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A LITTLE TIN PLATE. Amidst the massivy zideboard's barbished wealth- Rich Eagons; loving cups und waskall bowl! Brave trophies of the filter and the Hunt, And old-world tankards bassed with pictured
Fair in the centre, as a place of pride; en On special pedestal, there rests a pláte An old tin late--a batterad, dinted plate, With alphabet for legend round ita marge: Encircling Wellington in bold relief
Δαβά His, cocked hat glory rying with bis To youch the portrait trao past breath of doubt
Hilary plate dings
A shabby, sorry piste--4 a
A Furla
For plates, yet still a plato" That is its story, and the story, thus
That plate there was bought by Jack Hill
'Bout the time of the rush to Spill Creek For to giro to his kid, little
BEL
I remember it, same as last week.
Little Bill was a bright four-year-old,
Could toddlo an' talk with the best
Blue eyes, an his curly hair gold,
ha
He was never a cove as would ahirk An' so if to make up for our foss
That there claim rep on pluta after plum; Every day wo were droppin' derous
Half a a dozen as big as your thinusb. But Jacknd I think I'd 'sliare e in
In them feelin' thought more of one carled Golden look of his dead darlin'e hair s
Than of all the blamed gold in the world. --.
like a shot
That Jack Hill an'
It spread round the Cane Smith were in luck, But none of our neighbours had got
A slice of the plam-duff we'd struck Just Lucker was all 1 they could raine,
An' souts of 'em not even that; Such is Fortune's èantankorous 'Y 178,
Well, one night-you're not
There isn't bel more to be told,
One dark, bitter cold August night
We've turned in dead beat, an' the gold
Is under Jack's head-both asleep
C
When two beggars amwl into the tent; They had watched right enough an' they creep
Like a couple of bounda
the scent,
An such limbs you should soon him u One towards me an' the other, by Jack,
dressed!
Most kids has some ways of their omu,
An'
Bill's was the takingest out.
To Watch that there infant alone
Wax as good any day'en & nhout. Jack Hill which the name was a blind-
*Wes as fond of the child as could be:“ That loving an' tender an' kind,
You'd have thought he was three parts a she, It was mil he had left of his lack
Since his wife, poor young ereatur, had died;
He
was not to
be struck
But, though, patches Bill by his side.
While his worked oighty foot down,
night the b
Most days
But st
I to fersons
fathas
boy
вем
sent
alep' in the tent, In a crib like the smartest in town, Au on Sundaya to shaft an' no school,
But a regular treat for the pair, With a atoil in the bush as a rulo,
An' a extra bit lisp of a prayer.
Jack was never a paulo-singing one, There wasn't much anfile in him,
Bat what the young mother began
He wouldn't allow to
An' he
being
20 dim
in his mate--do you take ? For to put Bill to sleep, an' they did,
I to tell yarns to that kid,
But they'd keep me all night wide awake-
Bach twisters of fairies with wings
As lived in each flower, on each bongh,
An' of all sorts of fanciful things,
Which their names, though, he slipped
Just now,
But never no bogeyfied rob
That them nurses prefer, as it seems,
An' that proved Jack to know what was what, For the boy always smiled in his dreams. Times kop' quiaby, for when we were through,
An' had bottomed clean on to the load,
washdirt turned out a dead dlew; "Twas enough to make any hear: bleed Not a speck! not a load for a
Not as much as would fill a fly's eye. We hadn't show for a slant,
The
ant
It was plain that our luck was sky-high. Day 1, "Let's jack up, man alive,
An' try farther down on the Creek!" All right!" says my mate, "but we'll drivo Highs an left the end of this weak."
So we drove for a couple of days,
An' still we was out in the cold,
When andden as straw in a blaze
I'm blamed if we didn't strike gold! Buch gold, too, the nuggetty kind;
Like plans stuck in duit, they was thick,
of plenty behind,
Withered sach stroke of the pick,
For il
At first wo was quite took eback,
Then I touched flesh in silence with Jack,
An' at it, liko tigers, we wont.
ight sort!
We'd got it, as laat the right
we didn't say one single word,
Whatever
But we the pair
FOT
of as thought,
At night, when snug fixed in car beds,
There'd be plenty of time to rejoice-
With that, даль, right over our heads,
wen
We was soared by the sound of a voima I--- 'Twas the schoolmaster, come to
As poor little Bill was took bad.
report
Jack downe with his
with his pick quick as thought,
And up to the
to the surface like mad!
