THRODGH THE PAPERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2248, 9 October 1889, Page 2

THRODGH THE PAPERS

BY RAIL TO PEKIV, An interesting leoture was recently delivered at Bimla (wo learn from an English contemporary) by Odlmol Le Mesiurrler on the Russians m Central Asia, and was based on his personal experience. Dealing with tha question of steam transport on tbe Caspian, he stated that the Ruaeiuni, even with their present steamerß, were able to convey 47.000 men from Batoum to Uztm Ada, tbe starting point of tbo Transcaapian railway In twelve days. The railway, ho said had been pushed forward :two and a half miles daily, and would now be carried northwards to join the great Siberian Pucifio railway. When that line had besn cimpleted 12 days only Wou'd be required to go from St, Petersburg to Vladivostok, and 15 to Pekin. The lecturer praised thedi oipline and organisation of tbe army of Bokhara When diecasslng the possibility of an advance on India' the Russian officers, he said, were m the habit of illustrating their views m a forcible manner by the aid pf pocket atlases

SYDNEY CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL Mr Dillon, on the Invitation . f Cardinal Moran, «ddrefs?d a meeting held on tbe evening of Sunday September 8, In St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, m aid of the cathedral building fund.- The cath'dral was thronged, some 3000 pc >ple beiog present, and Mr D/lloa apologised foe tbe weakness of his voioe whioh, he s»!d, had suffered from the strain to which the frequent tpeeoheaof Ute delivered by him had subjected it. Tbe speaker dealt at ■ome length on tbe splendour of the oathadral. recalling vislta p»ld by him to tbe great cathedrals of Europe. Ho knew no church he s»ld built In modern times whloh so olnsely resembled In architectural beauty tbe noble monuments of tbe ages of faith. A bolldtnpr, he added, noou »a the one In whloh h?y wore tasomblod, was one cf whloh auy oommunlty mlcjht ba proud, and h) could well understand the feelings of oona >Utlon »od gratification that tinlma cd all who htd assisted la the erection ot so magnlfiosnt a monomeDt of Oatholla faith and g nero*l«y.

ALUMINUM— A LOST ART.

Frederiok J. Seymour, who di d of paralysis at i'indlny, Ohio, on July 16, carried with him to the grave the secret of making alunalnom out of common clay. He was the diec .veror of the process and he coofidod it to nobody probably intending to preserve it until he should have made a fortuna. He had e&t iblished cjstly works aud personally superintended the process of manufacture. . When the olay, fiubjaoted to intense heat and treated with known chemicals, bad reiobed the proper degree of fusion, he used to enter the workroom alone and add a oertaln other chemical, ia unknown proportion, which compktad the process. Tbe aluminum, thus extracted, oiuld be sold very cheaply yet at a Vgo p>oflr to tho man'f io urera, It j'b vory valuab'e. aa bring ihe lightest and ytt one of the strongest of metala. Aeronauts had built their hopes of success on its employment In air-ships. If |he score? is completely lost lc will be a serious eet-baok to that as well bs to more practical expectations. — "Pilot."

k MILITARY BLUNDER. Attempts h*vo b en made at Vienna, says the correspondent r-f the " T'mea," writing on August B b, to hush up a deplorable millury blander, by whloh a soldier of the 13. h Huisan has been killed, while 26 of hla ootnrad&s and 87 horsea wore more or leis btdly injured. It seems that on the 30th of July the 13 :h Ruisar regiment, whloh Is quartered at Bud»pestb, wm befog Imputed. The exe<oiaes lasted two houra, and were well executed, bat when men »nd hones were quite exhausted f c jm their work, Colonel von lllei unexpectedly gave the oomman< for » obargo at full ga lop. The animal? were t< o tired to auswet to the spur. Many of them broke down, others tried to jampover thimi oa the ground, otbere ehled, a:,d dashed out of the rank*. All this pttßsed fo rapidly tb»t before tbe trumpbt could sound a halt, tbe grocmd w<« atrown ffltb dismounted trooperß and iijared hoctea. B aides tbe hussar who baa died, there are three others In hospital who are not rxpeotocl to reoover f.-oaj thelt Injuries, 13 are Buffering from fractures, and 10 from slighter woandn. O:ut of the 87 ohargera whloh had to be conslßne^ to tho veterinary hospital, a considerable number will no doubt bo an* fit for fu ther scrvloo A CURB TOR WRINKLES. Ladles of what our friends the French call ' a certain age ' will no doubt be glad to bear (saya tho Paris correspondent of the " London Dally Telegraph ") that at tho ' Qynamodormlo Institute cf Paris' tbe tell-tale vrrlukles on their fair features can bo removed by eleotrlclty. It was Ninon de Lenolos who said, when observing on herself the effects of advanowomnnklndshe woqldhave consolidated &11 ing #ge, tbß,t had she been the creator of tbe wrinkles on the heels of the fair Bex } and if tbe antique coquette were now alive sbo would positively worship the boob of ooienoe who have dlcejvered a moans of Qtillstng ' E'eotrolyalu ' for the perennial observation of beauty. According to Dr Verney, wh) writes on the subjaot of 'h.3 new vrsj of beooming 'beautiful I for ever,' tbe method known as ' eleo* trolya's ' io brought to bear on the wrlnklea wherever they appear on the fece. The action' of tne oleptrioity reP»lm the worcout" epidermis, nutrlfies »nd revV.fJault" until It rises up into is proper pltpe, and the wholu eurfuoo'of the skin beoom'S at smooth its that of a young penon full of bloom and beauty. Tho opi-raclon is dit agreeable to tbe pa'ip ir, bat not painful, and its beneficial > foots are warranted by pompotont mealc»l autboiifotj. In the manntime, Salat. Bfuvo's dlolum th»t smiles produce wrinkles ought to be a pautlon to the fair, who e)pnld endeavor tp cjjHJyate Immobility of countenanoe as muoh as possible, so tbafc they rosy not have to seek ihe aid of eteotTJpUy tpp goon,