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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 144, 4 September 1895, Page 3

'OUR FIRST GRAY HAIR." ig pattering drops that a spiasli on u attice pane, I Of a storm, or of coming rain, So it is with lifo, when wo are growing old, t' Aud ago steals unaware, "Wo shiver and start if the truth wore told, I At the sight of our first gray hair. "We mark not the light of our noonday hours, Like the first streaks tbo dawn doth bring; We hail not tho birth of our summer flowers As wedothofirst snowdrops of spring; On the bleak winter wind we look not with grief, Though it howl through the branches 1 bare, But wo sigh when we witness the brown autumn leaf, Aud behold nature's first gray hair. Gray hairs may come when the beaming eyo Has none of its brightness lost, When with buoyant heart wo would fain deny Youth's Rubicon has been crossed ; Yet the ivy-clad tree looks young and green, Though a sapless trunkmay be there, Andnaughtofdecayon our cheeks may bo seen When we witness our first gi'ay hair. Come early, come late, like a knock at tho gate, Is that first soft silvery thread ; And it joins with its silence the yonrs that await With the years for over iled ; It silently tollsus we're joumeyingon— It silently questions—Where ? 0, a faithful milestone, wore tho troth but known, Is seen in our first gray hair. THE URGENCY OF THE CHINESE LABOUR QUESTION. The Ago, in urging tho necessity of legislation in connection with the Chinese cabinet-making trade, declares that at present there are not 60 European cabinet-makers at work in Melbourne, while there are fully "jOO Chinese busily engaged night ami day, aud in many cades on Sundays. For what little work white men can secure they aro shamefully paid, and they can hardly earn subsistence. The Ago says that fully 80 per ceut. of tho furniture sold in the city conies from Chinese dens, and that European middle-men give the fullest encouragement to tho trade, as by buying cheap Chinese furniture and soiling it as European, they derive fat profits. The Age states that the trail of the Ch inamon is'ovor nearly every fm nishod house in Molbourno. Upholsterers renovating Government House for the reception of Lord Brassoy, have discovered that not a few of the articles supplied by Europeans unquestionably bear the stamp of cheap Chinese manufacture. The article goes on to say that whenever any European manufactured article finds favour, the middleman sends to the Chineae, who produce a cheap imitation. Sumo of tho Chinese work for food alone, and others labour for 15 hours per day for a few shillings per week. AM EXTRAORDIN ART DIVE. Tommy Burns, a noted swimmer and diver, recently performed the foolhardy feat of diving into the Mersey from a movingtroiu. Disguising bis identity, be took, with two others, a .seat iu a first-class carving.' of tho electric overheard railway at the Liverpool Pierhead. Once seated in the train Burcs divested himself of his overcoat, and aided by his companions, sprang upon tho carriage roof. From this elevated, position be took a header just as tho train approached the Nelson Bock station. His leap was one of a hundred feet. He successfully cleared a steamer at anchor in tho dock, and a, moment after came to the surface all right. Daniel R. Clymer, ex-Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, states that onions inhaled cause Rleep, rest and repose. The soldier on 1113 match and the exhausted iron wotker get great, strength from eating the onion. Tie a fresh onion around the neck and bruise it to make its odor thorough, and you secure sound sleep from its nightly inhalation. Wasted—A young woman to .vash, iron and milk one or two cowii, Gentleman : "About what are your running expenses !" Newsboy: "'Bout five shillings a month." "Is that all V" "Yes sir. You see, 1 buy them second-hand." •'Buy what ?'.' "Shoes, of course." An eminent medical authority asserts that a sudden immersion of the body in cold water soon after a meal is extremely dangerous; It chills the digestive organs and arrests digestion. 'You don't mean to say, Liil, that ydu have refused Jack's proposal by a postal-Curd." "Why, yes, Blanche, I really don't Tlio Customs return? prove beyond uontr'r diction that Nelsoii, Sloato anil Co's fino toil are being appreciated by tho majority, lot in spite of the numorous firms iu 'every.pari iirtho Colonics that av;< copying thorn, tin o novor is as largo as over, ami (lie domain n great that thoy . jll mora Indian, Ceybn (1 blended toas than tho \ybolo if tho inports and dealers pat together in ''ml quarter of the Colony.