When I follows; I waited to
to gat
A
bag of them plums if you please-
Thera wes Jack, like a stutter he set,
With Bill, saleep, on his knees.
it would take off the rough
Says I, thi SALE &
16
I sen that the kid was real bad),
For sack full of comfortin' stuff?"...
"Spank hiesca Jock;"
are you
mad↑ Chuck that mack in the corner--an atart
For the township-a an' ronse up old Heard, An' tell him to come an' look smart!".
I was off Flike a redabank, my word...
Old Heard was a doctorin' bloke,
has most "zaodical men," Know as much as most Which ain't lashings-a beggar to soak,
and then.
But sober enough nos
Be was right, for a wonder, this day,
An' as
wise
as a mopoke with that; wa into his visitin-shay,
So wa
And along the back tracks at a bat
Heard hauls out a watch from his kick,
Supe
hand where the shimmy is stowed; "Tother fist, for safe silent atack,
Grips a sharp butcher's knife-well, I'm' blowed If Jack doesn't wake--through the air,
Quick as lightning, sir, down comes the knife Dead straight for his heart-an-well, there,
That little tin plate saves his life.
We'd a innale, of course-twig this sear?
wo zobbled 'em both one I shot, But we And the other's in Pontridge, Black Parr;
I think it was ten year he got. Jack settled in Malbourne long since,
Ob,
THE CHINA MAIL.
(No. 4780-August 31, 1878.
persons present by lovitation, among whom 1 turned out that the song had been put balmost presumptuous to prognosticate what body of European troops. Generally speak- we may mention Mesars, Munro, Long- into the reostrar soilding hot and the kit will lead to. The business of the hoteling, the repeating rifle has, in addition to more, and O'Ho, M.LA., Mr Marons gentlemen each received, the sopassion of ikespon and she restaurateur promises to be the parts of which a small arm usually Clarke, Mra Hardinge Britten, and the having burned his mouthNathing dan severely injured; if not abolished. A can consists, a magazine or chamber, either Dean of Melbourne, Telephonin comprove more plainly than this, that thestral office in Melbourne can supply the introduced into the stock of the weapon or munication was established with every theory of imagination is utterly at fault whole colony at such an absurdly low rate placed underneath the barri, capable of athlon, and at a few minutes past 8 o'clock The soup forwarded to Government House that competition is simply impossible. The holding, as a rule, from sovun to fifteen avery gentleman was at his post. At the was the only supply that was too hot and only drawbacks to the complete suocess of ball cartridges, and the mechanism of the argent request of the inventor, all the it was the only place in which any in last night's experiments were the trifling beech-closing apparatus is so arranged that abservers and refrained from having din-convenience was experienced.. le facothy mistakes we have mentioned, and the silly the same motion: which ejects the empty ner, but before operations cominenced they of note, however, that the unpleasant feel practical jokes out Mesir. Lyell and W. cartridge cans after aring brings up a frenh partook, according to directions, of brown log of scalding disappeared as soon as the Smith. But when the machine is worked cartridge from the magazine and places it bread and butter, with two or three glasses wire was withdraway while, on the conson business principles, the likelihood of in the chamber of the barrel ready for of cold water. Precisely at a quarter-past trary, the pleasurable apunations imparted: mistakes occurring will be reduced to a firing. By this means, no long as any 8, and when it was asogrtained by a by the tele-ganteograph to the palate and minimum, and practical joken will cease cartridges remain in the magazine, an preliminary trial that the wires were in stomach were felt for several hours after. This advantages of taking food in this increased rapidity of fire can be obtained;, All pure, or all slay, the plot tired?-Hot--all hale wineglassful of orange soup suka-feeling of convivial and of its cheapuera, altele far cleaner and opportunity for refilling the firing can be working order, a bottle of the best sherry, A glass of East India sherry succeeded the manner are very great. To say nothing and afterwards, if there is no time or rights
