Mr. Lewis Swift, of Rochester; Now York, announces the discovery of a bright comet, with a short tail, on June 16. The liiotion was detected on Juno 20, at ono a.m., when the position was R.A. 2 hours 30 ruin., docrcase 58 dogs, north, with a daily motion of a little over one degree north.
Recent American papers report a caso of cataract in the human eye having been cured by the application of electricity. A Dr. William B. Neftel, of New York, subjected the patient — an old lady (53 years of ago, with incipient cataract — to repeated applications of eleotrioity in tho neighbourhood of the diseased oyo, with the result that tho oataract Una beou entirely dissipated,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3220, 6 September 1879, Page 2
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