, 1877-11-24

On q train from Lyons to Geneva arriving
there two persons were detained by, the
police as not giving sufficient proofs OF
their identity. The first, a man of a certain
age, was released after a few minutes;
but the second, a youth Of II, acknow-
lodged that he had absconded from his
father, IA merchant in the South, with a
sum of 4,000f. The commissary Of police
telegraphed to the young mans family, and
sent him to prison, but on his way he escap-
ed from the gendarme. While running away
in the dark he fell down the bank of the
RIione, which has there a height of so feet,
and would have bee1 drowned out for a bush
which stopped him, and to which he chung.
He was again secnred, and the father
having telegraphed that it was a sum Of
2O,OOOf. that The son had carried off he
was questioned as to what he had done
with the difference. He then admitted that
when first arrested he bad concealed
the l6,oOOt. In the coat packet of the
other traveller who had been detained with
him, The latter had in the mean
time taken another train to Geneva. and
q message having been sent to that station,
he was on his arrival asked to search the
Pocket Of his palet6t, and was not a little
Surprised to ind 10 it the money which
was then restored.
A MONSTER CHEEsE.-Canada claims
to have produced the largest cheese en-
record. From the Ingersoll Factory has
been turned out a cheese weighing
1000 lbs. 1t was 6 feet 10 inches in di.
ameter, 3 feet in height, and 81 feet in
circumference. 1t required Que milking
of 1000 cows, of 35 tons Of milk, to pro1
dUce it.
A Cure for Dog bites.-Mr. H Ward,
writing to the Liue Stock Journal, saws
that an Old sergeant who had had great
experience in India cured his hand from
the severe bite of a dog by pouring some
pure llqnor Of ammonia into the wound,
and afterwards by applying a diluted
quantity of ammonia to the wound with a
piece of lint. Mr.. Ward says his tand
was well by the end of the week. He adds
d" I naturally had a conversation with the
old sergeant, and will give you part of
it, thinking it will interest some of those
who, like myself, are in the fancy. He
said, Il would never allow a bite Of a dog
to be cauterised, because it stops all pos
sibility of the veoum, &c, from getting
out Of the wound, and it must tAere-
fore act inwardly.' But said l, sit is
the recognised remedy for dog bites
Ho replied, 1t may be recognised
by some, but not by me on the con.
trary. Now I'll just tell you this, I'll
warrant that if you get bitten by a mad
dog. and you come to me at once, I'll
save you, aud that's not saying a little.
I've cured many a bite from a green snake
in India in the same way as I'd cure you
from the bite of a mad dog. The first
thing I'd do is to putpure liquor Of ammo.
ria on the bite, ard I'd mix a draught for
you to take inwardly at the same time On
asking the nature of the draught he gave
me the following recipe Mix ten drops
of liquor Of ammonia with one ounce of
camphor mixture and one ounce of brandy,
and drink it. Then he added, 4 will tell
you plainly, there's not a doctor but would
be afraid to do it, and they would let you
die from hydrophobia when they might
cure you in consequence. There is no
doubt whatever that the ammonia which I
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