General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4613, 17 October 1883, Page 2

General News.

It may be that .cutting and shaving the hair may for the time increase the action of the growth, but (remarks DrSchu* macker) it. has no permanent effect either upon the hair-bulb or the hair-sac, and will not in any way add to the life of the hair. On the contrary, catting and shaving will cause the hair to grot? longer for Jthe iitne being, fravia the end will inevitably shorten its term of lite by exhausting the n^ritire action of lha hair-forming appara'Jii 1Henry Irving, th&^reafe actor, is 4B years of age. Starting&s an actor afc the age of 18, bo. first won renown in ths provinces, and 17 years since went, to London. He achieved his Srst great success in the Vaudeville, where, in 1870,; he personated-for SCO nights Digby Grant in Mr Albery's comedy of the "Two Roses." It was when Mr Irving carried out his long cherished aim of producing Shakesperian characters that his great powers p.s an actor were first duly understood.

A. correspondent of The Melbourne Argus, who claims to possess practical experience on the subject, states that where diamonds are found associated with gold they are too small to be "payable." He urges settlers to keep their eyes open for all glittering objects, and says that aa regards the finding of diamonds,' luck comes into play to a greater extent even than in the discovery of gold. In 1854 the heaviest gun was the 68« pounder, which was useless even thea against a 4|in. iron plate. Now there is the 1C 3-ton gun, measuring 30*. and firing a shot of 2,CC3ib which will penetrate 37in of armour plating at 1.0C3 yards. The increased gun power has necessitated a corresponding increase in the thickness of armour plating, which has increased accordingly from 4si_ to nearly 24in.. .

One of the reasons why the law maintains a distinction between the unfaithfulness of a wife and that of a husband is because a husband is bound by law to maintain all children born by his wife during their marriage, and may therefore have to support illegitimate children born by his wife, whereas the wife bas no similar responsibility in respect to the illegitimate children of her husband.

A medical authority recommends a little common sugar as a remedy for a dry hacking cougji.^ If troubled at night or on first waking in the morning, hare a cup on a stand close by the bed, and take half a teaspoonful; this will be of benefit when cough-sirups fail. " Oliver Twist," for a penny, a new and complete c lition, is the latest and perhaps the most remarkable of cheap reprints.' John Bush, son of Michal Eush, the well known sculler, won his firsi race on t'je Clarence Biver in New South Wales, a few days ago. He is only 16 years old, and ha 3 a fine style. "Botoh on Eats,"—Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, anCs, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunka, jack-rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Mom, Uon & Co,, Sydney, General Agrafe'