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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 193, 17 August 1868, Page 2

The Capital Punishment Within Prisons Bill has been read a third time in the House of. Lords, and passed.

If the London Scotsman is to be believed the gas companies are likely to fall on evil times. That journal states that the arrangements for supptying Perth barracks with the ' lime light ' are being rapidly proceeded with, and we are further informed that the light has already been adopted by several towns in Scotland. Three substances — two gases and a solid -"-are concerned in the production of the lime light, viz., oxygen, hydrogen, and lime. A jet of hydrogen being lighted, a jet of oxygen is turned on so as to mix with it, and the solid iucombustible lime being so arranged as to be exposed to the intense heat, it emits alight, says our contemporary, so pure and so powerful that it is only rivalled by that of the sun.

Mrs Partington is of opinion that Mount Vesuvius should take sarsaparilla to cure it of eruption. ; ;

The American papers speak of the discovery of a whisky spring, near Nodaway, in Missouri. The liquid flows from between two rocks, and looks like highly colored brandly, but it tastes and. emells like pure wluskyj; and has the same intoxicating effect. The local paper in which we find an account of the discovery says that * several lawyers, physicians, and newspaper men were preparing to go out to. test the discovery, but the aspect of fain deterred them,' that is to say, they *did' not wish to mix water with their .whisky,