General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 6 October 1881, Page 3

General News.

■The Jewish Chronicle says :—Tl)ere are several schemes under tho attention of the Porte for the settlement of the Turkish national debt. One. of these originally included a proposal, first started in our columns, and has a particular interest for Jews. It embraced the provision that

Turkish lands should be exchanged in pro

portions agreed upon, for Crown lands. I It is well known that there are large num--7' bers of Jews in Russia, Hungary, Roumanian and the Holy Land itself, and in other parts of world, men of some little means, enterprise, and industry, who would be glad to settle in Palestine us colonists, if land could be acquired on reasonable terms, and with indefeasible title. ■• Should the Torte eventually agree to the proposal, the purchase of lands, in Palestine and Syria would be much facilitated, with advantage to the State and the purchaser. " Men," says the Bishop of Melbourne, 11 wefe not intended to nurse and educate infants, or to preside over the details of domestic economy. And, on the other band, women are not adapted to fight the battles of life, either in the field or in the forum, any more than they, are to bear the burden of life's hardest work, either in producing, protecting, or distributing the necessaries of existence." The other evening as Captain Gatland was descending the staircase at Boyd's Hotel on the way from the lodge room he met with a very severe accident. .The gallant captain generally comes down < lie first section of the staircase by an adroit gymnastic movement, and has hitherto successfully landed on TSis feet in the passage, but on the last occasion some obstruction caused him to dive head first .'forward, and'he shot.down the handrail ilike greased lightning. His head coming * in contpct with the bannister, smashed the -" Jatter to atoms. Past-master King viewed the movement of bis fore runner with alarm and on hastening down to the reßcue raised the prostrate form of the Worshipful Master, whose Wounds were tenderly dressed by the angelic forms in the house, and though very much cut, maimed, and j bruised, it is pleasing to add that no fatal results have followed. —C. Mail. A medical journal of Munich says that diphtheria caught by kissing is likely to assume a much severer form than if the disease were contracted or the contagion imparted in some other way. This should be a warning to married men and hired ;.■««*■•:<'.': ': ■ .■-■■'■":: ' ■■■■ ■-