Page 4 Advertisements Column 4

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 121, 3 April 1895, Page 4

It may bo seriously doubted whether the singing of the nightingale has ever awakened so much enthusiasm or inspired so many sonnets as the sing- \ ing of the tea-kettle. "Js it true that you have been say- / ing that Green has stolen your puJsc?'' "Oh, no—l did not go so far as to say that! All I said was that if Green had not assisted me in looking for the purse, I should have found it again." The Antarctic has returned from a whaling expedition in southern latitudes. She penetrated as far as 74 degrees South. For thirty-eight days she was hemmed in by immenso ice. packs, estimated at sixty miles in length, No whales wore sighted. The cruise of the Antarctic has demon* Btrated the non-existence of several supposed islands marked on the charts " She was unable to penetrate further into the region of ice owing to the loss of her propellor. She obtained about £;300 worth of sealskins and sperm oil. . A Duliedin resident, hearing a knock at his front door the other evening, !- opened it, and was greeted by a briekj i( j which, somebody throw and hit him n square on the forehead, nearly killing y him. Jj Princess Dolgorouki, the morganatic c wife of the present Czar's grandfather, S has won the £20,000 Panama lottery prize, which last year was earned off by a baker's boj . The piano, remarks a Bulletin correspondent, is always the last d arlic'e winch a Melbourne family dis- !• poses of. They may eat Iheir food .' off gin-cases, sleep on the floor, but the piano they have always with them, ', and the eldest daughter jingles out " "Dvsy" and other horrors, just to ' show tie neighbours that they haven't ( reached that stage of degradation and x poverty know as "selling the piaoner." ihe yarn of the man who threw his .j wife out of the second story window of hia buring house and carried the . feather bed downstairs in his arms, could r.ot have been told of a > Melbourne man, as he would have watited his wife to help him to carry t down the pa'io. It is customary in tho town of I Quito, when a visitor takes off his hat . upon entering a room, to beg him to I put it on again ; and, in the absence ■ of permission, leave is generally t requested. This, it is said, arises from apprehension that cold will be ■ taken by remaining uncovered. The same persons upon going out of doors ' take off their bats to flashes of i lightning, no matter whether rain is i falling or not; and when the streets are busy and lightning is abundant, a grotesque effect is produced by the salutations, which seem to be re» garded as a duty by well-behaved persons, and are performed as punctiliously as the homage which is paid to religious processions when they are in sight. It is stated as proof of the increasing number of ' gentlemen ' who adopt the stage .as a profession that there are six University men now in the Haymarket Company. At a supper given to some vagrant sandwich men in London, 7 ont of 12 guests had been ordained clergymen of the Church of England. An Englishman has recently been travelling with his wife through France on a machine fitted with a bamboo mast on which a sail can be hoisted. Mr Walter Besant is reported as saying that hundreds of people are making over £IOOO a year by literature of various kinds ; that at least 30 in England alone are making over £2OOO, at least six or seven orer £'M )0, and at least one or two not less than £4OOO. Lady Fitzgerald's baggage, on arriving at Southampton from Jersey, was found to contain 80lb of tobacco besides a quantity of perfumed Bpirits, Sho was fined £7O. RHEUMATISM.—Dr E. Gordon's remedy nevsb l-Aiis in permanently cming Rheumatism, LnmbaffO, Sciatica, Gout, etc., and uebottlo gives relief. Pileo, 10s, pn.-,t fro 3. W. Cj uron, r.Oßox 234, Dunejlin.