Irvine Express and North Ayrshire Post. — 1885-12-11 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE JOKE CAN BE CARRIED NO FARTHEB..—" Miss  Brown,' asked the little girl of her governess, "what was papa doing the other evening when he held your hand so long?" "Oh, that was palmistry, my dear." "Does mamma kno.w about it? "No. Pa-mystery again, darling." "And suppose she had caught you?" "I'd palmysterics off on her, precibus." EARTHQUAKE shocks are reported from Algeria, causing the loss of two lives and great destruction of property. AMONG numerous crimes of a serious character reported as occuring in Enland on Saturday are two murders of women by men—one at North Shields, the other at King's Lynn—incited by drink. A RUMOUR ran is North Wales on Saturday to the effect that Mr Parnell had been shot, and was so generally credited that it was found necessary to telegraph to the hon. gentleman himself in Ireland for a refutation of the report. IN the Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgeware Road, London, on Saturday, while the performance was in progress, a man in the stalls drew a pistol from his pocket and shot himself dead in sight of the hol-rified spectators Form poor children from Newark, New Jersey, who had been bitten by a mad dog, are being sent from New York on board the s.s. Canada for treatment by Mons. Pasteur, the expenses of their journey having been defrayed by public subscription.  THE death is announced of Mr W. H. Vanderbilt, the well-known American railway king. He fell dead on Tuesday at Lis re4idcnce in New York. • _  _ A lIRAVY snowstorm was experienced on Tnesday over Caithness-shire, and two passenger trains were blocked tor some time. Difficulty was experienced in polling for the county election, the nighways being nearly impassable with snowdrift. GEORGE Thanes°ll, a coloured seaman, who had been convicted of the murder of a woman with whom he cohabited, by shootieg her with a revolver, was hanged at Liverpool on Tuesday morning. Berry was the executioner, and death appeared to be instantaneous. Ds MILLER, of the Elinburgh Royal Inarmary, has extracted from the neck of John Park; formerly of the 42nd Highlanders, a iffie balla, which has been in that position since 1854. Park got the bullet into his neck in the Crimea, and several attempts have since been made td get it out. DAIRY Exessoaskorrs.—Lord Vernon, who is this year President of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, has made a proposal for the institution of experiments. with the object of solving the following questions :-Ist. What is the smallest quantity of food upon which stall-fed cattle can be successfully and economically kept? 2q. To what extent does a further supply of food repay its cost in the enhanced value of the milk. 31. What relation should the constituents of the food have to each other to produce (a) milk, (b) butter, (c) cheese? It is suggested that these experiments should be carried out under the superintendence of a committee of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, and Lord Vernon, who has undertaken to provide everything necessary for their use, desires that any information obtained should be published for the benefit of those connected with dairy farming. UNIAIR the will of a native of Forfar who lately died in Chicago, a sum of about lalKa.) has been left for the purpose of foinding an orphanage in Forfar. IN a letter explaining the can es of his defeat for the Cockermouth Division of Ctimberland. Sir Wijrigl LaWaota, atttritates it Au the opposition of the publicans, th'e cry of "the Church is in d Inger," , the Fair-trade delusion, and the Lis.: vote.  dadi  " - TffE "IRVINE EXPRESS"