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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 3, 13 May 1887, Page 18

Skinny Men.—" Wells' Health Renewer " restores health and vigour, cures Dyspepsia. At chemists and druggists. Eempthorne, Prosser, and Co., agents, Dunedin.

A citizen of St. Elmo, Ind., while playing with his three-year-old boy recently, was bitten on the thumb by the child. The wound bled very freely. Soon the hand and arm began to swell, and in a few days death resulted from blood poisoning.

John Singleton Copley, the artist whose picture of the " Death of Lord Chatham" iB one of England's great historical paintings, was as everybody knows, a native of Boston. The Revolutionary War decided his destiny, and he remained in England, to become the founder of a family of which his son Lord Lyndhurst, was the most distinguished member. Copley is not a Puritan name, notwithstanding its distinguished Boston associations ; nor was it the real name of the great artist. As Rev. H. Bernard Carpenter tells, in his lecture on Chatham, the painter's father was one Collopy, who emigrated from tbe County Clare, Ireland, a century and a quarter ago, settling in Boston, where his son was born. The name drifted by degrees into Colpy and finally iDto Copley.— Pilot.

Patrick Cunningham, of New Bedford, who invented the bomblance hrrpoon for whale-killing, which is now used the world over by whalers, has perfected a rocket for carrying its own line that not only attains a tremendous range, but greater accuracy than any known projectile of the rocket kind. The United States officials have tested the rocket, which can be made to carry a mile ; and it can be furnished so cheaply that all ships can carry it. Good for Patrick Ounningham, and for all who have to " go down to the Bea in ships," — Pilot.