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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2598, 9 September 1879, Page 4

A scheme for a railrpad from Algeria across the' Sahara 'MAft tpßmbuitoo, n attracting atten,tibn fc fs* '• „j . The *&toUte*r* JtW-'ll* JW*Mfc' special! says :-« Jpsepy '^SM'X? v * known-interpreW and^cbui,m^ith hit wife and four diildren, laW ttitofa by the Siou*> Three other tiertoni, wno were, re- ■ turning-with' \M froWihi'T^nkton Camp, . , were>lßO^ed;, md jtifftfcty^l Wai taken 'Prisoner." ' .' ';A ' _ . '•A JNBaRo's'EBTOBT.-i-rlii the Louiasna Cou&tituMoaal Contention .now in session, Mr Aliain', once' a slave/" recently 'bide an ablfc speech itfoppoaitiotf to' abolishing tbi offiee'of'Superinteriderit of JPubJic Instruc , tion.>' At its lcjoae>n WslaVeholder, offered . a resolution.deriding it', because of a mistake,, in gifcrfmar/sfad lp™£in£ for its translation int?o all' pfodern . langnagesi* To ' this *Mr Aliain resp'onSe^. '''VMr*1 CnairmW I 'was fdrmerly- a 'stive'; Jne •MWlti^f tb,e 'war emancipated ]niß, l»n4 iimtiltanebn< sly > placed me ntfdef the?6bligationl^ fiiting^dj'to. • disth'ai'ge the dntiei 'of cWieiishi^* - the geritl^m'an'fr'dni.Orieinf wa'sVperfecting ■ liimselftin'air.theseianguageafto'.wjiich he refers* *** P^n^cotfeW lyeart thatl'sp^entin picting-cottoii he,, devote to ' ihis moral ■ and 'Hfl^TectntA' 'improvement; yet I think I may be, ;pird6ned for i iaying that be might have "put"his varied accomplighraerits to a more cjre'ditable use than t >n thus striving to ridicule and; deride me in my effort to promote an/end1 1 consider right' and proper."- IlVmai'mqVed by such: a humane'and intelligent spirit bom to be ruled by othera? •.'''/ ■'" ,„ „ Wheat Wasted.'—The New Yiork Herald says:—" Siicountries in Europe will this yenr be comiieUed to buy three hundred million bushels 13 of wheat, and France and England Will need ttiree-fourths of this quantity.' Thq operations tfiis year will tend to'greatly itimulate the ;cultivationof wheat landsj'abd there, is an unsettled .dis r tricfc inMfforthern Texas which,'itis believed, could supply alone as much as Europe needs this year." ' "' , ' ' . ', Scene :' Mining. village.— Fwe Church minister (at miner's door): "Is'Jamei at home, Mrs, BrownP" Mrs B.: -"No, »ir, he's awa' tae the toon, the'day." ' Miniittr: " I am sorry f«r that, bec»use I wanted to tell him'that he's been appointed a dtacon/ 1 Mrs B::'" A deacon, sir! I'm rait glad to hearo'fc', for to tell ye thj« truth, air, onythinglis'better than a collitr noo-a-days."— Punch. ''' r ,',, ' , ,| l , 'j,,, | A NEWLi-MABBtro lowa nuui recently received a package containing, a note and a cigar. The note explained that the cigar was wonderfully fine. The unusual character of the gift, coupled with the fact that the young husband did not recognise the name of the donor, aroused his, suspicions, and he showed his present to his wife. She recognised the writing as that of a former suitor. She proceeded to investigate the cigar, and found several grains of strychnine concealed in the end that is usually bitten off before smoking. „,'<''' The' Countass do Montijo, the mother of the ei-Empreos Eugenic, is how eighty-three years old, ahefis bVd-riddtn and almost blind. The Into Prince Imperial was her favorite grandson, The'lSmpreas has' received ( two letters from her son wriiten four days before his death, probably the last time be laid hit pen to paper." Prince .Joachjm Marat has received a letter from one of his companions in ai*ms/relating, how' this/ had dined th» previous evening with Xiord J Chihnifofd, and'tbaf the,1 general speared quite surprised atrithe topographical knowledge of the Prmco and his cleat v^ews,on the "campaign. A number of fatal cases'of glanders in the human'BQbject'ha've occurred this~year both in - England t and America.,' tkejlfcdical\(ind Surgical Beporfer' mentions inatancWof tljt coinmuhicatfonpf,the' disease'mjortly from riding.behind infecWd l^brsesv , vi I: , ', ". Bliss' .with raqx V me^nt ] something in a-Pa'ris .workshop one aftwpoon recently." An overseer of 5 the;works,'finding that Tone of life men had'not' finished a piece of,wprk which' was urgently required, |9}r'into such a'state' of/fiiry"as to strike'him in'the.faCt. . AlmosHtrih'e very aWofstriklngVio^rerer, t he j Btagge^ed i'bacc, ( i,shouting; ) for [ aid, und> i doiaplairiing that; ? he could'npt ,tW, Jj Th« workmen1 c^be ajfound Mm witi/off#rf of assistdbce/'b^t nothing could be flt>ne. |It i Was J certain' thajk* |he t had suddenly lost jtfoe use 'bf ;both/his''eyes.", Maidical .ividence ehowed'tfikt; some of the bloodvessels behind the eye had ban^acd that the blood' had' Hooded the interior cavities of the eye-balll. "THH '^AIiT'HT \yrukQUX.