Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-02-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WONDERFUL STORY.  An AmAican paper states that much attention is now given to the propagation of fish in the New England States. It has passed into all axiom there that au acre of water is worth two of land for the producdon of food. lit a country where a hundred thousand acres are covered with lakelets, it is important that such an area should he made to yield its proportion of food to man, and experiments have proved that black bass are the beet, hardiest, and most prol fi tenants that can he placed in those acres. They are incredibly prolific, pair and spawn at one year old, guard their spawn until hatched, and fight away every intruder. All the lakelets are being stocked with them with the inset successful results.  StIOCKING CASE OF SUICIDE AT TYNE DOCKS —On Friday afternoon a young man named Ludwig Threbrin, twenty-five years of age, managing clerk with Messrs Os:eck, extensive timber merchants and shipbrokers, Tyne Dock, committed suicide. The deceased bad returned from a business journey, and proceeded to his lodgings in Dock-street. Whilst in his room he blew out his brains with a pocket pistol. 'fhe landlady, hearing the report of firearms, went to the too n and found him lying in a pool of blood, dead, the bullet having passed completely through his head. Threbrin belongs to Norway. No cause is assigned for his committing this rash act.  It is said that in the tombs of the Necropolis of ancient Egypt two kinds of mummies have been found. Dile is incomplete—that is to say, all organs necessary to life have been separated from them; the other, on the contrary, is qnite complete. Having observed this, a Swedish chemist, Dr. Grusselbech, who has the re• putation of being both great and learned, Professor at the University of Upsstl, has csme to the conclusion that the Egyptian mummies are not all, as has been said and believed for some thousands of years, bodies embalmed by any process of preservation whatever, but that they are really the bodies of individuals whose life has been momentarily suspended, with the intention of restoring them at some future time, only the secret of preservat on has been lost. Meanwhile Professor Grusselbech adduces many proofs in support of his idea—among others, his experiments during the last ten years, whi h, he says, have always proved successful. Ile toot a snake, and benu tbed it in such a manner as though it hail been carved in 'marble, and it was so brittle that had he allowed it to fall it would have broken into fragments. In this state he kept it for one or several years, and then restored it to life by sprinkling it with a stimulating fluid, the composition of which is his secret. For fifteen years the snake has been undergoing an existence composed of successive deaths and resurrections, apparently without sustaining any harm. The professor is reported to have sent a petition to It's government, requesting that a criminal who has been sentenced to death may be given to him, to treat in the same mariner as the suake, promising to restore him to life in two years. It is understood that the man who undergoes this experiment is to be pardoned Whether the Swedish Government has accepted or rejected the learned chemist's proposal is not known.  A. fatal accident of a most extraordinary kind occurred on Fr day night, about an hour after midnight, oil the Caledonian Railway, a few miles from Glasgow. A pilotrengine was standing in Glasgow station with the fireman alone upon it, the enginedriver being at his supper, when from some unex plained cause it suddenly started and ran along at full speed down the line. The fireman was thrown off and killed, and the engine still running on was followed, but was not overtaken until it had came into collision with a train from Landau. The concussion had terrible results. One gentleman was killed, and several of the passengers injured. The deceased passenger was, we regret to hear, Mr William Armitage, of the firm of Thomas Armitage and Sons, carpet manufacturers, of Ifeckinondwike.