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Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1280, 31 December 1869, Page 4

Me. Bolckow, M.P., who a year ago gave a public park to Middlesborough, has now presented a block of buildings, erected at a cost of £6000, for use as national schools. The buildings will accommodate 900 scholars. They were opened on. September 22 by the Duke of Devonshire. Mb. Bobert Babnes, of Manchester, has presented to the Boyal Infirmary in that city, Chadale Hall estate, also £10,000 to be devoted to the extension of the charity. Strange Pboposal of Mummy Eevival. —A Sweedish chemist has come to the conclusion that the Egyptian mummies are not all, as has been said and believed for some thousands of years, bodies embalmed by any process of preservation whatever, but that they are really the bodies of individuals whose life has been momentarily suspended, with the intention of restoring them at some future time, only the secret of preservation has been lost. He took a snake, and treated it in such a manner as to benumb it as though it had been carved in marble, and it was so brittle that had he allowed it to fall it would have broken into fragments. In this state he kept it for one or several years, then restored it to life by sprinkling it with a stimulating fluid the composition of which is his secret. The professor is reported to have sent a petition to hia Government requesting that a criminal who has been condemned to death may be given to him, to treat in the same manner as the snake, promising to restore him to life iv two years. Curious Case op Spontaneous Combustion.—Au embankment on the Oxford and Wolverhampton Bailway, at Dudly, has been partially distroyed by a singular accident. The line is constructed over a bed of solid coal, which in one case comes to the surface. Owing to some mysterious cause the coal has ignited, and is still smouldering, and, to add to the insecurity of the embankment, the accumulation of water on the line is greater than can be carried off by the ordinary channels. As yet, however no stoppage of the traffic has oceured. " Heabstbong Boy."—New Hampshire, (America) boasts of a boy eleven years old, who is "extremely vicious and headstrong;" so much sC, indeed, that on September 4 he entered a room where old Mrs. Sparhawk, his grandmother, was sitting with a Mrs. Starkweather, and shot the former lady dead with a small revolver so quickly that Mrs. Starkweather could not tell who fired the shot. At first he denied having any knowledge of the affair, but at the inquest, with "true childish candour," he confessed he j was the murderer, adding apologetically that he wanted to get the " old critter out of I the way." It seems that Master Sparhawk had planned the murder for a month, and that matters were brought to a crisis by a few words he had with his aged relative con- | corning the duty of obedience. i Universal Penny BAiLWAYB.—The Lon- ' don Globe says:— "The promoters of a ! system of ' Universal Benny Bailwaya' have matured, and now submit far public con-

sidefation, a scheme by which, as they be* lieve, the so-called ' impossibility' of penny railways, may be overcome. The bW*: of I the plan is, of course, the assumption of all the railways by the State. By, a number of economical changes in the management of the traffic—for example, doing away with tickets in the case of third-class passengers, who constitute two-thirds of the entire bulk of travellers by railways, and by the iostituI tion of' stop stations'—the projectors of the scheme expect to produce results ofthe most j startling character; Eor example, in the ,' People's Glass' passengers will be conveyed from London to Holyhead for ls. 6d; from London to Edinburgh, ls. lid. The system ' stops' may be explained as follows:—At a 'stop station' the traveller will leave the train, and if he desires to go further will pass through an c on-roora,' and pay a toll of one penny to the next station. It is anticipated that the system will enable the managers to save a large sum in wear and tear of carriages. Hoixowav's Puts.—With the darkening days and changing temperatures tbe digestion becomes impaired, the liver disordered, and the mind despondent unless the cause of the irregularity be expelled from the blood and body by an alterative like these Pills. They go directly to the source of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the circulation, reduce distempered organs to their natural state, and correct all defective or contaminated secretions. Such easy means of instituting health, strength, and cheerfulness should be in the possession of all whose stomachs are weak, whose minds are much harassed, or whose brains are overworked. Holloway's is essentially a blood tempering medicine whereby its influence reaching the remotest fibre of the frame, effects a universal good.— Advt.