Every person traversing the streets of Sydney on a velocipede after nightfall is now compelled to carry a light in the front of such vehicle. At the Thames a man named Arthur George Power has been committed for trial on five distinct charges of forging transfers in various companies. The Thames Advertiser, July 13, records that an accident occurred the previous day at Mr Akers' stables to a man named George Light. Light is a mechanic employed at Mr Akers' establishment, and he slept in a loft over the stable. It appears that on getting out of bed, he had leant against the loft door, under the idea that the catch was fastened. It had been open, however, and the door went out, Light falling a distance of twelve or fourteen feet. He was severely injured on the head and shoulders, and was at once taken to the hospital. We (New Zealand Herald) learn from a correspondent at Mauku that on Wednesday, the sth instant, seven valuable sheep were worried to death on the farm of Mr G. G. Walter, and another one so much that it had to be killed. On the following day a lady on the adjoining farm had a pet lam?», which she prized very highly, also worried to death. Fortunately sha saw the dog, and knew its owner. A gentleman has published in the New Zealand He-raid, a very interesting account of his " first impressions " of some of the South Sea islands. Regarding the natives of the Samoan group he says :-*- You certainly see amongst the natives here some splendid specimens of humanity. Many of the men would form good models for the painter or sculptor, every muscle and its play when in exercise, being visible under the skin. One soon over? comes any strangeness of feelings about their color, as there is nothing of the dull lustreless, sooty shade of the negro about them, while their features partake of the Malay type. One or two of the men, whom I saw with their hair growing in cut ling locks down the nape of theneck, in a leonine looking style, recalled to my remembrance one of our great painter's ideals of our first parent in Eden-r- ---" For contemplation he, and valour formed ; For spftuess she, and sweet attractive grace." —Talking of hair and hair-dressing, I saw much that was strange amongst the Samoans, but I don't think we can afford to laugh at any fashion whatever, however outre it may appear to us at first sight, when we reflect on the many styles in vogue at present amongst our couutrywomen, and the many they have discarded during the last few years : Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us, To see oursel's as ithers see us ! It wad frae many a blunder free us, And foolish notion. —-One thing, I didn't see any hair but their pwn being worn by the Island women in the South Pacific. Judge Burke, of South Carolina, died an old bachelor, and in his will he left a maiden Jady in Charleston six hundred pounds sterling, and gave as a reason for leaving this legacy that he had courted the lady for ten years, and, " before Joshua, he believed that if he had persevered she would have had him."
Queen Victoria, it is said, has nineteen grandchildren. "Lord Lome Shirts " have appeared in New York. When is a baby a four-footed animal ? —When it is a little dear [deer.] A Yankee has got up an almanac " good for 300 years," aud wants people to buy it and see if it isn't. Here is a mem. for railway travellers: Guy Fawkes is the first man on record who missed a Parliamentary train. A couple of first cousins married in Lynn, lowa, and ten of their twelve children are cripples. The Archduchess Sophia, of Austria, is described by a contemporary as devoting her whole time to putting on new dresses. The man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a stock of money. Said an astronomer to a bright-eyed girl, while talking of rainbows, " Did you ever see a lunar bow?" "I have seen beaux by moonlight, if that's what you mean," was the sly rejoinder. Another African explorer has appeared in the person of Mr H. M. Stanley, of the New York Herald, who has proceeded from Zanzibar to explore the river Tufiji and the interior, accompanied by a retinue of 100 men. Feeling a patient's pulse by telegraph is the latest achievement, The sick man was in Washington, and the physician in New York. The beats of the pulse were transmitted by a doctor with one hand on the patient's wrist and the other on the telegraph key. " Kiss me, mamma, before I sleep." How simple a boon, and yet how soothing to the little suppliant is that soft gentle kiss ! The little head sinks contentedly on the pillow, for all is peace and happiness within. The bright eyes close—r-the rosy lips part in a sweet smile, for the little heart is revelling in the bright aud sunny dream of innocence. Yes, kiss it mamma ; for that good-night kiss will linger in its memory when the giver of it lies mouldering in the silent grave. The memory of a gentle mother's kiss has cheered many a lonely wanderer's pilgrimage, and has been the beacon-light to illume his desolate heart; for, remember, life has many a stormy billow to cross, many a rugged path to climb, with thorns to pierce, and we know not what is in store for the little one so sweetly slumbering, with no marring care to disturb its peaceful dreams. The parched and fevered lips will become dewy again as recollection bears to the sufferer's couch a mother's love—a mother's kiss, Then kiss your little ones ere they sjeep —there is a magic power in that kiss that will endure even to the end of life.