~ : pH t lf£ Robert'Cra'wahay, of Walea,', 1 enormous! as tvrsa his wea'lih, commandedjfor" the eiinpl'ssc of funerals.' ( There was not even ;a . . hearse, 'Kis oaken coffin being bprn* to' tbe 'church^rd;in;.ow d >')& ownjvehiclw over the flowers .with.which the peasants strewed the road.. Instead of living,moat. 'of his fortune to his eldest aon. hehas, after providJng'for'his daughterV, divided itequajly; < i»« lli H null"»_ 4 - *•V '• fc * J *~ among his three, sons.- His wife's, pp^on he many yeaWigo./wttt^r.nptfn/^r. /that she might1 enjo^ljt freisljjf bile young enpu jh todoro.^^Y >•(,:.d ii \n\uvu u,\.i .>.i -I A Teeformingj ißuiL^Tbat; ixMllent naturalist;' and, cbarjoiaa;/writer, Fraik Buckland; jdeicnbes.with greatjlapirit ithe tig'w: per forming,/bull'at tht Wettraifts^r Aquariupil^^Sdpn.ui Tfce buU.iii an <tfd hand'at;the ; »paniah bttll-flghtsi, Hthis, however,: luckilyjfouttdi* ain«ert) friend1 ft Signor Oriica, an bull-fight< r, who 1 has i made him hisfrjtnd. BoigN»t frie'nds,argj^pu ( and ithii #avage bi*it, - the jai'g^ to i r i o;bj ) P^«.^E ) BsJsV-ha'ard/tl t tlrevea, and shortly,ma4« tb«M fidtkmanri k treat: He is a magnificent animal, itandin g about 5 feet high, as black v nigh^» only thi t the hajiriß^worQ off from the Ifortqaarter ; the rest, of the. hair, is shining like a sat b drf s?;J? lf nam 9- *»> W*mo,, .weight; 19CD poundp,, bred^by^tha Marquis ofjTablente j stud apima^andisU-yeanjold. Sn^fice it to cay that the .animal isfrom the neighborhood lof Seville ( (the capitaloi Andalutia); a pltc > well know,n fp^,itabr*«d,of cirttlevvThebu 1 has a temper othisjown.oNobodydsallowe I to touch him l! but L Qrtica, and theie ar^i no; t maDyjWho.wpuid fohuitotelio tp do^ <; i, [

A SEtt.—ln Stanstead, r Canada, a,man iold, ten-cent, paqkages "warranted sure death to potato,bugs; no, risk of pciaoning animals as with Parii green."' The packages w«r« not opetred until time to use them1. One tictim, haying thrfie, opened one and found tiro square blocks of wood, on > one of ,which/wa* written : " Place the bug on this block, and preas firmly with the other." A Plum.—The death of Baron Rothschild will be a profitable event to the British Exchequer. The probate duty will, amount to no ft* than £88,500. , The duty ia on the fint million, and £15,Gj9 for every million afterward. It'is payable, however, only on personalty within,the English juris-. diction. Baron Kothschild, was the! father of foil "family in the strictest, patriarchal sense, ° Not a tree,* Lit ia-said^ •• could be felled, a bedstead renewed, or a coat of paint pat on a cottage door on property nominally hit §ons'j without the express sanction of the Baron.,(/ The, sons , occupied housss and estates by themselves, but the property wai the father's and he did not forget it." tA1 'Glasgow minister was recently called in to fee a man who was very ill. After finishing his visit, as he was leaving the house, he said to the Man's wife: "My good woman, do'you not go to any church at all ? " MOh, yes, sir, we gang to the Barony Kirk."1 "Then why in the world did you •end,for me ? Why didn't you send for Dr Madeod ? " " Na, na, deed na; we wadna risk him. Do ye ken it's a dangerous case of typhus ? " The" Jewish""Messenger says that "If an American Jew died of one tenth of the late Baron Bothsehild's wealth and influence, his funeral would probably have been a gorgeous display—powers, plumes, casket, pall, all of the richest and most magnificent order. It aids'that the simplicity of the Baron's obsequies was strictly Jewish in character, and is incomparably preferable^to the display ' that more liberal brethren, on this side of the Atlantic,, would have insisted upon under similar circumstances.' ' Here lies the wealthiest Jew of modern times, habited in no richer garments, enclosed in no gaudier tenement than his poorest, co-religionists, and tkii equality of all men in the presence of •ttraity, this levelling of rank on the threshold of Heaven is grand in its simplicity. 