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AUSTRALIA'S RABBIT PEST:
MR GLADSTONE AS A DARING DINED OUT.
The plague of rabkiis in Australia can-
The Lacon Court Journal Mr not be desaribed without ceaming 935% Gladstane dines out with a regularity and daring goration to thees who have not had that could not be excelled by a man of holt his experience of it, says an article in years. One who meets him often at those Scribner, Originally introduced in a gaelrocanic tournament says that Mr G's par ticipation in their enjoymenta le by no means colony of about a score of individuals by a squatter new Mall-qurne, who thought perfunctory. Some men past 60, still dring their familiar presence on his stallenost, enjoy ibarasolves ander severs restrictions. would remind him of home, they have daintily picking their way though the moon. kapt the recollection of England so fresh Mr G., past 80, is appparently under no eccl rostrictions. He eats what came, generally in the minds of pastoraliste us to temp right through the man, and a take his glass them to very treasonable langasgu con- Deraing her whenever rabbits are mention of port after his libation of champagno, a tout from which many an ardent diner but would ot.
ahrina. H mental activity is on a par with his physical vigant. His converaction is a never tagging food brimful of interest, If it were only possible to reproduce a verbatim report of his convesration at a dinner-party, where the personal surroundings are sufficiently interseling Auto ercits him to talk, there would be produced volume of intersst, biographical, autobiograght. cal, and historicos. His memory is marvellous, and his power of graphically recalling an incident in the admiration of oven the gouderson behind
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The factually of the rabbit is amazing and his inveciós of remota district swift and mysterions. Careful estimates show that under favourable conditions a pair of Australian rabbits will produce six littore a your averaging five individasta esok. the offspring themselves begin breeding at the age of six months it is showu that at this rate, the original pair might be rea- possible in five years for a progeny of the chatte. Mr Gladstone is ic bo congratulated 20,000,000. That the original score which
on possessing a perfect liver, not a men cin were brought to the country have pray the same: the slightest over indulgence in pagated after some mach ratio ne sue canling or drinking, is sufficient with some people doubt wie has seen the enormous hordes to upset the liver and cause biliona alinelos
at now devastate, the land of certain these eventually lead to serious dovesse and districts. In all but the remote sections, make the sufferer's life one continual misery. the rabbits are now fairly under Timely are of Clement's Tonic with a coca- Lorever, control; one rabbiter with a pack of cogs sional dose of Dr Flotohar's Fills will always supervises stations where 100 were empley are the most serions cases, au shown by the od ten years ago, and with ordinary proofs vouchsafed by Mr W. Kelly, Albury vigilance the squattere bare little to four.N.S.W, who mays: For nearly twelve mouths I have been subjected to such a moel diaring Millions of the animals have been killed by
disease, that I thought my constitution was fencing in the water holes and dus daring breaking up. I had most acuto pains in my a dry season, whereby they died of thirst chest, sad my liver was so enlarged that I conid and lay in anormans piles against the ot in on my right side, there were also sharp onstructions they had frantically and vain.
pains around the kidneys combined vilt severe ly strives to climb, and poisoned grain and bearisches simply unbearable, caning great frait have killed myriads more. A fortune physical weakness. I was treated by doctors, of £26,000, offered by the Now South but only experienced tataporary rest fra ay Wales Government, still awaits the complicated disorders. Whes my condition was who can invest some means of general reost critical I was persuaded to try Clement's destruction, and the knowledge of this fact Tonic, which I took with De Fletcher's pilfs, has brought to the notice of the varicas and after the use of the first bottle of Chemont's colonial governments some very original all three boities of Clements Tchic and two boxes Tonic my paina vanished like magie. I need in dorices
of Fletcher's Pills, and the swelling of my liver was removed. I have gained greatly in weight and my obcet and lunga are stronger than avoi. I am well known as an old reaidons muid my re covery has excited much interest here.*
DIVERS' PERILS. ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FUR TRELL PROTECTION.
H. M. Kartman, reountly discharged froma the oruiser San Francisco at San Diego upon the expiration of seven years' servies, tells en interesting story of his experience as a diver while investigating the wreak of the Blanco Bacalada. During the troubles in Chill he onlister with the insurgents and was suenessively an officer on a torpede beat, Heatonant of artillery at the battle of A38- calga river, a spy against Batrovceca and commanded two pieces of artillery at the battle of Plasilla, which opened the way to Valparaiso.