Bishop Kingsley, in the Central Advocate, thus discourses on the city walls of the Chinese :—" After giving a good deal of attention to the subject, I am satisfied that the whole amount of wall in China, if put together, would build one twenty feet high and ten feet thick, entirely round the globe, and would require five thousand men to work steadily for two. thousand years to accomplish the work." The Raglan correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross, under date of July 14, writes as follows of the effects of a ter* rific gaLe in that district weather for the last six weeks has been most execrable —an almost constant succession of gales of wind and rain. Last Friday night and Saturday the gusts of wind were terrific, and one of the puffs completely demolished the Presbyterian Chapel, which stood on a very exposed situation on the top of the hill. The building was a substantial weatherboarded structure some 40ft. by 20ft., and it wag unfortunately a great height for its breadth. It was also raised on blocks some three feet from the ground, and this latter circumstance, with the fact that the plates were not spiked to the blocks, accounts for the catastrophe. The building is literally smashed to pieces, and some of the weatherboards have been blown a distance of sixty or seventy yards.—-The Flora very providentially made this harbour on Friday night before the worst of the blow came on. Therewas a heavy bar when she came in, but Captain Kenny brought her in nicely between two breaking astern and another ahead of her.—t-The trustees of the Presbyterian chapel have had men at work gathering up and sorting the fragments. The sashes (saving a few squares of glass) aod the seats are intact, as also the flooring. It is proposed to. sell the timber, &c, by auction. The United Service Gazette says:—* A Parliamentary return, moved for by Mr Otway, in preparation for his opening the forthcoming campaign in the House of Commons, against " flogging " in the. Navy, has lately been issued, by which we find that in the three years, 1867, 1868, and 1869, 238 seamen and 63 marines underwent corporal punishment. Thirty of the sentences were by courtmartial; in 161 cases the punishment was ordered by a captain commanding; in 86 by a commander commanding ; and 27 by a lieutenant commanding. In 45 cases the sentence was for thefi; in 200 for insubordination; in 9 for disgraceful conduct; in 28 for desertion ; in 20 for drunkenness or smuggling liquor; in % for fighting. 25 of the summary sen? tences were in ships whose complement was 25 to 60; 38 of the summary and one of the court martial sentences in ships of 60 to 120 ; 84 summary and 7 courts martial sentences in ships of 120 to 250 ; and the remaining 127 summary and 32 court-martial sentences in ships of 250 to 850 complement. The punishment ordered by court martial on two seamen and one marine was remitted, as also on one seaman summarily sentenced. We heartily wish Mr Otway every success in his endeavors to remove " flogging" from our category of naval punishments in time of peace, feeling assured that it is no aid to the system of discipline now required in our Royal Navy. Dr Hall, in his health articles, gives the following reasons why married persons, live longer than those who remain single : —" Bachelors are always in \ state of un* rest; they feel unsettled. If indoors after supper there is a sense of solitariness, inducing a sadness, if not settled melancholy, with all its depressing influences, and many hours in the course of a year are spent in gloomy inactivity, which is adverse to a good digestion and a vigor-. ous and healthy circulation. His own chamber or house being uninviting, the bachelor is inclined to seek diversion outside, in suppers with friends, in clubs which are introductories to intemperance and licentiousness, or to those more unblushing associations which, under the cover of darkness, lead to speedy ruin of health and morals ; and when these are gone, the way downward to an untimely grave is rapid and certain. Qn the other hand, marriage lengthens a man's life by its making home inviting ; by the softening influences which it has upon the character and the affections; by the cultivation ot the better feelings of our nature, and in that proportion saving from vice and crime. There can be iiq healthful levclopment of the physical
Amotions of our nature without marriage: it is necessary to the perfect man, for Divinity has announced that it was ' not good for man to be alone.' Marriage gives a laudable and happy object in life, and providing for wife and children, their present comfort and future welfare, the .enjoyment in witnessing their happiness, and the daily and hourly participation in affectionate interchange of thought and sentiment, and sympathy ; these are the considerations which antagonise sorrow and lighten the burdens of life, thus strewing flowers and casting sunshine all along its pathway. Voltaire said: * The more married men you have, the fewer crimes there will be.' Marriage renders a man more virtuous, and more wise. An unmarried man is but hajf a perfect being, and it requires the other half to make things right ; and it cannot be expected that in this imperfect state he can keep the straight path of rectitude, any more than a boat with one oar can keep a straight course. In nine cases out of ten, where married men become drunkards, or where they commit crimes against the peace of the community, the foundation of these acts was laid while in a single state, or where the wife is, as is sometimes the case, an unsuitable match. Marriage changes the current of a man's feelings, and gives him a centre for his thoughts, his affections, and his acts Here is a home for the entire man, and the counsel, the affectious, the example, and the interest of his better half keep him from erratic courses, and from falling into a thousand temptations to which he would otherwise be exposed. Therefore, the friend to marriage is the friend to society and to his country." Capt. Drake is supposed to be the original of Capt. Dalgetty in the " Legend <of Montrose." The name gave rise to a pleasant mot by Baron Anderson. He #iid Lord Campbell were differing at a dinner party about its pronounciation—the latter saying Dalgetty, It was settled by Baron Anderson remarking, " I thought that you Scotsmen always laid the emphasis on get."
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