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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6473, 25 November 1881, Page 6

A Swiss canton (Bchaffbausen) has prohibited all boys under 16 smoking in tbo streets or at home. Tbo Gonad inn House of Commons has passed a resolution to exempt beet sugar from excise duty for eight years. There are in Great Britain and Ireland 22,938 doctors. Of these, there are in logland, 14,918 j in Scotland, 8454 j in Ireland, 8564. , . f Another monster war Ironclad has had its keel laid at Naples, The Italians say that the Mediterranean must be under their supremacy. Paper belting is used with success in the machinery hall of an exhibition now being held in Japan. It is said that the belting made of paper has been tested and found to be much stronger than that mode of ordinary leather. Two daughters of Dr South, of Goteau du Lao, aged respectively twenty and seventeen years, were drowned on July 81, while attempting to rescue their younger sister, who got beyond her depth while bathing. The latter woe saved.

On July 18, EUa Stevenson, an insane girl, living at her homo in M'Oandless township, Pa., became unruly. Her father, William Stevenson, aged 65, and a sister attempted to pacify her, when she kicked her father in the stomach, killing him instantly.

It has been found by P. Hoglan that calomel is slowly changed in the unman system by the action of water and the temperature of the body into corrosive sublimate. The decomposition is aided by the pretence of citric acid, chloride of sodium, or sugar. Avery Green, a farmer of Hannibal, N.Y., asked his sick wife if she wished to live any longer. She answered that she thought she did. " Well," said Avery, “I don’t know as 1 do. We are paying out money all tho time for doctoring, and It don’t amount to anything.’’ Whereupon ho went out into bis orchard and shot himself through the hf§d«