Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-08-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CAUTION TO FRUIT-EATERS. Just at this season of the year, says the British Medical Journal, enormous quantities of foreign fruit are brought into the market, and while the best and soundest is selected for the shops, large quantities of unsound, unripe, or half-fermented fruit are consigned to the costermonger's barrow. The caution to local authorities and sanitary inspectors to carefully inspect the dangerous stuff thus sold in the streets is always timely at this season, but particularly is it timely this year, when choleraic affections have come so near our doors, and when the cholera poison may at any moment break through the defence of medical inspection at ports and reach the crowded centres of population. The great improvement in all the conditions of public health, especially in the water supply, will domuch to avert or to lessen any epidemic of Asiatic cholera in this country, but choleraic diarrhcea of the sporadic character is very likely to be prevalent during this autumn, and a careful inspection of fruit supplies, with great caution on the part of the public in this matter, may help to save many lives.  AT Winchester the grand jury have found a true bill against the directors and secretaries of the Portsea Building Society for criminal mismanagement of the funds, whereby over 10,000 small depositors have been almost ruined. The case is to be tried at the Central Criminal Court.  AT Cheater Assizes John Edward Bentley was convicted of attempting to murder his wife, and was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. The couple lived at Stalybridge, and the evidence showed that the prisoner was intemperate and accustomed to illtreat his wife. In April last he fired two revolvershots at her arm and shoulder. He now alleged that she had been cruel to him, and said as he left the dock, "God fo,give you, Esther." Ton following definitions of "a lover" have been given by two readers of a New York paper: "A lover is a man who is totally blind to the imperfections in the woman he adores; who is provoked if other men are not similarly sightless, and jealous if they are." " A lover is a deluded victim possessed of an insane desire to provide for another man's daughter, and perhaps add to the comforts of home by acquiring a mother-in-law." A Pialan'TZTIAN church in Lancaster, Pa., gives a gold medal to each person who does not miss a service during the year. Last year the sexton received the medal. DURING the past year £1,280,150 was disbursed in wages alone among the men of the Metropolitan Police Force.  As Englishman, who was hanged by mistake in America and cut down before he was dead, describes the sensation as an exceedingly pleasing one, and compares it to the " delightful intoxication of the opinm-smoker." _  KEW GARDENS now includes a special "Bamboo Garden," arranged in the wood near the Rhododendron Dell. The collection of bamboos and allied plants had so outgrown their quarters that a new home has been made for them, the garden being in the form of a small valley with sloping banks. Attempts will be made here to grow in the open air several of the strongest tropical plants. GOING a-Maying " will soon be possible across the Atlantic an well as in England, for 20.000 English hawthorn-trees have been sent over to New Hampshire for acclimatisation.  Too popular Joe-sostle of the Queen's " Letter to the Nation " on the death of the Puke of Clarence has already realised a profit of £6oo—eent to the Gordon Boys' Horne as a first instalment.  •