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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 596, 7 December 1871, Page 2

A nephew of the poet Southey.who crossed Kolapobr some twenty-fire jea,rs» ago during the rains, wrote word that he had tried twentyfour different modes of crossing swollen riter* during his journey of one hundred and forty miles; among which were:—l, Swimming with his clothes on; 2; with his clothes ott and upon his head; 3, on hdrseback; 4, on the ferryman's back; 5, on a basket; 6, on a door ; 7, on a ladder ; 8, on inflated skina;^ on a netful of hollowed pumpkins ; 10, holding a bullock's tail; 11, by: a buffalo 1" tail which is safer, inasmuch a3 he: swims better than ni» fellow-beast, but requires a more wary b*na upon him, since he is so fond of the water mm wlien he reaches the shore lie is <l uite*, {j^ turn round and swim back again. J-116 *a, item in the list was a suijar-boiling p^Q 5 a&a there was but one bridge aino'ug the 24 ways, which was not, after all, in t»o territory or Kolapoor, but in that of Sattara.—^ ■»<""» Indian Prince. \ , .... .. .i> A new definition of the *. d& " °lvll T lzatl°n iß reaches us from Japan. Laky, a Japane c visitor to the English Club induced to take some champagne, and on] putting away his third tumbler exclaimed witb great fervour, " I like civilization! I like civilization I • An Ohio woman was so amiable at b^g" Ibe other day that her husband took ihecottee to v ciiemißt for analysis. ■■-