WHAT THE TRAFFICKER IN DRINK CAN DO.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 172, 5 January 1860, Page 4

WHAT THE TRAFFICKER IN DRINK CAN DO.

A company of individuals unite themselves together into a mutual benefit society. The blacksmith comes and says—--4 Gentlemen, I w'ish to become a member of your association.’ 4 Well, w.liat.can you. do ?’ 4 Oh, I can shoe your horses, iron your carriages, ami make all kinds of implements.’ * Very well, come in Mr. Blacksmith. 1 The mason applies for admission. 4 And what can you do, sir?’ 4 Ob, I can build your barns and houses, stables and bridges.’ 4 Very well, c,ome in—we cem’t do without you.' Along comes the shoemaker, and says, 4 1 wish to become a member of your society.’ 4 IFell,whatcau.you do?’ 4 1 can make bopts and shoes for you.’ ‘ Come in, Mr. Shoemaker—we must have

you, 5 So, in turn, apply all the different trades and professions, till lastly an individual comes and wants to become a member. ‘ And what are you ?’ ‘ I am a beer and spirit seller.’ * A beer and spirit seller! and what can you do ?.’ ‘ I can build jails, and prisons, and pocr* houses/ ‘ And is that all ?’ ‘ No, I can fill them ; I can fill your jails with criminals, your prisons with convicts, and your poor-houses with paupers/ And what else can you do ?’ I can bring the grey hairs of the aged to the grave with sorrow; I can break the heart of the wife, and blast the prospects of the friends of talent, and fill your land with more than the plagues of Egypt/ ‘ Is that all you can do ?’ ‘ All I can do V cries the beer and spirit seller, “is not that enough -From the American.

Advice to- Persons about to Marry—- . Here is an axiom, which receives every daynew confirmation: 44 If you wish to ruin yourself mary a rich woman.” There is a clanger here -greater than that of losing a fortune —the danger oflosing one's self, of changing tliehabits which have made you what you are, which have given, you whatever strength and originality you possess.. In that which they call a good match you will become a mere appendage of a woman a kind of prince consort or the husband of a queen. A very beautiful widow all amiability and honesty, said to agentelman, “Sir I have fifty thousand francs a year, quiet unassuming habits. I like you, and will do all you wish. You are an old friend ; do you know any defect in me-?” You have only one, madam —-you are rich.”— Miehelet.

Sjr Wm. 'Akmstrong, Superintendent of the Rifled Ordnance Department atWoolwich, lias succeeded in accomplishing the method of rifling the whole or any requisite number of the guns employed in the service which present a surface at the bore fit to secure and maintain the grooves, and which possess a body of sufficient tensile strength to resist the explosive power required to expel, with safety, the heavy shot uoav in use. Some experiments have been, carried out at Shoeburyness in the most successful manner with some of the guns which have undergone the metamorphosis of transformation from the smooth to the rifled bore hitherto considered) impracticable. The first gun submitted to; trial was an 80 pounder on Sir vniliainV original plan; the second"'an ordinary ■ 82- j

pounder service gun, rifled; on a p’an of S r Wm. .Armstrong, adapted for elongated cast* iron shot or shell. They were transported from the department in Woolwich Arsenal without preliminary proof or test, as the most implicit confidence is placed in the judgment of Sir Wm. Armstrong, and were fired.over a range of 3,400 yards. The result exceeded the general anticipation, The target was six feet square, into which every shot —-namely, six rounds from each gun—penetrated with terrific and certain aim. The energy and diligence displayed in the present restricted limits of the establishment present ample evidence of Sir Wm. Armstrong’s stipulation to furnish 100 guns for service during the present year being fully and faithfully performed. The whole of the number are already in form, and will be completed and delivered under ordinary circumstances long before the prescribed period. —Hampshire Telegraph.