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MISCELLANEOUS.

The " Chinese Twins" recently exhibit at Vienna are two boys united on t.cs breast, and were born in 1887 at Nanking. The mother is twenty years old, and the father eighteen, at the time, and both were normal. The twins are of ordinary intelligence, and one can sleep while the other wakes, but infection passes from one to the other. Whisky was given to one of them, but it was the other who showed the most signs, of drunkenness. Mr William Redmond was roaring in Parliament defiance of the Saxon, and denunciation of the brutalities committed upon helpless women and children. "If I," he shouted, " belonged to this race of Boers the benches opposite, and a burst of laughter interrupted the tirade. A eheque for £25,679 18s 7d for probate duty in the estate of Edward Keep, of Lonsdale street, Melbourne, ironmonger, has been paid into the Probata Office. The executors estimated the value of the estate at £245,093, but investigations in the Probate Office raised the amount found to b& available for duty to £256,799. At Cairns (Q.) the other clay a woman named Porter, alias Jones, was sentenced to a month's "hard "for masquerading in male attire. Taken before the local court, the P.M. asked sternly : "Are you not ashamed of yourself? " She did not admit that she was, but sought to soften the magisterial heart by the confession " I have only been twice in the lock-up before." Her offencawas defined in the charge-sheet as "disorderly conduct.'" Some curious facts are given with reference to London buses. Each of those of the General Omnibus Company, numbering 1,320 runs on an average sixty-four miles a day, carries 420 passengers, and earns £2 10s. Attached to each bus is a stud of twelve horses, of which only ten, or five pairs, are worked in any one day, thus ensuring a complete day's rest for each pair every sixth dav. A'Melbourne jury the other day awarded Mrs Mary Lynnott £241 damages, and her daughter' Edith £452 damages, for injuries they suffered at the hands of the Railway Department some months ago, when, during the shunting of a train, a van was lifted off its wheels and shot along the end platform at Prince's Bridge station. The two ladies, when crossing the platform, were projected by the van into an array of raspberry buckets. M. Sven Hedin has discovered a second Dead Sea in the highlands of vast lake so impregnated with salt that indigenous life is out of the question. It was iivTpossible to get the boat close to the shore, so that he and his companions had to wade out two boats' lengths before she would float, and this was sufficient to bring a thick coating of salt on their legs and clothes. The entire bed of the lake appeared to consist of salt, and the density of the lifeless water was of course very highThere is an outcry already against the increasing cost of the Commonwealth central administration. Every officer transferred from the other States to Melbourne is, in addition to his salary, drawing just now from 10s to £2 2s a week extra, according to his grade, for "expenses"—this payment being considered equivalent to his board and lodging outlay when compelled to live away from the place in which he has his home. 'These payments will, it is said, be continued until the Federal capital is ready for occupation, because it is argued neither Sydney nor Melbourne can be regarded as the Commonwealth capital. The people of Malta are opposed f to taxation by Order-in-Council, and in their indignation* tore down the Union Jack at the local Union Club. The incident was caused by the Legislative Council declining to vote supplies for schools and public works. The police had no difficulty in restoring order. The prison statistics of Scotland show that, there Avere 60,503 committals during 1900—39,795 males and 20,708 females—the largest number of persons imprisoned in a single year. Allowing for' recommittals, it is estimated that the convictions represented the offences and crimes of only about 41,000 persons, some of whom had been sent to prison fifty times and upwards. The Commissioners state that many convictions must be the case " where the "prisons are so full of drunkards." The other dav the registrar of births at Whittlesev (Cambridgeshire) had three callers. The first came to announce the birth of his twenty-first child, the second the birth of his nineteenth, the third of his seventeenth. And yet the population of Cambridgeshire is stated in the census to be stationary.

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Dunstan Times, Issue 2092, 27 August 1901, Page 3

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MISCELLANEOUS. Dunstan Times, Issue 2092, 27 August 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. Dunstan Times, Issue 2092, 27 August 1901, Page 3

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