bitters, was poured into the reostre of the social nature became apparent at all the pleasanters that the old-fashioned plan continued as with an ordinary broeck- machine, and the electro-magnetic batteryposis life table for refine on Dione of the in effects that follow overloader. The particular weapon now adopt- was turned on by Meara Ellery and It is unnecessary to enter into detalls of eating will be felt after a meal through theed for the Norwegian navy is known as M'Gowat. This was hardly fair to the all the courses of the dinner, An-it pro tale gastrograph; while wine taken through the Krag-Peterson rifle, after the names. Inventor. He had directed that no more gressed, Mr. Butters, who undertook the tit cheers but not inebriates. Asmomen of its two designers a lieutenant in the should be placed in the receiver for each task of placing the viands in the receiver,tary fealing of Intoxication certainly was Norwegian artillery and a Swedish sugineer; sensation than an ordinary diner was in the leaving to Mr Sayorn the actual cooking,experienced after the very large dose of is fitted with the Peabody breech-closing habit of consuming at a meal; but Dr. and to Mir flay and Mr Phipps the carving sherry at the commencement of the dinner, block; and has its magazine, which holds Blondale, unused to the control of the and passing of the diabes, grew more experts but that disappeared when the wire was nine cartridges, placed beneath the barrel. tale-gastrograph, considered that one He tested the temperature of all the food disconnected, and nothing but the feeding of The calibre of the rifle is 12:17 millimètres, wineglassful would be quite inadequate to with a fine thermometer lent by Dr Maloney, having had enough remained. So likewise the same as that of the lemington rifle, supply the wants of the numerous observers, and took care that nothing was too hot or with cigars. The fuil flavor of the choice 1867 model, which is carried by the infantry and he therefore, gave sixteen times more too gold. was very singular to notice cigar consumed in the receivor was enjoyed of both the Swedian and Norwegian army fav than he should have done. The evil effect the state of the food after it had been sub- by everyone of the thirty-six observers, and the same ammunition can be used for of this mistake was speedily apparent. | jected to the action of the magnetia battery while there was neither expectoration, à both the weapons-Pall Mall Gazette. *** The observer at the different stations for the required time: To all appearances disagreeabls odor from the breath, nor having taken the wires between their teeth, it was the same as when put in. A slion of ashes littering the room. As the inventor and the battery being turned full on, the schnapper or Gippsland perob, the liversald, "You could kiss your sweetheart after alcoholic essence of the large quantity of and wing of a chicken, with a little York-smoking för half-an-hour, and she would sherry placed in the receiver was sent shire ham, a out of venison, or an oyster never know it. Some of the observers along the wires in full force to the five pats, was put into the receiver, and, having who are anti-smokers enjoyed the agar points of observation, and the thirty-six remained there for a certain time, was taken thoroughly, and felt no ill effects from it persons in gastrographie connection with out to make room for something she Ja De Fulton, who was present, was ansions the machine received the impresion of every case the food looked as tempting to try how physis could be sent along the having each consumed an entire bottle of after being subjected to the action of the lines, and suggested putting a blue pill and sherry and hitters. Some of the observers gantrographio battery as when first brought black draught into the receiver but, after stood this very well, and showed little signs in from the kitchen; but it was found to be communicating with all the stations, it was of having speedred too heavy a sensation; utterly devoid of taste, and some analytical found that no gentleman would consent to but others, especially some gentlemen who experiments conducted on the spot by bave the experiment tried upon him. The are prominently comected with the cause Baron Von Mueller and Meaan 1. New. warmest congratulations poured in upon the of total abstinence, were very strongly bury and W. Johnson proved it to be inventor at the close of the proceedings, affected, and in response to an urgent appeal utterly valueless for human sustenance and Sir George Bowen stated his intention by telephone from the editor of this paper,
The sparking wines were those that of recommending him to her Majesty for the battery by which the wine was die obtained the largest share of approbation, some mark of her favor. Messrs Lyall and charged was turned off. From first to last, Every bubble on every glass of champagne Munro have already commenced negotia five minutes had elapsed from the time poured into the receiver was faithfully dous with him for the purchase of his when the sherry was put into the receiver. Imprinted on the palates of the observers: patent by the Government, and it is stated till our message caused the supply to be at every one of the stations, and the only they have every prospect of bringing mattersally performed in a day had we not been, discontinued. In that brief apace fire departure from the carefully prepared ments to a successful termination. sixths of the bottle was dissipated, and