NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 July 1901, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Women and Tobacco. Dr, Legorix, one of the most active of French tobncco-phobes, is considerably alarmed at the progress of smoking among women. “It is simply disgusting,” he says. “In fashionable society, at their ‘five o’clocks’ and ‘at homes’ at their private reunions, and in their boudoirs, women smoke regularly. Young and old, women of the town and of the country, middle-class women, and literary women, smoke in public and in private. I have tracked nicotine to the vital parts of more than one lady of exemplary charctcr, and discovered in their haunts of learning the use of tobacco. It is a tyrannical passion, enslaving, disgusting, dangerous, and pernicious ;' and with all my force I would advise the cry of alarm. The three stages of the nicotine vice are tobacco, disease, and death.”

- Queen Yictoria’s Sill. Queen Victoria left a million and a half of money In her wiil to be divided equally between Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Princess Henry of Battenburg, and the Duke of Connaught. 'Their Eoyal Highnesses, however, are only to receive the interest, the principal, going to the late Sovereign’s grandchildren. Russian Brutality at Pekm. The following, related by a gentleman of good position, who witnessed the occurence, will .'serve as an instance of things which have actually happened in Northern China ; A few days after the occupation of Pekin by the Allies, a Chinese woman, with her small children, one of them a mere baby in arms, was crossing the Beggar’s Bridge outside the Chien-mon gate, in the main thoroughfare leading from the Chinese to the Tartar City, when a party of Piussian soldiers cam a along. The woman was not quick enough, apparently, in getting out of the way, so they prodded the mother and baby with their bayonets, and threw them over the parapet of the bridge into the canal below, and as the other child, a boy of about five or six years, lay screaming on the ground, one of the Russians seized him by the heels, dashed his brains out on the marble flags, and flung the body headlong after the others. The New British Naval Gun.

One of the moat formidable weapons ever made is the new 9.2 gun, weighing 23 tons, which is now being supplied to all first-class cruisers of the British Navy. Considering its length, some fifty feet, it is extremely light, while it fires shot and shell of 3801 b weight the extraordinary distance of fifteen miles with an accuracy almost approaching that of a rifle. The charge required for every shot is 1031 bof cordite, the biggest yet used, and i's average firing pace is three and a-half shots per minute. The great feature of the gun is the new mounting, known as the Hogue, mmufactured by the VickersMaxim Company. All the machinery and vital portions of the gun are protected in such a way that it is impossible for it to be put out of action by any missile, while a new application of the hydraulic principle renders it unusually easy to work. Alleged Turkish Outrage. A telegram from Constantinople gives particulars of an alleged outrage committed by the Sultan and his entourage. A few weeks ago an Italian was arrested as an emissary of Mofiamed Pasha, brother-in-law of the Sultan, and of the Young Turks. The Sultan, it is said, had him brought to the Yildiz Kiosk, and interrogated him personally. In spite of his denials the Italian was sent to prison, and two days afterwards the Governor of Galatea went to the prison and shot the Italian with a revolver. The Governor declared that he was acting in accordance with the orders of the Sultan. The matter has caused a great sensation, and Italy has demanded satisfaction.

Canal from Black to Caspian Seas.

It has been semi-officially announced at Odessa, Russia, that a concession for the construction of a ship canal from the Black Sea to the Caspian will be given to a British syndicate, with a capital of twelve million, pounds sterling. The Domestic Servant Question. The Bev. Charles Sheldon, the well known author and preacher, of Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A., recently wrote a book on the servant girl question. His idea is that servants should be treated as members of the family. All the servant girls in Topeka and many other western towns have been reading the book, and hundreds arc giving up domestic work, because their employers refuse to treat them as social equals and give them the privileges demanded. The local employment agencies are overwhelmed with applications from former domestic servants, who want to be clerks, telegraphists, typists, and shop girls. Wages have gone up 25 per cent, as the result of Mr Sheldon’s teachings.

SANDER & SONS’ EUCALYPTI EX-TRACT-—Under the distinguished patronage of His Majesty the King of Italy, as per communication made by the Minister forfForeign Affairs, through the Consul-General or Italy at Melbourne, March 14, 1878. Awarded diploma at the Amsterdam Exhibition, 1883Ackiiowledged by Mdieal Clinics and Universities all over the Globe.

There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract in the market, products of simple distillation, forming crude, resinous oils. In order that these crude oils may not be taken for our pursolatile Eucalypti Extract, which is recognise by the Medical Division of the Prussian Goernment to be of perfectly pure origin, as per nformatiqn forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2, 1878, we vtate: —

It is proved by tests made by the Medical Clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald (Prussia), and reported toby Dr Schultz Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn, and Professor Dr Mossier, Director of the Medical Clines at Griefswald, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acids resinous and other substances adherent to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant. All crude oils or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are to be classed according to the named authorifa ss, among the turpentines, which are abandoned long since as an internal medicament. T 1 ese crude oil, or so-called Euaalypti Extracts, are discernible:

1. By their deficiency in pungent odo (which'our product, the only genuine Euaa lypti Extract, develops most freely through ts surplus oxygen.) 2. By their alcoholic, thin, and mobile appearance, being reduced to specific density through the presence of acids. 3. By their taste, the result of contract ing tendency of resins and tanats. If these crude oils, or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are applied by mistake in cases of croup, bronchitis, dipthoria, internal inflammation, dysentry, etc., the consequences are most appalling. For safety’s sake ask always or Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract.— Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia.—SANDEß & SONS.