RNJOYS LIFE IN WAVES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 445, 27 October 1904, Page 3

RNJOYS LIFE IN WAVES.

How Boltsla, tOke GtrtxU SulaaW) *9 OUe* PwA ant E twivpwA - .Igfcll. Mont. By way of preliminary to &te bw!*» acrom the channel, Holbein esssyedt recently to lower ike record created by ill-fated Capt. Webb for the swim between Dover and Bamsgate, a distance of £0 nulesif a; direct course c.iild be followed, bat probably not leas than five and twenty allowing fori the deviation caused by eo&trary • tine's* and: .current* The swimmer failed by some fen* mil?s the bad weather and the racing'tide< agates* him making any attempt, to reach Bamsgate futile. He however, to leave the water until he had swam back to and so completed the; exact "distance between the coasts of England and Prance. Had the conditions reraoined favorable there k >ao Oonbt that he would have beaten Hie ex« iating time of B% Steam by „&. 8% hours. Profiting by toe experience g&ineff last year, when hie plucky attempt to swim the channel came so near accomplishment, Mr. Holbein Is well rubbed with oil before entering the ,watar, and, to obviate injury to his ,eyt>S from the salt, wears a mask of American sticking planter, with glass goggles. His phjpiqne and power of endurance are little short of wonderful, and his only fear is the arfeing of a sudden storm, for sustenance he relies mainly on liquid beef esF?nce, varied by an occasional sandwich, supplied to him by Ma sonv paniona in the accompanying boat. COUNT BECOMES COBBISR, < Aj» AvMrietu Nobleman ifcenffsmoas SUm Station, the Woriß nasi From the pleasure* af a gfided youth to A cobbler's bench is the ro» irv.ntic career of Count Edward 6taditw, a member of one of the noblest laßiilies of Austria.- The somewhat unusual moral of the tale Is tbe fact I] vt in the face of a fresh smile from field* -iortune he prefers to remain a cobbler. The affair came about in t ':b: w.-iyr The young count, having d. isipaied his wealth, was wandering through a forest in Hangery when he eacia upon a'cobbler, to whom he confessed his poverty. The man ofbitti a home and a trade, and the count accepting, was taken to hia home and taught to make and mend | shoes. One day a man of law, who had I been lobldng for him a long time, arrive':]. r:nd told him that by the successive r.nd rapid deaths of all his jEiaJc lives he had become heir of tJae immense fortune of the St actios a':fl j'lercber of the house of peers of Au-tT '».. This 1 ' sudden prosperity conjug :*fter so many., misfortunes did rot turn the head of the noble cobbu-r. who, according to rumor,-or-dered hirn»;elf a simple hut to be built fii'.'ih.e forest, and now, having renounced the vanities of the world, he lives in this hut, making and 1 mending his own shoes.

DEATH VALLEY TSITWBL JRecent THwoveflrfes of D«9<Mtt* la v. That Jte«ion Cnm»e Hull eC ■JI '* Pir©a»e**o*», ..,!'•!"' I>if<cov«M«! of WMft deposit* ol niter in valley have started a rush to thai; .'u-.-olate region. Dozens of expedition!; fitted out by capitalists and hinulra-'s of miners are leaving Daggett. Yk -ate, Randsburg and Mo jar e for valley. Already there ore more thnp 400 men waitingat Bnllarat for information as to which portion of the .'?rr"oli» desert is best to men to. say? n'late report. The nitrate (V----positk rev reposted by tbe discoverers as in irv of such, extent as to rival if B> it sttra. s.s those-of Chili. So far their rnal itUJg ' 5s not Jjrurwn, but many ecu; •« nu.e l Kb*** been examined by the lii " ")e< tors. There axemillions of d.olta: .-'»wrh of the majteriul : i iff'it. Th«•?.*• ' ''»«> have so far made claims to'-Jheii "V» beds are poor men. "Borax K ri>" • irtCth, Lord Humphreys and M lljotv live Cingletdn are the capitalis; s vrtic l''R v e taken ihe keenest inter-jes-t in r'v* nelds, but they have- as ye* mr.de \*> claims. Nearly 100 men arc bc-im- btiitijiio Death valley by "Borax King" rAm?*hi I*ord Humphreys and The expv we attached to their operations willavpr-oximates2so,ooo, e _ . r»<v«tiy PinWhti. T"***^

A friend *>f anine returning* to camp lifter ;a day's shooting, says s writer in Navy and Army, suddenly «»«i« in si?ht of a big *he » ear with twoctsba following In single file, proceeding along a ridge, the formj of the three being eharply sdHiouettadag»Jo«t the , sky. It was a Tery long shot, but he determined to try it, so drew a bead on the old she bear and fired. Thereen It wr.B curious. The procession stopped, the she bear scratched herself Ijte'lily, then turned around, aiid, rewailnng the cub immediately behind with .crave disapproval, boted its ears and then went trundling ■• on along the ridge, evidently under the impression' that her f roliesome off--spring had been up to some unusually objectionable tricks. "'"* hiLii • A MioalWß* Note. ' Music. ia declared by a Smart Set Jwriter t-o be at once the "glory and the scandal .of the uniyerae." It fs \ certain, saj*s the ChioagoTribune, that a great deal of glorious music is scandalously sung. I Japan's Cheap Mail, The cheapest postal service In the world is that of Japan, where for two sen —about seven-tenths of a penny—letters are conveyed all over the empire. -Ji "• T}ABJSMiu HAIR , BEirORBR. IT - ~fppp«li»ble Preventative Ut baldness aid:^'Qray Hairs';. Reodewsd _ abundant; sofV and glossy *2a M. Hair- "- dressers* groeoiia* ,aud ohqu»t|te. Jfifo ■:■•;■; lU*BARBS6N, Ageat. r^:\-': r ■■"■■s£