MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5262, 13 October 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— — — ''— -c- — — — The town of Jefforsonvilje, Indiana, ia a sort pf Q-retna Greon on a hugo scale, for tho eapppjal bonefit of eloping couples from Kontueky. In that town, it ia soid, " hustling and rival hordee of squires and dominies watoh the stations Bnd pounce upon overy creature not positively knoton to bo married already, drag thero to their lairs, and tio the rosy finot. The owkward bumpkin need not loud the blushing Id's from reotory to rootory. He is oeizod and hurried into a ' matrimonii parlour,' nnd thero marriod iv ajiffly, ofton at out rates (with a ohromo thrown m), before witnosaeß kept constantly pn top, and preparod to swear to anything. At an inquest held at Cork as to tho death of a eoldier m the Welsh Regimont a remarkable story of 1 canine aouteness is told. A corporation scavenger working m King stroot was attracted by a dog running up to him ond theii back to a broken hoarding. Tho animal oontinued this conduct so long that the soavonger ot last concluded that tho dog wished to cot him ' idside;- Ho followed tho dog, whioh fed b!iu to whoro tho wounded soldier lay on Borne straw undor the hoards. Anothor dog sat at tho young fpHow'flboa.d.Oßif watching him. When tl)6 ocavoDger broughf, some assistance and the police, tho dog which flrot otlrnptorl attention wap lying shivering at the .soldier's font. In the confusion m attending the man and having him convoyed to tho hospital no further notioo was taken of tho animals, hut thb jiblico aro now' making every effort to truce them, Tho medical tokti-iony wont to siioy f,ljat tho deooasod died from: a compound' fracture of the skull, ond an open • vordfafc was returned. ' >

The Bwodes havo become very 6kilful m the manufacture of cutlery. The town of Eskilstuna, lying not far from the westorn end of Mielar Lake, is cow widely known as the]" Sheffield of Sweden." Here are situated a doaon or more faotorios, whioh turn oul_lhe finest outlery and tools. Eekilstuna razors, penknives, and jecisßors are well-known and highly prized m almoflt every country.