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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1184, 29 November 1871, Page 2

The book of life is in one volume, and one edition. Who is the most successful surveyor on record?—Alexander Selkirk, for. Ij6 became « monarch of all he surveyed." A colored preacher, addressing a large audience one evening not very long ago, remarked that if he had been eating dried apples for a week, and then took to drinking for a month, he couldn't, have felt more swelled up than he dm that minute with pride and vanity at seeing such a full attendance on that occasion. What more he said is not re-. corded,

Some boys playing on the Te Aro ibeaeb, Wellington, on Sunday last, found a man's skull, which (the Po*c says) had evidently been in the water a long time, and which it is supposed belonged 10 one of the unfortunate seamen -of the Yirago, who were drowned in Wellington harbor some months ago. It will be remembered that one of the bodies found a short time after the oc was minus a head. An accident occurred at Wellington on the 23rd inst. by which a valuable horse was killed. The animal having fallen struggled to raise and free himself. The cart then tipped completely over, and swinging the horse up in the air he was caught by the reins round :his neck and completely strangled. So much pleased was the Princess of Wales with the " Two-headed Nightingale," that on her departure for the •Continent she left orders chat a couple ,of brooches should be presented to the itwo-in-one young ladies. Among the articles sent to Captain Hall,to cheer his journey to the Polar regions was a tin can carefully sealed and the Polaris reaches the Arctic seas." But it met with an accident, and the secret leaked out. It was a can of patent axle-grease, with which Captain Hall or his survivors were affectionately requested by letter to lubricate the axle when the Pole should be reached. It is said that a deputation of gentlemen from the ls!e of Skye has waited upon the ex-Emperor Napoleon at Chiselhurst, with the purpose of inducing his Majesty to visit their island in order to pursue a cure for the obstinate rheumatic gout to which he has become a martyr. The discovery of the existence pf ozone in the atmosphere to a greater .-degree than in any climate in the universe is declared to be the cause of the non-existence of rheumatism amongst the inhabitants of Skye, where rain, fog, and mist are perpetual, and yet no man was ever heard to sneeze, cough, ,or sniffle, and where a cold in the head, inflammation of the chest, or rheumatism, or bronchitis, is a thing unknown. Inspired by philanthtopic ideas, of course, a company of speculators are .about building an elegant hotel on the western coast of the island.