FROM EXCHANGES.

Colonist, Volume XLII, Issue 9477, 12 May 1899, Page 4

FROM EXCHANGES.

An amusing story is told of the present Earl of Antrim, who is known in the North of Ireland as a lover of agriculture and any kind of farming. An aristocratic gentleman, who shall be nameless, sent a letter to bis lordship complaining that his conduct was nut that of a titled Earl but rather that of a country farmer. ' I saw you myself,' he wrote, ' driving three cows to market, and consider it disgraceful,' etc. In reply to this extremely personal epistle, the Earl thanked the writer, and merely added that a mistake had been made, ' For it was not three oows you saw me driving to market, but two cows and a built'

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A story, at once recalling the famous song about the steam arm and a ghastly tale by Edgar Allan Poe, is told of John Stanton, who recently died in New York. Stanton had lost one of his legs, and in its place he wore an artificial limb, which was placed in the coffin with him. At the wake, whilst the ceremonies were in full swing, someone shook the coffin, thereby releasing the spring in the limb, and the [corpse's leg arose erect in the air. The drunken mourners were thoroughly frightened, and stampeded. Some jumped from the windows. The stairs were blocked by the others in their efforts to flee, many persons being crushed, and it became necessary to summon the police before order could be restored.

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Sees W. Laukler. the Canadian Premier has written to Alderman Spence of Toronto, Secretary of the Dominion Temperance Alliance, announcing that the Government will not introduce any prohibitory liquor legislation. The ground for this decision is, he states, that the recent plebiscite did not show that the country was prepared for it, as the prohibitionists polled only 23 per cent, of the total vote. The prohibitionists ara indignant, and consider that they have been duped. The press is disposed to treat the decision of the Government from the political point j of view. I

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Mb J; Hamilton, M.L.A. who has returned from the north, and who was close to the locality affected by the late hurricane at the time it occurred, tells the • Brisbane Courier' that afterwards thousand of both land and water snakes were found on the coast. Porpoises were found 40ft and 50ft above water level ; bark waß blown off the trees and grass, torn by the roots. In one instance it is recorded that a spot where there was previously a long candy beach was found afterwards to be simply bare rooks, the sand having been wholy

carried away. These facts give some dea of the force of the wind and water, Altogether, the devastation wrought was simply terrible. The worst of the hurricane took a track about thirty miles wide, but in a lesser degree bad weather was experienced more widely. Bain fell at a terrific rate in man} places. A remarkable story of the antics of a drunken baboon comes from Omaha. The baboon, it seems, was a member of a trained animal show, that was doing a "turn 1 ' at Oreighton Theatre, and the animal by some means got loose and invaded the stage one afternoon. Being muzzled, it was harmless, but also being very large and ugly it frightened those upon whom it chanced to burst. The stage hands tried tried to catch the animal, but this only served to make the creature angry, and it dashed at its pursuers, seizing them with its great hands and throwing them about as if they were children. Finally, it dashed through the door of the theatre, and into the cafe adjoining. The bar tender fled for his life, and the baboon leaped behind the bar, where it drank portions of a bottle of whiskey, beer brandy, and other liquors, then hurled the bottles at the mirrors, and at length rushed back into the theatre with bottles under both arms and grasped in each hand. These missiles the ape hurled in every direction, smashing three long mirrors in the principal dressing rooms, and destroying a number of costumes by tearing them to bits. For half an hour the animal raged thus without hindrance, at the end of which time its keeper arrived, and succeeded in chaining it up. Schemes for connecting the German East African coast with the lakes have acquired a fresh interest in consequence of the favorable reception accorded to Mr Rhodes' proposals in Berlin. The chief of these projects is that which is being promoted under the presidency of the former National Liberal Deputy, Dr. Oechelhauser. It contemplates the construction of a railway from the coast to Tabora, with branches to Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, and to Victoria Nyanza. The total length of this railway would be 1773 kilometers, a distance as great as that from the Bussian frontier, via Berlin and Frankfurt to Basle. The Colonial Department, the German East African Company, and the Deutsche Bank have each contributed 100,000 marks to the expenses of the preItminary survey. It is proposed, as a beginning, to construct a section of the railway between the coast and Mrogoro, in Ukami, a stretch of 291 kilometres, involving an estimated expenditure of 12,000,000 marks, or £600,000-

A lighthouse of bamboo has been built in Japan. It is said to have great power of resisting the waves, and does not rot like ordinary Wood.

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