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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 91, 24 November 1911, Page 3

REMEMBERING HIS ENEMIES. Mr. Edward Wortley Montagu, ton ol the famous Lady. Mary, endeavoured to be very sarcastic in his last will and testament After-sepia insignificant bequest “To my noble and worthy relation the earl of—— ’ he adds ; “ I do not give his lordship any further part pf my property, because the best part of that he has contrived to take 'already. It am—To Sir Francis 1 give one word oi mine, fcecause he never had the good fortune to keep his own. Item—To Lord • hit, I give nothing, because I know he will bestow that on the r Item—To Sir Robert W. I leave my political opinions, never doubting he can well turn them into cash who has always found such an excellent market for his own'"— All the Year Sound.

SHAM GIFTS. There is a enrions custom at the courts of Indian rajahs. Let ns suppose that a .British official or a physician calls upon the Rajah of UKvan. He is shown into the reception or throne-room, where sits the rajah, surrounded by “the great state officers. Alter the exchange of the usual salutations, one of the officials brings in-a tray, on which are displayed jewels and golden ornaments, Studded with valuable'stones, perhaps worth £50,000 or more. The trayful of valuables is supposed to be A present from the rajah to his visitor, and It is offered first to the gentleman, who, inclinin'? bis head. touches the edge of the tray wiih the tips of his fingers, and it is then passed over to the lady, who invariably accompanies the British officer, if he is married, on such occasions. She follows the example of her husband, and the tray and its contents are then returned to the jewel-room. ! : ■ : In lien of the unaccepted jewels a long necklace of tinsel, of/lit tie value, is placed round'the neck of edch, where it remains during their stay within the palace. There is a very strict law against any British official accepting a gift from a native orifice f Even whence doctor may have performed someseriouS operation upoli a rajah, who; bring grateful, • Wishes to give—exclusive of a money fte varying from £2OO to £I,OOO, according to the operation performed—a present of a shawl, golden cup, or some similar valuable, the doctor must obtain special permission from the Viceroy before he dares accept the present. If any official accepts a gift of any value without such permission' he may have to resign. In the old days, when the East India Company governed India, an officer’s re presents, often extbrtCd were worth much more to him than his salary.

RATHER A TALL STORY. The sun, following an old-established custom, was slowly sinking in the west, when a Texan ranger might have been seen wending his weary way across the flowing grass and rolling prairie of south-western Texas. I say might have been seen—nay, He was seen; for seven dark, weird figures We noiselessly following in bis track, and creepingjslowly closer to theirunsuspecting victim Fly to thy home, thou cow-driver I or thy fate will overtake theel Is not Bumblefooted Lightning, and six of his wamputned war-boys, thirsting for thy bldod ? Will he never turn and see his dastard foes ? Yes, for Providence has decreed a warning. Bumble fopted Lightning sneezes I In vain he tries to turn the sneeze into a coyotte's howl. The sharp ear ol one who never yet has missed an invitation to “ have one more,” no matter how softly worded, has heard. '

He turns: he sees his danger; and. with the swiftness pf a summer breeze, he urges on his dilapidated broncho, closely followed by the yelling redskins- Away! a'wayl Fof in his revolver are but six bullets, and be hind him seven Indians. Nearer and nearei they draw. He turns and fires. An abof j riginal’s life-blood stains his mother-earth, Again and again, until but two bloodthirsty foes are left. - Hut, alas! the gallant ranchman has but one bullet left, and there, scarce ten yards behind him, ride the ramping redskins, side by side, with but a few yards dividing them. There is but one chance, and he takes it. From his belt he draws his trusty bowie-knife, and holds It in his extended left band ; then, placing the muzzle of his pistol against the keen edge, he aims between, the, pursuing Indians and fires. Well • has ho calculated—well ha's he aimed! ' The knife divides the bullet into two equal parts', and each Indian falls with half a bullet in hit. heart! And yet when this guileless rancher tells bis simple story he is not always believed. i SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS. In a Peshawar cemetery, in India, is the following amusing epitaph ■—“ Sacred to the! memory of Rev - —.-, Missionary, aged ——S murdered by his chowkidar ‘ Welldpne, thou good and faithful servant.’“ One of the many curiosities now exhibited - in the British Museum is a Chinese bank- ’ note, issued during the rqign pftheßmperor Hung Wu, a p 1368-99. This is the earliest; specimen of a banknote known to exist in i any country, ft is 300 years earlier than j the establishment of the first European bank ’ which issued notes. Out of 143 locomotives on the Grazi and Tsaritsin Railway, South-East Russia, 3a have now been compounded. These cbm- j pound locomotives, which consist of three classes, all burning petroleum fuel,: have made a total mileage of over one million , miles since their conversion, and show, a ‘ mean economy of liquid fuel bf 18J per cenT It is generally understood that onh'pf the most distressing symptoms of influenza is the mental| depression wmch it produces. This is copfinhed by bnp pfits latest victims, itfr. 'llprig. M. ' According to the member for Eiphdee; v. Yop f eel as if you were io be Condemned,' untried and unheard, for all the primps ip all the criminal codes that waiter ever written,” and this after you have i endured all the physical agonies that can be, described or imagined. With moderate care and good usage a horse's life may be prolonged to twenty-five, thirty-five, or forty years. An English \ gentleman had three' horses which died in his possession at the 'ages of thirty-fiye, thirty-seven, and thirty-nine years respectively. The oldest was in a carriage very day he died, strong and vigorous, out was carried off by a spasmodic colic to which be was subject. A horse in use at a Riding School in Woolwich lived to year? old, and a barge horse of Mprsey' and Irwell Navigation Company declared to have been in bis year when he died. ‘ *-*• Hobson's Choice. —** Hobson's choice means this or none." And the saying arosi§ from a curious practice of a certain Tqb&s Hbbson. He was thecarrier and innkeeper at Cambridge, who erected the handsome conduit there, . and settled " seven lays," ol pasture ground towards its maintenance. He kept a stable of forty good parite, always ready and fit for trayellin| ; but when a man came far abets? 'he wab led into the stable whe*p '"{here" was great- choice, but was obliged t* take the -horse which stood nearest t* the etahledber; so that every customer was alike Wall served, according to his chance, and evtry bjrse ridden with th« same instioe.

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