Genearl News.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5028, 23 February 1885, Page 3

Genearl News.

St^;-%t-;a debate "upQn^ Smoking, 1 'aiiiori£ f^:tK#amembeiM^^ & JDtn^pwkeri iertdattced atid; Others ad» --i iwiid r^Fbr forty j^ar^^rmy life, ceo 1 ehwrs ftom the^ Bnti-tobwsconists): Itv X ibf youtHvaß a taediijaiitadentil^ricd to lt^;'ipbke.'^ln'Tam:lateTery:freA;e^rtnij^ - Piiiidiptii toe Btretojvcd mepr^tratebn tbe M'ltwV';wfMn''l irieii^tp/Broker ahdv.ajEjaja W^motWtH\afdefeai.:;r:l^atea: : tobaccoi; .-I '^••jalcl almoit Jii»e;lent my snpport (p any <Mh iliitituiipn that bad for its object the ..put.. ; -- - itinf of tobacob««Bokeri to death—^(Todifer- ? > baa cheeriDß). A^fow yeara apo 1 was in ii friends; We went to

*> Brittany with so^me friends; We went to :-^iw^itini:; : T^y Jl«sgati tb smoke. The* looked W>i; ''.-riff happy; and outsideitWaVyerywetaini i Idid so~-;(gr6atexpectations). v ''rstjam~'. that moment D.'wjas;:.: a emiiifwf ■inSn;:;r : 'and I now feelit a com.: ttfortable and laudable practice, and is and con-,; '{:£,^■iOT^f^toft^ipH-iobaoconista.; 'roars of .; the smokers). There is n<» more harm ?n a';pipe; than there is in n *mp of ; ;te«. may poison yoursel^by .'■■>, drinking^^i^ much i-reen tea, and killing a;U bj^ eatinifi: ;tob many beefsteaks. M^^Eoft-my'cmn ; -jmrt I consider that tobacco, ?«f ipmi^eratidn^iaaßTreetnerand equaliser v' of the temper "-r^total rout of the tobac - * I ana coinpliete triumph? of the ■ i; iitt^ersyi^bbaccolTalk and ■''Smokers'. ::iy'Q6mp.h\ :} ';/. /.■■>:;.:.r,v.■■■■-■.. ?■:.;. ;V -.'. - ■'••. -/ '■ - ;: Deputy ;■ /Inspector.' ■ v G*w>*af of Police in thePunjaubi has sub- ' • niitted officiallytoithelndian Government, £~ ischemeiforthe forming of an inner proTineial policeforce, in order to meet anew r^^ifcof-inl&virhicK has assumed serious -of late years:* From fact* »>'-v which Colonel Swart has brought to light v ?:; it appeirs that the Pathan criminals on V; theAfronJier, in^eague with local bad r-':v!;"Aiif»etetiiiireAibw in the h^it of carry- "-' -log $eii^ $ep)redatipns into remote parts r of this turning the forces of '■■■. •irilisatipn ..against Jsociety^ A. bnrglary . \ ;>■■ plannejii)?y;> * man °n the Bpot—some - '^ of and influence. A ;■ V telegram^ is sent to an agent at ■ Peshawar i s rj»no, despatches* gang of ruffians by rail, •<tafcinß' i,c*re > to forward; their weapons by the parcel post. The crime is committed '■ ■' t ;-k\ faTpnrable; moment, and before an ' alarni can'be given the men are well )■i■;•^:;■'onfc!■tb•iip;:■r^waJ■■■^bo^le^;' their 5 shares i of? the •-■ppU; being frequently sent \ '■*■> ■ them by^jpost^pffice order. It is, more* - overi startling to 1 learn to what an extent ' the native army is leavened wiih criminal V; pathans. v It isr said that by completing ! ' tbeiraiiway to Q^iettah and Pesbawur we changing the whole aspect, of crime in ■^/Indian At present^inthe way of protec we have three disjointed and inder ■■.Vpendent systems—namely; the Thuggee c ; i«n4^l)«C(Mty department, the provincial - railway police, These ; would all be linked together and strengththe adoption of Colonel Ewart's ■-"■-^ichajine^V 1.".^--";:'','!^-■■'•;■■>;■", >\-.,;. " t ;.■ ■•/•,: . ; A panio resemblip^ that which led to the; Sunderiand catastrophe tas occurred , in the Bohemian town of Horic, where the girls' and boys' iscfcootyare held in two adjoining houses, having a common corridor and two very narrow entranceis. In one v class a girjr suddenly attacked with an epileptic fi<^ scried butU^lt's burning." A fearful panic at once set in, and spread to all the in both houses.^ The ,v l»yi;and girls rushed down the eiaircase, the teachers being unable to stop them. Two girls sprang from the top window. ;■ people putside made niatterfii worse ■''•..':■' b^|wniig/the ©ntrances in tbeirendeav* 1 otiw tp get -in and help the childreoi .:* % rjßTjintißally the".children were all got out ■!^; without very serious injuries., >; Complete official return* of the cholera in the province of JPTapleiif Italy, show that there were 14Q39 mbm and 7576 deathß^ of which,^^numbeif 12,402 cases and 6629 deaths were in the city of Naples.. t