Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-03-31 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ACONITIL.—The Uses( states that nearly a dozen different kinds of aoonitia are recognised, varying much in their properties that observations made with any one of them would be applicable only to that particular specimen, and not to the others. It t. generally admitted that English sconitis iii? times as strong as the German, but it is not uncommon to find one specimen 70 times as active as another. This discrepancy arises not only from difference In the mode of extracting the alkaloid, but also from want of care in the selection of the plant In the British Pharmacopoeia it is directed that tha sconitum Impaling sheild be used, but there is only too much reason to fear that other specie- are not unfrequiently substituted. A. PARS= 424 D Yam OWN,. —OO Friday a curious incident occurred in tbe City of London during the hearing of • case in which a Payee gentleman was called as • witness. Ha objected to be sworn either on th• Old or New Testament; and not being a Mobasamoden, he could not be sworn on the Koran. He mentioned, however, that he had • sacred relic about his person as a charm, and he thought by making a declaration, and holdieg the relic in his hand, and not ono-aline it, the act would be binding opal his conscience—Mr. Commissioner Kerr said under the peculiar cireumstences he would be justified in taking the witness's declaration, if at the same time he held the charm unconcealed in his hand, and declared that he would consider the sot sufficiently binding upon him to bear true testimony in the matter at lams. He always understood, however, that • Parsee was usually sworn heisting the tail of • cow, which was a sacred animal in India. A Cl:rates:is Rouzeffis oe rig SPA, in which English sailors, and, indeed, Englishmen generally, are interested, has just woos to hand from Buenos Ayres. To all readers of the sea Aorta of the Elizabethan period the name of Thomas Cavendish is familiar. Captain Cavendish was a navigator ar.d buccaneer, and one of the scourges of the Spaniards, until on an ill-fated day he was captured and hung at Buenos Ayres by one of their men-of-war, just after he had made an unsuccessful descent upon the ooast. It Is of this viking that woos traces are 'apposed to have been discovered in the harbour, at the mouth of the La Plata. An Italian merchant captain, whoee vessel was moored in the harbour at the time the last mail left finding great difficulty in raising his anchor, obtained help from • neiehbouring yeses], and when the anchor was brought up discovered that it had brought up • large sheet of copper, svi ently torn from a case of the same material. On being cleansed the metal was found to bear, among other marks, the letters I. 11 8." and a cross, &ad various initials. A diver was sent down and brought up two ingots of pure gold, which he reported he bad taken from a chest that was Imbedded in the ground. By this time the authorities of the Raputlio got wind of the discovery, and they placed a guard at the spot to prevent further unauthorised explorations, intending so it said, to employ divers at the public expense in completing the search. Meanwhile a scientific association in the town has examined the mass of metal which was torn from its fastenings by the Italian captain's anchor, and is of opinion, from the date it bear, and the letters "Ts. O." which appear upon it, that the treasure which they summed to have been discovered formed part of the plunder of Thomas Oavendish, and was thrown overboard or lost with his ship in the fight which cost the bricoanee his life. A GsraMan itOasece. —On Monday, the 13th inst., an elegantly-dressed lady entered the shop of Messrs. Schultz and Robert, undertakers. in Potsdamew-Strasse, Berlin, and expressed • wish to purchase • ooffi n. Several of these artiess were submitted to her inspection, and she noisily oboes • handsome black one, with gilt lions' claws and lid. For this and the other arrangement@ incidental to • funeral of the first thee she paid on the spot, having obtained • metals discount for each down, and rays directions that it should be sent the following morning to an address which des wrote down in the undertaker's order book, fibs oleo supplied the foreman of the establishment with all the details required by Prussian law for the information of the relies authorities, to be utilised for the making out of the " berial permit." without which no interment can teke Aeoording to her written declaration, the deceased parson for whom the permit was to be taken out and the tunes-el performed was a Miss Franzisks W—, who had expired that morning, at the age of 37. Mr. Robert. one of the partners in the firm, obtained the permit from sits polies in the course of the evening, and conducted the funeral promisees in person at the appointed hour on Tasmday morning to the appointed Place, where, upon eekins tospmak with the medical wan who had attended Fransiska Ws--- daring her last illness, be was infc tined ' that that lady was still alive, although her death was expected every minute. Admitted to the room in which she was lying, he recognised in the sufferer the lady who besd given him his directions= the previous day. Fran sisks 6 ' who died very shortly after her identification by tie undertaker, bad ordered and paid for her funeral in . perms, and then taken poison, intending to kill herself In • time to be ready for intermentet_fhe hour fixed by herself. Them ros,pti3g bet to commit suicide be. not yet come to  7:7W'  , 11")"?' THE TELEGRAM, MARCH 3T, lOW ''  4,400 DEATHS FROM smArzra  Dhow You, Smatipox is raging in the hdan4 deaths have 000nred in Port an lrla environs from the epidemic. nuance paralysed.  Bunnai  intent  •  C IN