Irvine Express and North Ayrshire Post. — 1886-09-24 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GENERAL NEWS.  SIGNOR Seem, the Italian Dr Tanner, successfully completed his thirty days' fast on Saturday. lie was visited by over a thousand persons daily. THE Beautiful Star, of Banff, has been completely wrecked on the coast of San Domingo. The crew , reached the shore with difficulty. They were brought to Plymouth. AT the Central Criminal Court. London, on Saturday, John Reynolds. potman, aged 31, was sentenced to 20 years penal servitude for attempting to murder his wife by poison. IT is reported from Alexandria that there has been a mutiny among the convicts at the petroleum works near Djebelhent. The mutiny was quelled by a small force of black troops, but not until 24 of the , mutineers had been killed. Fourteen of the others fled to the mountains.  Tut: sculling match for £lOOO and the championship of the world took place on Saturday over the Thames coarse between William Beach, of Australian fame, and Jacob Gaudaur, of St Louis. Beach was a strong favourite for the match, and after a good contest won by three lengths. Edward Hanlon, the Canadian champion scalier, sailed from New York for England on Saturday to meet Beach, but the latter, on the ground that he had arranged to return home at an early date, declined to accept the challenge of Hanlon.  THERE were great celebrations throughout Bulgaria on Saturday in commemoration of the revolution of September IS, 188.5, in Eastern Itotunelia. The National Assembly at Sofia adjourned for a few hours to admit of the deputies attending a Teo Deum in the Cathedral. Similar celebrations took place at l'hilippopolis, Rustchuk, and other towns in the Principality. Telegrams of congratulation were forwarded to l'rince Alexander at Darmstadt, in which he was described as one of the heroes of the revolution. Expression was given to a like sentiment in an address to the Prince, drawn up by a number of deputies after the closing of the National Assembly, a hope being added that he would speedily return to Bulgaria. In the evening a grand banquet was held at Sofia. It was attended by a large number of deputies, and by the principal actors in the revolution of 1885. The Premier and several other Ministers were also present. M. Stambouloll, who is one of the Regents. made a long speech, in which he reviewed the history of Bulgaria. He admitted that Russia had delivered the country from the Turkish yoke, but said that she must not interfere with Bulgarian independence, as in that case Bulgaria might prove as dangerous to the Russian as she had been to the Turkish Empire.  AIL explosives, with the exception of gunpowder, seem now to be classed, in ordinary parlance, under the name of" dynamite," though there is no reason for believing that the dynamitard on dynamiter confines himself to the use of dynamite specifically nocalled. There are upwards of fifty other explosives licened in England for manufacture or impolit. These are known, for the most part, by the most barbarous appelations; derived like "Lit) ofracteur," from two different languages, one ancient the other modern ; or formed xithout the least regard to linguistic principles, like "Tonite" (of which the proper form already existed in "detonator"). " Potenfite," " Forcite," " Virite," and " Vigorite." These outrageous words are apparently of American origin. So also are some more reasonable aad also more significant names for explosives of a particular kind, such as " Rendrock," and " RaekaDynamite, properly so called, is not at this moment I the most powerful explosive known ; and for many purposes it is being rapidly superseded by a preparation of nitro-glycerine and gancottou, which, treated is a particular way, forms a homogeneous substance called "blasting gelatine." Time GERMANS IN Tile PACIFIc --A Hi-