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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1255, 22 February 1872, Page 2

Nearly half-a-million Bibles were issued during tbe year 1870 from the Shacklcwell Press of Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. A book on field sports in America,, by Mr Dash wood, lately published, in a description of the island of Newfoundland, contains the following instances of the remarkable ignorance of some of the islanders: —" Many of the inhabitants of the more remote bays have never left the neighborhood in which they were born ; the ignorance of some of the people is hardly to be credited. A short time since, on the- discovery of a mine on the east coast of tbe inland,, some horses and cows were transposed thither; a horse happening to' stray away was shot by a settler as an, unknown, wild animal. In. the course of." skinning the beast the man discovered, its iron shoes; this appeared to him such an extraordinary occurrence that he attributed it to a supernatural agency —as ignorant people are liable to do things they do not understand—and departed quickly from the spot;,, leaving the horse where- he had killed it. The people at this remote place,., on first seeing a cow, exclaimed, * Here conies an animal with, powdar-horns growing on. its head !' They had used. cow horns for that purpose all their lives without knowing their origin." The origin of the word "puffing" iscurious, in France, at one time,, thecoiffure most in. vogue was called pouff. It consisted of the hair raised as high* a& possible over horse-hair cushions, and. then ornamented with objects indicative of the tastes and history of the wearer. The Duchess of Orleans, for example,, on her first appearance at Court, aft&e the birth of her son and heir, had on her pouff a representation, in gold and* enamel, most beautifullly executed, of a nursery.. There was the cradle, thebaby, the nurse, and a whole host of. playthings. Madame d'Egmoni, the Due de Kichelieu's daughter, after her. father had taken Port Mahon> wore on, her pouff & little diamond fortress, with, sentinels keeping guard. Such is theorigin of the word-puff. The shoemakers of Aberdeen, selling; &t defiance the injunction "that every cobbler should stick to-his last," recently struck, work for an. advance of wages o£ about 17J per cent. They gained theirpoint, the masters having conceded the rise. The celebrated, brigand,.. Manuel Lozada, known tar and wide throughout Mexico as the "Tiger of Elican," has recently " shuffled 5 off thfe. mortal coil." The circumstances of his life, and the part which he played during the latter years of it, seem scarcely to belong to a civilised century. Lozada was an.ltalian* by birth, and,, as is not uncommon: amongst banditti, a muleteer by occupation. But he soon left the more covert opportunities of theft which) his calling allowed him to practise with; impunity,, and placed himself at the head of a band of brigands, who speedily became the terror of the Tepic; Therest of his life reads more like a fairy tale. Two, great companies divided the commercial transact ions of that part of and each of these had in its service a band of brigands. Between these rival mercenaries frequent skir* mishes used to. be carried on, and. in one of these Lozada killed Ryas Seiger, his adversary, and,, in virtue of that feat, was declared chief of the territory of Topic and head of its army of Indians. Undisputed sway. as. frequently happens, produced in time inr capacity for warfare. Lozada grew old,, and in a few years the mountainous tract of Tepic, ; once the terror of travellers, became renowned as the bestgoverned and most peaceable district in Mexico. Even then the adventures of the bandit -muleteer were not at an end. Marshal Bazaine persuaded the Emperor M aximillian to make a friend and ally of this trans-Atlantic Rob Roy. Lozada actually received, under the Imperial warrant, the title of Count. He once again went into the field,, fought against the Republican troops,, and witnessed the retreat of the French. He then retired to his mountains, where, up to the hour of his death, he I successfully maintained his independence against Juarez. Young people grow most when in= love. It increases their sighs, woadeviully*