Suissongraphs.

Dunstan Times, Issue 990, 8 April 1881, Page 3

Suissongraphs.

Tasmania is prosperous. The recent taxes have realised more than was expected. Wheat is under the average (23 bushels) and rust has destroyed part of the crops, but mining is paying well, giving half a million among 110,000 people. The New South Wales Chinese Restriction Bill proposes that, captains should only carry one to every 100 tons of the tonnage of their vessels, that LlO shall be paid for each before landing, and that no Chinaman shall acquire or hold any real estate. In the stomach of a shark 16ft in length, caught at Newcastle, was found inter alia dogs, pork, bones, rope, etc. A Wilcannia telegram speaks of 19 prisoners in three cells of galvanized iron with thermometer at 1 10. The Society for the Regeneration of Morals is at present engaged in endeavoring to persuade caterpillars not to eat cabbages. We read of an independent tramp who declares he would beg from door to door before he would live on charity. A negro, after gazing at same Chinese, shook his head snd said solemnly, “If de white folks bi so dark as dat out dar, I wonder what’s de colour ob de black folks ?” A statistician has calculated that a pair of rabbits would in four years have descendants to the number of a million and a quarter. Gracie’s first experience in eating a peach—“ I’ve eaten it, cloth and all, mamma; now what shall I do with the bone 1” Cremation is coming into fashion as a convenient and profitable method of getting rid of the refuse of towns. Smith’s youngest, the first time he tasted an oyster, after seeing two shells and but one fish, boldly asked for “ the other half.” There is a great future before this boy. The gross weight of the turtles required for a Lord Mayor’s Day banquet is said to bo not less than two tons. Turnkey—“ Are you in for con tempt!” Prisener, indignantly—“No, sir, I haven’t fallen that low—it is a simple drunk."