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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 117, 27 February 1895, Page 4

He seized bcr in the dark and kissed her, Atoll fern momentbliss was his j ••C-bj tn.v, I though it was air Bister I" He cried, Sho laughed and caid, '•lt is." Teacher (at a Sunday school tea party)—'' Will you take a piece of bread; Bobby ?" Bobbj—"No." Tfiifher (reprovingly)—''No what?" Bobby—"No jolly fear while there's any cake." An Irishman seeing JNiagara Falls said: "What is there here to make ■uch a bother about ?" "Why," said a companion, "see that mighty rirer pouring over into the "And sure, what's to hinder it?' said Pat. A Nelson firm is now experimenting With anew process for preserving egos, which, it is anticipated, will keep them in a sound state of presrvation for three years. Never judge a man by appearances, A shabby old coat may contain an editor; while the man wearing a polished silk bat and a faultless frock coat may be a defaulting subscriber. Governor Flower has decided to allow the body of tho New York nmrdorei Wilson, who is shortly to be electrocuted, lobe experimented upon immediately after the .execution with the idea that life may be restored. Governor Flower has promised Wilson's attorney that, in the event of resuscitation, the man's life shall be spared, and Wilson clings to the only hope left him, and has expressed his gratitude to the Governor for the remote chance of lite given him. Mills, the actual finder of tho Loudon derry mino makes out othis stroke just on £70,000, of which ho has dready got at least £50,000 in good red gold. One of the first things he'did after his return to the East was to marry the woman of his choice a little Victorian country girl, to whom he './ecame engaged long before be hung his hat on those memorable knots uf gold. The follow? agis from the Otaki paper:— Those who hivo been pra ing for fiuo weather have had their prayers answered with a vengeance. For the first time in the memory of old residents, the Ohau river has Veil e-onwletwlv dried up,

could wish. A ti niblc panic rei "inly occurred at the consecration, of a new villiige church in Ostroviansk. A lamp hanging on the inconostasis, iho large screen which separates Iho high altar from the body of the churchy exploded, and the dress of ji woman silting near caught fire. She screamed with fright, and tin-re was an immediate panic. The whole congregation rushed for the doors, which became completed" blocked with the struggling people. When the qergy were at length able to restore calm, and the pressure was relieved, rhe'Kodies of "five dead children and three women were taken out of the Ihron?, and fiU'O tw- ntv-*»ven persons who had escaped wilh llvir lives, but were terribly injured. Eighteen of these died while they were being taken to the in firmary. In a letter from a Fiji missionary to the Rev. Dr Brown, describing the reecntstorin tb.'-' writer says—"The best thing a man can . nor in a hurricane is to ki ep on praying and nailing up diagonal braces." The camel trade in AVest Australia is evidently flourishing. The steamer Darius which arrived from Calcutta and Singapore recently, landod 153 dromedaries at Freemantle, all of which wero speedily equipped and mounted by gold-seekers bound for the field. This, however, is by no means the largest number lauded from one ship at Freemantle, a previous steamer of Messrs Archibald Curvie and Co's line having brought about 'tCC camftls tO West Australia.! —os._j .