was in response to urgent appeals for some of the observers were temporarily disabled from taking notes. Every sign of the vlands and liquors with their elementary), MARK TWAIN ON CELEBRATED Insipient intoxication was produced. There parta, and their distribution along shaige V: ANECDOTES. was the wine fush apparent on the cheek; lines, was protracted or hastened sobording All my life, from boyhood up (says Mark the votas, altered of course through the to the strength to which the battery was Twain), I have had the habit of reading a necesalty of holding the wire between the adjusted. A slice of the breast of a turkey pertain set of anecdotes, for the lesson they teeth, became thick and husky, and two weighing dox, was distributed by way of taught me and the pleasure they gave me. There is nothing in travelling that gentlemen who were observing in this office experiment in forty ave seconds while the. Many times I wished that the charming amuses one more than the customs of a new looked and behaved more like persons who flesh on a chicken's wing was made to last | anecdotes had not stopped with their happy country, when they differ from what ons had dined than teetotallers usually do at for nearly„Afteen-minuten:** One very climaxes, but continued the pleasing history has seen or been used to in ons's own that hour of the evening. Instantaneously, singular result was accidentally obtained in of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. I was much struck with a compliment of ........ upon the electric current being stopped the office of this paper, Mr Lyell, M.F., This wish rose in my breast so persistently an patraordinary kind, and which had in itate the ill effects ceased, and even Mr Munro, was looking for Me Munro on business that at last I determined to satisfy it by much the air of antiquity, that was paid us who had been most violently affected, be connected with the proposed purchase of seeking out the sequele of these speedotes during our stay in the village above- came se sober as a Judge. The pleasurabie the Robson's Bay Railway. Hearing that myself. So I sat about it, and after great mentioned. We were no sooner retired to sentation of having lately partaken of wine, he was at the Age Office, he sent in his card labour and tedious research accomplished the place where we were to sleep, than the remained, but that, and an exbilaration of to the editor, and was at once admitted, my task. One day a benevolent physician papas, or priest, entered the room, followed spitita that lasted throughout the ex- He was surprised to see a number of (who had read the books), having found a by near a dozen women," who immediately pariment was the only result of Dr. gentlemen sitting round the rooms with stray poodle, suffering from a broken leg, seated themselves on the floor in the eastern Bleasdale's U-judged venlig wires in their mouths, and all apparently conveyed the poor creature home, and, after manner till we were undressed and got into....... Half-a-dose exceedingly the Sydney enjoying themselves very much. At the setting and bandaging the injured limb, bed, when they began to danos in pairs to oysters were next exposed to the action of termination of the course-sweet-an ex-gave the little outcast his liberty again, and a kind of pipe which was played upon by a the battery, each having squeezed upon it a planation was given, but Mr Lyell politely thought no more about the matter. But boy, not in an ungraceful manner, after few drops of lemon juice. The effect of intimated his incredulity. To satisfy him how great. was his surprise, upon opening which, wishing us a good afght, they retired. this was very fine, and proves that the telewa sent a message to the inventor request his door one morning, some days later, to This I understood from our gulda was gastrograph is pecnilarly well qualified, to ing him as a favor to give Mr Lyell a find the grateful poodle patiently waiting intended as a compliment, and which they tratamit the flavors of the most delicate special sensation. Our request was com- there, and in its company another stray dog, always pay to strangers. 1 have since slapt foods. Intentionally, menus had not been piled with, but unfortunately Mr Gatehouse one of whose lege, by some accident, had in many different villages in the island, but
No causs for to fossick or roam, An' them cups an' things fit for a prince Come out with a fortune from Home, Which his name isn't Jack-no-nor Bill, I-told 1 yon, you'll mind, at the start—
yes, ho's a widower still, Though South Yarm tries hard for his heart. I fancy that plats is the charm
As drives Cupid's arrows back beat, An, who knows but it shields him from harm
As it did that dark night in the tent? But though Jack is well-bred an' I ain't,
Though he's reckoned a man of much weight, He's neither a prig not a saint,
An' he never goes back on his mate.
