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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 119, 20 March 1895, Page 2

At a sale in London a Stradivarius violin dated for tho year 1701 was sold for £6OO. Few people understand how to stop a runaway horse. The will is gonerall y good, but the owner is lamentably deficient in judgment A man laughs at a woman because she invariably steps in front of a 'bus in the direction of which it is not going, but he acts precisely on the same principle when he rushes into the road, and facing the on-coming runaway, bravely catclies at the bridle. Like the woman, he experiences a shock, and is gener l ally thrown. The proper way is to run in tho direction that the horse is taking", and as he catches up with you jump for the bridle and hold on to it, running beside the animal meanwhile. The check will cause the animal to slacken his pace and stop. These directions form part of tho first instruc tions given to the police, whose chief dutie3 are the stoppage of runaways. If they were more generally understood by the public at large, fewer accidents would bo recorded. Accoiaing to reports the gambling nuisance appears to be growing on some of the steamships running between England and Australia. Several scandels have lately been reported and it looks as if there were some advanced and enterprising gamblers who travel in and out, making their living out of the more simple passen> gers. Two young follows going to the colonies quite recently were swindled out of £IOOO and £9OO before they had reached Colombo, and a petition was addressed to tho captain of tho vessel to have tho winning (jnniester turned ashore at that, place. This was done, but there was appar l ently nothing to stop him from going aboard the next passing steamer and resuming his questionable operations. Theso reports come from the European end of the line. Thero did not appear to have been any very serious com< plaints at this end,