Show A somerville SoME aviLLE MASS teacher punished a little boy by making him hold red pepper in his mouth burns were caused which resulted in illness aad death A OF the peace in groton conn was obliged not long ago to content himself with a kiss from alio brido in lieu of a fee lie has now put up a placard terms cash la now used as material for picture frames tho pulp mixed with glue oil and whitin sis run into moulds and hardened after which it may be gilded or bronzed in the usual way A STATUE discovered in the bed of the tiber proves to bo a bacchus he stands six feet high is cast in bronze with ivory eyes is exquisitely modeller modelled model led and iu excellent preservation aj p A DONKEY reason to believe was more than a hundred years old died lately at cromarty Cro merty scotland since 1779 it had been in the family of a mr rose and how old it was alien it came to that family is not known i IT is estimated that connecticut will pay more revenue tax upon cider brandy this year than upon all the tobacco industries in western mas thousands of barrels ofaf aples lie rotting on the ground though an enormous quantity of cider was made THE is a new apparatus lately brought to the notice of the academic des sciences it is armed with an incandescent light and is used to explore the stomach bladder and other cavities of hie body by its means an objective lens may be f carried into the cavity and a magni fied image of ita interior bo obtained v for the physicians inspection w THE of mild steel by bessemer process has it is said greatly reduced in cost in england that steel chips and iron hips of the same class have come to be offered at precisely the same price the possibility it is remarked arises largely from the fact thata steel ship fotja given strength can bo made of lighter weight than one of iron RUTLAND tell the story of a neighborhood a wid ower ancl well to do who not long ago a woman near by whom he had never seen describing his he told her that if he didiot hear from her to tho con two weeks he would call and marry her no and ho carried out bis the appointed time of homing pigeons in country medical practice has lately beair described by an english doctor he starts upon bis daily rounds with the birds upon leaving the house of a patient who needed immediate attention ho would start off a pigeon with the required prescription and the assistant in the doctors surgery would forward the medicines to the patient long before alie doctors arrival home A case is lately cited in which pigeons laray carried a morning newspaper to their owner tho birds can carry weight to the extent of three trefan ounce or more A composition HAS been invented by an english engineer which is claimed to preserve iron from buat being also usefully applicable to other materials such as stone and wood used in conjunction with metal this composition consists of parts virgin wax of Gulli pol of norwegian pitch of grease bitumen of judea of gutta percha of red lead 20 of white tead these ingredient a being mixed together in the order named in a boiler the gutta perch a being cut up pieces of rasped the anix ture ie burred at each addition and poured into moulds for iron it ie melted and laid on with a brush for boles it Is used as a paste |