He'd relationa adost or the Flood-
He's the boss of this elegant shop- Here he comes it's my nevvy, my lud,
Charles Frith-hem! Sir Bayard Tipptoppe. me-Garnet Walch.
more champagne." The dissipation of 4: |
CYPRUS IN THE LAST CENTURY. (Land and Water) As the Island of Oypran is creating some interest in the publio mind at this lime, I think that a copy of an original letter from the late Mr John skipp, of Ledbury, to Me John Strange, occupying at that period the position of British Resident at Venice, may be thought interesting to your readers. The lettor bears date, "Sernica, February 27, 1770," and the writer, who was of no small. eminence as a traveller and an artist, was at a subsequent time a very intimate friend of the late fee. John Webb, of Fastica, among whose papers it is still preserved f
**In my laat, which I wrote to you from Limasso, 1 told you I had bean as Paphos, and that I intended going to Jernica, where Thave been arrived near a fortnight. The distance from Limo to this place is about 2 forty English miles, which we should have
overtaken by very heavy rains, which Induced us to stop at a village about a mile out of the road for the night. Our guide orried us to the best house in the place, which at another time I should have thought miserable enough ; but siter what I had gone through at son, everything ashore seemed a paradise.
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relieved the distressed animal, nor did he compliment paid me; whether it is a forget to admire the inscrutable goodness custom peculiar to some particular villages and mercy of God, who had been willing to only, or that they did not think us of couse- ass so humble an instrument as the poor quense sufficient in the other places for outaset poodle for the inculeating of, o., wagh an honour, I don't know, but i believa &o, &c. Sequel. The next morning the at is not universal over the whole island. benevolent physician found the two dogs, The people of Cyprus are by no means of a beaming with gratitude, waiting at his deer, bad disposition, and one travels with the and with them two other dogs-crip les greatest safety; they are extremely supersti- The cripples were speedily healed, and the tious, and boneve in all kinds of charina four wont their way, leaving the benevolent and witokraft. There is not a house or phynician more overcome by pious wonder even a field that has not its, good and evil than ever. The day pasand, the morning. genius, and they are taught to believe that came. There at the door sat now the four the former is more or less ready, to protect.co reconstructed, dogs, and with them four it against the latter, according to the good others requiring reconstruction. This day or bad manner of life of the owner of it. also presed, another morning came; sad The views with which these notions have now sixteen dogs, eight of them newly arip been inculcated into an ignorant, credulous pled, occupied the sidewalk, and the people people are evident, and the effects produced were going around. By noon the broken by them are by no means bad. Now I am legs were all sot, but the pious wonder in upon this subject I must not omit relating the good physician's breast was beginning to you what, not having been an eye- to get mixed with involuntary profanity, witness of, I do not affirm for true, but "Education Offos, Melbourne, 28th Ja The sun rose ones more, and exhibited after having been assured of the truths of thirty-two-dogs, sixteen of them with broken it by persons of most undoubted veracity, logs, acoupying the sidewalk and half of the I can't say I positively disbelieve it this stroot: the human spectators took up the is the care of the bite of the asp by rest of the room. The cries of the wound sympathy Cyprus le much infested by
each other that his color was fading, that nuary, 1878-878 | 88,741 Bir, The hit pulse was growing wesker, and that hon. the Minister of Public Instruction minnte by minute he was dying before dirsats me to place on record his grateful their eyes. Worked on by his imaginations appreciation of your favention, and the
THE TELE-GASTROGRAPH. (From the Melbourne Age, June 24.7: There seems to be absolutely no limit to the services which man will be able to exact from electricity. And of all the uses to which it has bean put we question if there is one whose practical value will be no great to humsalty as that which was brought to A sucessful feste last night in a series of interesting experiments before some of the leading men of our aity. The credit of inventing the tele gastrograph is solely and entirely due to a gentleman who has been for some years connected with the literary department of this paper. As letters patent have not yet boon granted for the invention, we must content ourselves on the present ccosulon' with giving a general description of this latest and most wonderful addition to the list of nineteenth century wonders, and with giving a full report of the marvel- Luck like thief when we thought inch was spent. lous manner in which it performed its funo- tions. When the subject was frat broached it was treated with a sort of amused con- tempt. It surned so utterly impossible that it could realize the expectations formed "Twas our picka, not our tongues, as we stirred.sider it seriously; and the mere mention forwarded to the various posts of observa. and Mr.J. Edwards were allowed to attend been broken. The kind physician at once this was the only place in which I had this
