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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4667, 19 December 1883, Page 2

The Sydney waterworks are estimated to cost £1,800,000. They are to deliver 155,000,000 gallons per day. A girl was driven mad and a gentleman's skull fractured by Salvation Army business at Ballarat and Sandhurst. An extract from our Paris Letter says: —I met a few days ago in a rare FrencTt work, some curious details on Marie Stuart and her dauphin husband, later Francois 11. They were aboat the same age, were married at .15, and he died at I the age of 17 from an abscess behind the ear, and that the doctors feared to trepan. Francois had the infirmity to not be able to^eorete by the nose, so that such matter lodged m his head. Indeed it was rumored that he was poisoned in the style of Hamlet's father. At best he was a weakly youth, a chubby looking boy, with no vigor of character. When he expired everyone deserted him. None closed bi3 eyes. Only two persons accompanied the body to St. Denis, where the blind Bishop of Senhs read the burial service. A slip of paper was attached to the coffin, satirizing the simplicity of the funeral. An explanation was given, that the economy was practised in the interest of the youDg widow. Lady Beautiiuees.—Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyea with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health,. and nothing will give you tuoh rioh Wood, good health, strength, and beauty ai Hop Bitters. A trial if certain proof, fief,