The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1883-03-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MARCH 3, 1883.  there is nothing extraordinary in this; but there is. For the quail, although at times a dainty, is revolting to .the appetite when °mimed oontinuously as sole food. And it is the same with mutton, which certainly would become monotonous if served up daily for thirty days,  'Tan length of Spanish and Portugese names has more than once drawn forth the derision •of the professional humourist, but we doubt .whether anything in burlesque has exceeded. in length and pomp the name which the deeoendant of a Portugese navigator, who was in trouble in Paris the other day, tendered to the magistrate in reply to a request for 'his name in full." The prisoner, with a polite apology for detaining the court, said his name was "Jeronimo Collao de Maghaliens de Gains Moues Vallseco Jarment•o Alamo Bulhoes de San de Maria Salome."  "IL TROTATOKE" wee brought to a dead stop in Toronto the other night by a "sassingmatch" between the prima donna and the tenor. The latter, it appears, let himself out of prison to get his share of the applause, which the prima donna claimed for herself. Finally, the full orchestra dashed into the fray with the score, which separated the Combatants, and the opera proceeded.  Tim Whitehall Review is informed that a ton of coal will produce gas enough at the London standard to maintain a light of 80,000 " candles" for an hour; while electric power sufficient to maintain the same amount of light for the same time may be produced from one-sixth of a ton if the coal be consumed in a steam engine working a dynamo machine. If this be true, the greater cost on electric machinery and appliances must be eonipensated for by the saving in coal.  Ms ThomAs VARNZY, who committed suicide at Bermondsey on Tuesday, had a very grim and ghastly mode of exemplifying the eternal Atness of things. The unfortunate fellow was the proprietor of a mineral water manufactory, and having met with financial difficulties. h s cup of sorrow was filled to overflowing by the threat of the water company to deprive him of his very bread by cutting off his water supply for the nonpayment of the rate. Thus driven to despair, he sought relief from his earthly woes by means of the very element which was allimportant to his business in life, and the threatened deprivation of which had hurled reason from her seat. On going down to his works he found tAke threat had been carried out. The only water on the premises was that in one of the tanks which had been filled overnight, and Mr Varney resolved to utilize it for accomplishing his own and. He was missed during the day, and when a search was made his body was found floating in the tank. Such an emphatic protest  _ against the inconsiderateness of water coin. panies in threatening to turn off the tap will, perhaps, not prove disadvantageous to impoverished ratepayers.  ACCORDING to all authorities—including the; Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne—the Canadians are ardently loyal and enthusiastically patriotic; nor do they forget their own country. The 124th anniversary of Scotland's bard was celebrated in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, by s great gathering of Caledonians. As we learn from the Hamilton Eresuli A bass :—" Chief W. G. Reid occupied the chair, and in opening the proceedings he gave a sketch of Burns's life, character, and genius. In the concluding portion of his address he paid the following eloquent tribute to thirpoet :—" Between his first of war songs, composed during a terrific storm, and the pathos of Mary.in Heaven,' he has made evely chord in our northern life to vibrate. The distance from Duncan Gray' to Auld Lang Syne' is nearly as great as that from Falstaff' to 'Arid.' There is in his verse the vehemence of battle, the wail of woe, the march of veterans, the. smiles of meeting, the tears of parting, the gurgle of the little streamlet, the mighty roar of thunder on the eternal snow-clad hills, the gentle rustle of barley rigs.; in short, all Scotland is in his verse. Let who may make her laws, Burns has made her songs—songs by which maidens are wooed and mothers lull their infants to sleep. They are as lasting as the mountains of his native land or the rolling billows of the Atlantic. They are a.l the links that bind the past with the future ; they are the watch-word, the symbols of our race."  A WEDDING of unusual interest took place on the 10th of February in the suburb of Frankford, Philadelphia, the favourite winter residence of "circus people and sideshow curiosities." Mr R. Moffitt, the eminent "tattooed man," and Miss Leo Hernandez, the universally admired "Spanish bearded lady," were united in bonds of matrimony. A large number of noted "freaks,' as they are termed in the profession, were present at the ceremony., The bride, who looked remarkably well, has a black beard three inches in length. She is twenty-six years old, while her husband, who is " as handsome a piece of mosaic work as there is in America," has passed forty. Mr Moffitt had been twice previously married. His first wife was the " Russian Giantess,"! weighing 500 lb., who died of dyspepsia in 1880.2 Before the season ended Mr Moffitt I married a "Circassian Beauty "—of Irish extraction. She died last summer; and before the Barnum show concluded its season the tattooed widower fell madly in love with the "Spanish Bearded Lady," whol after some hesitation, accepted him. Misa Hernandez wanted to have her beard shaved off in honour of the occasion, but Mr Moffitt, who is of a practical turn of mind, opposed the suggestion, on the ground that she might not be able to raise another crop, in which her value as a curiosity would be totally destroyed. The bride was given away by Mr John Greary, her step-father, the great sword swallower, who was much affected, but bravely gulped down his emotion.