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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 30, 18 November 1887, Page 29

Professor Drumm >nd, who is now in America, was recently addref-sing a body of students, and after his speech questions were invited. One of the stu lenta asked him what he meant by cant, " There X" said the professor, such a thing as the religion of a young man, and the is sucn a thing as the religion of an old woman. Now when a you >g man talks as iC he ha I aa old woman's religion that is C'tnt."

A French scientin ■ man, *I. Y.illor, has according, to all accounts, mcc m[;!i-jhi'd a.remrtrkable fe it, He has camped for t <>c space of three d>\s tml thiee'nighis i»n the summit of Mont Blanc for the purpose of unking meteorological, physical, nn<l physiologi -al observations after the manner of aero,, uus in a balloon. His co irageoua efforts,

despite hib siiff -rings from the cold and from rarefie 1 air, as well as 1 the exhaustion consequent on his climb to 9uch lofty altitudes, have, it is averred by his countiymen, been buccessful as v.ell as unprecedented. 'Ihe icsult of bis labours and rtsearcheb has been communicated, under sea'ed cover, to the National Acad :my of Sciences ■