Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1881-08-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FATAL BOATING XOCIDENT. A fatal accidenti occurred in Cork Harbour on Sunday. 4 boat laden -with a party of eleven was proceeding under sall .up the East Ferry, when the wind, which Was blowing ' strong all i day came out,in sudden squalls. The boo.* • was capsized n a squall; the eleven occupants were thrown into the water, and a great struggle for life ensued. A boat was put off from a yacht which etas lying near, and succeeded in rescuing several of the .party. Two men, however, were drowned, and two ,others were so exhausted when saved that they are lying in a precarious state.  411 AL A fa, twenty fat—td In,  A Flamm: AlittfiratENT.—The occurrence of vegetable remains in coal is well known ; but it is generUy believed that the evidences of animal life are slight, and rarely to be discovered. According to Professor Owen this is not the case, though the remains of animal life are for the most part of such a nature as to be easily overlooked. He Bays in his address to the students of the Dental Hospital of London, published in the July number of the .7' ov.rnal of the British Dental Association :—" Pick up and scrutinise with your pocket lens sag fresh fragments of coal that may have fallen upon the shovel upon the hearthstone. If you can discern a speck of brighter colour than Its black environment, rub the surface showing It fiat enough to be cemented to a plate, or 'slide' of glass ; then turn the oppoeite side to the wh stone, and carefully rub down your bit of opal til is thin enough to let light through the speck. Y may them see, in what looks at first sight l&e a this. plate of mere coal, when put tinder the microseope, tooth, of perhaps novel form, with crown and root. The former may be defined by a coating of enamel, and the dentine may show a rich vascular organise, than, stained with the iron of the blood of the old carboniferous fish or batrachian." At the clam of his address Professor Owen Bbowed a number of specimens of teeth thus embedded in coal, and very beautiful objects they appeared when seen under a low power of the microscope.  THIII M1711D113 to, 1/11117TINANT ROPlL—Notwithstanding the increased reward offered by the offioers of the Royal Engineers, amounting, with the Government reward, to £6OO, for the discovery of the murderer of Lieutenant Roper, at Chatham, the Scot.. land-yard authorities have not gained any fresh information. The Engineer officers purpose, it is said, to make the reward £l,OOO, in hope that, if there was an accomplice in the crime, he may be induced to divulge what he knows.  Tan DIAN= Or WEsTrimarial.—The Daily News understands that the Deanery of Westminster has been offered to, and declined by, the Bishop of Manchester. "It will be remembered thati several dals ago we stated that the Bishop had the matter under consideration. It is now said that the appointment has been offered to Dr. Butler, Head Master of Harrow, and that he will probably accept it. Dr. Butler has frequently preached at the special ssrvices In the Abbey on Sunday evenings." ADVERTISZ OR "BURT 1 "—An American paper quotes a couplet by Benjamin Franklin, as Illustrating the advance made of late years in the art of "getting on." Franklin wrote: "He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." The Yankee version, adapted to the times, is "He that by his trade would rime, must either bust or adverUse "  —COST or RZCZNT Bininnials.—lt is interesting to oompare the cost (says the Builder) of some of the most recent buildings of the present day. The new Grand Opera at Paris cost 40,000,000 f. ; the new Hotel Ale Ville, 40,000,000 f.; the new Paris Post Office, 30,000,000 f. ; extension of the Conservatoire of Music, 8,000,000 f. ; the new Museum of Victoria, Australia, £100,000; the M.aison du Rol, in the Brussels Marketplace, 2,000,000 f.; the new Provincial Government Buildings at Bruges 2,000,0001. ; the Brussels Cavalry Barracks, 4,0000001.; the new Brussels Mint, 4,000,0001,; the Palais des Beaux-Art at Brussels, 3,000,000 f. ; the new Museum at Antwerp, 2,900,000 f. ; the Palais de Justice at Brussels, 40,000,000 f. ; and the Department of Justice Building at the Hague, 1 700 0001.. We may compare with the above cost of the following buildings in the United Kingdom : The Houses of Parliament at Westminster coat 0,500,000, or 87,500,0001. ' • the new Foreign Office, Whitehall, £550,000; the Record °LEW, £120,000 ; and the Law Courts are estimated, exclusive of special fittings, at nearly £900,000. Az