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Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5657, 10 March 1893, Page 3

, An exemplary sentence was passed lately 3 at Sydney by Judge Stephen en a man named . Oharles Brown, who had attempted to steal a l large sum of money from a hotelkeeper's . bedroom, had beaten the prjptietor with a , life preserver, and then left him exhausted , on the floor. The obarge preferred was that , of maliciously wounding, and His Honour, I after expressing surprise that the Crown had . indicted the man for attempted murder, ! sentenced him to 15 years' penal servitude, r the first twelve montha to be spent m irons. • Just as we have lost our greatest reoon* | slruotor of pre-historio animals (remarks a ' j writer m the St James' Gazette) comes a 1 curious story from Alaska. The Stickeen • Indians deolare that within the last few ' years they have frequently seen aninals ' answering to the description of the 1 mastodon. Ihe creature is described as of ' tremendous bulk with great shining yellow • tusks and a mouth large enough to swallow a man. Other hunter* are said to have seen 1 those monsters browsing up the Alaskan rivers, | while on Forty-mile Creek it is said that \ bones of the mastodon aw qkite plentiful. Single teeth of prodigious size have been ' brought from the same looality. Now that 1 the sea serpent is getting played out, it is | refreshing to think there is a mastodon waiting for us every August m the twentieth 1 century. \ The War Offioe has acted very sensibly, Broad Arrow says, m putting its foot down , upon the marching competitions, which were threatening to become an unspeakable nuisance. Practice m route-marching is what the British Army wants badly —at anyrale m England, for m India during tho cold eeaeon it gets enough and to spare. But this fantastic emulation between insignificant squads, some equipped one wav, some anothor, lho*e m one competition oa-rj'ing bill ammunition, | those m a second carrying none, and all of . them inspired rather with the anxiety of gaining a money prize than with any real esprit de corps, was fast obtaining objection- ' able proportions. Again, tho strength of a ( chain is the strength of its weakest link, and I the marching powers of a battalion are not to be measured by these of a speoially selected, specially trained and coached equad. The thing was interesting so far as it went, and within limits. It has now'ceaaed to be either interesting or useful, and the subsidence of the craze will be regarded by the army with very genuine relief and satißfao- \ tion. , 3£What are the future possibilities of the , telescope ? The constructor of the great i Lick telescope declares that there is practii cally no limit to its size. Mr Alvan Clark further observes that with each succeeding advance the limit of successful glass melting was thought to have been attained. Even quite recently a noted optician, speak- > ing of tbe practicability of prodnoing disos larger than 36 inches, said it appeared to him i that the ohances of obtaining 40-inch discs i m the present state of the art are remote. ■ Yet there are * now m hie manufactory i two remarkably fine discs of 40 inches diameter ready for figuring. The disos , referred to have, it is stated, only a [ combined thickness of some four inches, , and the lenses of an object glass of even six p feet aperture would necessitate a combined . thiokness of not more than six inebea. For ' various reasons set forth m his artiole in'the North American Review, Mr Clark is dei cidedly of opinion that our future advance m i thU field must be along the 'line of the i refraoting teleßOope. < At a recent baby show m Melbourne an Australian aborigine, his wife, a native also, with a child about 4 years of age, formed a conspicuous feature, and attracted a good i deal of attention. The man appeared to be about 45 years of age, and was full of intelli--1 (rent appreciation, not only of the members [ of his household and himself, but of the excitement and wonder of which they were the i objects. He had two other children, both i older than the exhibit, and be had buried i two others. Altogether he seemed a good t family man and an appreciative* husband. His spouee was of Brobdingnagian proport ions, and about as personally attractive as , one of (hose genii found m illustrated editions 1 of the Arabian Nights. Bhe might measure about 75 inches round the waist, and sat grim • and stolid, as if at a loes to understand the 1 precise bearings of the situation. The bairn i was a bright eyed, well featured little speci--1 men, and seemed anxious to get away from his parents, whom he. seemed to regard with special reverence, to play with the numerous 1 youngsters, that collected to have a view of group.

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