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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 147, 25 September 1895, Page 4

Old newspapers are said to bo of value in wrapping; up winter clothing in the summer, because the printers' ink is as noxious to the moths and their larvro as camphor and coal-tar. The longest telephone-wire span in the world has just been completed. It is stretched across Lake Yalen in Switzerland, connecting the town of Quinten, near Leistkmann, with Murg. The total length measures about 80,000 i'cet. At a meeting of an English life assurance society the other day, it was stated that they had paid £52,700 for deaths caused directly by influenza, which had cost them two and a-hajf times more loss in two years than cholera had done in 43 years. Mrs McKay, the wife of a furniture maker, attended a skating carnival in Bendigo, Victoria, on July 24th, and on leaving the hall about midnight, trod on a lucifer. She was dres-ed in a light costume, representing the character of' 'Snow," and itimmediately took lire. A constable throw his overcoat over her, extinguishing the flames. She was badly burned about the arms, chest, and face.