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Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 77, 10 May 1866, Page 3

I made a box and filled it with mould. In the mould I sowed some seed, and then placed it in my windowsill, and what do you think came up 1 —A policeman, and told me to take it J down again. c I An old bachelor, who has dined out on Christmas day for several years,saya, "If when you visit a friend his wife tells you in a husky voice to ' make yourself at home,' obey her literally as soon as possible." Count D'Orsay, who, in days of his prosperity prided himself in having horses, carriages, and his own toilet of the most expensive and recherche kind, consoled himself, when less fortunate, with the resolution to possess "de finest ombi'ella in London." Experiments on the transfusion of blood, which were frequently made two centuries ago, are again engaging the attention of physiologists. M.M. Eulenburg and Landois, who have lately been making numerous investigations of this nature, have ascertained that animals poisoned by opium may be kept alive by what is called combined transfusion, drawing away the poisoned blood, and substituting healthy blood taken from an animal of the same species. It has also been ascertained that animals may be kept alive when deprived of food, by periodical transfusion. —Athenosum. The ship Orient, 1032 tons, Captain John Harris, the arrival of which with a cargo of wool, &c, has already leen announced, and which sailed from Ade-

laide November 10, brings the report that on Friday, Nov. 17, at 7.15 a.m., when in lafc. 51 4sis. and long. 160 49 E., .with a moderate wind from NNW. and a clear sky, the ship commenced ringing the bells and trembling violently, as if she were passing over a rough bottom in shallow water. In an instant all was confusion on board, as the crew and passengers thought she was settling down. The violent trembling lasted two or three minutes with nothing visible, Sounded the pumpwell and found no water ; and sounded over the ship's side with the deep sea lead, but found no bottom. The conclusion arrived at by all on board was that the ship had experienced the effects of a submarine volcano. — The Globe.