General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4725, 28 February 1884, Page 2

General News.

The following letter from Rsjshahai was recently received by the authorities at the Calcutta Exhibition:—"Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that I have a man from whose forehead has sprang a regular horn. I intend taking down this man to the Calcutta Exhibition; please let me know what remuneration I can expect from you if I hand the man over to you." Mr Joubert, Director of the Fxhibition, decided that this gentle^* man comes; under the heads;.pf "horned^S cattle," so cannot be exhibited.

The. whole of Java may fairly be described as consisting of a series of great smouldering volcanoes at distances varying up to 49 miloa apart, from which vast masses of volcanic ash have been vomited, filling up the intermediate spaces and surrounding shallows with huge deposits of fine rich volcanic powder. It is on the low levels of this ash-bed, where it slopes into the sea; that sugar is produced; The de. positsjat an elavationof ICCOft. up to 1500 ft, yield coffee and tea, whilst above that again, from .the high declivities of Malang and Losarie up to 7000 ft., the big cities on the coast get their supplies of European vegetables and fruit. v

There are Arabs among the followers of the Mahdi who habitually wear armour which once adorned the limbs of Anglo* Norman crusaders. Many of the gallant knights who followed the "Lion Hearted " Plantageuet to fight against Saiadin, left their bones to whiten on Eastern deserts, and the armour of those who fell was eagerly seized upon by tLe successful Paynimry. The armour thus obtained has been handed Jovn from father to son for generations and for centuries, with the greatest pride and care; and some of it, so doubt, was worn in, those thrsa terrible days of fighting which destroyed the aiuiy of Hicks Pasha. . Oatabeh of the Bladdbb.—Stingiag irritation, -inflammation, all Sidney and tixilar Com^lainti, cured by " Buchu-paiba." —Motes, Mow and Co. • Sydney, Otneral Agent*.