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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 337, 20 August 1875, Page 3

Alftle, OlConneE Celebration aff St. 'Batbaiis, Testers "of apology for their unavoidable,absence were, received., froai..,J. P.■Ssmsti-ovg, TSsqr, *M : .K<3.;" HJ'IV; 'Eob'iilsoii, £ sq., R.M., asidL. W. Busch, Esq., Mayor of Naseby.

Swimming Bivers ; —lfatraveller can swimjaretty well, it is a good plan to make a float; and to throw himself flat down in the water with'his breast upon it, while his clothes and valuables are.tied in a huge turban on his head. - Tn this broad.streams, can easily be crossed, and great distances of river descended. He may .adjuskpaddlgs.on to his hand. • His float may be a faggot of rushes, a log of wood or. any one of his:empty water-ves-sels ; for whatever will beep water in, will | of£COurse s ;ieep' it out, :*whilef as *to ; b'ags, - I the air that may ooze out through their ! afloat. Empty bottles may be well corked: and made fast under the armpits or stuffed under the shirt or jersey, with a belt tied round the waist below them. It is an easy matter to make, a moderately effective Slife-feeltsimply out of holland,ticking, canvas, or other similar materials; and the 'crews of a vessel aground some way from ithe main-land, and who must prepare to swim jbr their" lives, might avail themselves of this plan:—Cut out two complete rings of 16 inches outer diameter and 8 in. nner diameter; sew these together along both edges, with as fine a needle a3 possible and",', double "threads, and the chief part of the belt is made. "What remains, is to sew-strong shoulder-stVaps to -it-so* that by no possibility it c-an slip d6wn over the hips ; and, lastly, to sew a long narrow tube.to it,,put of a strip, a foot long and two inches wide,- from- the same material as the belt... For the mouth of this, a bit. of wood,-an4nch long, .with' a hole bored down its middle, should be inserted as a mouthpiece. Through this tube the . belt can be inflated by the swimmer while in the water, from time to time, as often as may, become-necessary; and, by simply twisting it and tucking its end in the belt, its vent can always be closed. . After canvas, &c., as thoroughly drenched, it. .will hold the air very fairly.. ' The seams are the weak • swimmingin .deax water, a collar is as good as a belt.

; StealsG-EBB paying a visit to D uned in ar« oftien at'a loss to kriow what is;the best- establishment to'visit 'for tlia purchase of 'drapery and clothing.. -Herbert, Hajnes; and Co: offer special; advantages, to the ; public that can ba met;; with? nowhere else; in the city. They keep at all times the largest and best assorted . Btock of every class of goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers and ware housemen at .home, which, beijig bought entirely upon cash terms, they .are.enabled to offer goods of such sterlmg value as cannot be equalled :• by uny other house 'in the trade. EveJy article in stock- 'is marked at a fixed price'for ready moneys from which no abatement ißever made, so fclfa&jthe most- inexperienced buy their goods sump prices as 'the best judges. Xheir terms ai e—net cash without discount or reductions of any Virri—- ' ADVT.