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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5099, 8 October 1891, Page 1

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At the Orange cattle saleyards, New South Wales, two bullocks were condemned as diseased. When they were killed large tumors were cut out of their carcases.

Misfortunes soften our natures, says the philosopher, and lie is quite right the man who sits on. a custard pie at a picnic never turns his back on a friend. Engraving by dynamite is the latest Yankee notion. Some American officers, whilst experimenting with explosives, discovered that a dried leaf had found its way between the dynamite cartridge and the iron block from which it was fired, and that after the explosion a perfect imprint of the leaf was left on the iron. After this, other experiments were carried out, the imprints of various objects being found of the greatest delicacy and distinctness when the dynamite was discharged under water. According to a recent report of U.b. Consul Jewett the fat-tailed sheep of Asia Minor is replacing the finer breeds in that country. The tail is a mass of fat, and sometimes weighs 181b, thus lending credibility to a story of Herodotus that in Cilicia the sheep had little carts under their tails to help them along. These tails appear to be a reserve fund of nourishment for the animal, like the camel's hump, for it has been observed that during times of drought, when pasturage is scanty," the sheep grows very little thinner in the body, but the tail becomes gradually smaller.