GENERAL READING,

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1695, 9 January 1874, Page 4

GENERAL READING,

A wedding in the open air in the Pass of Brandir ia thus" described by the Scots- ' " ; man :—" A youthful couple; residing near lr: itheßonaw Quarries, wishing to. be: united ."''• in.- ''holy bonds,' sought, ;the/ services of ' ■.; the parish minister of. Glenprchy to per- : „... form the marriage ceremony. That gen- .,.( tlemari, pressed for time, could not con 1 ' ".' " venieh'tly go the whole fourteen miles /to, J r "'' : Bbnawy bat, lothto disappoint the lovers,; \><u: i"Jhti!ftgreed to meet them 'half way. The. two moat concerned .-were quite aatis : ...» (v.i.ifiecL: with., this, arrangement, and called ,-.-! ?i '.(together a.goodly number of 'their friends, '..'/„ • and: the whole marched f in Highland fashion to meet the Obliging clergyman. • . , M.. The meeting took place in the middle j of ■' ''■' the Pass, and without loss of time the company formed a group upon the green ';: swafrd) and under these romantic circura- .; stances . the, nuptial v knot was duly tied., ; The health of the bride and bridegroom . i was; then ; drunk in usquebae, and dancing to the music of the bagpipes was indulged in, while the grim rocks of Craiganuni rang again-^ with >the cheers of the t {; party, as they. set out. on their return to Bonaw,, , ; „/ '„ „' v '■ An Arhericau contemporary says: — v<,'.i.!!r";Thej, oldest, margin the world has at length been discovered. . .His name is Josie Martino Oontinhb, a resident of • ''■ -OapV l Frio, r in the" -Province ..of Rio, Janerio, Brazil, who was born onnhe 20th , „ of May, 1694, and is therefore nearly one - " ' Mndred and nmety-fburVears old ! It is said that he has forty-two children by ' six wives, and can count one hundred -j „.-,. „ and; t.wenty-three .grandchildren, . eightyr six great grandchildren, arid twenty -„\) k, children pi , the last." /,,:.•.,„,,. •,,.-,••,=•>' The Maryborough Chronicle (Queens--1 '■>>■•■■ land) ( describes jthe, adventures of a man who entered uninvited the garden of Mill. Travis, at! 2 in the* morning :— " He . was. set upon by the house-dog, and ••fleeing from this adversary ran against, .and fell over, a swinging shelf on which ' ; wa^ 'placed six cases, each containing a "" ~ ~~flwarm "Sf '"bee'sr — Ther-reßtrlt'-inay be " ! ' )<f < 'ifaagiri'eai Mtc&tin&l tie' described! r.How long the poor wretch fought lutHcAuntless i -enemies' is unknbwtii -'Th<J ddg; continued. Marking for a long time before M* Travis .^, J ;ii-c;:.Uuuw''x X 11 '.t 1

came down the garden to ascertain the cause. When he came the man had disappeared, and in his place was found a dark coat, but little the worse for wear, a paper collar, and shirt, the latter torn most artistically into ribbon-like strips. There are various blotches of blood about the shirt, which mark the last restingplace of the avenging insects, who were crushed while endeavoring to stap. their victim to the heart. The victim, driven mad by the bees, and terrified lest the howling of the dog should arouse the sleepers, burst his way through a thick hedge of cacti, and thus gained and jumped the fence. There is no doubt of the manner of his egress, for the cacti and his tracks afford sufficient evidence of some one having passed that way."