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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 343, 14 November 1879, Page 16

Mr. J. Fleming reports for the week ending Nov. 11. 1879: — Wholesale prices, oats, Is lOd to 2s per bushel ; milling wheat, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel ; chicks, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; barley, malting, 5s 6d per bushel : feed. 3s to 3s 6d ; pollard, £5 10s per ton ; bran, £5 5s per ton ; flour, £11 10s to £12 per ton ; o<ttmeal, £12 10s per ton ; potatoes, £6 10s to £6 5s per ton ; hay, £4 per ton ; chaff, £4 to £4 5a per ton ; straw, £2s om per ton ; onions, 20s per c«vt.

A suicide took place on Monday night at the holies Bcrgere, Paris, under very peculiar circumstances, Tbe man appears, from a letter found on his corpse, to be a devotee of science. The letter runs thus : " I desire that ray body be given to the Faculty of Medicine to study. I shoot myself because lam suffering from an incurable disease. In sp ; te of that lam as strong as a horse, and cannot die. Let me be very carefully dissected. I Bhall afford the doctors a very curious study." Another martyr has fallen in Memphis. Father John Fahey, assistant Rector of St. Patrick's Church in that scourged city. This devoted priest was only 34 years old and died within four hours after his first attack. May his faithful soul find eternal rest. Imitation meerscham pipes are now manufactured from potatoes in France. A peeled potato is placed in sulphuric acid and water, in the proportion of eight parts of the former to one hundred of the latter. It remains in this liquid thirty-six hours to blacken, is dried with blotting paper and submitted to "a certain pressure, wheu it becomes a material that can be readily carved. The counterfeit is said to be excellent. An imitation ivoiy, sufficiently hard for billiard bills, can be made by still greater y ressure. A resemblance of coral is obtained by treating carrot» in the same manner. The report that Lady Tankerville and her son, Lord Bennet, have been received into the Church is confirmed.

A COBRKBPONDENT in Rome speaks of tne deep impression made upon him at witnessing the larpre number of Protestants sometimes mingled with Catholics at the audiences of the H->ly Father the Popp, and their rewpectful and dignified bearing. His Holiness treats them with the greatest kindness and courtesy, ranking inquiri 'a about their native land, their families, etc "He will pray,'' he Mis thr*m, '• that God will enlighten them, that He may guide their steps into the True Fold of the Koruan Church, that was the Mother of their ancestors, and the Mother of all Cbri-tian nations." He blisses them affectionately, and finally the objects of piety they are accustomed to have with them after tbe example of their Catholic brethren.

A wife in Portland Me., calls her husband home nights by firing a uky-roclcet from tbo roof of the bouse When, the rocket goes up he goaefor home;