MISCELLANEOUS.

Western Star, Issue 835, 16 April 1884, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A tenant bad been dancing all night over the head of his landlord. At six in the morning the latter comes upstairs and complains bitterly of the annoyance. “ What annoyance ?” asks the (tenant. “ Why, I haven’t slept a wink all night,” is the answer. “ Neither” have says the tenant, “ and yet I don’t make any fuss about it.” At the criminal session at Adelaide the Judge ordered tin acquitral of a prisoner named Magnus, charged with biting off the ear of a constable who arrested him, on the ground that the policeman had acted improperly. A serious charge has been made against the wholesomeness of New Zealand tinned mutton exposed for sale in a London suburb. The facts are reported to be as follows.—One day a lad nine years of age was sent to nrocure 3oz or tinned mutton from a grocer in Butterbigger road. He and another brother and his mother partook of a small portion of the meat, and all became seriously ill, the eldest boy dying in the course of the afieinoon, the others ultimately recovering Strange to, say, no suspicion was at first attached to tbe tinned meat, which the jgrocer continued to sell to his customers. l' vo da > s later a child between two and three years of age died after ea'mg a little of the tinned mutton, and the doctor who attended him gave it as his opinion that ho bad been poisoned by tinned meat. Some twelve or fourteen other in the neighborhood were , all found to be sufferiur after having partaken of of the tinned meat purchased from the same grocer. They are now happily out of danger. The police took pos. sossion of the unsold portion of the tinned mutton, and it is to be care fully analysed. The body of the hov who first died is to be exhumed for tbe purpose of a post mortem exSS being made. It is state! that the tins out of which -New Ze. laud mutton is sold do not, as a rule, bear tbe name of any manufacturer or importer, but that in this instance they were stamped with what Vs known as the “ Imperial ” brand The mat er of the Islington Workhouse School traces a mysterious connection between the scarlet fever epidemic which has raged in the schools for some time and the . consumption of Australian meat (presumably tinned) by the children. He has applied to the board of governors for permission to the, .food, and to give the children something more nourishing. The medical officer supported this action, and it was decided to omit the Australian meat from the new dietaiy table. Australian meat in store m the school was ordered to be sent to the workhouse for consumption. A great deal of it is given as outdoor relief, but it was alleged that it would not injuriously affect children having plenty street exercise. It is in that wav that the lower orders are prejudiced against the use of Australian meat. % was exactly one year on Monday (writes the Lyttelton Times) since the departure of the first cargo o frozen meat fronv Lyttelton tor the Old Country. A few statistics illustrating the works since done in connection with the industry may therefore be of interest to our readers. On Apiil 7, 1883, that s.s. British King Mt Lyttelton with a cargo of 6198 carcasses of mutton. Since that day over 80,005 sheep and lambs have b<?en despatched from Canterbury to the English market, making a total of 86 795 exported in 17 shipments. In addition to these there are now 12,296 carcases either on shipboard at Lvttelton or at the Belfast Works awaiting shipment. The grand tola of sheep and lambs killed at Belfast for freezing purposes during the year is thus 99,091. Twelve months ago

215 sheep were frozen every day. Now the average daily rate while the works are in operation, is 430 carcasses —exactly double the number disposed of at the beginning of the period. The almost juvenile Mis Stirling, the best “ old woman” of the English stage of to-day —the ideal Nurse, Widow Green, and Marquise St. M; aur —is the subject of a pen-and-ink sketch iu the ‘ World, 5 of which the following is the concluding paragi aph : —“ We' can see her as the girl ot fifteen —the daughter of a poor halfpay officer endowed with one of the enormous families in the possession of which such unlucky persons are only rivalled by curates-devounug every book she coul l lay her- hands upon, and at last going, without prel mmary leaching of any kind, to a little Eastend theatre, 10 ask that she might be allowed to act something that would just give her biead and relieve her family ol her charge. We can eaisly realise the kindly old East-end manager, who, while astounded at the ilea of a raw girl, without any kind of theatrical training, attempting to act, ; was yet naturally struck with the beauty and grace of the ‘ of bashful fifteen with her voice, which 1 albeit not yet fully rounded or skilI 1 . 1 1 - » V\W H 'll ll 1

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