of it that people absolutely refused to con- of the name of the tele-gastrograph was tion, as the inventor wished to bave a to the working of the machine. These perfectly unbiased opinion from the gentle- gentlemen are given to practical joken, and suflicient to call up a smile on the face of men who took part in the experiment. A they put into the receiver a quantity the unthinking. But all this is now at an antife objector had endeavored, in cuftoient for twenty persons, and, turning end. Doubt is no longer possible. The anticipation, to poconut for the sausations the battery full on, discharged it into Mr machine has come triumphant' 'out of a searching enquiry, and it has proved itself by declaring that they were produced by Lyell in little over a minute. This conduct the action of imagination. As he put it,
was reprehensible, and might have been to be one of the most useful and valuable the stomachs of the observers, it must dangerous if the recipient had laid in a instruments that the ingenuity of man has be remembered, are to be first filled with substratum of solid food, as the other yet created. It fairly promises to revolu bread and butter, potatoes, &c., washed observers had done. As it turned ont, Do tionise the whole sabeme of modern dotas down with a copious supply of cold water. further harm was done than giving Mr tic economy; and while warmly congraful", lating the inventor of his sucurs, wo still They then have wires placed in their Lyoll a temporary sensation of extreme months, and are told to prepare themselves repletion, and the momentary appearance mote warmly congratulate the public, who for a sensation of fish, soup, wine, or what of having consumed two bottles of cham will be the privoljal galmers by it.*
nots Now I consider that the mere fact of pagne and a large quantity of clarat. The "tole gastrograph ja machine by shelz consenting to take part in the export Another practical joke, which was albo which, through the aid of electrio darrentament is prima facie evidence that they were gether out of place in the scientific experi- the flavor of any food or liquor can be transmitted by wird to any dance and prepared to believe that the sensations ment of this nature, was played by the same the kotiation of eating or drinking conveyed would be imparted. The story is well gentlemen upon the Minister of Education, by merely placing the end of the web authenticated that a man who was told he When the dinner was finished, Mr Smith was to be bled to death was blindfolded, directed the secretary to forward the tween the teeth. The inventor never pro placed on a table, and slightly pricked with following telephonie despatch to the tended that any adtusi nourishment was a knife. The people about him spoke of inventor conveyed by his process. He merely the way the blood flowed, whispered to alaimed that the sensation of partaking of rich vlands and costly wines could be had parted to people a hundred miles away from the operator-written on their palakes, in fact and that the number who could he did natually die, though from beginning pleasure that he has renstved from the ex- ed, the songs of the healed brates, and this terrible animal, for whose polson they (Which, to judge by his mouth, tasted so of food," and the length of time that it could Just in the same way those people will The hon, the Minister would be glad to great and inspiring cheer, but traffic was bit happen to be out of reach of the receive this sensation from's small quantity to end he did not lots twenty drops of blood. Dallont dinner of which he has pastaken, comments of the on-looking citizens made hare no medical cure, and if the person be made to last, were practically unlimited bellave that they are taking whatever the enter into an arrangement with you by interrupted in that street. The good phy person who has the power (for application and after the experiments of last night all bill of fare telle them is at the time pat into which the use of your msobine could be so alcian fired a couple of assistant surgeons must be made to him within twenty-four doubt as to the correctness of his calculs the receiver, and that, in my opinion, is the cured by the department, so that all chils and got through hie benevolent work before hopin, and the secret is known to only one tions is at an end. The private trials of sole explanation of the phenomena that dren attending the state schools could be dark, first taking the precaution to caucal family) Le most infallibly dies. The his machine on a small scale within the last have been or will be produced. But the dally given a meal, to be cooked in this his church membership, so that he might wonnded person goes immediately to bed, few wecke satisfied all who witdomed them; fallsdy of this argument, on which a great office, and forwarded per wire between the express himself with the latitude which the and one of his friends in dispatched to the but at the request of the inventor pubhe deal of stress wat Inid, was shown through hours of 1 and 2 p.m. This his considers case required. But some things have their person who le to cure him; when he arrives, notice was withheld till he had perfected the whole course of last night's proceedings would help to put an end to truancy, and limits. When one more the morning he stops him at the threshold of his door, his arrangements so as to give the world en Several of these who felt the effects of be an incentive to children to attend dawned, and the good physician looked on and taking the earth that happens to be on appartakity of judging for itself,
