Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-03-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

VII.). The beast arrived at Sandwich, and was conveyed to the Tower of London, where the sheriffs had been directed by Royal precept to build a house for it, forty feet in length and twenty feet in breadth, taking care to let the building have sufficient strength to he lit for any other purpose. The animal itself was ten feet In height from the top of the back to the ground, and was ten years old. It lived on to the forty.firet year of Ilenry 111., A.D. 1257, in which year it appears from the " Chancellor's Roll" that for the maintenance of the elephant and its keeper, from Michaelmas to St. Valentine's Day, immediately before the animal died, at the age of twelve years only, the charge amounted to £lB 13s. Id. The name of the keeper is recorded to have been John Gooch. Many chroniclers mention this elephant—(e.y., Matthew Paris, hi., 334; annals of Burton, i., 329). The " Majora " of Matthew Paris states (vol v., p. 489) that no elephant had over before been seen OD this side of the Alpe, but that statement will hardly agree with the record of the elephant presented to the Gerraan Emperor in A.D. 1229,0, already mentioned. Crowds of people went to see the King'. elephant, according to this author, and we may well believe it. The drawings seem to indicate an Indian rather than an African elephant, but It Is difficult to determine the question.  En's Courovuo Mummy or !Ammon for Colds& oougho. cures 0 owe out ot 10. Bola overywhore, lid, la 141.. &o.  H. THATCHER, of Southwark, and W. Franks, of Marylebone, London, have just decided their twelve miles walking match at Lillie-bridge Grounds. The start was effected shortly after four o'clock. Franks at once assuming a slight lead, and at the end of the first mile only a yard separated the pair. When three miles had been traverser! Franks was leading by twenty pills, and Increasing his advantage, caught and passed Thatcher in the first lap of the seventh mile. Franks covered eight miles in 59min. 561 sec., Thatcher's time for the same distance being lb. lmin. 56sec., still a lap behind, and this state of affairscontinued to the end, Franks covering the twelve miles in Ih. 33min. 231 sec. Mr. It. Watson officiated as referee.  Tint RocnEsmu Naturalists' Club has resolved to establish a museum for collections of objects illustrating the geology end natural history of the district. The WIGAN BOROUGH CORONEIt hat held an Inquest en the body of an engine tenter, named Christopher &kersley, who committed suicide by hanging himself in the kitchen of his own house. The ,facts elicited were somewhat singular. Deceased has been employed continuowly for forty-two years at the Senn Meadow Cotton Mill, where he has had charge of the engines, which bane been in ens for many years. The company are about, however, to put down new engines, Ind it was stated at the inquest that the deceased had several times expressed doubts as to his competency to manage the new machinery. It is supposed that this preyed anon his mind, md led him to take his own lire. A verdict that Deceased committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind" was returned.