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Golden Bay Argus, Volume 4, Issue 35, 25 January 1895, Page 2

“Been doing a good deal of shooting lately ?” we remarked to a friend on the Williamstown boat one day last week. “ Well, yes, pretty fair ; but why do you ask ?” “ Oh, only because you nearly always have a gun when I see you crossing the bay, ’ we replied. Here our friend put his index finger on the left side of bis nose and said : “ Don’t split on me, old boy, but I haven’t pulled a trigger this year. You may notice that my clothes look rather seedy—well, I pack along my gun as a sort of an apology for them.” And he winked solemnly. Brown was abusing Smith violently on the pavement one night, Jones, who was Smith’s fsiend, heard it from an upper win dow, and yelled to Smith. “ Knock him down 1” The next day Jones and 1 - ith mst. “ Why didn’t you knock that man down 7 ’ asked Jones, “ I hollored to you to do it.” “ Yes” replied Smith, •' and I would have hollered the same thing had I been up where you were.” A householder in a Wiltshire village in fil ling up his census schedule, under a column headed “Where born," described one of his childen as “born in the parlor,” and the other “upstairs.” Tha exodus of Jews from Russia still continues, thousands of families having during the last few weeks left for Brazil. A wellknown member of the community is said to be arranging for tha emigration of his coreligionists on an extensive scale to Palestine. The proportion of insane to sane persons in the United States is one in every 262; in Scotland it is one in 'every 674; in the agricultural districts of England it is one in every 820; in London the proportion is one in 400.