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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8777, 12 March 1897, Page 4

A pint of beer, with a counter lunch thrown in, may be had in Sydney for threepence.

The great bell of St, Paul’s is only tolled when the death takes place of a member of the Royal Family, an Archbishop of Canterbury, a Bishop of London, or a Dean of St. Paul’s. Sander and Son’ Eucalypti Extract—(Advt.] The Irish newspapers announced on January 13th the death at Limavady, County Londonderry, of Mrs Anne M'Loughlin, at the advanced age of 112 years. She is believed to have been the oldest subject of Her Majesty in the British Isles.

A writer says that if the German conscription were applied in India we should have 2,500,000 regular soldiers actually in barracks, with 800,000 recruits coming up every year—a force with which not only Asia, but the world might be subdued. The British Empire owns about onesixth of the total railway construction of the world. It is about 70 years since the first railway in the world was completed. Since then 400,000 miles of railway track have been laid, an evidence indeed of a very rapid advancement.

In Naples there exists a race of cats which live in the churches. They are kept and fed by the authorities on purpose to eat the mice which infest all old buildings there. The animals may often be seen walking about among the congregation, or sitting gravely before the altar during time of mass. The Evening News, Sydney, says in regard to the application of Eucalyptus in influenza: —“ We have to exercise caution to get an article freed of its astringent constituents or else it will prevent the excretion of the disease-produc-ing germs. A preparation known as Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract was found to be the only refined one, and proved to be possessed of the highest germ-killing qualities.” Dr H. H, Hart, New York, says “ It goes without saying that Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract is the best in the market. It is an excellent local application in inflammation of mucous membranes and will cure influenza, diarrhoea, diphtheria, infectious fevers, etc.” Insist on getting Sander and Son’s Eucalypti Extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils. —(Advt.) A certain photographer has arranged an alcohol lamp so that while it is immersed he can throw powdered magnesium into the flame and thus secure a very brilliant light under water. In this manner he has been able to obtain some clear and beautiful photographs of the bed of the Mediterranean. Oxygen is carried down in the apparatus to promote combustion. The dreadful Rosebrook murder case does not turn out to be so dreadful after all, though it is bad enough as it stands. But it is murder only—not incest to the second degree as was believed for a time. The murderer was Lyfield, a farmer. He murdered his wife (his second). With them lived Mrs Snell (his daughter) and her daughter aged 13. Mrs Snell told the police a horrifying story, but her confession has been proved to be the ravings of a mad woman. She had seen Lyfield hiding the dead body of Jus wife (her stepmother) in the cowhouse. Always somewhat weak in the mind, the sight and the memory of it unhinged her intellect altogether, and her dreadful story to the police was the result. The pity is that, not knowing she was insane, the police accepted her confession as true and it got into the papers. Lyfield has been also adjudged to have been insane when he committed the murder, and father, daughter, and granddaughter have been sent to the asylum.