Transcribed by Barb Baker. Geo. THE WHITEHAVEN GAZETTE & CUMBERLAND ADVERTISER, Monday, December 2, 1822 / NEWS. _________________________________________________________ NEWS. Wheat straw may be melted into colourless glass with a blow pipe, without any addition. Barley straw melts into glass of a yellow topaz colour. _________________________ Great difficutlty has often been experienced in making leeches fasten with their mouths to the skin; a correspondent strongly recommends the following method of applying them. -- Dip the mouth of the leech in fresh porter, and apply it to the spot from whence it is deemed advisable to abstract blood, and it will immediately fasten on it, and begin to suck. ____________________________ A fellow at Nottingham, wearing his Majesty's uniform, on Saturday week delivered his wife (a decent looking woman), with a halter round her arm, to a man dressed in a smock frock, who had previously agreed to give the vender the sum of five shillings for his "goods", and paid the purchase money on delivery. The transaction took place in the open market-place of that town. ___________________________________