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Evening Star, Issue 3849, 25 June 1875, Page 3

The Macomber gun is paid to have the great range of nine and a quarter miles ! The London correspondent of the Melbourne ‘Argus’ says:—DrKenealy, ex-Q.0., and actually M.P., was committed to prison for cruelty to his own illegitimate daughter, and had his term of punishment shortened through the benevolent interference of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, over whom he now pours th? vials of hia vulgar wrath. Action of Sugar on the Teeth.—M.' Larez, of France, has proved that sugar, from either cane or beets, is injurious to the healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with them, or by gas developed, owing to Its stoppage in the stomach, If a tooth is macerated in a saturated solution of sugar, it becomes gelatinous, and its enamel opaque, spongy, and easily broken. This modification is due, not to free acid, but to a tendency of sugar to combine with the calcareous basis of the teeth. The Constantinople underground railway from Galata to Pera was opened lately. This unique work is 642 yards long, and convevs passengers from the level of the Bosphorus to the extreme height of Pera, an elevation of 200 feet, with an average g- adknt of one in ten ; its greatest depth below th* surface is eighty feet. The motive power is a stationary engine working a drum with endless bands. M, Gavaud, a Frenchman, was the original concessionaire: and the engineer of the work with company is English. Trains run up and down simultaneously every five minutes, and are calculated to carry 30,000 passengers per diem. The carriag3s work very easily at an average speed of ten miles an hour.