Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-04-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DESTRUCTION OF TIGERS IN BENGAL.—The Bengal Government have sanctioned the engagement, by the district superintendent of police of Lohardugga, of four shikarries for a period of six months, for the destruction of tigers in the jungle of Jonah and Tamar in that district. No fewer than 711 persons are reported by the police to have been killed by tigers in that district during the last twelve months- The shikarries are to be supplied with strychnine at the public expense. The usual method for destroying tigers in the district is by sirychnine, which is placed under the hides of bullocks killed by tigers. The tigers return to their prey when hungry, and so get poisoned. Poisoncd arrows are also used for the same purpose, but only to a limited extent.—Pioneer.  William Mobbs, an agricultural labourer, who murdered a boy at Linfurd, in Buckinghamshire, was hanged at Aylesbury on Mond iy tor that crime. The culprit made a full confession, and appears to have died penitent. He stated that his having seen pictures of another man murdering a little girl led him to commit the crime, and that he did it on the impulse of the moment. It is thought by many Fersons that the Home Secretary has shown anything but sound discretion in allowing this miserable, deluded boy, for he is only twenty years of age, to be han4ed, while ob. Wiling a commutation of the sentence on Jacob Spinaa, the Finsbury murderer.  A sad calamity occurred on Friday evening last at Frame. Lady Lopes (the mother of Sir M. Lopes, M.P. for South Devon, and Mr C. H. Lopes. M P. for Taunton), alto resides at Easthill House, Frome, had been left alone for a few a Mutes, when shrieks and a violent ringing of the bell drew the servants to the apartment, when she was found ling on the fluor with her clothes Imrnt, and suffering front such serious injuries that she died on Saturday morning. The deceased was 70 years old, but remarkably strong and healthy, and had taken horse exercise that morning. It is supposed that, standing with her back to the fireplace, her muslin dress was accidentally ignited.  The expose of the affairs of the Royal Liver Friendly Society, as incidentally made in a trial at Glamorgan. ought to open the eyes of the working men —and they must be thousituds—who support this " friendly " affair. It was shown that a committeeman received a salary of £250 per annum, and that he was one of eight; besides which lie received "about 26s per week" from the collection—which afterwards turned out to be 30s. This precious witness, moreover, would not say whether the liabilities of the society might not be Kt, 15, or 20 miliions. Well might the judge remark that the inquiry showed the necessity of finding a safe investment tor the poor working population of this country. The altiir of this Royal Liver Society evidently wants looking into.  INTERESTING FACTs.—A legal stone is Nibs in England and in Holland. A fathom, G feet, derived from the height of a full•grown man. A hand, in horse measure, is 4 inches. An Irish mile is 2 240 yards, a Scotch mile is 1,984. a German 1,8116, a Taikish 1,626. An acre is 1,840 square yards 1 foot and 32 inches each way. A square mile, 1,760 yards argil way, contains 610 acres. The human body contains 240 bones, 9 kinds of articulation or joinings, 100 cat tilageS or ligaments, 400 muscles or tendons, and 100 nerves, besides blood, arteries, veins, &c. Potatoes planted below three feet do not ver.• ate; at one foot they grow thickest, and at two feet they are retarded two or three mouths. There are no solid rocks in the Arctic regions, owing to the severe frosts. The surface of the sea is estimated at 130,000,000 square miles, taking the whole surface of the globe at 190,000,000 square miles. Its greatest depth is supposed to be equal to the height of the highest mountains, or four miles.