General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4867, 15 August 1884, Page 3

General News.

■ ' The suicide mania here (the Vienna cor- ' respondent of the Standard says) culminated on May 30 in a most horrible scene in the beautiful Stadt-park. An unfortu- ■ nate wretch bad deliberately concealed himself, and after stuffing all his clothes and pockets with paper soaked in petroleum, set himself on fire. When discovered he was ablose from bead to foot. He was taken to the hospital, where death spcedilj '- put him out of,his misery. The two days Vienna suicides number amongst them a widow of 84, several girls and boys, and

ooe policeman. " , . Strangely enough, in the iery lands o! the eucalypts, their medicinal properties. though powerful and safe, hare obtained hitherto but very inadequate professional recognition in either medicine or surgery ' Still eucalyptus oil end several purcbas- * able eucalyptus preparations hare made their way, to some extent, as popular or • . domestic remedies in Australia also. Ab sence of roalarian. fevers from most parts of the Australian territory may, account ' to some extent for the very limited usr into which v the eucalypti we drawn by legitimate therapy in this part ot the globe. Ifat we .hare now such oxerwhelming testimony of the special value "of the oil as an antipyreticand antiseptic from abroad, that the new observations of Professor. Shulz ( deserve also here a cartful aludy by medical practitioners. So says Baron yon Mueller. The processor named, who belongs to the University of Bonn, published a treatise on eucalyptus oil in 1881. An advertisement, says a famous shotr- ' manrfthould stick out like a sore thumb, and .there is much of the " sore thumb aboit the announcement of the Falration . Army meeting at the Melbourne Town 1 Hall as follows:—"Salvation Army! Grand Exhibition of Trophies: Converted drunkards, gamblers, prize fightero, critni nals, infidels, and other attractions. Ad« mission—6d and Is." According to the Berlina Borsen Halle, ' the total amount of gold produced through out Enssift in 1883 was valued at £3 676,000, of which bast Siberia produced £1,840,000; West Ciberia contributed £36,000; £680,000 fell to the lot , of the Amur district; £520,000 was derived from the Ural Mountains ; and £600,000 from the othermiriinj» districts. These figures, provided the official results of former years be correct, are very uasatisfactory, as the average production of the last ten years is given at £5,120,000. Nearly all the gold produced in Russia goes to the Mint to be coined into Imperial or into Eucsiar ducats, the use of the metal for manufacturing purposes being estimated at only £320,000 per annum. '