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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8326, 14 August 1895, Page 4

It is a sad and gloomy fact that ; soe there are in London 980 common lodg- wh ing houses, which have nearly 60,000 life inhabitants. In these warrens are me about 9,500 women and girls, and of Th this number some 4,600 are under the lig age of twenty-two. ' wo Byron's household, according to mt Shelley, consisted, besides servants, of — ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle* a crow, and a falcon, and all-except the horses y£ went to and fro in the house at their iaA pleasure. fai The Bon Marche, the great drapery wi store of Paris, employs 4000 atten- Wl dants. They are fed on the premises. 0? The kitchen in which their food is f c prepared is the largest in the world, we and gives employment to 60 cooks mi and 100 assistants- 00 Mr Maughan Barnett's musical so- ab ciety now numbers 158 voices, and eh fresh names are coming in every day. £ a This result in little over a fortnight's £ time gives every promise of success, especially as the different parts are ex- Ci ■ cellently balanced,— 'Post.' P° The following appears in t* c * € \ • Oam*ra Mail ' of. last Thursday : — A visitor to HaUon reports that on to one block, of laud 10,000 sheep j e J were being despatured at >he time of ** the storms bet only eight animals were gl visible. At Grampiaus the loss is wi very Bevere, 1000 sheep being skinn d oc in ona week, and this before the snow p bad gone. A shepherd who had been ti thirty years in the district Btatea that oi he bad never seeii anything to apt ! proach the severity of the weather. * At Campbell's, on tbe Whale's Flat. f. GOOO tsaiden ewea were being grazed, c a.d it is not expected tbat a single a hoof will be 3aved. Sibbald will be h a very hoavy loseer, while at Bich- q ond's it is expected that there will be v . a clean wipa oat. d ~ Bill Nye is a man of very sober ! demeanor. He has been known, ( # however, to play a practical joke on a t friend. When Lieutenant Greeley i started on his expedition to the North l Pole, Nye gave him a sealed box tbat ( s- was not to be opened until he had , a- reached his farthest point north. It I w contained axle-grease for the pole. ] »c Wanganui l Herald ' says : — We ! s, hear of a large number of frost fish it, having been caught on the beach near Paikakiriki within the last day or so, er — over one hundred being brought to ss land within 24 hours, m Two Irishmen, tramping along the to road, came to a mile post, when one at of them exclaimed : <{ Tread aisy, Pat, ,le here lies a man who was 180 years c- old. His name is Miles, from London," lie Horseshoes are not known to date ue back further than the sixth century, ia, They are found in the tombs of that be age throught Europe, Asia, and Afhe rica. ry In Sweden it is believed that if a is- bride, during the marriage ceremony, )s, can keep her right foot in advance of ad the bridegroom's she is destined to y{- secure future* supremacy, ira An eminent London specialist says : he " The best chest protector is worn on iut the sole of the foot." A plea is also )in put in for the wearing of goloshes, us A young crank has lately walked ire backwards from Antwerp to Brussels, si- He did the journey in two days, a i.rd kind of heel attached to the toes of his ts. boots enabling him to obtain a high gh rate of speed. an Max O'Eell declares that Americas cans don't know how to enjoy life, he They go too fast. " One sees here." le. he says, " a notice on office doors : — ms * Gone to dinner — will be back in five liis minutes.' " Hence the landscape ng from New York to San Francisco is he disfigured by liver-pill advertiselly inents. iiß A country minister met a parishhe ioner one wet day, when the latter rehe marked, " It's a gey weetin 1 rain jk. that," whereupon the pastor enquired an if ever he heard of a drying rain ? be "Ou ay," said Sandy ; "surely it had he to hae been a dryin' yin when it rained fire and brimstone on Sodom n- and Gomorrah ?" Collapse of minisid ter. as, Three amateur mountaineers ata), tempted to climb Mount Egmont on trs Thursday, and succeeded in getting for almost to Fantham's Peak, but on gb coming back over a steep place two of in, them slipped on the ice and were held ye by the third man, all being tied tone gether with the climbing rope. Mr O 'Began M.H.8., presented a sir petition lOO^ds long, and containing of over 15,000 signatures, asking that en Government Inspectors be allowed in to inspect Roman Catholic ecboole. in The Wairarapa ' Times ' comments rs, on the Acts passed by the Now 3ea1. land Parliament of late years. It of says : -The list commenced in the re. year 1891, with a score of fifty-two, ler which crept np in 1892 to fifty-Beven, ie- and went two better in 1898, with fifty-nine, while in 1894 it made a he " record " with si sty-eight. Think of ne lawyers — what a time they are bavi with 286 brand new and badly made b- public general Acts ia four years. Ie pb oot the legislation of tbe past four on years enough to rain and blaet what he onr laarea'e calls " God's o n ds Country?" The finding of the jury in the case EL in which Somerville was charged with xc murder came as a surprise to the tot public of Masterton. Both the local >x- papers speak strongly on the subject, ■fee The • Star,' after stoutly maintaining to the sanity of Somerville, says that the findiug of the jury will be regarded by 'ts those who respect the law as a simple ftd outrage. h, THE HABIT OF HEALTH. [ c . The oomtant use oi Pzabs* Soap. ne While riding into Gore the other h e day Mr T. Tilson was savagely athe tacked by his stallion Rouser. Tilson was at the time leading the stallion, cs when the latter seized his owner by cc the leg and pulled with such force as I v to drag him, off the hack he was riding, cc to the ground. While in this position , cc the man had his back severely torn o f from the bone. The hack, which had D( l also been brought to the ground, the e fl moment it regained its feet made off h e at full speed, with the infuriated Qg stallion in pursuit. This alone saved 31 | the life of the disabled man. .fcjj Lamartine described Turkey as no j a empire at all, but a misshappen agg lomeration of different races, withh e out a language, without laws, religion, m . or stability of power. i s The Hawke's Bay • Herald ' he states :— Frank Glover, the brave boy aQ who risked bis life in rescuing Miss E, M'Vay from the Tutaekuri river