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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1705, 20 June 1874, Page 2

A Termont newspaper announces that ifc3 minimum charge for • a first-class marriage notice will be fifteen pounds of dried apples. Notices with " poetry, cost twelve pounds of onions more.

HOW TO OBTAIN HIGE-COIOBED CANAeies.—Egg, biscuit, and cayenne pepper. These are the only ingredients used by us which have proved so successful in procuring the high color so .much admired.—Journal of Horticulture.

." The Bbute ! "—A Waterbury man has christened his daughter Glycerine. He says it will be easy to prefix " Nitro " ' if her temper resembles her mother's. . Sea-sickness.—The opinions <so commonly held in regard to sea-sickness; namely, that it is due either,to a congestion of the brain, or to a commotion in-line abdominal viscera caused by the motioi£of the vessel, are very plausibly combatted by M. Pellerin, who, in a paper read before the French Academy, attributes the malady to a deranged circulation of the blood produced by the. alternate rolling and heaving of the vessel. The result of this, he says, is not a congestion of the brain, which is, on the contrary, deprived of ' some of the blood required- to 1- keep up a stimulus of that nervons centre; that sensation which is Jfelt in *ea-sickness resembling peculiarly what ii felt immediately after a letting of blood;' when the patient sits or stands, namely, a disposition s t» vomit, or actual vomiting.' In support of this opinion, mention is mads of the fact that persons who are liable to seasickness experience its effects in a much, slighter degree, when they are in a hoiizontal position, the-relief thus afforded being like that which is produced in the same position when a person is in a T state of hyncope. ' '"'*'. The Tichboksb Case and the Pbess.— . We ( Law Journal) heartily agree with Mr Justice Mellor as " to the restraints that have been imposed upon the Press, and the extent of the pewer of fine and commitment. "-' We have read the suggestion that, if the Press- had been free to comment on the trial, there would have been no public sympathy for the defendant. That is true, and we may add, that there would have been no ■ Strong public * feeling against the defendant;. But would ■ that have been just ? Would if not have : i b.een most unjust that a man, being tried ', fora criminal offence, should be publicly condenned before the trial was over? What we want is a fair, trial before a jury and that end would not be promoted by the Press commenting on an issue sub judice. Mr Justice Mellor says,—"There -. is no greater friend of the freedom of the Press than myself." .. No greater '-' proof of friendship can- be given ,by a judge than a firm opposition to any abuse ; of the power or privileges of the Press. ,V The reason why the Press of England is "7 free is because it pays a willin^and honor- ' * able homagejfco the majesty of "the law. , That which Happened to an . Eldeb.—He bought'a tomato toi take *-' home for seed.. He put it into his"coat- ' ' tail pocket and forgot all about it, aniuo did not -wear, that coat again unti* he % t went to church on Sunday.' While he ,/*] was taking part in the collection he felt *• * as if he must sneeze, and he put his hand „' into the tomato-pockefc to get his handker- I-, chief. A look of pain and amazement mingled'upou hia countenance with the preliminary contortions of the sneezo. ; 3 .But the sneeze would come, and in his '(/ confusion he dropped* the money-box, jer- v' ked Ijis hand out of his, pocket, and, in "'V endeavouring to. support ftimself, pjacgd :« ".' his band, covered all over with mashed 7 „ tomato, upon the shoulder of old Mrs-— ■ ! who safe at the head of the adjoining pew. I '•'[ As soon as she perceived the mess upon '• - ! her new dress, she rose, and forgettinc * ' the srtcredness of the place, hit the Elder i -l j over the load with her umbrella, upon fvj wlncli he "precipitately' fled from the : l church, the P»)-7^'ion declaring that I ■ Mrs had daslftft out' the Elder's '- 1 br B n««, and she was escorted to his hbuso '' ? to bo given iv eh u-go—n-fien, after much" \' delay and much fainting, the truth came ;! out-out of the door-in the person of 'I the cleansed Elder. '- * jJ

Domestic young kdy ;(making a pie). "Franlr.tbe.kit'cnen's no place for boys; Has dough such attraction for your" Clever youth.: "It isn't the doiigh, cousin —it's the dear?" I

i V A. Scotchman who ; had put up ,atj an iun wasaskcd in tlie morning how he had slept. "All mon, "replied. Donald, '''nae "vera .well either ; but 1 was muckle better off than bugs, for dc'llanc o' them; close an e'e the hale nick." r

:Tdb Tichijoeki! Cask—Another Claimant.—The result of the rerdict in this case hasnotaltosethcr closed d.scusMon on thr subject., Mr. Arthur Cubitt, MissingFrienis Offl^i Sydney.has received SS^mostsure,.! can give you some respecting the Me of; S,r Boeer. Having been m a public business Seyearsago, not very far from .Melbourne, I heard of a man answenug.his description having the Tichborne initials on his arm, also the emblems of Faith, Hope; and Charity, and likcness_p a woumn. He, was wrcked m the /Bella, th^uglrhoiiHnj? a red shirt to Wnoar, on an island. Many other things I could tell that would lead to the belief that he was in a changcel name, and when asTce'cl why he went in a disgmsed name, lie said, ' Ho was^ixed .ug'in- a horse'stealing case in Tasmania, and h o wculd never disgrace his mother. He vfas often heard to speak of Bogle, whose nam« appeared at the late trial." The writer of the above letter goes on to say : • It you could appoint any person in Melbourne to see me on the matter, I will gladly give him all particulara."—Communicated.