the wine most notably Dean Macartney regularly. The hon. the Minister is also upon a massed and far-reaching multitude each side his feet where he stands, he puts It was arranged that at 8 o'clock ypster- Mars Manzo, Longiore, Mirams, and anxious to put an end to the brutal and of clamorous and beseeching dogs, he said, it into a glass of water, and gives it to the day evening' the 'experiments were to come Mrs Britten ould not have had a semna degrading practice of flogging the string "I might as well acknowledge it, I hare man to drish, when the patient gradually menbe The machibu" was worked at the tion of the kind if they knew what was generation, and to substitute some punish been focied by the books they only tell the grows better will be quite recovers. The Victoria Chub and a number of well known coming. And so with the oysters. The ment of d scientito nature that would be pretty part of the story and then stop power of charming zergents is mora to gentlemen Kindly gave thole serves to general impression among the observers under his own immediate control Please Fetch the the shat gun; this thing has gone many people in Egypt, and likewhe in nesins the operator: Mesara Ellery and B W. M'Gowan took charge of the electric was that soup would have been the next state if the sensation of cayenne pepper or along far enough. He issued forth with Cyprus. My curiosity to be an eye-witness battery Mr Butters, Mr Bayers, the thing supplied, and it came a rather hot West Indian pickles can be transmitted his weapon, sad changed to step upon the of so extraordinary a thing as that of known professor of cookerys, Mr Hay of rprise when the delicious sensations of by your machine. If such is the ease, the tall of the original poodle, who promptly catering and handling the most vandmons the Athenssum Club and Mr Phisper of slowly swallowing the freshest and plumpest Minter would then at certain times bit him in the leg. Now, the grest sud serpents without receiving suy. harm. from oysters came upon them. His Excellency throughout the day administer auch punish good work which this poodle had been shem, induced me to go to the hours of one Clement's Café, undertook to see that the us a message himself by telephone sonment himself as he may consider necesary engaged in had engendered in him such of these men, to see him perform what soups and food were properly, cooked and word kept hot. De Blesed No and B Red gestulating the inventor on the marked have the boner to be, bir, your most mighty and sugmenting enthusiasm so to appeared to me almost incredible The mond Barry looked after he wines, and suguess that had up to this time attended obedient servant, G. WILSON BROWN, Sodru turn his weak head at last and drive him man made no difficulty in going immediatel
msd. A month later when the benevolent - to and one, which he had no sooner, done, Judge Cope and Mr Gatehouse after the and Mir Berry simultaneously informed lafwi
the experiments and Professor Pearson tary,"
An Immediate answer was forwarded, physician lay in the death throes of hydro- than he took it very quietly up in his hand beef and bpirite while Mr George Kirk, from Castlemaine and Geelong, that shey Either cayenne pepper or plakles ont be phobls, he called his weeping friends about as it lay sleeping in the sun; the animal Mr Reginald Bright, and Captain Standish could almost small the sea so fresh were transmitted. Let me for Smith take the him, and said Beware of the books struggled mach to disengage itself but never wats in readiness to supervise the arrange the systems, a glass of chablis clored this wire and by Me W. O. Smith took the They tell but half of the story. Whenever offered to bite him though he had it in mente for cending a censation of his part of the performance, after which there wire. The inventor was busy at the time poor wretch make you for help, and you his power. I could not observe shat he had I smoke along 'the wire" after the dinner w65 was an interval of about fire minutos, that i in making arrangements for the transmis. feel a doubt as to what result may flow from any ointment or anything rubbed over his diepsted of. There were five point of was employed by the chasevere in comparsion of agar senestions, and the condunt your benevolence, give yourself the beneft hand that might have produced a stupor in observation" bind "apod, viz-The Aging notes on what they had faltat of the experiment was left, to Mear of the doubt and kill the applicant." And the animal and have deprived it for a time. omes, Government Route, the Minister of Education office at the top at Collins
