An American has started the idea of making glass costumes for the ballet girls. Those who have seen the manufacture of spun glass can readily imagine that the material can be made into dresses or anything else. It is both soft and pliable. A span glass dress, whirling round under gas or eleotrio light, would be simply dazzling, and when it became dusty or otherwise soiled, turning on the hose would restore it to its pristine splendour. At a late meeting of the Napier Philoso phical Society, an immense spider, more than three inchee in diameter, was exhibited by Mr Colenso, who Baid it was one of the largest spiders that had ever been obtained in these parts. The opening of a market in England for New Zealand butter has had the effect of giving a great impetus in its production in this neighbourhood,, says the Feilding Star During a recent Wellington "zephyr" several bricks were blown from the walls of the Post Office, which is now undergoing repairs, and passers by narrowly escaped injury. Physically the prwient Ciar of Russia is one of the most powerful men of the day. On a recent visit, which he paid (says a cor respondent") in company with the Czarina to a cannon foundry at Peterhof. he lifted up a block of steel weighing, it is said, 6001 b. The exploit excited the enthusiastic admira tion of the workmen present, and they gar« the Emperor a regular ovation. In a letter to a Sydnay contemporary on the WMtechapel murders, Dr Cread, M.L.C., says: — Indiscriminate outrages on women withont apparent reison are nob nova], DuriDg November, 1881, four cases i.f the stubbing of women by an unknown man wore reported to tha Sydney police; whilst the series of cases of a Bimilar character* which occurred in England many years ago gave rise to a panic equal to the present one. The penetrator, who, I think, was never detected, w&b spoken of as " The Monster,' ' Enjoy Life. — What truly beautiful world we live in We oan desire no better when in good health j but how often o the majority of people like giving it up disheart ened, discouraged, and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, Green's August Flower will make the i as free from disease as when born. 