CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES. 
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Two Necks, Lad-lane, by the exhibition of a fine young Shark, seven feet long, 
and 300lbs. weight. In the thickest part it was nearly four feet girth, and the 
spread of its tail was above two feet. It was said to have been taken off Mar¬ 
gate, on Tuesday, evidently by a hook with a good length of iron attached to it, 
against which it seems in vain to have bit and gnashed its teeth. The front teeth 
of the lower jaw, extending several rows back, are everywhere broken down by 
the attempt to bite through its iron moorings. The young monster was in fine 
condition.— Morning Herald, June 2. |2We have heard no particulars to enable 
us even to make a guess as to the species.— Ed.] 
A Piebald Rook. —Yesterday week was shot, in the rookery of Mr. Sawyer, 
of Frampton, Lincolnshire, a young Rook, having a part of each wing white, its 
bill white, each side of its head, and under its throat leading to its breast, and 
above its bill, of a beautiful white; one foot was white, as were all the claws, 
and the other foot partly white.— June 5. 
A Live Rat embedded in Stone. —On Monday week, as two miners were 
blasting a drift in a stratum of solid stone, called the scar limestone, at Alston 
Moor, six fathoms below the surface, they shot into a small cavity of the rock, 
out of which, to their surprise, sprung a full grown Rat. The miners endeavoured 
to take the animal alive, but in their attempts to do so it was killed. How long 
the Rat had been embedded in its living grave, and in what manner it had con¬ 
trived to exist in such a situation, are questions that must be left to conjecture. 
On examination, the stratum around the cavity was found to be perfectly solid 
and close in every part. — Neiecastle Journal, June 10 . 
’ Singular Propensity in a Cow.—On Thursday, May 4, a person, on his way 
from Bishop's Castle to Shrewsbury, observed a Cow milking herself. She was 
afterwards noticed sucking several other Cows; and the owner, Mr. Cheaton, a 
respectable farmer at Cothercoate, was informed of the fact. This disclosure ex¬ 
plained to the dairy-maid the reason why the Cows, for several weeks past, had 
rendered scarcely any milk except in the morning of each day.— Worcester Jour¬ 
nal, May 11 . 
New Silkworm. —At Maragnan and Rio Janeiro are several species of Bom- 
hyx, the caterpillars of which enclose themselves in a cocoon, after having spun a 
thicker and stronger silk than that of the ordinary Silkworm. It has been tried 
by Padre Mestre, and forms a very solid material. A species of Mulberry, the 
fruit of which is small and inedible, grows near Rio Janeiro, which it is proposed 
to cultivate for feeding the caterpillars. The subject is obviously of considerable 
practical importance.— Ed. ’ 
A Cat suckling a Rat. —We have lately somewhere read of a Cat suckling 
two Kittens and a young Rat at the same time, at the Brewery of Messrs. 
