SCOTLAND.
During the recent excessively hot weather, the Police Board of Glasgow have employed a portion. of the fire-brigade in watering the streets and washing out dirty courts and alleys with their engines. The effect has been very apparent in the increased comfort with which parties have been able to perambulate the portions of the city thus cleansed and cooled.— Glasgow Herald.
The people in the Hebrides are in a state of the greatest destitution. In the island of Harris, numbers are existing on limpets, cockles, and other shell-fish, which they find on the shore: this is their only food.
A great number of eagles' nests have appeared on the estate of Applecross this season; and, notwithstanding the exertions of the gamekeeper to get the birds destroyed, they seem to increase. It is singular that game is increasing very i
rapidly in the immediate vicinity of these eyries; it would appear that the eagle will not molest game if it can obtain carrion. Applecross abounds naturally to a very great degree with vermin; it is nevertheless as well stocked with game as any estate in the Highlands. A number of corn-fields close to the villages were perfectly destroyed last harvest by herds of red deer which invaded them.— neerness Conner.
There is at present a Efighlandman employed on the Scottish Central Railway, near the Bridge of Forteviot, who will take a rail in each hand and carry them a distance of from forty to sixty yards. In carrying the rails to where they are to be laid, he saves the labour of sometimes six, and never less than four men. Six rails is the burden allowed for the railway horses to carry; and these weigh twenty- one hundredweight, which makes two equal to seven hundredweight or three and half hundredweight each, a weight sufficient for a liercules.—Perihshire Courier.
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