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FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

ASTONISHING THE NATIVES. One of Lord Wolscley's officers, who happened to have a glass eye, was one day examining a prisoner, a zealous follower of the Mahdi. Why do you believe in the Maluli. asked the officer. “ I believe in him/’ replied Ihe man. be ausc he can woik inhaeius. The oihgpi iniim-dialdy took out his ghc-' PV... tossed it up in ihe ait. vao-Jit it. "nd out it had. into its p'see. " l'T«. thin'., the Mahdi conic do that be asked. I'm man was appalled, and cou'nin 1 .s> Hiiotlo i 'v--".

.VI. PASTE I ITS SI t'Cl.-'', "in a letter addressed to Fiijurv t)r Jauicot calls attention to the fact that out of 170 persons bitten by mad dogs who have placed themselver under M. Pasteur’s treatment, only one has died, a youth named Peltier, who was not vaccinated until 07 days after the bite, and succumbed a fortnight afterwards, his death having been occasioned, as had been satisfactorily demonstrated, not by the virus artificially introduced into the system, but by that of the dog.

FULFILLING THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. | A patriarchal couple named Lcgcr, who have done much to take up for the shortcomings of many of their countrymen and women in rcpopulating France, are now living at RozeyBelval, in the Aisne. They have bad twentyseven children, of whom twenty-five are living, and throe are nerving in the army in Tonquin. The father and mother-aged respectively ninety-three and sixty-eight cultivate a farm, aided by six sons. Of the twenty-seven children twenty-one were boys. The woman gave birth to five in one year three on January 2, and two on December 27. THE BEGGARS’ NEWSPAPER. The latest novelty in newspapers is published in Paris, and entitled the ‘ Bon Guide.’ It is the organ of the vagrants and sturdy beggars’ interests. But one copy is published. The craft are allowed to peruse it every morning, where they find the addresses of the charitable people, weddings and meets, good to be farmed. Advertisements are received. One is from a blind man, who is willing to sell bis standing ground in a street; in fact, retiring from business. There jis another wanting the services of a blind fiddler and an intelligent child to do the guide, philosopher, and friend business. Truly, the uses of the art of printing are every day being more and more developed.

SONG OF THE PHINTEIi. Forever bending o’er my KK, my life’s not filled with EE;, Forever sticking to my stick, my labors never CO. To do what’s right I make my rule, I mind my PP and QQ ; I’ve got my faults, I will confess, nor try them 2 X QQ. I loved a girl named Emmeline, my love for her was great,— An Em among a thousand Ems, none could her M’U late. And when she said she did return my love, with blushing grace, I printed on her lips a kiss, and did my Em M_—,. A LION’S AFFECTION FOR A DOG.

Mr J. 0. Edmonds, proprietor of Wombwell’s menagerie, sends to the Livrrjitu’l Past an extraordinary account of a dog suckling a young lion. He says: “Three months since two lion cubs were born in my menagerie. Three weeks afterwards, for some reason, the mother forsook them—probably her milk failed, We found one dead, and the other nearly so. My bead keeper removed it, and put it with a female dog to suckle, and has succeded in rearing it to its present age. The strange fact is that it refuses its natural food—raw flesh—but partakes freely of any cooked.food, especially vegetables of all kinds, and actually takes tea with relish. It has become quite attached to the keeper’s wife, and follows her like a dog.”

A CASE OF HIPPOPHOBIA. The Vienna correspondent of the Time* writes: The death is announced of Count Bommisch, a Hungarian magnate, who was known in society for his extraordinary hatred of horses. This aversion amounted to a real hippophobia, and it obliged the Count many years ago to throw up his commission in the army. The Count died at an advanced age on his estate in Slavouuin. He was a distinguished agriculturist, an excellent landlord, and on all subjects but that of horses, asses and mules, a man of sound judgment. Ho would not allow any animal of the equine kind to come upon his land, so that visitors who rode or drove to see him had always to alight at his park gates. He himself for many years used a vehicle drawn by trained deer ; but latterly he went about his estate in a carriage with'a team of oxen. His horror of horses is said to have been innate, as there was no accident in his life to account for it.

RUSSIAN MILITARY PREPARATIONS. According to a statistical statement in the “ Cronstadt Gazette,” no fewer than 20 vessels of various types have been begun, completed, or equipped within the last year for the Baltic and Black Sea fleets of Russia, or for the Siberian flotilla. Of these the most important are the large ironclads Catherine, Tchesme, Sinope, Imperator, Alexander 11., and Admiral NaohimoS, and, furthermore, the gunboats Sivutch and Bober, and several torpedo boats of the Lieutenant Iljin pattern. The building of granite walk at the port of Cronstadt has also been proceeded with, and docks have been constructed at Sebastopol. Considerable additions have likewise been made to the steel-armor manufactories of ObnkhoS. The plan of converting the port off Liban, in Courland, into a naval harbor is said to have been abandoned, but on the other hand it is likely to be made a squadron station for the Baltic fleet.

A FRENCHMAN ON GERMAN INTRIGUE. M. Yves Gnyot, the French deputy who has for many years given his closest attention to the social conditions of England, and who boasts the acquaintance of “ Mr Bradlaugh and other famous economists,” has been giving his views on the disturbances in London. M. Guyot has it on good authority that one of the prominent leaders in Trafalgar square was a Prussian agent who is employed to spread Socialism and discontent in this country. This agent is a factor in a deep-laid plot of Prince Bismarck’s, which has for its object the closing of all industrial works and factories in England, and the consequent economical apotheosis of the German Empire.” Probably M. Guyot’s national prejudices have a good deal to do with his ready credence of so far-fetched a theory.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3

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1,082

FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3

FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3

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