LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Twenty years ago there were but 12 women dootors m the United States, now there are over 800.
There are 555,000 houses m London with 4,120,000 inhabitants. They cover an area of 117 eqadre miles.
Cremation is increasing m popularity m Germany, and for disposing of the dead are to be erected at Hamburg, Darmstadt, and Zurioh.
A Zanzibar Princes* asks that lady dootora may be sent out to her eountrywomsn. The medicine given to natives of Zanzibar m dangerous cases, she says, oonsiats of swallowing texts cut from the Koran.
Vegetarian restaurants are now the order of the day m London, where very toothsome repasts are provided at exceptionally low figures. One of the scon a large scale haß recently been opened by Spiers and Pond opposite the Law Courts.
Opium eating is sadly on the increase m many parts of England. In one of the prisons it has been found absolutely necessary to give one of the inmates doses of thi" narootio to keep her alive, her constitution having become wedded to it. ,The expense of thia dose comes to something like half-a-orofrn aday.
According to a statement of the relative speed of the far teat ironolads m the world, Italy is an easy first with four ships faster than any of those possessed by England which comes second on the list, and is about equally ahead of Prance. Bat the difference m no case exceeds a fraotiuu of a mile per hour*
Mr F. Ferriman |informs us that the shijTheodore, whioh arrived at Lyttelton yesterday, brings a large shipment of the Waltet A. Wood new steel-wheel binders.
According to a Paris journalist tha present Republican Government of France costs th« country over £18,500 per hour. It is far and away the most cosily Republican Government ander whioh th» country ever groaned, and nearly twice as expensive as the most extravagant of the empires. Republicanism is usually very oostly, and the wont feature is that it can nevwshow muoh for the money spent.
Holders of coupons m Dimant and doe's gift-distribution ar« referred to that firm's advertisement m another column. The attention of all interested is also direoted to & notification by the Bame firm m referenoe to an alteration of premises necessitating & reduotion of stock, for whioh every inducement is offered.
We bar* been requested to call attention to the annoyance that is caused by a number of boys bathing m the Wakanai Greek, near the coaorete bridge, on continuation of the Bast Belt. Possibly, if a policeman were to visit the locality indicated it might have a salutory effect.
As an example of the intense heat recently experienced, the Lyttelton Time* mentionb that a shepherd at Baling reoently loßt a valuable dog from this cause. Some of the water raoes were dry, and for several hours his dogs had to walk under a biasing bud without water.
The Otago Daily Times itaUs that Mr Oharlea Bills, a well-known bird fanoier, has received bj the s.». Haurato a number o) nightingales, robins, and bullfinohea brooghi out for him ia the e.s. lonia, from London, together with nine hedgehogs. The birds are m splendid condition. Our contemporary adds that this presents "an opportunity to the Aoolimatisation Sooiety to aoquire fresh specimens of the featheredjrace." As regards
the nightingales and robins, theso birds being strictly insectivorous as well as exquisite songsters, the nightingalts especially, it is to be hoped (hat thty will be successfully acclimatised and increase and multiply ; bu the bullfinches oannot be kept m too striot confinement, as they are the most misohievous birds among fruit trees that it is possible to imagine ; the worst, indeed, of all English birds— muoh worse than ihe greenfinoh, whioh ia already a pest m many districts of New Zealand.
A startling announcement has been made m reference to a projeoted Transandine rail-
way, by whioh a new route will be available to the Antipodes, and by which it is contemplated that a saving of about a fortnight will be effeoted. The voyage will thus, m the first instance, be by steam to Buenos Ayres, by rail as above to Valparaiso, and then by steam again to Australia.
It is said that th« great glaoier of Alaska, m North America, is moving at the rate of a quarter of a mile per annum towards the sea. The front presents a wall of ice some five hundred feet m thickness, its breadth varies from three to ten miles, and it is about one hundred and fifty miles long. Almost every quarter of an hour hundreds of tons of ice, m large blocks, fall into the sea, which they agitate m the most violent manner.
An English chemist has found a way for turning to aocount the practically illimitable quantity of seaweed that the ocean supplies, or at least as muoh of it as may be desired. He boils the weed with carbonate of soda, and treats the filtered solution with sulphuric aoid, obtaining from it m this mannr a substance that has more viscosity than starch, or even gum arabio, and that can be profitably employed m stiffening various textile fabrics. It ia also said to be excellently adapted for the making of syrups and for oertain oulinary uses. From the cellular and fibrous matter left after the extraction of that material — to which he has given the namt of " alguina " —a very good quality of writing paper can be cheaply made.
Kidney oomplant, one of the moat common and yet most neglected diseases of this country can be readily cured by the uso of Ho Bitters. Be sure and get American m ke. See. We clip the following important testimonial from the! llawarra jllercury, N.S.W., on the 30th March. It needs no comment : — " M John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost oomplete relief by using Sander and Sons' Euoalypt Extract. He says seeing the said Extract advertised m the Illawarra Mercury ', hia mii tense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle .of the medicine from Mr Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. He states that between rhe 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract, and on the 19th the use of that medioine continued to afford him relief, to whioh he had been a stranger forlfour years. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extraot a cure fo rheumatism as well as gravel. Ho requests ua to publish this information through the Mercury. We have much pleasure m com. plying with Mr Loveday 's request, whose word cannot be be doubted, and who oan have . no object m view other than a pure desire to benefit suffering humanity." — (Advx).
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1456, 14 January 1887, Page 2
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