THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5308, 1 October 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 , 1885.

Mails for the Australian Colonies and ] China via Sydney, per Whampoa, close at (Wellington on Thursday, the Ist October, at 11 a.m. There has died at Dumfries (say 3 a Scotch paper), where for 20 years he has acted a teacher of modern languages in several private schools, Victor . Stephen De Pracki, a native of Poland, who in his early years was engaged in several revolutionary movements in his own and other I lands. After the rising of 1848, while only 24 years of age j- he was obliged to go into exile. He was among the defenders ! of Rome when the Eternal City was taken ' by the French in the following year ; and he afterwards took part in the Hungarian | movement. On its failure he was for some time a refugee in Turkey. Subsequently, for about a year, he made his home in Paris, where he taught mathematics in the Polish national school. He then migrated to Australia; and was making a good position tor'himself, when the efforts of his countrymen to regain their liberties moved his patriotic spirit, and attracted him to his native land. When the rising of 1863 had failed he found a home in Glasgow, where he acted as French mister at- an academy. He relinquished this position in order to take part • in' a 1 revolutionary movement in South America, and 1 on his return to this , country he settled in Dumfries. He ' married in- 1867, but his wife survived the union only for a year.

By a fair .all-round calculation, it has been definitely ascertained that 40 per cent, of the children attend school in in the morning break fastless, 28 per cent, attended in the afternoon without having had any midday meal, and 36 per cent, of the parents are always out of employment. The yeuth of both sexes receive their lessons in morality during school hours, arid then, go home to the piggeries where the packed families sleep; finish studying the exhilarating verse of Dante's " Prophesy" or " Lucy Gray" on Friday evening, and they starve and shiver until the bell calls them hungry to school on Monday rooming. Wise Folly. — "For ten years my wife was confined to her bed with such a complication of ailments had no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and I used up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American flag with Hop Bitters on it, and I thought I wonld be a fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her ; she is now as well and strong as any man's wife, and it cost me only two dollars."— fl. W., Detroit, Mich. Bead. Can't Preach Good. —No man can do a good job of -work, preach a good sermon, cry a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article, when he feels miserablo and dull, with sluggish brain and unstrung nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can be so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hup Bitters. Look for. — Advt. Your rogue loves a shilling mark, and it is consequently not surprising that charlatans, whose cupidity has become excited by the immense success of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, import and sell bogus tonics and diuretics, alleged by their proprietors to be as good as or the same as the real article, They are, however,, for the most part highly -prejudicial to health. — Advt.