The Poole Telegram. — 1882-02-03 (Poole, Dorset, England)

WORTHINGTON G. SMITH, the well-known fungologist, gives an account of a microscopicial examination of mushroom ketchup. Of four samples manufactured in London, in one he found only matter which looked like smashed up toast and salt; in another decayed fish, mildew, and broken twigs; in a third fungus spawn, mildew spores, crushed walnut husks, and vibriones, large black spores evideutally belonging to the genus Coprinus, and brown ones recognisable as those of the horse mushroom. Genuine mushroom ketchup should exhibit basidia,, cystidia, and spores of the true mushroom, salt crystals, and occasionally a pollen grain or fragment of pappus, bat nothing more. THE will of Colonel J oicey, M.P., D.L., late of Newton Hall, Northumberland, member of Parliament for North Durham, was proved under £678,900; the will of Mr. James Lake, J.P., Newlands Teynhan-, Kent, was proved over £50,000; of Mr. William Reynolds Anstice, late of lronbridge, Salop, irontimeter, exceeding £44,000; of Mr. John Bird, Brook-green, Hammersmith, exceeding R:30,000. THE late M. Charles Blanc, who is understoial to have left all his fine collection of books to the library of the Institut de France, is the subject of many anecdote.. Charles and Louis Blanc, (who were connected with the Corsican family of Posh. di Borgo, were, it is said, the originals of the famous "Corsican Brothers." Forty years ago when Charted was one day sitting in the garden of a friend in the south of France, he sprang up with a cry of pain, and, putting his hand to his forehead, he cried out, "Some one has struck my brother Louis!" It turned out afterwards that at the same moment Louis Blanc had been struck down in the streets of Paris by an accidental blow on the forehead. .  THE carcass at a whale,betwsen 50ft. and 60ft. in length. has been washed ashore on the beach at Brighton, near the Grand Hotel. The flesh being in an advanced state of decomposition, a portron was towed to sea and the remainder has been buried, under the superintendence of the Coastguard. The jaw-bone and skull have been preserved. The dead whale was noticed off Rottingdean a few days since.  A MOST extraordinary case of suicide has taken place at Iladderton, near Oldham. A woman named Ashworth, in good circumstances, drowned 'herself in the Rochdale canal, but before doing so she made every preparation for being laid out, put her wedding ring and money in a place uf safety, and made what preparations she could for the funeral. The greatest care seemed to have been taken to'have everything in the house scrupulously clean and in readiness. Deceased had been ailing for some time, and at the inquest the jury returned a verdict that deceased drowned herself whilst of unsound mind.  AT the Marlborough-street Police-court on Friday. Mrs. Mary Hunt, who had been charged with raising a false alarm of fire at the Princess's Theatre, was again brought before Mr. Newton, who expressed a hope that prisoner's friends would not allow her to go to a theatre again,and ordered her to pay a fine of 44:4., with the alternative of a month's imprisonment.  A POACHER carrying a gun was stopped by two constables on Saturday near Leeds. He fired at them and killed a boy standing near. A WWIAN named Gothard, whose husband is a slater, has been kicked to death by the latter on his return in a partial state of intoxication. Gothard has been apprehended. BEFORE Mr. W. Bridges, county magistrate, at the rurquity Police Court on Saturday, a somewhat disreputable looking man, decorated with the well•known " " al the Salvation Army, and describing himself as "a full private" of that organisation, was charged with begging tu the street. Amongst other things found upon him was a bundle ot exceedingly secular songs which he had evidently been offering for sale. He pleaded guilty t,) the charge, and was sentenced to fourteen days' imprimmment with hard labor. _ _  Ma. JOSEPH FARNDALE, chief of police at Leicester, nas received the appointment of chief-constable of Birmingham, vacant by the resignation of Major Bond. rho salary is £7OO a year, without allowances of any kind. There were ninety two applicants. A POULTRY dealer of Siladen, Yorkshire, has died from nydrophobia having been bitten in the ear five weeks ago iy a mad dog. DURING the dense fog in London on Wednesaiiy, a arge stone was hurled through the shop window of Atesar:;. Wyon, the well-known jewellers in Regent-street, and )efore any precautions could be taken a casket containing ?recious stones and jewellery, valued at Etioo, was stolen. he audacious thieves get away, attti vwipg tv 1,14 fog. NAG iovvvoijm tu iviww weal.