THROUGH OUR EX HANGES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1754, 31 January 1888, Page 2

THROUGH OUR EX HANGES

A firjJ-LOOK X.N a. 081 . „ SHOP At Kuroa lust week, a refractory bal« lock ra -bed Into a store, the oaatomora lo the e lop makloa; th^mseWes eotroe with remnrkable o.lerity. One genius tried to ora»l Into a patent oven, and others took refuge behind dra.iery and crockery stacks. The valiant a oretnan who had the proteeMon of the counter o»t ween ihum bravely stood tbeir ground, aod "ahon-o-d" at the intruder. Tha bullock tcok things very calmly, and walking to the rear of the shop, licked (ta own image In a mirror, And then quietly > retraced Its steps without doing tbe ' slighteat damage. ' TUB VALUE OF POBBIDOB. Max O'KbII aaya :—•« Porridge la tbi eeoret of the .uocess of the Sootoh. It ia ; porridge whioh keeps the head fresh, the stomach free, and tha feet warm It la , porridge whbb promotes the olroalatlon f the blood. Is Is porridge that softens cover-oar of the brain after the nlghfc *r»tbhes. It is porridge whloh keeps the .ootoh laborer from sinking m the work* bouse. It la porridge which allows the son of tbe bumble peasant to aspire to ihe highest posts by enabling him to live i at the Sootoh Universities, It is porridge vhloh makes men of Iron like Livingstons and Gordon." There la more troth In , this philosophy tban tbe English world , dreams of. A FHILOWB-TA. The Grand Doke JMlcholaa of Russia, , who has lately been slopping over with i venom a^alnet Germany, waa laat year at , % dloner p*rty the neighbor of *,he oale- , b ated an iat, Roaa Bonheur, and ac ha , h .ppened to find two almonds In the same f sh>.ll he be_*me indebted to ber a t pnllopte ia, Asked what it should be, Rosa B.nheur ohu.e an animal tame , eiough to be uaed lo her studio aa a , ra>del. She bad forgotten all about the i matter, when last month three young , white bear* were presented to her by tha i Grand Duke. They, are specially twined, ; and will form the oraaraeat of the little i zooloklosl garden the anise haa gathered j together at her vill* a> F>i talnbleaa. I A PRAOTIOAL JOKB. ( A ahort time »go a y >ar_g man, very i well dressed, waa sitting <n the orchestra of a theatre In Puris.' In the middle of k the play he drew a largo pistol from hia > ooat pooket, and, to tne horror of the aodlenoe, directed it at an actress who was nuking her appearanoe. Hia neigh- , bora seized hold of hia arm, bat he . manignd to free himself from them, and l.liberately p tinted the platol at their . heads without saving a word , The women -hrleked and t o .k t_ flight ; the men •nwered their heads m order to eaoape t >rap»ndlng danger; while othera mora . ooarageouß has ened to throw themselves I »•» hbn. Suddenly he turned the piatoi . towards h>mseif, and held it before hli month. Great anxiety. Then placing It between hia teeth ha, bit a pieoe off. It ] waa ra_de of ohocolatt. AN ANC£->T MBKOBXAL,, Hitherto th . oldest Jo wim. gravestone' ln Oerm.nyhao been oonsldered to be the | he.dstone of a gray . m the Jewish ceme--1 t«rv at Worms, which bore the date of ■ 4660 Anno Biundi (according to Judaic ! -ouapotattou) .qu,»l to 900 b.o. But the Israelite states that a sill otder one haa j ist been discovered at Z ihlbaoh, a small villago olose to Mayenoe. Ie served aa a r stepping-stone over a brook bat wia 1 observed to have aome Hebrew oh*raotera J msorlbed on it. Tha rabbi Dr Leh_t_.no, 1 of M-yt-nce, hid 1. cleaned, and found on it the oate 4560 a m , eqaal to 806 a o, 1 The atone has been removed and plaoed ia the town j-.i««.um a* M".v>nce. HAUBIED AHD FAITIB. A young __a>- w^s _u_ri ,_u .. Aocrlng* 1 ton the other day to aMr John Smith. The blu-hlog bride had not been married > before, but she waa naturally aarprlaod ' aud distressed by the proceedings of her husband. They h.d soarcely left Aoorlng. j ton when Mr Smith aettled himself In a corner, yawned onoe or twice and fell into a deep slumber. It Is possible that Mr Smith ln repose li not a pleasing spooUole. It la possible that Alra Smith was merely hurt by tha stolidity of hia demeanor under ( oonditlona favorable to oheerfalnass, not ti say enthusiasm. But lt la certain that for one or both of these reasons, the maiden slipped quietly out of the carriage at the firat station, leaving bohlnd her only a slip of paper attaohed to Mr Smith's ooat- tail and baarlng these words : " Tired <f matrimony. Had enougn of It, and gone home »o my. ma, Mary." DEATH OF A MIL.IONAIBBt The death la annoaooed, m - Home pnpers, of Mc Hugh MoOalmont, banker. He was soarcely known In aoo!e_>. He had for years a practical monopoly of tha credit business whloh haa baen transferred to Baring's, aud made enormoua profits la "R tidings" and other American securities. The MoOalmonts ware for many years the London agents of the Keading Railway Oompany, whloh they financed at two mllliona Mr MoOalmont'a f irtrine will probably exceed four millions starling, In hie lifetime he gave the lata Lord Oalrus £ 00,000 on becoming Lord Chancellor, aod, it is s.id, a similar aum afterwards. He bequeathe about three millions to hia nephew, Mr MoOdlmont, a popular subaltern ln iht Joou Guarda with a weakneaa for boating, subject to an income till he is twenty-seven, while the oapital still further frnotlfiea. Ha gives £100,000 to St George's Hospital, olose to hia house, and nothing at all to the present L >rd Oairns One million goes to his namesake. Colonel Hugh MnOalmont (more f»o_,._!arly known' aa "B.by"), who reoently joined the 4th Draigoon Guards nft»r distinguished servloe witb the Q.h Lanoera and 7th Hussar?;