Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1878-09-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SPOT. FROM BrlntriLli —A friend of mine, • well. known correspondtht during Om linem.Trurkish cam• hao just thown me • Mien c ,llection of war thrice. At the entry of the Russian army into Itnl. garia, the worthy Bulgarians, knowing the neer apthoach of the allies, went in for plundering tth Turkish population, the still worthier Russians, looking forward of coon, to a tlll. plundering of the Muselemen. However, on their entry into the villager they found there were no Turka left to plume., mad with disappointment, they immedianly work to plunder the B.garians. They didn't get , mthh trattsure from the poor folk. you may gime , My friend for fain lithe Isnight from a Comack all , Oh. tremors he had gleam. from the Bulgarith home. holds. These coneisted of lint, • penny looking-glthe second, • bottle of medicine; thief, six copies of the *amazed. and fourth, • large quantity of French nail. And, moth, rad no joke, this wart all the spot. opiate the lucky warrior had got bold of. —Pictorial World. A Vim rir TO Scithcx.—A wed accident neuron lately ai the Gymnasium at Prague. Professor Vricher ' lorind poisoned in the phyncal laboratory. He sr. only 2. ythre of age, but a person of the greateet promise, by moth= of his great aloha. and indium, end his devotion to chemistry, All the circumstances connected with hun exclude the suspicion of suicide. AU that I. known of the cathatronhe is that. bog it Lb. leboratory, he sent a servtht to the storekeethr 1,,. wme sal-ananioniac rad Nome cyanide of µOmen., Ile mixed them and tthted the mixture, toying to the servant, "Science him adenoid so far as even to be able to lender harmlesr air dangerous au agent ae cyanide of potathum." But be hod @namely tested the mixture when h.... mired with violent pains. He at once toll the memoot to fmch • physician, but before he came If,. Fischer wart beyond humor aid. U,... known to entertain the persuasion that cythide potterium could be rendered b00m!... and the problem of how to accomplish thie was • frequent object of his meditation. A memorandum on this theme was found among his paper. Doubt... he fell • victim to. rani experiment. SPONISSIOCS COMBUSTION or remarkable Memo. of spontaneous combustion is afforded by • correspondent of • mientific contounorary, which km. in Carafes narrowly escaped thing eet on fire through the mdden outtarst of flame from • large tether' not in • clown under the roof. Although the weather was intensely hot, tba pontion of the neat, under • roof composed of tilm athl thick layer's of earth, seas such as to preclude the pothibility of the kth heving originated through solar Suddenly thick moke start observed to hthe from the closet and, heel lot immediate step. been taken to arrest tbe spread of the fire, • anions confiagra. 1,.. might have remitted hem the conthithrble nature of the Ir.-cells of the IV. 316111./ thou, remora are described am being very frequently ohmoved La Veneseula, The temperature of beer' neem or hives fir known to be very high, frequently rothhing inflog. Centrism& or 100rieg. Fahrenheit, being row sidershly more thth the normal tertheratore of the human body. The variety of tionth-c Meeting inmot b00m... meLithoo, whom nen thrombi. that oft be mop. is common in Central America mad the northern parte of South Amerith, and it is probable that their orate hose frequently teen taken for the not of the wasp. The phenomenon I. probably ththed by mine chemical mange In the conaratienta of the nen under the influence of the high temperature, and ill. p.n.s that 0h..... danger would await the nest of the or. dinary hive 14.0 111216, favonrable circiunstancee. The point is worth forth., invethgation I temperate se well es torrid china. and beekeepers, both at home and in the whinier., may draw a practical lemon from the facts related in connexion with the regolthion of the temperature of their lime. —Colours and bubo. Tit• Kthormitern iff Inermis—i• A Serpentine Bthher " writes to the Stamford r—" Some of your readers may be intemated to hear that that comparatively rare and mlithry bird the kingfisher is Ithatel in the very heart of London, Do thinaming quietly norm& the Wand In the Serpentine this morning, I wee surprised to no. fine specimen of the bird fly out of the b and perch on a bush overhanging the water within theak, ree yards of me. I watched a for fuUy four minute.  Intro TTTTT ON oe Love Fren.—An experiment of considerable intereet in pleciculthre is intended to be tried on one of the estates of the Mensfis of Beene— the naturalisation of the Americth black bar. A large number of thin fish the leen brought over from New York in the streamer Spiny, of the National Line, and it is expected that they will take readily to their new hnene. They wage placed, on the pewee, in an improvised tech. the water of which was kept constantly fraeh bilk. fel...ion of sir at interrsia of ten minute.. The ptheengers and crew had an opportunity of reitaxeming an interesting exhibition of 1.O on the part of the piscine emigrant. A large ; catfish having then caught yeas pithed in the timk, ' whereupon the has. immediately combined their forme and commenced an attack on the intruder. They at first charged at his head, but, finding thermelves becoming wonted, changed their tatie. and took him in flank, and soon thecae:led in vanquishing him, ownplating the victory by devouring him at leisure. It I. sithed that the bass is considered by acme people ea having the fined flavour dell the frethsrater rialt of Amerim. STORM following cable memsge haa been rernived at the London othoe 01 11,. Ns., York Berard from the Herald Wthther Buren, New York —•• A norm maths I. craning she Atlantic, and will probar.ly mach the British and French coasts about the loth, preceded and attended by rains. Strong south-emt to north.weet wind. and gales will prevail:. Cos v lath TO