MISCELLANEA. 
701 
A MAN CRUSHED BY AN OX. 
On Tuesday afternoon a butcher, named John Willis, who 
is employed as a slaughterman in Newport-market, had a 
very narrow escape of being crushed to death by one of the 
bullocks he was about to slaughter. It appears that he went 
into “ the pound/’ where they are tied up, for the purpose 
of driving eight or nine of them into the slaughter-house to 
dress for market, and had nearly finished the job, when one 
of them, refusing to go into the killing-house, he proceeded 
to urge it forcibly, upon which the animal became infuriated, 
and rushing at him pinned him so firmly against the wall, 
that, had he not received timely assistance, he would 
undoubtedly have been crushed to death. On being libe- 
rated, he w r as carried to Charing-cross Hospital, whereMr 
Dalton, the house-surgeon, discovered, on examination, that 
one arm was severely fractured, besides internal injuries of 
so serious a character that he now lies in the hospital in a 
very precarious state. 
A LITERARY DOG. 
There is a dog in Liverpool that visits all the newspaper 
offices every day. He generally honours our establishment 
with his first visit. For some hour or hour and a half he 
reclines on the flags on one side of the doorway, eyeing the 
passers-by, and each person who enters. Then he rises, and 
proceeds to the next adjoining office, the Standard , where, 
having gone through the same observance, he repairs to the 
Mercury , and again renews his apparent penance. Thence 
he goes to the Albion , the Journal , and the Times , at each of 
which places he similarly spends about the same space of 
time, which completes his daily gyrations. It is surmised 
that he is the dog of some defunct newsman. 
HORSE-SHOES. 
“Their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint.” — I saiah, v, 28. 
The shoeing of horses with iron plates nailed to the hoofs 
is quite a modern practice, unknown to the ancients, as 
appears from the silence of Greek and Roman writers, 
especially those who treat of horse medicine : for this reason, 
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