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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 July 1866, Page 3

A Ne"W Light. — il. Savers, of Paris, hns found that a brilliant light, possessing very high actinic power, is produced by tnu combustion of a mixture of twenty four parts of well-dried pulverised nitrate of potash with seven parts of flour of sulphur, and six of the red sulphide of arsenic. This mixture can be sold at 3d. per ponnd, and its light is therefore much cheaper than that of magnesium, to which it is said to be only slightly inferior in aclinic energy. The Specipicity of PuisiosaeyTttbehotts. — Germin, Assistant Professor at the Military Bosj-ital ot Vsil-de-^race, Paris, has lately been engaged in a series of experiments on rabbits, upon whom h« inoculated portions of tubercle taken ii-uni the lungs cf patients who had died of phthisis some thirty hours before. The rabbits were killed two months on an average after the inoculation, and all presented tubercles about the intestinal canal or lungs. Inoculations were also made with choleraic dejections, or the matter of plemonous abscesses, but these had produced no Visible effect one .month afterwards. The author concludes that tuberculosis belongs to the class of diseases called virulent, and should be placed on the same line as syphilis, though more nearly allied to glanders. Papcl Bulls. — An unsophisticated yeoman, who had never travelled many miles from his home in the Forest Dean, reading in his "folio of four pages" of the introduction of Papal bulls : went to a neighbor and put these interrogatories : — v I say, "David what sort of Bulls are these ? Be they Devons, Herefords, or Shorthorns? Do&'t tLiuk they would make a cross with our jnountain breed?" It is said that a traveller may now light his cigar at the galley fire of a steamer at Colon, in the Atlantic Ocean, and throw the ignited fragment of it, after crossing the isthmus by railway, in the Bay of Panama, in the Pacific Ocean. The Eev. Mr. Gilfillan, was one winter night night sailing Liverpool to Glasgow, when a ibppi&b. youth resolved to enjoy some conversation with the Scottish parson. " Pray, Doctor," eaid the youth, pointing in 'the direction of the lurniiisry, •» can you tell me why that is called the dog ?.:.ar P" "Because it is a sky'tarrier, I sup-jpcK-j" vug thu n-ply. A iitt.v icy five y e-arß old, while wishing under the iortures of thu ogue, was tosd by his mother }a r>.^ in;, m-.\ tuk a powder, she had prepared fpr i>si'-i. ■•' Pcvfder. powder," said he, rifting upo* his ?lbow, and puuisg 93 % l^guilfe Sg^Sf