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New Zealand Mail, Issue 764, 22 October 1886, Page 23

A “ lady ’’ in New Orleans caused the arrest of a policeman for calling her a “ woman.” Thß judge, after carefully deliberation, decided that she was a woman, thus aggravating the insult.

•The London Electrician is the authority for a new and easy method of relieving the toothache. It says that if a thin plate o zinc be placed on one side of the gum aod a silver coin on the other side, with the aching tooth between them, and then the edits of the metals brought togetlie*, a weik gilvanic current will be established that wiil cure the p an. The idea that it is impossible to propel shies at the rate of 40 knots an hour, or at some speed much higher than exists at present, is being discussed both in England and in America. Professor Thurston, of the Sibley College, has recently taken up the subject, and concludes that it is possible. The ship he proposes is to be 800 feet long, 80 feet beam, and 25 feet draught, with a displacement of about 38,000 tons. He estimates the power required to propel her at 250,000 horses. He calculates that her machinery and bailers will weigh only 601 b per horse power, or 7500 tons in all. She would burn about 175 tons of coal an hour, £2OO tons a day, and 10,500 tons for a voyage from Liverpool to New York, 'i ha total weight of fuel and machinery would be about 18,000 tons, leaving 20,000 tons for theship and cargo. For the hull he allows 12,000 tons, leaving 8000 tons for crew, passengers, and cargo.

The Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph writes :—Another unsuccessful attempt at aerial navigation was mad® at Warsaw by a Russian aeronaut named Milosch. According to the particulars received the balloon, provided with an entirely new steering apparatus, wsslaunched one morning, and, taking an easterly direction, soon disappeared from sight. It rose rapidly, and quite independeutly oE the aeronaut’s will, to a height of 3000 metres, aud then began to descend, apparently out o£ mere caprice ; M. Milo3ch then proceeded t> throw out ballast. The balloon rose a little again, taking an easterly direction, and was blown over a pine, forest. Such indifferent accommodation as was available in the topmost branches did not tempt M. Miiosch, so he threw out more ballast, causing the balloon, to ascend. Finding that all his eff jrts to direct its course were vain, he made up his mind to lower, his craft and seek an anchorage. While floating over another pine forest the wicker car got damaged, and fif. Miiosch was unfortunate enough to break his arm. Presently he reached open, ground, studded here and there with tree stumps, and, coming into collision with these, the car became a total wreck. M. Miiosch ■ was, however, loth to lose bis hold on what remained of it, not wishing to abandon the balloon itself to the wiuds ; but his strength began to fail him, and at last ha fell from an uncomfortable though not dangerous height, completely exhausted, cn to the turf below, the trip having lasted two hours. The balloon immediately rose, and has n >t been heard of since.