General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4922, 18 October 1884, Page 2

General News.

An eminent scientist says that when a lady oannot sit down without her nose becoming red it. shows an imperfect circulation of the blood, caused by tight lacing. Same with gentlemen. A red nose is a sure sign of tightness some. where.

The average wealth in En&land is £262, in Scotland £277, and in Ireland £83 per head.

The London Evening News says the increasing frequency with which divorces are applied for in Scotland, as well as the growing facility with which they are granted, is causing considerable uneasiness to northern students of this particular aspect of social science. At the present time the judges of the Edinburgh Court of Session are separating " Jockies and Jennies " at the rate of something like half a dozen or more couples a day, four pairs having indeed been "put asunder" at a recent sitting in the brief space of ninety minutes —a rapid manner of doing business, which has, to say the least, an un-» pleasant American air.

A very ingenious apparatus has been invented by a Russian naval officer for ascertaining the depth of the sea without the use of a costly and heavy line. In« deed, no line at all is used. The instrument consists of a piece of lead, a small wheel with a contrivance for registering the number of revolutions, and a float. While the apparatus sinks the wheel revolves, and the registered revolutions indicate the depth. When the bottom is reached the lead becomes detached, the float begins to act, and the maohine shoots up to the surface, where it can be easily fished up by a net and the register read off.

According to the Lyons Medicale, Dr , Grellety has observed that hiccough in children was immediately stopped by giving them a lamp of iug ar saturated with table vinegar. The same remedy was tried on adults with similar instantaneous success.

A woman may not be able to sharpen a pencil or throw a stone at a hen, but she tfan pack more articles into a trunk than a man can into a one-horse if aeon Fuss and BTTGB, Beetles, rasecfe, roaohet, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophe«, chin* munkt, cleared out by «Bough on RatT.L