THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XX, Issue 2072, 14 June 1889, Page 3

THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Russia is a sort of semi-barbarous land, but blinkers are never put on horses there. The Sydney ' Daily Telegraph,' in its reception of the Home Bule delegates, says— Mr Kelly, who presented the address of the Hibernian Society was on the other hand so naturally eloquent, so charmingly Irish, that no* body could doubt his earnestness. He welcomed the visitors as gentlemen who had suffered " martyrdom and death " for their country, and in the simplest good faith called upon the Irishmen there— those who had been " exterminated " by the iron heal of oppression — to join him in the ovation. The Dutch keep their houses exceedingly neat and clean. Speaking of this, Sir William Temple tells the following anecdote. A Magistrate, going to visit the mistress of a house in Amsterdam, knocked at the door, and a strapping North Holland laas came and opened it. He askea whether her mistress was at home j she said " yes," and with that he offered to go in. The young woman, however, noticing that his shoes were not very clean, took him by both inns* threw him upon her back, carried him across two rooms, set him down at the bottom of the stairs, pulled ;ofi£ his shoes, put on him a pair of slippers that stood there— all without uttering a word-^and when she had done shie told him that he might go to her mis* tress, who was in a rdoin abote. The fame of the Australian hdrae as a mount for military purposes h?s evidently travelled fa*. An Indian piper of a recent date says i-*»" Tlie King of Siam has begun to import horses from Australia for the use ,df his army. A consignment of 250 was lately received at Bankok, the Selection being made by a colonel in the >''Sia i mese army, who had been deptttjad. io go to Australia for the nurpbse»" The export of horses to India, theJfjßf ore, may be at present a mere shadow of what it may become in a few. years, for if Siam comes into the market, so may also the feudatory states of India. A North of England paper tells a curious story of Mr Bright's second marriage in a Quaker meeting house at Wakefield. The "Friends" sat around for some time in silence, looking furtively at Bright, who was close to his blushing bride-to-be, deep in thought. he rose and said: "Friends, I take my friend, Margaret Elizabeth Leatham to^be my wife, promising by Divine assist' ance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband till it shall please the Lord by death to separate us." The bride, still holding Mr jßrigiit'a hand, made a similar declaration. After another brief period of silence the register was signed and the couple received the congratulations, of their friends. .