Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-01-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

INGENIOUS LIERARIAN.  There are now Ilring in Germany no fewer them 629,987 Millers. Whenever a full mind meets an empty one it it • cell to teach, not to mod. It N estimated that 191 stone le the ordinary total weight carried by so Engle(' trooper's horse.  A Michigan young woman has advertised for a husband, and ehe states that ihe wfil gives farm to the lucky man.  • The long-logged boot formerly called the Wellington—is alleged to be coining into fashion again in America  Millaien well-known painting, "Th. Mind Girl," , has been promoted to the Birmingham Art Gallery 1 by Alderman Kenriok.  A man with a statistical turn of mind has *AUmato I that only ono couple in 11,500 lire to celebrate thou diamond wead.og.  Maine ham sustained a bigger-- loss by fire during 1891 than for several years past. The losses total up more than 1,1C0,0W dollars.  On Thursday, the 14th, the day on which the Prince died, 2,000 telegrams were received at Sandringham, and on the next day there were more than 11100.  The dehosie meehaulam of the stomach contains, according to • physiologist's discovery, fully 5,000,000 miauto glands that iire constantly secreting gastric Julio.  Theis Si. esablerod throughout the length and breadth of Scotland, in the six Sam esttholic dioceses, 357 priests, of whish tits .secend city of the Empire '' boast 148.  The Caledonisn Ilailwey Company are discard. ing their sto ir of lootwarmers in favour of pans charged with acetate of soda, which, it is claimed, retain the heat much longer.  Till tale death of the Duke of Clarence there has not been, for upwards of ninety-one pima, a death of a grandchild of the reigning monarch who was in direct sucomaion to the throne. The total import of cheese into the United Kingdom in 1890 was just under ENCOO,OOO sterling in value. It has been as low as .£3,870,000 (in 1886), but in 1891 it reached 51 millions.  Gambling, that insane desire to win money easily, and mousy-grabbing, that fierce wraithseeing which 'non pursue, ss though money alone will secure human happiness, are the two chief causes of suicide.  The majority of the Scottish gipaies have spread over a vest tract of country. In America they hare gradually become lost to view ea a distinctive race, In Europe they are found in the greatest number Ipo-day in Hungary end Wallachia, where there are 500,000.  George Cutler, hardware merchant, of lonia, Michigan, was robbed in December of • well-filled pume and two wa.cibee. Ho mourned the loss of one on account et de being nu heirloom. On Chr strum' morning it was found ori his doorstep Be B Christmas gift from the robber. The Church of England Burial sad Funeral Reform Association recommends a piper uttichli eoaln. rather then a solid sarcophagus of oak or lead, for the double purpuse of minimising expense and allowing the boiy to return more rapidly to its mother earth. They do not express any opinion Cal the Middlesbrough sterol coffins.  A worthy married couple, living in Um circuit of Meseeritm, in fiermany, during the past year had five children addet to their family circle. The mother of the children is the wife c 4 a mentor smith liausler, of lia:asoht. The Fran had twins a par ago ; and at Um cod of the year, on December 31, she presented her ltuaban 1 with triplets.  A young .!ady in Penzance has hit on a novel mode of finding whether she has intluen:a, and making no delay about her resort to the doctor. She was the rezipient last year of a large sample of the disease, and has it-Implied the following list of questions, which she runs over every morning when rising : " Head weighing forty pounds, charged with eloctrie neuralgia? Separate rheumatism in each lone? A butterfly of pain flattering up and down your spine? Blind? Can only smell devils toasting over brimstone? Toe trout streams gushing from your eyes? Running a week cum factory in your nom, with an output oi fifty boiling gallons an hour Do not care for anything, and a tendency to hit the mo.her you love when she is not looking? Hate everybody, and everybody re. ciprocatas the sentiment? You are glad of it, and it is the only thing which makes you amile Gripped :"  Manzanine is the name of a new alloy, consist. ing of copper, nickel, and manganese, which has been brought on the market by the German firm, Abler, HMI% and Angarstein, as • material of great resisting power. The specific resistance of manganlne is given as 42 rnicrohm centimetres, that is, higher than that of nickeline, which has hitherto passed as the Lest resisting metal. Another vivantage of manganine is Al behaviour under variatiens of heat, the resistance, it is claimed, being° affected only in • minute degree by high temper atdree It is therefore adapted forth. manufacture ef ineasur:ng instruments and electrical apparatus in general which are required to vary their resistance as little as possible under different degrees of heat. A further interesting fact is that, while other metals increase their resistance by the raising of the temperature, that of mangenine is diminished.  The bookcases were a modific.ation of some, which had been temporarily used at the Bethnal Green Museum. Says Dr. Garnett :—I immediately saw the value of the idea, and aunt for Mr Jenner, assistant in the printed book department, in whose special fitness I felt great oonfidenoe, frors his admirable performance of the duty of placing the booka:daily added to the Museum, which frequently requires much inger.uity and connivance. I told, Mr Jenne, whet I had seen, and desired him„to consider wheatess be could devise method of adapting the Bethnal Green system to the emergencies of the British Museum. Ile did consider; he went down to Bethnal (lreen and saw the preemies employed there, and, to his infinite ()relit, hit upon the plan of suspending the presses from the grated floors of the I upper story, which is entirely original. A model was constructed by the aid of Mr Sparrow, the ingenious locksmith of the Museum. Mr liana, then principal librarian, took the matter up warmly, tbe first batch of presses was ordered early in 1887, and from that time forward We have had no difficulty at the Museum in providing space for ordinary books. I have pleasure in adding that the trustees obtained from the Treasury • gratuity of £lOO for Mr Januar and of £2.0 for Mr Sparrow, in recognition of their services. TH2