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Western Star, Issue 1575, 1 July 1891, Page 3

An extraordinary escape from a fatal accident occurred at Htionville, Tasmania, recently. A.'teacher at the State school was fitting pistol bullets, one of his pupils had brought him in a loaded pistol, when it exploded. A ball struck a lad .named Sydney Voss on the left side just under the heart. The boy was taken to Hobart, where a surgeon operated, and found the ball in the muscles of the back. The doctor is of opinion that the ball went right through the body, as no circuitous route is traceable. Young Voss is now recovering.

HOW AN OIISINATE COUGH WAS CUKISJJ.—• "An aged lady of my acquaintance was for many ypars troubled with a Chronic Coueh so severe tiiat sbe seldom bad an hour's quiet sic op. After spending al 1 her substamr in modicine, she was persaaded to try Baxtff's Lung which, under God's blessing, soon cured hor. Rev. S. Sellaks." Extract from a Book for Every Home.

"Kick the bucket"—To die.—Norfolk. A ccordin,? to Eorby, s metaphor taken from the descent of a well or mine, which (pays the editor of the 41 Slang Dictionary") is, of course, absurd. (We presume the editor knew little of mining or well-sinking, otherwise ho would have known that it is a common practice to descent shafts standing on a bucket attached to a windlass by a rope ) The Rev. E. S. Tavlor, supplies the following note from his M. S. additions to the work of the East Anglian lexicographer: ' The allusion is to the way in which a slaughtered pig is hung up —viz., by passing the ends of a bent piece of wood behind the tendons of the hind legs, and so suspending it to a hook in the beam above. This piece of wood is locally termed a bucket, and so by a coarse metaphor the phrase came to signify to die." Another correspondent says the reA signification of this phrase is to commit suicide by hanging from a method planned and carried out by an ostler at an inn on the Great North road (England). Standing on a bucket, he tied himself to a beam in she stabie. He then kicked tie bucket away from under his feet, and in a few seconds was dead. The Natives of the West Indies have converted the expresion into kiekerctboo. " Bough on Piles."—Why suffor pibs. Immediate relief and complolo cure gimran'end. Ask for "Rough on Piles." Sure cure for itching, protruding, bleeding, or any form piles. A youug man named Goorgo Syrrofc wa B committed for trial at Chrislchuroh on Monday for uttoiiDg a silvered penny for a halfcrown.