General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4745, 22 March 1884, Page 4

General News.

We are informed that a man's body is about three-fourths composedof-fwater; but it is hard to'believe this while looking at the nose of some of our public officials. The official report of the Pearl-Shell and Beche-de- mer Fisheries lin Torres Straits for the year 1883 shows that there wwe 206 vessels licensed during.the,year, employing about4soo men, as against 167 in 1882; and,33 licenses were granted to occupy fishing stations. The -yield- of pearl-shell was 621 tons, being 207 tons less than in 1882.:; The: quantity of beche-de-mer exported was 118 tons, an increase of 31 tons over the previous year.; The de.creasejnihe yield of shell is principally owing to the increased depth of water in which the divers are working, and the bad weather; but the drinking habits of the men have caused serious loss to their employers. A correspondent of a Queensland paper states that, in the Hughenden district, Queensland, he has discovered more than 46 different minerals, but most of them are silver with gold; also many copper lodes. Hesays-r"Theyareall big things. I have one silver with gold, a perfect mountain ; the lode is 70ft. and 100 ft wide; and one copper with bismuth, 80 and 120 ft wide. They were assayed at 40 per cent of copper, and 30 per cent of bismuth to ton and 77 and 120 ounces of silver, \ and 4|- ounces of gold, and. 54 and 73 per cent, of lead to the ton. X discovered a new silver lode last month, and I expect more than 1,000 ounces of silver and gold traces to the ton, with a lode two and three feet wide. I have sent a few pieces of rich ores to Sydney for each asßay." A storyjis narrated ofj a bishop on good authority. The bishop who has for some time back been in extremely delicate health, was some days since, advised by his physician that s a trip to Nice 1 was absolutely necessary to set him up in health; but he positively declined to entertain the idea of going and shook his head so determinedly that the man of pills and potions ; though it only right* 1 to -himself in plain terms. "My lord," he said very solemnly, " I tell you most candidly that your case is a most serious one, and if you do not go to Nice, you must go very soon jftQ heaven.','!" "(Oh well in that case," said the bishop very dismally, "I will go to Nice! 1' ' ; ..- „-;, r _ I | ■•'Tes,'' said the'editdr of a daily paper which treats of stocks to his subaltern the other day: "It is true there is no newst to-day, but ,write up an account of a young lady in high society circles being jilted, an attempted burglary and murder near Mount Diablo, or on Puget Sound, which" ever you please, and a fracas between two well-known merchants on Knob Hill, who are reported to be at variance over the affections of a young lady.' s That will do, I think; for this afternoon, unless' yon like t(J throw in something sensational which may occur to you, leaving out names, of "course." ' .'■ , : ■ ■ , HoUpWay'S PUls.— With darkening , days and' changing temperatures the digestion becomes mi.--paired, the ; liver!disordered, and the mind .despondent, unless the cause of the irregularity, be expelled from the blood and body by such an alterative as these Pills. They directly attack' the source of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the circulation, restore the distempered organs to their natural'state, and correct all defective or contaminated secretions. Such an easy means of instituting health, strength, andcheerfulness should he applied by all whose stomachs are weak, whose minds are much harassed, or whose 'brains are overworked. Holloway's is essentially a blood tempering medicine, whereby^ «its ; influence reaches the remotest fibre of tie frame anij effecte a universal ped, ' -■

.EzploratlbnsLreronitl^begun.aßdstili in active prosecution, indicate that the little frequented district of Holderness in Yorkshire, England, may yet become celebrated for its exhumed lake dwellings and their relics. The district was un doubtedly once characterised by numerous lakes, but the sole water space now rejmaining is Honsea Mere, a broad sheet more than a, mile in length. Belies of lake dwellings hare hitherto been sought without marked success in England, and the preseat discoveries are regarded with great interest by archseologists. . There is so great a demand for Judge Higinbotham's lecture on Science and Religion, recently published in Melbourne, that a new edition is being produced, an order for 500 copies having been "received from England; -„) ."> J!';. ;