

Another attempt to cross the Atlantic in a small boat was recently made by a Dane and his wife. After being six weeks at sea they were picked up by a Liverpool vessel in a very sorry plight

A practical French doctor, so s-iys a Paris paper, notes down the number of his patients who have die 1 at the various health resorts to which he has recommended them. When an invalid consults him as to the most, favorable spot for his or her particular malady, lie studies his list, and sends his patient to the place which has killed the fewest.

A French physician spates that coursed hares are less wholesome than trapped or shot game, and that decomposition will set in within a very few hours of the death of a hare at the end of a long run. Mr Thomas Spurgeon, son of the Rev. C 11. Spurgeon, is in such failing health that he lias been compelled to give up all his pulpit engagements, and to leave for Australia, the climate of which, it is thought, may restore him.