Aight variation was made in the Gatehouse and Edwards. A alight sprinkl. so saying he turned his face to the wall and of the power of biling, but, on the con trary, it appeared to be perfectly itself, and strees, and the phat does in Geslong and mesner in which the soup was transmitted ing of pepper and two or three plekica was 89ve up the ghost,
endeavoured in the best mange it could to Castlemaine 45 ch of these places to the different posts of observation. There what they were told to put into the
regain its liberty. There is one circum number of persons were assembled to watas were five soups prepared under the special receiver, but an unworthy disposition to
A NORWEGIAN RIFLE. stance I was told, which is, that those the proceedings and take part in thetha bir management of Mr. Bayars, and different make fun ont of the proceedings took
A. repeating, or magazine, rids has been people who have this art never kill the Gebige Bowen, with Major Pitt and Captain kind was sent to each place; Claat turtle possession of these gentlemen, and they Bullinsttendance, and six biner gentlemer, was sent to the office of this paper, and If emptied about an duros of cayenne and a recently adopted by the Norwegian Govern animals when they catch them, but always condubled the expediments.at. Government was of a nature to inake everyone regret whole bottle of the hottest pickles into the meat so the waspon to be applied to the give them to another person to do it. The House Mr WC. Smith, with fans. when the supply ran duti Rather a machine, and then hurriedly left the club. small-arm men of a navy, hides of this sap frequently grown to a great size: I have Brown and lobrist, watched at the amusing Encident happened with this Messrs. Brown and Gilchrist report that description have long been largely employed mynolf seen one near sa large sa my leg. Education Clos Mr Berry, Mr Inge, the supplied to Government House When the Minister andated very severaly from in America, and were notoriously used They are a great nuisance to the filand, Mayor of the city, and tures of the principal it was announced that everything was this ill-timed jokej but some loss being laid on several occasions with very decisive and many places are so much Infested by residents were in charge at Geolong and rendy, his Ezosilaway and his friends on he speadily recovered. Mr Smith effect by parties of adventurers from the Professor Pesmon, Me Reid (the Chemist), pith lão wires Into thelp months, but subsequently said he would only administer Mr Green of the Telegraph Department no MODEUS was the soup (Bisar ostell) this punishment in extreme cases. The and Mr Lench (barrister-at-law) oblerved turned on then is one man and with severest castigation would be mild in com- at Castlemains-At the office of this various exclamations, they withdrew the parleon with it.
In this estle wings of the lavention it is lapura
Lay Fires, id at the station.
Fecis Bill's prise,
it seemed, half an
hour;
Next he has a long suck at his stick
Then he shakes us old
charop
i pendylum I
pace,
to and fro,
At a dignified An' he mutters, Half And half low,
Rad case—th I—a very bad use." Says Jack, "So I thought; now, fair's fair
You've to save him, that's what you've to do, For a week or so, Heard, you keep square
And if, by God's grace, he pulls through, D'ye son that bag there-half is mine
You shall have it an handle the weight." Beyo I, "Come, our foress we'll
e'll jine, goes to
the other half, mate." Well old Heard did his best for that foe,
hop an
as straight as a clear splitting pine, Bat no use, for ik wasn's te be,
For I
Not for all the gold south of the Line. When he says the flower must fads ›
Tas gardeners may watch en' may tend, But His le the will that's obeyed
I suppose it's all right in the end. Waterwater!”—that bearse little ory
Grew wanker and weeker,
und!
For hours that there darlin' would fle
Like a
a pretty wax figure—so still."
Dan's you cant? No, quite rightillas you raj,
・熟
habit that's best lats alone;
one's eyes water, toohey!
But it comforts me sometimes, I own.
Well,
an hour before little Bill died
Which had been the flat odlik
Be picked up that "dontical plate
Al' he holds it out.
to my als
ught one big tear as it fell),
ke, "Pa dear, you gave Ver learning his leiters so well.
keep a" think®
shin to But
Mamma
be glad that I've come, And for
will both of ns wait YOU WO Up thers in that beautiful home,
An' mind, på, you bring me my plats !5
Bhildish fancy at best, Mars like to dense laughter than thard, More But it shows how that innocent blast
Of this death we so dread had up fo The E turns to a blubb'ring old fool;
An'
says her "Stapid Bob, don't you bry
Little Bir fan't going to school,
He's going to heaven-good-bys
fi
He laid his sweet head on Jack's artis
With the other hard tight in his own,
An' ha passed away smilin' an' gelem,
An' fack, poos old Joske, was alona!
+
At first he was stunned-lika, was fads,
But none the less mady for weite
wal he did were the big wack
them that they are become quite uninhabited upon this scoonnt. I could relite to you many curious stories that I have been talk upon the subject of charms and incanta, tions, many of which are truly ridiculous,
United States who took part in the fighting in Mexico during the reign of the un fortansie Emperor Maximilian; but, except In the Turkish army, they have not until
formed the prosment of any regular F. SHIFT.