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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5093, 1 October 1891, Page 1

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"My dear Ellen," saicl Mr Softfellow to a young lady whose smiles he was seeking, " I have long wished for this sweet opportunity, but I hardly dare trust myself now to speak the deep emotions of my palpitating heart. I declare to you, my dearest Ellen, that I love you most tenderly. Your smiles would shed " Never mind the wood-slied," said Ellen, "go on with that pretty talk." Seaweed is now made into tough paper, which takes the place of window glass When colored the efiect is similar to stained or painted glass. Near Tanga, in German East Africa, an important series of stalactite caverns have lately been discovered. They are in a system of Jurassic limestone, and it is said the caverns surpass any similar ones in Europe, both in extent and size. Millions of bats seem to be the only present occupants of tlie interior. By the report of the Local Option League of New South Wales, the "drink bill of that colony for 1890 was L 4,867,390 or L 4 8s 2d per head for every man, woman, and child." This is 7d per head less than in 1889. In Indianopolis an old man wished to marry a young girl, aged 16, with whose father he The old man being wealthy, the girl's family favored the match. Rather than become his wife, the girl poisoned the old man, together with her. father and mother and two brothers, all of whom died.