11' l Mb SrußOEOir recently told this anecdote ai ht gave out an anthem : A high churchnan and a Scotch Presbyterian minister had been at the same church. The former asked the Jatter if be did not like the "introits." He repliedi " I don't know what an introit if. 1* Said the churchman, " But did you not enjoy the anthem ?" He replied: " No, I did not enjoy it at all." "I am very sorry," said the churchman, " because it was used in the early Church; in fact it was originally sung by David." " Ah!" said the Scotchman, " then that explains the Scripture. I can understand now, if David sung at that time, why Saul threw his javellin at him." This was followed by a loud peal of laughter, when Mr Spurgeon said: •' Now let us sing the anthem." I am. now past 60 years old, and every now I and then I meet a relick who knu me 45 years ago, and remembers distinkly sum deviltry I was guilty of then. Ain't it strange how tenashus the memory is of these things, and how weak'it is ov ennything good a fellt'r may have acksidentally dont.— | Josh Billing*. > Fbom September Ist, 1878, to Juue 11th, 1879, 45 grain-laden vessels sailing from New, York, Baltimora, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, Portland - and Norfolk, wertabandoned at sea or never heard from. Thtloss oh vessels and cargoes 'was nearly 18,000,000. The number of lives .lost was about 450. i . A, cobeebjondent at Berlin draws a gloomy picture of the state of Bnssia, owing to the Nihilists, the failure of the crops and the ravages of the corn beetle. Fifty thousand roubles have been appropriated to exterminate the beetle. '^ ■ThE'Amist's Home.—Mr Tom Taylor, i editor of > Punch and dramatist, has a house which is simply stuffed with pictures. There is hardly a square inch of wall uncovered. In on* apartment, used as a summer-room for reading, working, or painting, the walls are covered entirely with prints of Sir Joshua Beynolds's paintings; and opening from this is a chamber dedicated to sculpture, where an owl perches familiarly on a bust of i Minerva. Chivy, as this' bird is called, is a great 'favorite in the .family, and very friendly with his master, though shy with strangers,. In the dining-room, where Lambeta faience and Venetian glass abound, the tery^ implements for use on the table are works of art; and the boudoir of Mrs Tayjoris |a rentable cabinet of curiosities. ,Is' £s to be in the houae without recognising the influence- of Mrs Taylor •my where. Coming of an ' artistic j family, and being herself a good painter, she can thoroughly sympathise in her husband's ,tMte|; and while the ,eye is feasted with all th«r set-around, she will delight the ear with such music as can seldom be heard even from the beit professional p~iani*tes. ," Jjb Talmage'b first sermon in an English chjirch,i» f! thu* mentioned' by the London Ec\a: V.He h*s Jittle action; except when some climax is reached, and speaks chiefly with.thai ayes closed,-ai.if/for, the purposejof ihitfting,OQt, distractjng influences around. He looks about .fifty; hji real' age,, being fortv-s^vw., , Bold, homely, effective, and abundant imagtrv marked both the exposition'ofthV parable, oftheVProdigal Son and Mm»tral^uent se?mon,a^d,is,perhaps the 'SMia'^rsiii' of .success. < Irfikf .otb#r celebrattd preachers, does not diedim In the, s«rmon, the text beinf, • And Qod shall wipe away /all, tears from th«ir eyei,' and the general subject tHe pains and troubles of this life and the practical uses, he said, "It was not until Job got hit carbuncles and a pest of a* wife that fye wanted to leaye this world '.—a remark which •lioited'a detided,titter; while, iq speaking of the 'character,of prayers at, different penpds.h'e said'that, some men spoke in their prayers about the sun ? moon, and starjj and *gave.the'lidr ( d agreat jdealo^astronomical information' that'must,be f very gratifying, to Him.' The sermonj joccupiod..only thirty^- ! Ti WraiJ^C^/whpJojipr^Bfl^onlji an