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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 904, 18 February 1875, Page 4

From Poverty Bar, says • contemporary, comet the story of a successful transplanting of *teeth. TTie p«ti<nt, a boy about 13 years of age, possessed a left lateral incisor, which was evidently a superfluous tooth, while the corresponding tooth on the right hand side was 'decayed and useless. A local dentist, named Wilson, thinking that it would be a most favorable case for transplantation, removed the decayed tooth, extracted the lateral incisor, and • inserted it in the space lately occupied by its decayed fellow. The tooth, which was duly pressed into position, at first caused some slight inflammation, but in about a week after the operation all pain subsided, and it was as firmly rooted in the jaw as if it had grown there from the comencemeot The Newcastle correspondent of the Maitland Mercury stales that a young inan, nam<d Leonard, residing at Wallsend. was stung by a ray whilst fishing on the Hunter Biver at Hexham, recently. The fish had been caught and deposited in the bottom of the boat without being seen by Leonard, and he unfortunately happened to s*ep on the brute, when he instantly received the barb, immediately above the ankle rn the inside of the leg. Leonard describes the sensation as being heated round the wound, whilst the pain up the sinews was excruciating. A large knot formed itself in the -groin, and gave him great pain. Spirits were applied both externally and internally, and in a few hours all traces, with the exception of the wound itself disappeared. The Wellington Tribune says that the following conversation took place the other day between two Maories, which illustrates pretty clearly the idea they have of our insolvency laws:—lst Maori—"How the Pakeha turn insolvent?" 2nd Maori—"You show me halfsovereign. I show you how Pakeha make insolvent. No 1 handed the desiredcointo No. 2, who thereupon put it in his pocket, and walked off, saying—"Now then, me insolvent. Kaipai" The following is related in the Hobart Town Mercury : —The passer-by may observe every -morning, near the battery in the Queen s Domr.in, two or three youths practising the tune of cricket. As soon as play commences a brindled bull-dog, named Turk, owned by one of the players, takes up a position just behind aoe of the wickets. When the batsman fails to bit a ball, Turk, as wicket-keeper and backstop, receives it, and then carries it to his master. If the I tall is sent in the air to point, the animal runs out, and seldom fails to eatr'i if in his mouth. As for leather hunting, it would take a very active man to rival Turk in that capacity. Tre American Circus Company, before leaving Ohristchurch, g»ve a handsome jrold watch as a prize for the best original conundrum Ther> were a hundred and fiftr competitors, and the prize fell to the author of the following: "Why is this circus like America before her Independence ?—Because it has a King for its aasu-r, a Bird as one of its emblems, and one of itf principal characteristics is Blow.