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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5001, 22 January 1885, Page 2

Russian army officers are diplomats and travellers. A Russian colonel is negotiat ing with the-" suppression of brigandage." Another is exploring Thibet with an expedition of a '• thoroughly military character." By another the bed of the Oxus is being examined in a purely scientific spirit.

The following statement will be found in a leading article which appeared a few weeks ago in the London Daily Telegraph:—"The chief stimulant for ordinary use among the men engaged in the Nile flotilla will be rum, which is being sent ont in large quantities from the Eoyal Vict" ualliing Yard at Debtford, where, by a special process, the- heavy portion of the alcohol is got rid of, and that of lighter specific gravity is retained, thereby rendering the rum light and exhilarating, instead of stupifying and intoxicating. The scientific treatment to which the rum is subjected removes, with the heavy spirit, all its irritating properties, and renders the troops lively without being excited and quarrelsome.

Paying dividends on watered stock is now called "El Mahdi," because it is " false profit."

Skinny Men.—Welle' "Health Eenower" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Debility. At druggists.—Kemp, tborae, Prosser and Oo. t Agoule Auc' land.