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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 23 October 1862, Page 3

The Parisian world is on the qui rive to visit the Hotel de la Pais, winch has been fitted up with great taste. The kitchen, in which 28 cooks are to officiate, the dining saloon adapted to receive 300 guests and 100 waiters, the ball room, the vestibule, afford much gratification to the curious; 700 chambers, a telegraph not. only communicating with each ot them lor the ordinary purposes of the bell, but with the theatres, and indeed with tlie whole of Murope, are amongst the marvels ; but not only will the stranger be enabled to sleep and to dine with every possible luxury around him, but his intellectual wants are supplied—books of reference, dictionaries in all languages, manuals, newspape rs from every cornor of the earth, are gathered together for him in the reading-room. A lino of telegraph is projected from Adelaide to Albany, which it is mentioned would bring the whole of the Australian colonics six days nearer to England. The rifle shooting fries at Frankfort commenced on Sunday with much ceremony. The marksmen, to the number of 12,000, made their entrance into the city richly dressed. Colonel Colt, the inventor of the revolver, died worth about ,-€BOO,OOO. ITis manufactory at Hartford, United Slates, employs 1,100 hands, and the wages paid there amount to £IO,OOO per month. Many persons stop curiously in the Euo Druot, a street opposite the line Richelieu on the Boulevard des Italians, to watch a new substitute for pavement of a very singular kind. A powder, of the colour of ground coifee, and smoking hot, is spread down and then beaten, not violently, with a smooth flat iron at the end of a handle. Over the surface so formed a larger iron is run by a man, so as to remove all inequalities. In a few minutes there is a bard substance resembling aspbaltc. Its capability of maintaining its consistency under the vehicles of all kinds which pass Ih at way remains to be proved. Prayers are recited weekly at the Mohammedan mosque of Tippoo Sultan at Calcutta for the destruction of the infidels, and imploring that their women may be brought to shame and their children rendered orphans. At the late hall at Eourges, on the Empress Eugenie appearing, the mayor presented to her a magnificent bouquet of natural exotic flowers set in a rich bolder ol gold with a handle of jasper, bearing the arms of the town. The pilgrimage of the famous religions body, the Jumpers, lias come oil’at Echtcrnach, in Germany. The pilgrimage consists of 8,138 Jumpers, amongst whom were GUO beggars, 78 musicians, 170 singers, and 25 ecclesiastics. The fun of the thing—we beg pardon,—the religions proceeding is to jump two paces forward and one back all the way to the place of pilgrimage, Mrs. Partington addressed Isaac, who was eating a plate of strawberries, thus ; “ My, bow grand you are growing ! By’nd by you’ll want to live on umbrella ice cream. You must not be glutinous; dear ; I don’t like to sec a little boy with such a velocity of appetite.