General News.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3573, 9 June 1880, Page 3

General News.

Americans evidently hare no very exalted opinion of our English fashionable beauties. A writer in a trans-Atlantic journal has analysed the respective claims of each with so free a hand that we should be lacking courtesy were we to repeat'his criticisms in detail. Certain of remarks, however, are sufficiently amusing to be worth reproducing. The " Jersey Lily," he thinks, "has rather a pretty mouth," but "a badly • moulded nose." Another well-known lady carries her "head in a manner that suggests a stiff neck," or "an intention to make a face as soon aB her teacher looks the other way." Of a third party, he says she has the honour of having " originated the peculiar style of hairdressing which might properly be called ' Snarleyow,' the first two syllables being used in a descriptive way, and the third being added for the sake of euphony and in memory of an author who would hare had no mercy on the " beauty fever*" had it raged before he was taken from the evil to come. The lady's locks are snarled, tangled, frizzled, curled, twisted, and generally maltreated until they give the upper part of her head a size and appearance of dignity thai it solely needs." After this we are not surprised to find that, " taken altogether, the six English beauties are not so goodlooking that it would be impossible to find six more beautiful girls behind the counters of any large shop in the city."

Tba accounts from Salonica, says a Vienna tekgram, are not cheerful. They are full of the doings of the Greek and Bulgarian bands which are.roaming all orer the country. Last month one of the bands inraded the little town of Seloya, to the east of Seres, completely sacking it. The raid was directed against the Mahometans, and the chiefs of the band declared that no barm would be done to the Christians. The affair has created quite a panic in the town of Seres and the neighborhood. Small detach* meats of troops hare been sent to the most exposed localities, but they hare not restored confidence. This can only be done by systematic measures to suppress the eril, as was successfully done against the bandß in tbe autumn of 1878, when the. Turkish troops did not act only on the defensire. In the midst of last month some bands made a raid quite close to Saloniea.

Dr Schliemann has written to the editor of the St. Petersburg Golos stating that he has finished the exearation of Troy, and that there are remnants of several cities clearly discernable underneath the one immortalised in the Iliad.

We do not want Cyprus and the Turks do not want it. Lord Beaconsfield has always spoken of this spot as an Island of the Blest. Would it not be possible to hand orer its sovereignty to him? As Benjamin 1., Duke of Cyprus, he might reign in peace without the slightest chance of any one seeking to direst him of his territories, whilst, as they would be surrounded by the sea, there would be no possibility of his getting into trouble by any itching for ■cientifio frontiers.