The Blackpool Herald. — 1875-05-28 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SUPPOSED LOSS OF SEVEN LIVES.  It is feared at Llanfairfechan that the visitors and one boatman who went out from there on the 21st inst., have perished at sea. Up to Saturday night no intelligence had been received about their safety. Fears are heightened because it is stated that the boatman was an inefficient seaman, and two of the six visitors were ladies. The boat set out from Llanfairfechan for a sail, and when near Puffin Island, was observed to be in distress. A boat, manned by eight men, immediately put off to render assistance, and after a hard pull of six or seven miles, came up to within a mile of the distressed boat, which was then drifting out into the channel. Suddenly, however, it disappeared, and the disheartened and wearied crew which went to its succour returned to Llanfairfechan.  At the annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society on Saturday it was stated that the excess of expenditure had caused a diminution in five years of £6300 in the society's capital. John Redwood, aged seventy-one years, who was awaiting, in Maidstone gaol, his trial for the murder of his daughter's illegitimate child, has just died from exhaustion.  A telegram to the Hour says the last number of Punch was bought up in Paris by the order, it is supposed, of the Russian embassy, on account of the caricature of the two Emperors.  Two persons were once disputing so loudly on the subject of religion that they awoke a big dog which bad been sleeping on the hearth before them, and he forthwith barked most furiously. An old divine present, who had been quietly sipping his tea while the dirputaets were talking, gave the dog a kick, and exclaimed, "Hold your tongue, you silly brute; you know no more about it than they  An Irishman, in India, has successfully tested a new method of catching t•gers. Ile carries before him a boardl on which a human figure is painted As soon as he arrives at the tiger's den he knocks behind the board with a hammer; the noise rouses the tiger, who flies in a direct line at the board and grasps it, and the man behind with the hammer clenches hid claws in the wood, and so secures the animal.  A lady passing through the country in Colorado observed the following notice on a board: "Horses taken in to grass. Long tails three shillings and sixpence; short trails, two shillings." The lady asked the owner of the land the reason for the difference in the price? He answered, "You see, ma'am, the long tails can brush away the flies; but the short tails are so tormented by them, that they can hardly eat at all !" A poor out woman called a few days ago on a Glenluoe weaver, who, besides his common trade, acts as a "dentist." After the tooth was extracted, the old woman regretted she could not reward the doctor with the usual fee, stating as a reason that the poor's board allowed her only a shilling a week. "Indeed," said the dentist, "if that's a' ye get, ye might just sit doon again and let every to-th in your head be p'ud oot 1" A clergyman, having been inducted into a living in Kent, took occasion during his first sermon to introduce the word "optics." At the concltraion of the scrvice a farmer who was present theliked I him for his discourse, but intimated that b. 9 had made a small mistake in one word, soft-alb:Pg down at the same time the everity of his criticism by saying, "Yet we all knew very weY., sir, what you meant." On the clergyman making further inquiries about this word, the fnmer replied, "What you called hop-sticks, in this part of the country we call hop-poles."