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Evening Star, Issue 9807, 21 September 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

So penetrating is water at high pressure that only special' qualities of cast-iron will be tight against it. In the early days of the hydraulic jack it was no uncommon thing to see water issuing like a fine needle through the metal, and the water needle would penetrate the unwary finger just as readily as a steel one. A wife sued her husband, in the Court of Queen’s Bench, London, the other day, for £4OO lent him soon after their marriage, and which he invested in His business. He eventually entered into a composition with bis creditors, but the judge ordered the wife to be paid in full. A whale has never been known to go on a sail, but a herring often has a roe.