He was wounded, and after recovery was taken back in the American service.
• Hartman, says the San Francisco Chroni- ste, was engaged in diving on the insurgens Fiszel Blanco Ercakida, suck by the ad- miral Lynch in the babor of Caldera.
Que month aftar, the insurgents, then in possession of the port, employed Bertman sad an Englishman, also a diver, to go down and measure the bole and determine L'ivers the chance of raising the vessel. equipped with ineradescent lights were lowered upon the ship, which was lying in nino fathoms of water. The ship was lying upon her port side. She had serk in a field The of esa grass growing tea feat high. waves bid washesì great avenues of white and through the grass to various parts of the vessel.
Almost everywhere wore arms, lege, heads Many at and trunks of human bodies. these the fish had eaten alcun of the flesh, only the skulls and bones remaining. The flesh that still remained intact was soit and musby, and when touched world fall away from the bana, Many bodies were found whole, the men having met death by drowning.
YOU MUST HAVE A GOOD STOVE.
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Now, fanny you her
Bat let us have the story first and árum the concluson afterwards.
A o tell this bit of experience -
It was in 1882,' she saya,-wheel began to Leel ill and col of sorts. I did not know what In the morning I was the matter with me. was tired and languid, and was constantly spitting and beleding up a clear Haid like water. My appetite gradually left me, and
had great pain after every morsel 1 ate. had great pain at the chest, which at time seemed to strike through to the brek Rad Ahouidors I fort a good deal of sleep at night. owing to spasme and to wind that appeared to gather in my sides. No food, however simple, agreed with me. For three years I affere the this, and could take oo cold food, sach us
meat dinner.
Now, ca I had always user of wo active dis poviti, struve hard to do my work and ar- tend to my alop, but in Apeil, 1985, I got so bad that I sent for my daughter, who was Eving at Priest Hutton near Carnforth, and slic retorand home. While away she had bega under a doctor for weakness and neuralgia. Lut getting no better she had been recomprended to inke a medicine called tothor Seige'a Corative
Syrap, and this curad her; so shy insisted upon Poy tubing the samo madicium. 1 got a bett from Messrs Needhara Bros., chcinials, Brig horas, and began to take it. Io a day or two form relied. So all my pains left un, and I gradually gained stroopth. I could est say fool, and after having used two bottica found milf completely cured.
I have recomended this medicine to many
(Signed) Mrs Collings, grocer, Hustrick, Brig loso, near Ealifax
In the starboard rigging stood the skele-of my friends and ensoners who come to y tons of two mon with the bones of their shop, and it has dous them good; so I think it right that its virtacs should ha made as widely bande still elenching the ratiines The low as possible." whole wine was horrible and revolting be- yond description. The greatest absceole in the work was the fish. There were millions of fish and cela everywhere. They would shoot through the water and, magnited by the water and the glass of the diver's bolrc- ct, and reflecting the rays of the oestrin light, they looked like thousands of blades of polished silver.
Wherever Hartman would lay his bande upon the derk they would come in saniact with a slimy ool. The cala would wrap themselves about the divers legs as they want along the deck. This, and coming in frequent contact with disolving human flesh, afforded a variety of asasations not frequently met with by evou a divor.
Among these fish were numerous sharks. They were with difficulty kept away from the divors. With one Harimus had a bat. tle. The suit of a diver is so shotted as to keep him at about an equilibrium in the water. With a slight motion he can easily Fine. As he goes over the bottom he rarely toushes ground. A divor is also provided with a weapon of defense against ravenons fish, is the shape of an electric pote six feet long and covered with rubber, except at the end, which is a steel paint.
Bending in a large carve over this point is & hock with a ball on the end. The point su bali are pusitive and negative poles of electric entrent, which is furnished by wire from a dynamo on the vessel. When abark approaches too close to the diver the and of the pole is thrown against bits and the ourront passes from the paint through
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The Yang-tas Gorgos and Rapids in Hu-pe.. The Rapids of the Upper Yang-tse.
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4 months.......8337.50
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hits and be remained under the influence wat we shall have heat, which is life and for several minutes, then recovered and esme slowly on again.. It was repeated power.
with the same result the third time. Hart man dropped underneath the shark, and while he was yet motionless ripped with a knife along the belly from the gils to the tail, leaving the intestines to fall ont
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